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A Story I Remember*
St.Patrick's Day Injunction
St.Patrick is the patron saint of engineers. At many universities, engineers celebrate St.Patrick's Day by playing pranks on other schools. A common rivalry is between an engineering school and a law school.
Typically, engineering students pull pranks on law school students.
- Putting a skunk down the ventilation shaft of the Law College
- "Borrowing" the lighted sign from in front of the Law Administration Building, installing green engineering-color lights, and placing it on top of the Engineering Building.
Law students would, naturally, then have to retaliate in some appropriate manner.
At the University of Iowa, it was a practice for engineers to paint green shamrocks around the parking lots at the Law School. One year, however, the law students decided enough was enough. The best defense is a good offense: A preemptive strike.
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Practicing their studies, the enterprising law students found a friendly judge and obtained a permanent court injunction preventing "the University School of Engineering, and it students and staff, from harrassing the University Law School or students or staff."
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