ASU students prank UA with a fake proposition

Arizona State takes on Arizona in the Territorial Cup game on Saturday, so of course, a group of ASU students got in the spirit of the rivalry.

In a YouTube video posted by Ben Kaufman, the ASU students traveled to Tucson and posed as Arizona students to pull off a prank.

They came up with a fake proposition, called "Proposition 200," which would send the University of Arizona back to Mexico. The students had charts, a whiteboard and played it all off like it was a legitimate political movement. Along with giving the university to Mexico, "Prop 200" would allow Mexican citizens attending UA to pay in-state tuition.

The Prop 200 that pranksters referred to was the 1958 proposition that changed the name of Arizona State College to Arizona State University.

It worked so well that the Arizona student paper, The Daily Wildcat, posted a story that presented the prank as legitimate. The article was deleted but appears in an archived screenshot.

I mean, they did have pamphlets and a QR code (woo! 2012 technology). That seems like a lot of work for a completely fake movement.

But alas, the prank worked.

Even if their spelling could use some work ("sceptical"), it was a solid prank. It was a lot more original (and less destructive) than painting letters on a mountain.

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