<p>^^I’m pretty sure gadad is the only H parent to make the trip to the Yale thread. </p>
<p>I found out today that there is a Y-H football watching event at a local bar (2 time zones west of Cambridge). I can’t wait. Hard to get excited for a 10 AM beer, however.</p>
<p>^^I’m watching the game at home on the west coast. If the listings are to be believed, it will be televised nationally on Versus cable channel.</p>
<p>Harvard Beats Yale 29-29: The Movie</p>
<p>[Movie</a> Review - ‘Harvard Beats Yale 29-29’ - Back in 1968, When a Tie Was No Tie - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/movies/19harv.html?ref=todayspaper]Movie”>http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/movies/19harv.html?ref=todayspaper).</p>
<p>Now, that WAS and exciting game!</p>
<p>^^ According to the review in yesterday’s WSJ, George W. Bush was a Yale cheerleader at that classic game. But that doesn’t quite add up, because George was Yale Class of '68, which means he should have graduated the previous June.</p>
<p>These days it is called being a “super senior”, i.e., one who needs one more year to graduate due to academic shortcomings or disciplinary leaves of absence.</p>
<p>W leading the cheers? That might explain something about how the final minute played out for Yale.</p>
<p>Not a morale booster for the H - Y game:</p>
<p>Rally, Girl Talk Concert Cut Short
Event halted after crowds squeeze up against stage, posing safety concerns
Published On Friday, November 21, 2008 4:16 AM </p>
<p>By CHELSEA L. SHOVER
Crimson Staff Writer </p>
<p>Last night’s pep rally at Harvard Yard was cut short after multiple failed attempts at crowd control, grinding the highly anticipated concert by DJ Girl Talk to a halt. The performance, meant to up the excitement for The Game tomorrow, ended prematurely, with organizers asking the hundreds of attendees to step back. </p>
<p>“The ultimate decision to end the concert was that of the Harvard University Police Department,” said College Events Board President John F. Pararas ’08-’09, who is also a former Crimson magazine writer. </p>
<p>Officers at the scene referred requests for comment to HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano. </p>
<p>After a performance by steppers from the Black Men’s Forum, technicians had to adjust the setup of the stage. As the packed crowd waited for Girl Talk, the stage name of Gregg Gillis, to perform, Fun Czar Jason B. McCoy ’08 called for concertgoers to move back. </p>
<p>Students squeezed up against the stage posed a safety concern because there were no concert barriers in place during the performance. </p>
<p>As per Gillis’ contract, no concert barriers were in place during his performance, Pararas said. </p>
<p>As throngs filled the Yard in front of the John Harvard statue, students bobbed to the music in parkas and sipped apple cider and hot chocolate. Those who braved the chill waved glow sticks and foam fingers as CEB members threw balloons into the crowd. </p>
<p>Several police officers stood on stage, as Gillis, clad in a crimson CEB sweatshirt, sampled from songs that varied from Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” to UGK’s “International Player’s Anthem (I Choose You).” </p>
<p>But after crowdgoers caused part of the stage to move, Girl Talk moved his equipment to deejay on the ground. </p>
<p>But even with Gillis among the crowd, Alina A. Hooper ’10, who is also a Crimson photographer, said she was pushed toward the stage and started hyperventilating in the crush of people. </p>
<p>“I was just freaking out and trying to get out of the center of the crowd,” she said. She was pulled out by the HUPD and was uninjured. “I guess they thought I was worse off.” </p>
<p>Rumors stirred that someone had been pushed under the stage, but McCoy said in an interview after the show that some students had crawled under the stage to get out of the crowd and were not hurt. </p>
<p>In an effort to control the crowd, organizers took the stage repeatedly, asking students to step back—only to have glow sticks thrown at them. </p>
<p>Pararas at one point included expletives in his call for students to move away from the stage. </p>
<p>Gillis ended up curtailing his performance because of the failed attempts to control the crowd. After the announcement that the concert was ending, the DJ apologized and said that if it were up to him, he would continue playing and asked if there was “a house somewhere [he] could go, right now.” </p>
<p>Amid cries to move to a final club or the Hasty Pudding, students lingered outside of University Hall to find out where Gillis was going. According to McCoy, he returned to his hotel. </p>
<p>“It was the most unsuccessful successful show ever,” Leah E. Boch ’09 said. </p>
<p>HUPD’s Catalano could not be reached for comment last night.</p>
<p>The eve of The Game and fair less trash talking on these boards than in prior years.</p>
<p>I thought the juxtaposition of editorials in the Crimson and the YDN was pretty funny - hard to tell which was the spoof and which was the serious one.</p>
<p>[The</a> Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: We Suck](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=525483]The”>http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=525483)</p>
<p>[Yale</a> Daily News - News’ View: The Crimson shows its true colors](<a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/26662]Yale”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/26662)</p>
<p>The Crimson editorial was ostensibly written by YDN staffers who used the “breaking and entering skills” that they learned in New Haven to “infiltrate the Crimson press room” and insert an editorial that closes with the following: “Deep down, you will still know the truth. Harvard sucks, and were just glad we didnt get in.”</p>
<p>The actual YDN editorial is a whiny piece that concludes with the following: “To your spineless rejection of our camaraderie we say, simply, You suck. We party harder than you do, anyway.”</p>
<p>Anybody going to the game?</p>
<p>It’s freezing like never before. This morning, at 10am, it was 27F. This is January temperature, not the week before Thanksgiving!</p>
<p>Harvard wins 10-0!</p>
<p>It was indeed freezing. I stayed there about a quarter then watched the rest in Kirkland basement. It was a tight and exciting game. I look forward to your poem, riverrunner.</p>
<p>Incidentally, cosar, my twin brother wrote the editorial you quoted above:</p>
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<p>Great game, especially afterwards when the Harvard and Yale football players shook hands.</p>
<p>It was a great game. Even though Harvard had possession for most (what seemed like all) of it, Yale’s defense was incredibly tight and they barely got 10 through. But Harvard had some amazing defensive plays too.</p>
<p>It was refreshing after two years of blowouts.</p>
<p>Bay, in comparison with other big rivalries (e.g. Michigna and Ohio State?) in which fans act hatefully and get in fights, the H-Y one seems to me to be a model. Lots of good-natured trash talk followed by apparent mutual respect and fellowship.</p>
<p>funny thing is that my son had his friend who attends Yale stay with him last weekend for the game.</p>
<p>^^This is very common. My daughter hosted Yale girls in her rooms every year the game was in Cambridge and vice versa when it was in New Haven.</p>
<p>Anyone have a good idea about public transportation (quick and cheap) to TF Green airport in Providence? Southwest is running $49 fares at Christmas from Manchester and Providence. There is a shuttle from Sullivan Sq to Manchester ($19 each way) and a bus from Harvard Sq to Sullivan Sq., but honestly, after all the transport, my daughter won’t save much time over the train.</p>
<p>OK-I think I just answered my own question—anyone have experience with taking a peter pan bus from south station?</p>
<p>Yes, but it isn’t what I would recommend.</p>
<p>I would take the MBTA commuter rail from South Station. You can find the schedule here:</p>
<p>[MBTA</a> > Schedules & Maps > Commuter Rail > Providence/Stoughton Line](<a href=“Providence/Stoughton Line | Commuter Rail | MBTA”>Providence/Stoughton Line | Commuter Rail | MBTA)</p>
<p>It typically takes about an hour, or just over. It might well be the cheapest option- while I haven’t taken it, I know it’s somewhere in between $1.70 and $7.75 (I’m not sure which zone it is).</p>