'Yale' Students Protest Yale Athletics
On Harvard Timeâs annual video for The Game is up and this time theyâre fighting for the greatest humanitarian cause of our generation: divesting from Yale athletics. Disguised in glasses, a beanie and a Yale scarf, Samuel B. Clark â15 and OHT took to New Haven, where they posed as Yale students protesting the amount of money spent on a poorly-performing football team.
âWe are spending more on Yale athletics than is being spent in public works in the city of New Haven,â Clark says in the video. âAnd what does that even get us? Every single year we lose to Harvard.â
And the best part? Yale students actually agree. Just watch the video.
This comes of course after last yearâs Fake Yale Tours video, and, more recently, Yale College Council President Michael Herbertâs cringeworthy counter-video in which, it seems, Yale challenged UC President Gus Mayopoulos â15 to a boxing match (?!). Weâre not entirely sure what that was about, but it ranks high on the unintentional comedy scale. Though we sure learned a lot about Yaleâs cinematography skills (otherwise known as iMovie). Gus put it best himself in his response video,
But apparently it wasnât as easy this time around for OHT. According to the Yale Daily News, Yalies âfound outâ about OHTâs plans while they were âprotesting.â President Herbert âapproached the group on behalf of the Yale student body,â whatever that means.
During an interview, one vigilant Yalie even played last yearâs video in an attempt to prove to Sam Clark that he was, in fact, Sam Clark. And not a Yalie.
To which Clark responded, âI get that so many times, Iâve gotten that from a lot of people.â So, hereâs to OHT, and its intrepid journeys into the wastelands of New Haven.
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