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A weekly newspaper run by Santa Clara University students dropped some jaws on campus today when it ran articles announcing the return of football to the university and the abolishment of the same-sex roommate rule, a university spokeswoman said.
The Santa Clara, the weekly student newspaper, caught the school community off guard with its April Fools’ Day front-page bombshells, which also included the banning of skateboards on campus.
However, when readers turned to the second page of the paper, they were informed that the stories “may lack accuracy in honor of April Fool’s Day,” university spokeswoman Connie Kim Coutain said.
Attentive readers may also have been tipped off to the prank by the author of the football story: Ferris Bueller.
Coutain said it was the first time in years that the newspaper had produced a prank issue, since it is only distributed on Thursdays and April Fool’s Day happened to fall on a Thursday this year.
“For the most part, people thought it was funny,” she said. “It certainly caught a lot of people off guard. Their mouths kind of dropped because it looked very real.”
The university’s football program was discontinued in 1993 due to budgetary concerns.
Santa Clara officials also posted the prank on the university’s Facebook page, where it drew a variety of reactions.
One commenter wrote “funny…but cruel,” while another wrote that the joke was “not actually that funny, given how many alum are still infuriated with the University and refuse to donate since the school got rid of football.”
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Dear Dolores,
Many great jokes were circulated on New Year’s Day (yesterday). Those that were not a joke such as SRVUSD Loyalty Oaths (Code of Conduct) still got a large laugh throughout our region.
I was sorry to see that Competitive Cow Dancing at MVHS was only meant as humor and the school was actually going to add square dancing as its primary extracurricular activity.
The ROFL in Ralph N. Shirlet