Limp with Anticipation! Penn (or impeccable poseur) Announces Spring Fling
Breaking! Penn's Social Planning and Events Committee sent us an email announcing their Spring Fling band today and it's... Limp Bizkit! This must be the apotheosis of Ivy League spring concerts, so intensely "irony-hungry" that I was totally speechless until our Thursday Ragtime guy and resident Pennian, James Yu, pointed out that SPEC's email address was in Gmail, so maybe it's a prank? If so, it is an idea so perfect in concept, so elegant in detail and design (press embargo! exclamation points!) that we'll have to bow down to whoever came up with it. We had James write a Bizkit bio:
Last seen toying with the angst-ridden hearts of suburban high schoolers eight or so years ago, Limp Bizkit is headlining Penn's Spring Fling this April. Fred Durst, Limp's limp 37-year old frontman, has been best known in recent years for sexing batshit crazy Britney Spears before she was crazy and for allegedly leaking a sex tape online in 2005 to gain publicity.
See SPEC's embargoed email and multi-exclamation-pointed flyer after the jump.
IvyGate,
Hello, this is the Social Planning and Events Committee from the University of Pennsylvania. At 9AM tomorrow we will be sending out a campus wide email that will be announcing the headliner of Spring Fling 2008. We are notifying all proper media institutions in advance to make sure we get the news out as quickly as possible. If you could please post the poster we are attaching in PDF format to the IvyGate Blog it would be greatly appreciated. Please do not post this before 9AM tomorrow as this has been kept within the SPEC Committee and various other media sources until now. If you have any questions please feel free to contact us.
Sincerely,
SPEC Events
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The University of Pennsylvania
Spring Fling 2008
April 11-12
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February 26th, 2008 at 3:55 am
This had better be a joke.
February 26th, 2008 at 3:59 am
this makes me so happy!
February 26th, 2008 at 4:03 am
I sincerely hope someone is freaking kidding.
February 26th, 2008 at 4:04 am
the return of fred durst!!! yeaa!!!!
February 26th, 2008 at 4:08 am
the return of fred durst!!! yeaa!!!!
February 26th, 2008 at 9:36 am
1) So… you broke their embargo? Maureen, breaking a request to keep quiet for just a few hours from a student group that didn’t have to give you this information? I’m all for investigative reporting, but what did you do to get this information early other than have it e-mailed to you by SPEC? After your little problem with outing an anonymous tipster last week, I’m detecting a disturbing pattern of bad journalism from you.
2) It’s now past 9:00, and I haven’t seen any “campus-wide e-mail,” and the DP (still a far more reliable source than IvyGate) hasn’t picked up on this. This is beginning to look very fake, which I sincerely hope is true, not just for the students’ sake, but so that your careless rush to scoop the DP by ignoring a reasonable embargo request and not doing any fact-checking results in you looking like an idiot. Again.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:01 am
“impeccable poseur”? are you retarded? the thing is so obviously fake
February 26th, 2008 at 10:13 am
Brown had a fake announcement on the Main Green that Creed, Sugar Ray, and Milli Vanilli were playing. This looks like the same thing..
February 26th, 2008 at 10:28 am
i dont know what to say – on one hand, Limp Bizkit are pretty lame, but on the other hand, they were pretty cool when we were in middle school. (kinda like Third Eye Blind). i think i’ll have to go see them
February 26th, 2008 at 10:40 am
Embargoes are problematic for many reasons, and lots of credible publications have decided not to follow them. For more on that phenomenon: http://www.slate.com/id/2178382/
We have a history of breaking embargoes (USNews rankings, anyone?) which is why the inclusion of one is hilarious/genius.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:43 am
1) The email would come from Spec CONCERTS
2) They don’t make the announcement about the artist until the Tuesday after Spring Break
3) SPEC doesn’t send student body wide emails.
This is fake.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:07 am
and furthermore, SPEC emails come the the specevents.net domain.
get it together.
