Posted by Alice on November 15, 2011 at 5:55 pm
It’s one thing to be a part of the record-low 6.2% admitted Harvard batch. However, when you start to boast about it on the most irrelevant merchandise (what does admission rate have to do with football spirit anyway?), it just shows how desperate you are to let the world know about your academic glory.
Not cool, Harvard. One would expect more ingenuity from this “chosen 6%.”
(Inspired by this article.)
Posted by Lauren Feldman on November 15, 2011 at 8:26 am
A happily Gryffindor-esque scarf.
As the nation’s “most exclusive” protests occur on campus, the torch has been passed to a major retail-clothing corporation to make Harvard more accessible to the 99%.
The common mall department store Forever 21 currently has a sale advertising a variety of Harvard gear for the winter. Among the offerings are a scarf, gloves, and two different kinds of beanies. The clothes are actually pretty cute, and a great way to bulk up for the Game this Saturday. The price of the most expensive item? A whopping $11.76.
The sale is also putting out garb from other colleges, including Yale, LSU and Auburn. Affordable outerwear from my elite university sold alongside this drivel? Pish tosh.
Posted by Lauren Feldman on November 14, 2011 at 4:43 pm
Harvard has received a fortuitous leg up in our quest to not have the worst sex lives in the Ivy League.
RIP Yale Sex Week, 2002-2011. (Photo credit: Yale's Broad Recognition magazine.)
Yale president Richard Levin announced last week that activities of the college’s “Sex Week” may no longer take place in Yale’s facilities or use the school’s name.
According to this article, Levin’s decision was based upon a committee report examining how to combat sexual harassment and violence at Yale. The document stated that Sex Week at the school deviated from its intended purpose of sex education, and prominently featured “titillating displays, ‘adult’ film stars, and commercial sponsors of such material.”
Fellow Harvard students, this is our chance. Hopefully our football team won’t be the only thing scoring at Yale this weekend.
Posted by Kathleen French on November 22, 2010 at 1:48 pm
Jezebel is reporting that this past Saturday following The Game, instead of it being all celebrations (on Harvard’s behalf of course), there turned out to be some very disappointing controversy. A party thrown at the new Boston nightclub Cure was pre-planned and had sold tickets with the aim of bringing in Black Harvard alums and students of age to celebrate the win. Instead, the party took a turn for the worse then the club was inexplicably shut down at approximately 11 p.m. The reason? The club owners became concerned that the long line of African American patrons outside of the club would make them look bad.
Micheal Beal, one of the organizers for the event, sent out the following e-mail to those who tried to attend the party:
————— Forwarded message —————
From: Beal, Michael [redacted]
Date: Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 7:50 AM
Subject: AN APOLOGY AND EXPLANATION REGARDING TONIGHT’S HARVARD-YALE PARTY AT CURE
To: [redacted]
Dear friends,
On behalf of Brandon, Kwame, myself and Triumph as an organization I want to profusely apologize for the ordeal you were put through tonight with the club shutting the party down at 11:15PM. Please know that we are working with event-brite to refund every person who purchased a ticket for tonight’s event as soon as possible. Asides from an apology I believe it is important to be completely transparent about what occurred tonight and what we are doing about it. I apologize for the verbose nature of the email, and hope that you will take the time to read it in its entirety.
What Happened?
At approximately 10:30PM club management called the owner to say that they saw individuals on line whom they recognized as “local gang bangers” (their words not mine). In response to this, the club owner directed the bouncers to only let individuals with a Harvard or Yale ID in to the club. At this point Kwame and I argued that no alumnus would have his or her expired college ID with them and reiterated that the reason we did the party on a pre-sold basis with strict admittance based solely on the guest list was to guarantee that the only attendees were Harvard and Yale alumni, grad students and their close friends and to ensure that no “bad seeds” could contaminate our party. However, given that this was the club’s opening weekend, the owner was particularly sensitive to anything going wrong.
