Carleton students have been notorious for clever pranks over the years, including the water tower paintings and, more recently, the R2D2-turned Goodsell Observatory.

To celebrate past April Fool's Day pranks, here are two examples from the college archives.  To see more photos, visit Carleton's Facebook page.

The first attempt to remove this large iron sculpture of a bug from the library to Sayles Hill was foiled by a zealous security guard at 2:10am, Apr. 1, 1993, when he met 10 students exiting the library carrying bug parts.

A horse invited inside Musser Hall, an incident recalled in the January 20, 1989 issue of the Carletonian article.