Jacks show college rivalries
Most residential colleges have cross-campus rivalries — the rowdy cheering sections at Sid-Lovett and Hanszen-Wiess intramural games attest to that, as does the varying severity of jacks pulled on different colleges.
This year, Hanszen College hit Wiess College hard in the beginning of the week, keeping its jacks for other colleges closer to Beer-Bike.
Hanszen disrupted Wiess students’ sleep Monday with blaring horns and Hanson’s 1998 pop single, “MmmBop.”
“The joke is that Wiess is a prison, so we took all of our cars and parked them outside Wiess,” Hanszen Jack co-Coordinator Brenton Cheeseman said. “We held down our horns and set off our car alarms, and we had big spotlights we shined on Wiess.”
In a jack repeated from last year, Hanszen students filled the Wiess laundry room with crumpled newspaper.
After jacking Wiess Monday and Tuesday, Hanszen jacked every other college Wednesday night in a series of pranks it called “Operation Jack-Off.” The jacks included releasing floating stink bombs at Jones and Brown colleges, hanging a large poster of Hanszen senior Jeremy Bass at Lovett College and setting off noisemakers in the Sid stairwells, Cheeseman said.
Hanszen also littered sawdust and newspaper strips throughout the Will Rice College Commons Wednesday. Will Rice retaliated by doing the same to the Hanszen Commons later that night. (See photos, page 9.)
Sid Richardson College Jack Coordinator Will Pryor said Sid’s off-campus students jacked their own college.
“Students put wood-paneled wallpaper on our doors in memory of our old doors because a lot of people look down on the replacement of those doors [with glass doors] last semester,” Pryor, a freshman, said.
Sid also hit Will Rice Wednesday night when members of Sid stopped up the drain on Will Rice’s sundeck and filled it with water. The jack was one of several major pranks Sid planned for the latter part of Willy Week.
“We decided that since Will Rice really has nothing going for it, we would do them the huge favor of building a pool,” Pryor said.
Sid students also pulled an unofficial jack on Lovett College Wednesday, when several Sid students vomited around the Lovett Commons entrance.
Brown pulled the biggest fake jack of the year, pretending to release gerbils inside Sid.
“We just left gerbil poop everywhere and put up signs [with pictures of gerbils] saying, ‘Have you seen this?’” Brown Jack Coordinator Terry Kennair, a junior, said.
Brown was jacked twice by unknown colleges. Brown Chief Justice Omar Dimachkieh said someone flooded the fifth- and seventh-floor bathrooms at Brown by covering drains and leaving water running. He said the water evaporated and the incident caused no permanent damage.
Brown College President Sara Hampton said someone jacked the fairy fountain by Jones and Brown Tuesday night.
“They soaped our fairy fountain so it was bubbling a foot-and-a-half of soap bubbles,” Hampton, a junior, said. “The bubbles were there until [Wednesday evening] when H&D cleaned them out.”
Baker College Jack co-Coordinator Paul Hammond said Baker jacked Martel Tuesday by posting large blue “Rice University Summer School for Middle and High School Students” bumper stickers throughout Martel.
On Wednesday night, Hammond said Baker planned to jack Hanszen Thursday evening. Hanszen jack coordinators declared jacks would not be allowed against their college from yesterday at 7 p.m. until the end of Beer-Bike.
“Hopefully we’re going to have a bunch of people go over to Hanszen Thursday and at 6:55 p.m. take their chairs out of the commons and leave them around campus,” Hammond said.
Hammond said students from Jones, Sid and Will Rice might help Baker with the jack.
Will Rice jacked Baker and Jones late Wednesday night.
“Jones is getting flypaper on the backs of their door handles, and Baker is getting a little beach scene in their hallways,” Will Rice Jack Coordinator Clark Smithson, a sophomore, said Wednesday.
As of Wednesday, neither Jones nor Lovett had jacked any colleges.
Jones Jack Coordinator Teddy Bucher, a sophomore, said Jones planned to jack another college Sunday night but ran into problems and did not attempt the prank.
Lovett Jack co-Coordinator Nathan Bledsoe, Thresher calendar editor, said Lovett College had intended to jack other colleges during Willy Week but did not have finalized plans as of Wednesday night.
“We’re kind of behind schedule because I’m a freshman,” Bledsoe, a freshman, said. “Pretty much everything is happening Friday.”
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