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April Photo Caption Contest

By IU Indianapolis Today

April 02, 2025

Photo from 1993 of two people plugging their noses April Fool’s Day has inspired many a jest, jape or prank. This month’s caption contest photo captures campus tomfoolery on April 1, 1993.

What caused a stink in this picture? Caption the scene for a chance to win a prize from the jesters – or rather, judges – at University Library Special Collections and Archives.

The judges laud Jim Oppold for winning the March contest with the caption, “…and this is what we looked like without sideburns.”

Basketball players November 1972 Photo by Ed Lacey, Jr. 1172-0117