The third volume chronicling Caltech pranks is out. Edited by Autumn Looijen (BS ’99) and Mason A. Porter (BS ’98) and published by the Caltech Alumni Association, Legends III picks up where Legends of Caltech and More Legends of Caltech left off, and also successfully captures some lesser-known tales of Caltech pranking dating back to the 1950s. Stunts in this instalment include reengineering a building elevator to consistently deliver passengers two floors below where they wanted to go; converting Hell Alley, the hottest hallway in Blacker House, into an ice rink in homage to a resident who was going to get married “when Hell freezes over;” and mating one of the original Compaq PCs to a Lloyd House Coke machine in the days before e-commerce so that purchases could be debited to a student’s account. (For a while, those of legal age were even able to buy beer from the machine.) So what’s next? Legends IV, of course—a website includes a form on which your own stories may be submitted, as well as additional stories that didn’t make it into print.

Legends III , whose cover art depicts the dreaded “Blue Book” used for Caltech finals, is available at the Caltech Bookstore for $12.95. It can also be ordered online at http://www.bookstore.caltech.edu/. A dollar from the sale of each copy goes to the Caltech prank fund. —DW-H