Yale Emails Lamer Than Harvard T-Shirts
We've recently been accused of harboring certain anti-Harvard tendencies. But if there's anything worse than Harvard students designing some truly terrible t-shirts for the Yale game - and yes, there are many things that are worse, i.e. Islamofascism Awareness Week - it's Yalies trying to subvert Harvard students' democratic right to choose the worst t-shirt they can imagine.
Yalies have been emailing each other like whoah trying to hijack the Harvard t-shirt vote with all the smugness and subtlety of an obnoxious sixth grader. It seems not to have occurred to anyone that at some point the Harvard webmaster might catch on.
From email #1: so harvard decided to have online voting for their game shirts. and we decided to choose their shirt for them."
From email #2: The word on the street is that Yale is backing choice no. 3 cause it too lame for words. Vote # 3 and sabotage Harvard."
From email #3: They made their t-shirt contest public. Naturally, we should all vote for the lamest shirt. I'm thinking either shirt 2 (to get them wearing out color, and becuase it doesn't make sense) or shirt 3, which is just idiotic. Either way, lets vote in a large block (There are about 1100 of you i'm emailing)…
Ummm, intense.
After the jump: the emails in full.
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:12:27 -0400
From: [Redacted
Subject: why harvard sucks
To: [Redacted]
hey guys
so harvard decided to have online voting for their game shirts. and we decided
to choose their shirt for them.
the general consensus is number 3. they are all pretty lame as you will see but
we just wanted to pick one.
the link
http://post.harvard.edu/hcf/html/hcf_und_tshirtvotenow.html
tell all your fellow yalies to vote for number 3. please dont facebook post it
however, because some of you guys have harvard friends and they might see and
there goes the prank.
thats all for now.
much love
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:55:49 -0400
From: [Redacted]
Reply-To:
Subject:
To: [Redacted]
Ok, so I got this link.
http://post.harvard.edu/hcf/html/hcf_und_tshirtvotenow.html
Apparently Harvard has put its competition for t-shirts for the Game online.
Take a look. Then follow the instructions below:
1. Laugh at how lame many of the designs are.
2. Feel sorry for Harvard students.
The word on the street is that Yale is backing choice no. 3 cause it too
lame for words.
3. Vote # 3 and sabotage Harvard.
4. Forward to your friends.
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:36:23 -0400
From:[Redacted]
Reply-To:
Subject: Harvard Sucks
To: [Redacted]
They made their t-shirt contest public. Naturally, we should all vote for the
lamest shirt. I'm thinking either shirt 2 (to get them wearing out color, and
becuase it doesn't make sense) or shirt 3, which is just idiotic. Either way,
lets vote in a large block (There are about 1100 of you i'm emailing, sorry if
you get this multiple times, that just means you're on many of my panlists...),
and I say vote for shirt 3, since most of the other panlists are voting for
that.
http://post.harvard.edu/hcf/html/hcf_und_tshirtvotenow.html
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October 24th, 2007 at 11:28 am
Bring back the old editors NOW please… This may be the LAMEST, least funny post EVER.
October 24th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
shouldn’t we be getting praise for working together to sabotage our enemies? i don’t get how this is worthy of ridicule or “lamer than harvard t-shirts.”
October 24th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
wow
how big of a loser do you have to be to waste your time in college rigging a poll on a t shirt?
trying talking with someone of the opposite sex or having a beer
October 24th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
It’s not like we’re twirling our evil villain mustaches and cackling with glee while congratulating ourselves. We’re just taking a couple of seconds out of our day to mess with Harvard. I don’t know why this is considered remotely newsworthy.
October 24th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
As hard as those Yalies may try, nothing beats http://www.safetyschool.org
October 24th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Not even http://www.gradeinflation.org ?
October 24th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
my problem with this plan was that the tshirts are SO lame, it really doesn’t matter which one you vote for.
also, cornell is jealous that they don’t have a real rival school to get excited about. bitches will never know what the harvard-yale thing is all about.
