But Assistant Principal Artie Grier finds no humor in pranks. There have been very few pranks that I have found funny. One of the pranks which offended Grier, who has been at Jordan since 1990, was when students emptied all of the fire extinguishers in the hallway. What distresses Grier most about such pranks is that the culprits usually get away. Teachers, too, have been offended by past pranks, such as the year some students cut down the trees in the courtyard.
Seniors acknowledge that pranks can cross a fine line between destructive and funny.
The spray paint last year was stupid because everybody had to clean it up. Senior Tim Hooker said that a good prank doesn't have to do long-term damage. Turning off the bells in school for a day would be a good prank. It wouldn't have to be for long, just for a day. So far, the only obvious senior prank of the year was done by senior Vera Reed, who taped a collage, dedicated to the class of 1997, on the library skylight.