44 student life bad karma Spending a semester overseas through Harding’s international programs offered many opportunities for students to expand their horizons and learn about different cultures. In the fall of 2008, several students at Harding University in Australia (HUA) spent their semester differently, scheming new ways to agitate their schoolmates. Senior Russell Woods admitted that he was the culprit to many pranks attempted throughout the semester. “Pranks happen after the professors attempt to cram an entire semester of work into one month,” Woods said. “[Pulling pranks] is just a way of releasing some of that stress and makes you forget about everything for a minute.” But sometimes, pranks resulted in catastrophe. One night in Surfer’s Paradise, their home throughout the semester, two students were up to no good. “Woody told me to distract the girls while he ran into their room and grabbed their pillows,” sophomore Jeremy Cohen said. “He set them out in the hall and then came back to the room the group was in.” After dropping off the stash of pillows, they visited another boys’ room to boast about their adventure only to become suspicious moments later of the girls
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