It's Territorial Cup week in Arizona, and fans of the Arizona State Sun Devils and Arizona Wildcats know what that means.
It's time for the sneakiest and cleverest devotees to figure out how to prank the other school 100 miles down the road.
Typically, the hijinks involve painting of the "A" on the rival's mountain/butte: A coat of Cardinal red on the butte overlooking Sun Devil Stadium; gold on A Mountain in Tucson.
The Tucson sentinel -- on federal land -- has been hard to breach in recent years, so a group of four ASU students/comedians took a more creative tack -- heading down to the UA campus last month with a fake petition to return southern Arizona to Mexico, on the false premise that the land was illegally seized at the time of the Gadsden Purchase.
English Lit major Ben Kaufman was the instigator of the scheme, and he was ably assisted by Dan Miller, Cody Trimmell and David Pena. Their Youtube video shows them holding a whiteboard asking "should U of A go back to Mexico." Thirty-three UA students voted yes, as opposed to 3 voting no. The bonus payoff came when the UA student newspaper -- the Daily Wildcat -- published a story about the phony campaign.
We tip our hats to you good-natured jokesters for a clever idea and execution -- and never cease to marvel at the gullibility of youth.
The editor in us, however, is going to have to knock your grade down a couple of pegs.
A for effort. C+ for finished product. You might have wanted to look up the spelling of "sceptical" and "beliving" before posting that video.
