Get Me the UC

Undergraduate Council president Matthew J. Glazer ’06 and vice-president Clay T. Capp ’06 might have received a couple dozen more drunk dials during Harvard-Yale than they might have anticipated, but then again, they might have been asking for it.

Cards with Glazer’s and Capp’s cell phone numbers were distributed to some UC shuttle ticket holders, and the calls started coming in as early as Thursday night.

“We’re drunk at Yale—you better come get us!” two callers yelled to Capp at around 8 or 9 p.m. Thursday.

“All kinds of people were calling me, saying, ‘I’m drunk I don’t know where I am!’” says Capp, who answered approximately 20 jesting calls the night before the game.

Glazer says he received 50 to 70 calls, many of which he said were “pranks” from anonymous sources. It seems the typical caller craved Glazer’s aid—or just wanted to poke fun.

“Help me, help me! Somebody come help me!” Glazer imitates in a shrill squeal. “Oh Matt! I need you to come get me!”

Glazer reenacts one especially profound call:

“Is this Matt?”

“Yeah.”

“Oh! Your number’s on the card!”

“Yes...”

“Oh! Happy Harvard-Yale!”

“Thanks.”

But for some wayward travelers, the cards came in handy during their sojourn in New Haven. Glazer and Capp say that they received serious queries in addition to the jests and drunk dials, as stranded students sought the aid of their UC leaders.

“Toward the end of the weekend when people were a little confused about shuttles, I got a bunch of calls and was able to help people with shuttles,” Glazer says.

Both Glazer and Capp are thankful that their numbers were made available for those calls that were “actually serious.”