Yale Coverage of Yale Emails about Harvard Shirts — World Turns Upside-Down, Inside-Out!
You know it'll be a good e-mail when it starts like this:
YALE DAILY NEWS: PLEASE RESPOND ASAP - DEADLINE TONIGHT
It's like the reporter thinks it's our fault he's on a short schedule, his hastily-pressed caps lock key indicating the vital urgency of the following questions about Yale's attempt to sabotage Harvard's H-bomb-vs.-Y-bomb football smackdown t-shirts:
3.) Would you qualify this as a prank, and how so?
4.) I'm just curious what you mean by the obnoxious sixth grader comment.
5.) Do you expect this issue to intensify to anything else? A prank war perhaps?
6.) How effective was this Yale stunt at achieving what it is doing? And what do
you think it is trying to achieve?
The best thing about DEADLINE TONIGHT e-mails is that we get a preview of the next morning's paper. Judging from our intrepid reporter's questions, we expected an exhaustively long, self-amused retelling of collegiate tomfoolery, full of "boys with be boys" bonhomie and rabble-rousing doofuses talking about the incomparable prowess of their alma mater. The result was just that, culminating in the following quotation from a Yale sophomore:
"They suck and we rule - we didn't waste our time, and we are ready for the Game now."
We'd make fun of the time-wasting thing, but then, this is our third post on the matter. The whole ordeal is a vortex of lame, sucking all into the steely grip of Yuck Fale and the kind of expressions of school spirit that decrease one's IQ by 20 points at least.
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October 26th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Maureen, honestly your posts are just awful. I appreciate your attempt to be humorous but the grimace factor is just through the roof. Please ask one of the other editors to help you out when choosing a topic.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
“brown09″, kindly shut the fuck up x3.
October 27th, 2007 at 4:06 am
Gonna have to agree with brown09 on this one. Seriously? This story is getting older and older.
October 27th, 2007 at 8:58 am
It’s not just this story, her other recent garbage has consisted of making fun of youtube videos. Wtf??? It’s blatantly obvious she lacks the wit of the other editors, and is forced to stretch for material.
October 27th, 2007 at 11:21 am
To the contrary, Maureen has been the most prolific editor lately, and if you dislike the 1/3 of her stories that are a little boring, then just don’t read them. WIthout Maureen, we’d only have a story per day to read. And updates are good when they add a new dimension to a story. Keep up the good work Maureen!
October 27th, 2007 at 11:30 am
yaaaylie,
Get off Maureen’s (figurative?)cock please. You’ve been an obedient little lapdog commenting on half her stories.
October 27th, 2007 at 11:34 am
yaaaylie,
Get off Maureen’s (figurative?)cock please. You’ve been an obedient little lapdog commenting on half her stories.
October 27th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
brown 09, go fucking choke yourself on a cock. until i see you riding for ivygate, or until i see you going to some other fucking school except for shit-stained brown, shut up.
October 27th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
*writing, sorry i have sex on my mind
October 27th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
WE R MATURE
October 27th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
“*writing, sorry i have sex on my mind”
Incorrect. You go to cesspool Princeton where inability to write is acceptable. *Note Maureen O’Conner, Princeton ‘08.
October 28th, 2007 at 12:57 am
And you come to ivygate to read polished prose? Just as you scan the works of Dante to catch up on some timely gossip, no doubt…
October 28th, 2007 at 1:26 am
oh fuck brown, you got me there! FUCKING HILARIOUS you motherfucker, you caught the slip of finger. bud you should be writing for ivygate. that and conducting a ritualistic “1000-paper-cuts-of-death” with your diploma. do they give those out at brown? last time i check, they just gave you a rope with a noose attached on it, since you fuckups can’t even tie correctly.
October 28th, 2007 at 3:03 am
Oh please. I don’t care how Maureen writes, she’s simply NOT entertaining or witty. Although a wider range of adjectives besides “gay” and “lame” might help in that regard.
princeton2009,
Wow stick up your ass? Simply alone on a Saturday night, or did you get rejected from your first choice eating club? Did you think licking Maureen’s balls will get you tapped next year? In that case, you might want to use your real name, or leave her a card.
October 28th, 2007 at 3:04 am
princeton2009, please shut up. you’re making the school look bad.
October 28th, 2007 at 3:07 am
Clearly only one opinion is correct.
ONLY ONE.
(And it’s mine!)
October 28th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
ok lets end this. first, i apologize to every other brown graduate, my siblings go to brown, and my comments about brown were uncalled for and over-the-top. they have produced many successful alumni, brown09 not included. i simply think brown09 is an ass for coming to a site specifically to criticize someone’s posts.
i am already in a club (yes, i bickered for it), and typically clubs do not tap people. we voluntarily come out to bicker.
October 28th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
bickering aside, this post sucks some dick.
October 28th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
this post wasn’t good enough to sit on top of the page for the better part of a week. I mean, articles vary in quality, this wasn’t one of the best, it wasn’t one of the worst. But rotate it around. Three posts a day of this quality and I’d be a happy guy.
October 29th, 2007 at 12:02 am
I wouldn’t, really. I mean–it’s easy to make fun of an earnest reporter who’s doing what he’s told. The thing is, though, that requires having something funny to say about it. We’re not presented with that situation here. This post is: look! We got an email from some guy who is trying to do his job, and is maybe a bit too stressed about it! HA!
October 29th, 2007 at 12:06 am
I wouldn’t, really. I mean–it’s easy to make fun of an earnest reporter who’s doing what he’s told. The thing is, though, that requires having something funny to say about it. We’re not presented with that situation here. This post is: look! We got an email from some guy who is trying to do his job, and is maybe a bit too stressed about it! HA!
October 29th, 2007 at 12:11 am
yeah, you’re right. I guess I’m saying that I don’t mind this kind of post, it’s just kind of filler. Making fun of earnest people is what this site is all about, and I’m ok with that, but I see your point too. I think we can all agree: MORE, BETTER POSTS PLZ!!!!
October 29th, 2007 at 12:17 am
Let’s not forget the poor journalism that the post shows. Ivy dailies like to talk about how ‘professional’ they are, and this type of materials proves just the opposite.
October 29th, 2007 at 8:28 am
That’s true–except I have simply no desire to read about that. (OMG THE IVY LEAGUE DAILIES EMPLOY REPORTERS WHO SEND IMPOLITE EMAILS!) This is the site that broke (kinda sorta) the Aleksey Vayner story. It got me as a reader, and many others besides, by being consistently funny and clever. It has slowly ceased to be so, I think. A lot of it, as far as I can tell, is just due to lack of effort. This post is a great example; an editor chooses to print a ’story’ that comes to them, thinking that a heavy dose of snark will somehow make it funny. No!
I think the best stories come about when editors are looking hard for the hilarious effluvia of college campuses and cover them aggressively. (when Ivygate ran those stories on Oh So Fresh and 02138, they seemed to
actually read through the full magazines carefully!)
Now? Well, this article is written about a phenomenon (the fact that this polling booth was open) that someone TOLD THEM ABOUT. Then, people SENT THEM EMAILS and they posted them. Finally, someone SENT THEM ANOTHER EMAIL and they posted it, just for kicks. There is a pattern here: Ivygate, go forth and seek news! Do not expect it to come to you.