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adkarmaSpending a semester overseas through Harding’sinternational programs offered many opportunitiesfor students to expand their horizons and learnabout different cultures.In the fall of 2008, several students at Harding Universityin Australia (HUA) spent their semester differently,scheming new ways to agitate their schoolmates.Senior Russell Woods admitted that he was the culpritto many pranks attempted throughout the semester.“Pranks happen after the professors attempt to craman entire semester of work into one month,” Woodssaid. “[Pulling pranks] is just a way of releasing someof that stress and makes you forget about everythingfor a minute.”But sometimes, pranks resulted in catastrophe.One night in Surfer’s Paradise, their home throughoutthe semester, two students were up to no good.“Woody told me to distract the girls while he raninto their room and grabbed their pillows,” sophomoreJeremy Cohen said. “He set them out in the hall andthen came back to the room the group was in.”After dropping off the stash of pillows, they visitedanother boys’ room to boast about their adventureonly to become suspicious moments later of the girls44 student life