At approximately 10:45, after we won the argument concerning the amazing quality of our crowd and the strictness of our guest list, management began letting people in but then became worried that as our crowd waited in line it could attract the attention of “local gang bangers” passing by who would try to gain entrance to our party. Furthermore, they feared that if these individuals were turned away for not being on the guest list they could hypothetically cause problems with the bouncers outside of the club and draw negative attention to the establishment. Despite the fact that our Friday night party went off without a hitch and had no problems when we turned people away from the door for not being on our list, management decided to shut the party down as to avoid the hypothetical chance of attracting the “wrong crowd” (again their words not mine). In spite of our attempts to reason with them, we were left in a position where despite agreeing with our logic, the decision had been made and we were left powerless
Please be assured that we are working with event-brite to refund every person who purchased a ticket for tonight’s event as soon as possible. To those who gained entrance and wasted their money on cabs and drinks at the bar I am extremely sorry. As anyone who knows us understands, the only reason we created Triumph was to foster an environment where educated individuals (black and non-black) can congregate knowing that they are amongst like-minded persons. As a Harvard Business School student I am annoyed by the financial loss we will record as a result of the club’s rash decision. As a Harvard college alum I am angry that my college roommate flew in from Los Angeles and my teammate from San Francisco and were denied the opportunity to reconnect with old friends on our homecoming weekend. However, as a black man, these emotions are trumped by an arduous feeling of sadness that regardless of our crowd representing the pinnacle of academic achievement as Harvard and Yale College alumni, Law, Medical, Business and PhD students, we were perceived as a threat because of our skin color. I am further dismayed that after having spent the last few hours with the club owner, I do not believe him to be a racist; which only adds to my consternation around what this event says about race relations in our country.
Kwame and I thought that we had taken every precaution to ensure that this night would go on without incident but have learned a valuable lesson from this. We usually go through painstaking detail to be explicit and transparent about our crowd as to have no surprises the day of the event. We did not do that in this case as we thought Harvard and Yale alumni and Graduate students spoke for its self. We also did not negotiate directly with the owner but rather used a booking agent to secure this beautiful club before it opened to the public. These are lessons learned and we will never make these mistakes again if we ever do another event.
Over the next days and weeks we will work with the club’s management and Harvard student groups to ensure that this does not happen to others in the future. Again, I am sorry for and embarrassed by what happened tonight. We will keep you posted as things progress and appreciate the support you have shown us over the last five years of Triumph. We have sent this email to all those who purchased tickets via event-brite but realize we are missing many email addresses of those affected by tonight. If you know of others who should receive this email please forward it to them. If there is anything I can do to help in the future please feel free to reach out to me or Kwame directly.
Sincerely,
Michael Beal (Harvard ’06, HBS ’12), Kwame Owusu-Kesse (Harvard ’06, HBS ’12, HKS ’12) and Brandon Terry (Harvard ’05, Oxford ’07, Yale PhD ’12)
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Hopefully, the club will release an apology for their actions. Surely, this is not the age we live in.
Posted by Kathleen French on November 18, 2010 at 7:55 pm
Dear On Harvard Time Viewers,
We are writing in regards to our recently released “Why Did I Choose Yale?” video, a parody of “That’s Why I Chose Yale” by the Yale Admissions Office. The short included a line which made reference to the murder of a graduate student at Yale in 2009. In the video, the nationally covered incident was mentioned by an audience member and the Admissions Officer character promptly brushed over the question. Our intention was to comment on Yale’s guarded treatment of their crime problems. The humor rested in the glossing over of a significant event, and not in the event itself. The line was not meant to make light of the incident or those involved, but rather to mock the University.
However, over the last 24 hours we’ve received feedback from members of the Yale community who were closely connected to this incident. These students and faculty members have voiced concern that the line makes light of this student’s murder and goes beyond parody. This was certainly not our intention in writing it, but we understand this response and sincerely apologize for any offense it may have caused. The last thing we’d want to do is upset anyone personally connected to the incident.
As such we have decided to remove the video and replace it with a version that does not include this reference which we are working to post as soon as possible. We hope you continue to enjoy what we believe is an otherwise well-humored and good-natured parody.
Go Harvard!
Sincerely,
On Harvard Time
On Harvard Time can be reached for additional comments and inquires at onharvardtime@gmail.com.
Posted by Kathleen French on November 17, 2010 at 9:06 pm
Because vuvuzelas are officially banned from The Game.
In an e-mail sent out earlier today from the Office of Student Life they relayed a statement from the Harvard Athletics Department “regarding vuvzelas and other artifical noisemakers:”
“It has become apparent that some individuals intend to use artificial noisemakers to both disrupt play on the field and detract from the overall fan experience for many spectators. In keeping with Department of Athletics’ commitment to conduct athletic contests in a manner that promotes good sportsmanship, artificial noisemakers will not be permitted inside the ticketed footprint of Harvard Stadium for the upcoming Harvard vs. Yale football game. We greatly appreciate your cooperation.”
4LOKOs and now this? COME ON.
Posted by Casey Thomson on November 16, 2010 at 3:46 pm
T-4 days ’til the big H-Y 2010. T-shirts abound, stories of old victories are brewing, and vuvuzuelas are starting to pop out of the woodworks. Just in case you needed another reason to get pumped about destroying Yale, here’s a new video released by On Harvard Time to remind you of why you should be thankful that you DIDN’T choose Yale.
Bring it on, Yalies. BRING IT ON
In case you were hiding under a rock when Yale released this, in all seriousness, then you will fully appreciate the brilliance that is OHT’s creation.
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