<p>how many convicts does brown have?</p>
<p>The last incident is ridiculous. Throwing someone off the team for what happened at a team skit?</p>
<p>I'd say the coach is going overboard a bit - probably determined to prove that nobody is tougher on the team than him. What does the Crimson think?</p>
<p>If THIS little incident happened at Harvard, the QB and star running back would have been immediately suspended!</p>
<p>they might be suspended. how utterly stupid. I guess no reason now to reserve a hotel in boston. and they were looking pretty good this year - what a shame.</p>
<p>In the nothing-beats-an-Ivy-League-education department:</p>
<p>Here (two posts back) you have a fight involving five students, arrests, and "more than $3,500 worth of damages." </p>
<p>How's it characterized by the team captain? As "the result of a miscommunication between the students."</p>
<p>One cynical observer thinks it will all be hushed up and smoothed over - with no stars losing any playing time.</p>
<p><a href="http://ivyleak.com/node/213%5B/url%5D">http://ivyleak.com/node/213</a></p>
<p>glass houses, byerly...</p>
<p>Au contraire, scottie my boy:</p>
<p>"All except Polhemus were charged with breach of peace in the second degree and criminal mischief in the third degree. Polhemus was charged with breach of peace in the second degree." </p>
<p>I seriously doubt this will result in their suspensions. All minor misdemeanors and Polhemus seems not to have been involved.</p>
<p>less serious offenses, without arrests or property damage, got some Harvard players suspended.</p>
<p>Presumably the business will be compensated for its losses, and will be wary of offending the University and its students by pressing charges or costing the football team the services of its two best players - even for a single game.</p>
<p>that's because Murphy is considered to be a tyrant</p>
<p>Nice guys finish last.</p>
<p>hey, he's a great coach, I'm not knocking that. But that suspension over skit-night was sort of outrageous if you ask me. I can understand being overly strict with criminal acts like fighting a bus driver, but a comedy skit... come on.</p>
<p>So is fighting a bus driver more wicked than fighting a hockey player? Even if the latter battle also resulted in $3500 worth of property damage? </p>
<p>Nah, I think the difference is the flexible approach to these things in New Haven, where the institutional interests are paramount. (Compare, for example, Levin's changing views as to the evils of early admissions.)</p>
<p>that's probably true and the cause for the tailgating furor among students (and alcohol policy in general at Harvard) and even Summers' debacle last year. If only the faculty could have such institutional interests in mind... they might not be so rancorously self centered.</p>
<p>and I was talking about the comedy skit as an example of unfairness, not the bus driver or girlfriend assault. I didn't compare the altercations at Yale and Harvard so I'm not sure where you are coming from with your first sentence.</p>
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<li><p>I share your view about the self-centeredness of the FAS at Harvard.</p></li>
<li><p>From all that is known, the bus driver incident was less worthy of discipline than the Gourmet battle. Yet the Harvard incident was dealt with via suspensions while the Yale incident will - if you are correct - be hushed up.</p></li>
<li><p>From the outside, the skit incident punishment seemed excessive, I agree, but I've heard there is a story <em>behind</em> the story.</p></li>
<li><p>Such differences as exist in crackdowns on student alcohol abuses at tailgates seem to reflect the degree to which Yale influences the New Haven Police Department vs. the degree to which Harvard influences the Boston Police Department. My solution is breathtaking in its simplicity: move the student tailgating across the River to Cambridge. Proximity to the Stadium is irrelevant anyway, since few of the revellers plan to attend the game!</p></li>
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<p>the story made the frontpage of ESPN</p>
<p><a href="http://sports.espn.go.com%5B/url%5D">http://sports.espn.go.com</a></p>
<p>hmm... this will make it harder to ignore; the traditional need to compare itself to Harvard in all things - even in suspending bad-boy
jocks - may soon manifest itself!</p>
<p>MSNBC seems to have picked the story up off the AP wire now</p>
<p>"Yale football, hockey players arrested" blares the headline.</p>
<p>But Yalies can breath a a sigh of relief:</p>
<p>"Both football players are expected to play when Yale visits Dartmouth on Saturday."</p>
<p>For example, from the Los Angeles Times this afternoon:</p>