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actually was a friend of the annual staff, and due in part to
Schlechten's mastery of photographic processes, his image appeared in nearly every group photo in the album. Unable to stop the presses, the college administration managed to pull six pages that they considered the most offensive from all but two copies. The school put Rivenes on probation (he earned straight F's due to the time he spent on the yearbook) and temporarily expelled Chris, but the National Association of College Annuals declared the publication the "most original" of the year, and it won additional awards. Eventually, Chris was readmitted and permitted to graduate.
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In the meantime, the 1933 annual is considered one of the finest college pranks of all time, and is now a collector's item. Rivenes had obtained the two uncensored copies of the annual and donated one to MSU in 1989. "Clarence Mjork" reappeared in 2003 as the grand marshal of the MSU homecoming
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