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...Have I really missed so much?A quick polling of some friends revealed mixed results.“Best experience I had at Harvard last year,” declares Walt, now a sophomore. He describes the final play of the 2005 triple-overtime triumph in New Haven, after which he rushed from the stands, faked out a security guard, and “dance[d] on Eli’s field.”“It felt,” Walt recalls, “like glory just had sex with...
...does Yale still endure after three centuries of attempts to rid humanity of this pestilence? The answer is undoubtedly linked to the fact that the primary “Yale colony” continues to spawn in New Haven. Every year many bright young adults who could better their life situation end up spiraling down into the gutters of society. Why does this tragedy occur? Perhaps some believe that since their parents and their parents’ parents suffered from Yale, they can’t hope to break the cycle. Some are probably scared that if they don?...
...that “we haven’t given up the hope that Yale can have fun. ” What planet do these people come from? Last I checked, Yale’s tailgates were a virtually undisputed success. Does anyone that made the trip to New Haven last year really expect that our straight-jacketed, fenced-in, police-state tailgate will vaguely approach the fun of the more anarchic atmosphere outside the Yale Bowl last November...
...anyone who has spent more than about two hours in New Haven readily recognizes, Yale students do not need much of an incentive to party. We should all ask ourselves why many Yale student groups and residential colleges seem to have spent their money on a tailgate for the Princeton game, and why they seem quite unwilling to make the short trip up to Boston...
...wrong, but I predict that Saturday will see the first step in the long-term decline of the Harvard-Yale game, or at least the half of it that takes place in Cambridge. This is something that can’t be remedied by simply calling New Haven a slum and patting ourselves on the back...