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This is really just painful to watch. It’s like someone filled a dump truck with awkward, terrible jokes and put them into Final Cut. And damn, Yale -- y’all sure have a lot of our swag?

Clearly they didn’t learn their lesson from last year because they used that damn song again. Points for new ideas!

We can’t wait to see how much better Harvard’s is…

This just in: Wide receiver Baltazar Zavala ’11 learned that he just became a Rhodes scholar after Harvard’s 28-21 victory over Yale earlier today. The news came via a text message that he found as he left the field to celebrate with his teammates. “Congratulations. You’re a Rhodes Scholar,” it said.

The 6’1, 185 lbs walk-on from El Paso, Texas, was also recently selected to join the academic honor society Phi Beta Kappa earlier this month. A neurobiology and engineering concentrator in Kirkland House, “Zar” Zavala maintains a 3.934 GPA, according to a feature article from the Boston Globe that was released in celebration of his winning a Marshall Scholarship. Both scholarships offer recipients opportunities to conduct postgraduate study in the United Kingdom. The Rhodes, whose long list of influential and famous alumni includes former President Bill Clinton, will cover tuition fees for up to three years of study at the University of Oxford.

Zar flew to his hometown for the interview late Friday afternoon, and didn’t get back to Boston until about 25 minutes after kickoff, but he dressed and joined his team on the field as Harvard defeated Yale for the ninth time in ten years.

(Image: Zar (No. 41) on the field. Source: Facebook.com)

Gracing the pages of multiple publications today, Zar said “I can’t think of a better day!” Noice offers the heartiest congratulations to our winning senior, in every sense of the word! Some people do have it all.

Sources: LA Times, ESPN, HuffingtonPost (basically, the Internet & Facebook)

The Daily Beast has the answer. The popular news website, the brainchild of former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown, just released its ranking of the 50 most stressful colleges in the US. Lo and behold, Harvard is ranked #5, only trailing after Stanford, Columbia, MIT and Penn.

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The five criteria taken into consideration are (excerpts from the actual article):

• The cost: Financial pressure is a huge stress-inducer. Tuition plus room and board, weighted at 35 percent. With 2009-2010 data from the National Center on Education Statistics.

• Competitiveness: How academically rigorous is the school? Weighted at 35 percent, with 2010 data from US News & World Report.

• Acceptance rate: More competitive schools generally produce a more competitive student body. Weighted at 10 percent, with 2010 data from US News & World Report.

• Engineering: Is the school known for its particularly rigorous graduate engineering program? Weighted at 10 percent, with 2010 data from US News & World Report.

• Crime on campus: Adapted from The Daily Beast’s analysis of college crime, weighted at 10 percent and ranked relative to this particular group of colleges. With data from the US Department of Education.

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