Massachusetts Institute of Technology has a long history of pranks (or hacks, as they call them) both on their own campus and at other schools.

The students marked the launch of Halo 3 by augmenting the statue of John P. Harvard at Harvard University. Note the Spartan helmet (with "Master Chief in Training" written on the back) and a Halo assault rifle.

On the Halo front, Halo 3 is now the largest entertainment launch in the history of business, beating any movie, book or other form of entertainment. More than 1.3M people went online to play Halo on the first day. Imagine the network load … that is scale. That load beats any mainframe load, even on a bank run day.