October 24th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Also… how are we rigging anything? Harvard should’ve made the poll private if they were gonna be all pansy-ass about it. :P
And again… maybe it takes people at certain other schools a *real long time* to read an email, go to a website, or participate in an online poll, but we here at Yale manage to do these things fairly quickly, so that it inhibits neither our alcohol consumption nor our casual sex.
October 24th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
Why is a picture of a Princeton professor on this article?
October 24th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Ed Felten is awesome, writes a great blog at http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/ and makes $1000 an hour for testimony.
Et tu, Ivy Gate?
October 24th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
this is just good ol’ fashioned election rigging fun- not sure why this is so lame. maybe if we had hacked into their system princeton-style…
October 24th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Stop voting for tshirts and go get laid.
October 24th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
haha, figures that all of the Yale commenters would think this isn’t newsworthy.
October 24th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
No, it doesn’t, but thanks for trying to gain some relevance for Cornell by latching onto the H-Y rivalry.
October 24th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
You soooo big and cool dmouth09!!! I bet you get laid all the time by all those hot sluts up in Hanover!! Man, I wish I could be cool and go to a sweeeet school like you.
As an aside, I’m not sure exactly how forwarding around a funny e-mail with a link to Harvard’s absurdly lame t-shirt ideas is uncool or newsworthy… I mean I’m pretty sure people forward around funny e-mails or links or funny videos/ pictures/ websites all the time…
October 24th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
as someone who did send out an email to my friends telling them to vote, I’d like to point out the following.
1. It took me as much time as visiting ivygate today did: 10 seconds. If you’re on IvyGate, don’t talk about having nothing better to do.
2. As someone who has run servers, it did indeed occur to me that Harvard would notice heavy yale traffic (or else a surge in votes, an overabundance of votes, or heavy skewing).
3. However, making them realize how stupid they are for making it a public poll is fun as well.
4. dmouth09 is right – chicks dig guys who read IvyGate but don’t send emails.
October 24th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
The first thing I thought when this was forwarded to me was, “You idiot, this’ll be on IvyGate within 48 hours.”
You’re doing good work.
October 24th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
The other Yalies do not speak for our school.
October 24th, 2007 at 11:20 pm
every year harvard students and organizations make several varieties of the HY shirt, so voting in this isn’t going to pigeonhole students into getting a crappy shirt since there will be other ones available. it’s def a waste of time…
October 24th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
every year H students and organizations make several different varieties of h-y shirts, so voting on one design from one organization isn’t really going to do anything. sort of a waste of time…
October 25th, 2007 at 2:02 am
@@dmouth09
Sorry, what was that? I was out drinking so I missed it.
October 25th, 2007 at 2:11 am
no… you were on ivygate, waiting until someone responded to your comment. but that’s cool too, though
October 25th, 2007 at 2:19 am
Oh fuck, he’s right.
October 25th, 2007 at 3:34 am
yale kids get defensive fast…
October 25th, 2007 at 9:56 am
honestly, I don’t understand why this is bizarre/strange/blogworthy. (although I suppose the threshold for blogworthiness is very, very low) so some yalies saw, and siezed the opportunity to rig a harvard t-shirt contest.
1) it’s a pretty compelling opportunity, when you think about it: imagine a stadium full of cantabs wearing that ridiculous journalist/editor shirt!
2) the emails are not particularly intense! they read like, well, casual emails! these don’t seem like COORDINATED CAMPAIGNS TO DESTROY HARVARD OMGZ. which would be a rather disproportionate response to a t-shirt contest.
3) this blog saw fit to first blog about the shirts, and then post the link to vote for them. I’m not sure I see why this is any lamer, or any different. feel free to enlighten me.
October 25th, 2007 at 11:11 am
I really don’t see how this became an article on IvyGate. The quoted emails aren’t embarrassing at all–in fact, they’re pretty straightforward. Must be that Princeton education that has these editors shitting their pants over a lame story.
October 25th, 2007 at 11:14 am
I’d also like to point out that there wouldn’t be a “Harvard webmaster” for a poll that was hosted on another web site. I’m sure they’ll notice, because not only did we Yalies vote, many others did after IvyGate posted the link as well.
This article is almost as lame as the t-shirts themselves.