<p>Bad news, Princetonians: According to early reports, it appears that Harvard will take over the lone spot atop the rankings next year. Yes, the Cambridge university will once again be number one as, thanks to a new policy, Harvard stormed past the Polka Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Euclid, Ohio, to become the Lamest Place on Earth.</p>
<pre><code>The first of these new college-wide rudes saw Harvard administrators achieve the unthinkable. They managed to come up with a policy that is actually more universally unpopular than grade deflation. With apologies to Dave Barry, the policy was pointed out to me by loyal reader Zach Goldstein '05, and you can read it on the Crimson website. For those of you who don't have 18 seconds to spare, allow me to sum it up:
At this year's football game between Harvard and Yale, there will be absolutely no alcohol allowed at the student tailgate. Seven "Rules of the Game," as the Crimson called it, were announced via an email sent to the entire student body on Sept. 19. Rule number four is the hardest to swallow, stating that "All forms of alcohol are prohibited from being brought in to the student tailgating area ... No one entering the student tailgate area will be allowed to bring in any beverages of any kind. No one may leave the student tailgate area with an alcoholic beverage. HUPD will enforce these regulations."
The email was written by Dean of the College Benedict Gross, who pointed to the excessive rowdiness of the 2004 tailgate as the reason for the new rules. The announcement was monumental, not only as the most regulated tailgate in the history of the game, but also as the first time in recent memory that a Harvard writer has actually cited a source...
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<p>I also remember a derogatory Cornell remark in the "what goes on in the admissions office" article in a Boston paper..tho I found that a bit funny.
This was downright mean.</p>
<p>I hope they'd be more subtle...Those kind of articles don't really say
good journalism, or does it?
In my country, written works have to be really formal and subtle, and in no way offensive...Even though the country employs democracy. With the exception of entertainment-related yellow journalism writers, all reporters are rather careful.</p>
<p>hey, I know this is completely unrelated to the thread, but nobody has been answering: are there any Harvard admissoins related people on this board?</p>
<p>Alcohol is actually being sold at the tailgate- they're selling beer and spiked hot chocolate. The Crimson article simply noted they wouldn't allow alcohol to be BROUGHT INTO the tailgate (I guess because Harvard wants to keep underage students from drinking- not to mention that it wants to make a profit selling beer at the tailgate.)</p>
<p>I agree that the policy is pretty lame, but it's also dishonest of the Daily Princeton to pretend that "there will be absolutely no alcohol allowed at the student tailgate."</p>