PASADENA >> Julie Jester is a fitting name for the Caltech electrical engineering senior. In her career, she’s lead a pack of jokers in small-scale pranks, foolies and jests throughout Caltech and ...

PASADENA — Caltech’s tradition of pranksterism was celebrated today as seniors went AWOL for “Ditch Day” and left mazes and puzzles for younger students to solve. Ditch Day began in the 1920s, when ...

For decades, every time a visitor heads downstairs into the Caltech Athenaeum Rathskellar for a burger and a brew, he has been confronted with a poster-size, blown-up, grainy but still magnificent ...

While at Caltech, both Autumn Looijen and Dr Mason Porter -- editors of Legends of Caltech III: Techer in the Dark, a book about Caltech's famous student stunts -- were active participants in the ...

PASADENA, Calif. -- Caltech students have reclaimed a 3-ton cannon that was swiped by pranksters from MIT. Caltech students recapture their cannon, which had been stolen and moved to MIT, on Monday.