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Salient points from Gentry’s email

John — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:52:17 +0000

If there’s one thing that really puts me in “rage mode,” it’s a well thought-out email from an administrator. Today’s email from Gentry could not have been any better for this purpose. He had it all: bold-faced headings, self-referential hyperlinks, plenty of appositives, and enough apologetic quotation marks to sink a ship. But these are merely formal matters. Not one to underplay the importance of letting loose, Gentry lucidly outlines the entire freakin weekin, complete with “have fun here” annotations. As a sophomore, I’ve never been to The Game at Yale, so naturally, I had some questions. Da dean had da answers.

Q: What is the MLA-approved term for Saturday’s contest?

A: “The Game.”

Q: Do we ever get to ditch the quote-marks?

A: Never give in–never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

Q: Wtf is so tight about SWITCH?

A: He is a UK-based DJ.

Q: How legit is the ID enforcement?

A: :-/

Q: Where can I find Paine Whitney Gymnasium, our schools gym? Like that big-ass gym that everyone goes to and it looks like a cathedral and you can’t miss it?

A: 70 Tower Parkway, New Haven, CT 06511

Q: What are some things that you like to do?

A: Socializing with friends at a party, tailgate, or elsewhere is fun.

Q: And then what??

A: It ceases to be fun when someone drinks to excess.

Q: I don’t follow.

A: And, GO BULLDOGS!!

Q: Isn’t there a one-or-three rule for exclamation points?

A: ;-P

Gawker agrees that Harvard’s game shirt is the worst

justine — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 20:42:49 +0000

Apparently at the Game this year Harvard kids are going to be suiting up in crimson pinnies with the slogan “Occupy Yale” and “We are the 6%” on the back. Sweet, right? Not really. Gawker pointed this out in an article today, and we have to agree that this pinny is about as cool as the Occupy Occupy New Haven protests… Gawker comes down on our side of the football, saying that with the combo of these shirts and the publicity Patrick Witt has gotten lately, “Yale definitely won the PR game this year.” We wonder if the Harvard population at large saw these and actually got excited about representing themselves at the Game as the elitest of the elite. Because if there’s one thing Harvard needs to do more of, it’s point out to people that they tend to be a very select group of snobs.

Horrible Harvard people in history

David Gore — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:17:42 +0000

Suffering from a shortage of school spirit? Need something to pump up your hatred of Harvard before the Big Day? Yeah, we didn’t think so. But still, there’s a time for everything, and the time to bash Harvard is always, so here’s a short list of horrible people associated with the big H that will rile up your anti-Crimson rage–and make you feel better about attending George Bush, George W. Bush, and John C. Calhoun’s alma mater.

1. Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, and Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss

This movie made everyone look like douchebags. It’s convenient for us to believe that they were douchebags in real life too.

2. Larry Summers

The Harvard president from 2001 to 2006 stirred up controversy, clashing with African-American Studies superstar Cornel West, garnering allegations of financial conflict of interest in his relationship with economist and faculty member Andrei Shleifer, and implying in a 2005 speech that the under-representation of women in science and engineering might be explained by “different availability of aptitude at the high end.” Oof.

3. Darren Aronofsky and Natalie Portman

Don’t pretend you weren’t deeply disturbed by nail clippers and “yummy” pink cake for three months after seeing Black Swan. It’s their fault!

4. Sixty-two living billionaires

There’s an 84.9% chance that your five least favorite living billionaires went to Harvard.*

5. John Harvard

Because without him there’d be no Harvard. And no crappy restaurant chain with way over-cooked hamburgers.

*Disclaimer: Daddy Warbucks went to Yale.

How to avoid dying of boredom in Cambridge

guestquyen — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:54:54 +0000

Quyen Slotznick’s older sister recently graduated from MIT, so she’s pretty experienced in dealing with something we’ll have to face this weekend: how to retain your cool in Cambridge, even when you’re surrounded by the sad, sorry souls of Cantabs.

The Mass Ave Dive Bar Crawl

When the Finals Club and House parties just get too lame:

Take the T to Central Station and get out at the Prospect St exit, then head to some (or all) of these fine institutions.

The Field – 20 Prospect Street (right off Mass Ave by the Central T Stop)

Good and cheap Guinness pours, they only take cash. Open until 2am.

Irish dive pub (is that a phrase?)

People’s Republik – 876-8 Mass Ave

Decent array of beers, they only take cash. Open until 2am.

Soviet Union themed dive bar – apparently there’s an undetonated bomb?

The Cellar – 991 Mass Ave

Try the rosemary truffle fries, they only take cash.

MIT/Harvard grad school crowd, dive bar downstairs/gastropub upstairs.