February 26th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Quit with the bs IvyGate
February 26th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
IvyGate should be ashamed…blogs don’t require the same journalistic standards as newspaper, but IvyGate has relied on this to the point where it has lost all credibility.
February 26th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
This is not true.
February 26th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
spec doesn’t use gmail accounts to announce things like this… all spec emails end in @specevents.net
February 26th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
spec doesn’t use gmail accounts to announce things like this… all spec emails end in @specevents.net
February 26th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
You guys are fucking morons. This clinches it, Ivygate is officially garbage.
February 26th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Seriously, ivygate. Get your shit together.
February 26th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
It’s generally accepted that embargoes should be agreed upon by both sides before being sent out.
Contracts need to be negotiated by two parties, just like you can’t send someone a package and then demand the contents back and/or payment for the contents.
February 26th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
fuck embargos. ivygate should publish ever tip asap, unless such would hinder publishing further tips asap.
but most importantly, tips should be true, so a fake e-mail about a non-event shouldn’t be posted at all.
February 26th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
This happened last year at Yale; someone sent out the fake announcement of Ricky Martin and some other “irony-satiating” Spring Fling performer. This is pretty unoriginal and not very well done.
February 26th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
yo, i’ll take ricky martin or limp bizkit over the crap they keep on bringing every year
February 26th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Did you learn NOTHING from the Emeril debacle?
I used to read this blog all the time because your Penn coverage was, frankly, better written and generally more reliable than the DP’s (which, I might add, printed today’s date as MONDAY February 26).
Now you’re worse. Fuck you very much.
February 26th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
To all of the retarded Penn kids who think IG is strupid for posting this… read the fucking article. It’s talking about how it’s NOT necessarily true but funny nonetheless. Penn sucks.
February 26th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Actually, I would argue that as a blog, IvyGate is NOT held by the tenets of basic journalistic ethics. For better or for worse, that release allows blogs to report on things that would otherwise be completely inappropriate in an ordinary news medium. By virtue of the fact that other media sources ARE in fact generally-accepted sources of news, the onus of fact-checking falls on them. As a blog that shows a picture of a spilled beer cup and advertises itself as “News, GOSSIP, sex, sports, and more…” (caps mine), I look to IG for amusing things like this and can’t stand when people slam them for “being lame” or “NOT TRUE!!!1! OMGZzzz.”
Just my point of view though… maybe that was a little better stated than my last post.
February 27th, 2008 at 12:05 am
well maybe it isn’t so fake…
Sports Illustrated has picked it up…they are slightly more credible than ivy gate i must say….
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/sioncampus/02/26/campus.clicks0226/index.html
February 27th, 2008 at 12:41 am
Too bad the SI article links back to IvyGate as their source.
February 27th, 2008 at 9:08 am
What the hell, Ivygate???
My previous comment was DELETED? Why? Because I was little critical of Ivygate?
P09.5 can confirm that my post did as some point exist — his second post was a response to mine! This is unbelievable.
February 27th, 2008 at 10:22 am
We don’t delete critical comments (on purpose). If you haven’t noticed, though, our comment boards get deluged by computer-generated spam. Another editor or I may have accidentally deleted yours while cleaning the boards of spam or duplicate posts. Just repost your original comment.
February 27th, 2008 at 10:40 am
you guys should seriously put a spam filtering system in place like the one that YDN has on their new website (recaptcha or whatever it is called).
also, what is the deal with that ultra slow comment posting? can someone deal with it already? then there would be far less double posting going on.
February 27th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
haha there were flyers all over campus this morning too
February 28th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
holy shit this is crazy/awesome. this is going to be the best spring fling ever!
February 29th, 2008 at 1:27 am
Haha. Thank god I graduated already. It’s like SPEC’s music tastes continue to never move past early high school.
February 29th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Wow, you guys even found the time to make a completely false flyer, post SPEC logos and everything. Cheers for the effort.
March 18th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Its actually Ludacris, Gym Class Heroes and a third mystery performer
May 5th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
The best things in life are for a fee.
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