Princeton Truly Out-Nerds Itself
The Daily Prince reports in "Quidditch sweeps into Princeton":
Monday afternoon, the Middlebury Quidditch team stopped at Princeton University as part of its annual spring break Quidditch tour in an attempt to promote its ground-bound version of the sport at other American universities. So far this year, Middlebury has visited Bard and Penn and has games scheduled against Columbia and Vassar.
The role of the snitch is filled, not by an enchanted, plum-sized, golden-feathered ball, but by a hyperactive college student dressed in yellow with a penchant for running and wrestling. To capture the snitch, one of the seekers must grab a black sock hanging from the snitch's shorts.
No word on Dean Dolores Umbridge's (Nancy Malkiel) take on the game.
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March 27th, 2008 at 12:00 am
congratulations guys, not only do you belong at harvard (with all the other outcasts), but you’ll be virgins forever. what fun!!
March 27th, 2008 at 8:46 am
And you’ll be a bitch forever. What fun!!
March 27th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Judge not, ye who have not fallen victim to the golden snitch’s unexpected judo techniques
March 27th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
What’s quidditch?
March 27th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
On behalf of the better half of my campus, I would like to issue a public apology to the greater higher education community for the conduct of these geeky miscreants. The Quiddich event was purpotrated by a fringe movement and did not enjoy the support of the broader Princeton campus, the vast majority of which, was a the time, happily, engaging in “normal people” things–learning, drinking or pursuing a sexual mate.
March 27th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
The quidditch event worries me much less than your own “purpotration” of the crime of attempting to mate with anything. What does purpotrate mean anyway? Something to do with being purple?
March 27th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Somebody get these nerds a Nimbus 2000 Broom:
http://www.seattleweekly.com/2002-09-11/diversions/unclean-sweep.php
It will be the most action they’ll get all semester.
April 10th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOe6DDbLGAs
September 9th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
This is possibly the most amazing thing I have ever heard of in my life. They are awesome. I don’t think I would want to be friends with this “better half of the campus”. Besides normal people are boring especially those make excuses for people playing Quidditch. There never needs to be an excuse for playing Quidditch.