April Fools’ Day issues of campus newspapers have been around for as long as student journalists have been mangling facts and misspelling names. But here’s a twist: a president who responds in kind.

Following this morning’s online posting of The Wooster Voice’s annual spoof edition, The Wooster Vice, President Grant Cornwell sent out a letter to students and employees claiming that the paper’s editorial staff had started a free laundry service for use by anyone at the college.

“Student newspapers have always taken pride in uncovering and airing a college’s dirty laundry,” Mr. Cornwell wrote. “Now the editors of the Vice have decided to take the logical next step, and return it clean, static-free, neatly folded, and with a hint of springtime freshness.”

The president, who tools around the campus on a Vespa scooter, was the target of at least one joke in the Vice, an article asserting that the college would give out tartan-plaid Vespas next year to Wooster seniors, a nod to the Ohio institution’s Scottish tradition. —Don Troop