Word: fakeness
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Take 1,000 part students, add 100 gallons of schnapps-spiked hot chocolate and a dash of pulsing hip-hop. Garnish with fake U-Haul. Shake, but don’t stir, and you’ve got yourself a tailgate...
...anticipation of the 1974 Harvard-Yale Game, The Crimson published this article, detailing past efforts of The Crimson and the Yale Daily News (YDN) to spoof their sister publications. On the day of the 1974 Game, the YDN distributed fake Crimsons throughout Harvard dining halls claiming a huge drop in Harvard’s endowment. The plot was foiled in advance by a tip from an Associated Press reporter, and the issues were promptly removed...
...We’ll put out a fake Yale Daily News,” Southwick said, “revealing that the entire Yale football team came down with hepatitis and had to forfeit the football game...
Since then, with the exception of last year, the Crimson and the Yalie Daily have been exchanging hoaxes. When Harvard Harvard hosted The Game in 1970, a fake issue of the Crimson proclaimed the Harvard Corporation had chosen Nixon advisor Daniel P. Moynihan, professor of Education on leave, to replace retiring President Nathan M. Pusey...
...fake Yale Daily News said that Yale was tearing down the Bowl and was replacing it with a domed stadium in downtown New Haven. A hoax Crimson issued the morning after The Game in 1972 announced Henry Kissinger would return to Harvard in January...