“The Kong” (Hong Kong) – 1238 Mass Ave

Really delicious and cheap scorpion bowls.

MIT, Harvard, and Wellesley alums have all recommended!

Taken from the MIT Bar Crawl provided by a recent MIT grad, slightly edited for ease of access.

If you want to stick closer to Harvard Square, visit the Kong first and then check out:

Tommy Doyles - 96 Winthrop St (on your way from Harvard Square to the River Houses)

Cash only after 11pm, sometimes a cover late at night.

Crowded campus bar, Tufts and Harvard students – kind of like the Toad’s bar, without the dance floor.

Charlie’s Beer Garden – 10 Eliot St (on your way from Harvard Square to the River Houses)

“Soooo fun and all the Harvard people go!” Reason to stay away, or go to watch the Cantabs attempt to have fun?

A little classier and less dive-y.

Yalies respond to Harvard’s admissions spoof [WATCH]

miranda — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 02:58:09 +0000

The battle begins. Yalies under the pseudonym “RespectYale” have responded to Harvard’s admissions video, which poked fun at Yalies and in turn poked fun at Annie Le. “Harvard has really gone down from here*

*to here in my book of coolness… which is pretty extensive,” says the video’s star.

Harvard takes it to the next level with Yale admissions spoof. It’s on.

miranda — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:23:54 +0000

On Harvard Time, Harvard’s satiric news show, has released this year’s annual Harvard-Yale video. This year’s video is definitely a step up from last year’s or the year before production-wise, but this year’s video just proves that Cantabs have a massive inferiority complex. The only jokes they’ve managed to make are about the dangers of living in New Haven– including a taser joke (uninspired) and an Annie Le joke (tasteless). Take pity on their poor souls, Yalies– they’re just as sad as we are that The Game is at Harvard this year. Think about it: in a Cantab’s college career they only have two weekends of real partying. The rest of the year, they’re forced to hang out in their “houses” and pray they’ll get a good finals club bid by senior year. We’ll all be sober and grumpy on Saturday morning, so try not to get in any fights.

Good news: you may not get hypothermia at The Game

miranda — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:19:12 +0000

Let the joyous news be spread! This just in from weather.com: the forecast for Saturday in Cambridge says that though you may suffer a brain injury or be driven to madness by the vuvuzela’s buzz, you will not die of hypothermia like you did two years ago. Do: wear a coat, and factor in the fact that you won’t have any alcoholic beverages to warm you from the inside. Don’t: wear a parka, ski mask, long johns, hand and feet warmers, multiple socks, scarves, and beer jackets.

The workshop for anyone who mumbles through the fight song!

justine — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:52:38 +0000

If you, like me, have ever found yourself stumbling through Yale fight songs in a crowd of people who seem to all know the words, you should check out this very practical workshop in Davenport just two days before the big day. Here’s the blurb:

What? Don’t know any Yale fight songs? For shame! But – there’s still time to learn before The Game!

Yale Fight Song Pow-Wow

Davenport Common Room

November 18th, 4pm

Led by Jeremy Schiffres (DC ’11) and Alex Shapiro (DC ’14)

Songs To Be Learned:

Bright College Years

Bull-Dog

Boola Boola

and many more…

Music, lyrics and refreshments to be provided.

Check it out! Not that anyone will be able to hear the words at all through the vuvuzelas.

Vintage Yale men courtesy of Project Gutenberg

Game T-Shirts galore from Harvard. Where are Yale’s?

miranda — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 22:47:44 +0000

Students at our evil twin school are already decked out in their Game shirts. Cambridge residents are even starting to notice the ironic t-shirt rivalry: my radio journalism college seminar had a guest speaker who skyped with the class from Cambridge. He said, “I think there’s a big game happening soon. I’ve seen the t-shirts”. This cool one, riffing on the theme that we see all too often (pick an unintelligent person who went to Yale, make fun of Yale for having them) is being sold by the Harvard Dems.

Harvard concedes defeat to Yale, takes on Cornell

joe — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:01:57 +0000

Hey guys, Harvard here... we're gonna focus on Cornell from now on...

Today, Harvard freshman Christina McClintock, speaking on behalf of her entire university, conceded ultimate defeat to Yale, in everything, forever. In an op-ed in the Crimson, she said that Harvard should just give up on Yale and focus its energies on Cornell, an inarguably more realistic rival. “Forget Yale,” she writes, “The Big Red is definitely Harvard’s biggest rival right now.” Harvard may have realized that conceding mainland Asia to Yale is not a path to future competitiveness, and so is pre-emptively pursuing a weaker target. Good luck with that, Cantabs!