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Well, I'm an MIT engineer, and although it turns out that I have degrees from Harvard, the reason I never mention them is that I hated Harvard. And one of the reasons I hated Harvard is that I was one of the few people in the history of the world who's had their PhD dissertation rejected in their last year

This has to be the most mind-boggling articles I've seen on Slashdot.

This link as well didn't help.

Details of the prank at http://www.harvardsucks.org/.

Although the joke might be on Yale if the insightful comments there are any indication.

http://www.harvardsucks.org/

By the brave folks of The Harvard Pep Squad!

To the person who said that the cards weren't readable: some pictures at the prank website. Definitely legible.

As an aside from the Cal Tech / MIT pranks - I've found a Yale hack/prank that's simply fucking awesome.

On November 20, 2004 at the 121st Yale-Harvard game, 20 Elis donned custom made "Harvard Pep Squad" t-shirts, applied enemy-red war paint on their faces, and set out to pull a prank on 1800 Harvard alumni. Like clockwork, these brave Elis proceeded to exude more Harvard spirit than any Cantab ever... tossing t-shirts to the lucky and unsuspecting few, and passing out 1800 sheets of red & white construction paper in perfect order to the cheering Harvard crowd. With 4:47 minutes left in the second quarter of the game, each member of the crowd raised their sheet of paper expecting to spell out "Go Harvard" as they were told by the cheering "Harvard Pep Squad." Instead, the truth was revealed to a laughing crowd of YALE alumni and students who saw the Harvard crowd spell out in clear red letters"WE SUCK." Harvard just needed a little help expressing their true school spirit. A tight-knit crew of Elis led by Mike Kai and David Aulicino (PC '05) made sure it happened.

you'll hopefully have all heard of http://www.harvardsucks.org/. I bet their video will be slashdotted before morning though...

A bunch of Yalies pulled a similar prank at this year's The Game, but there was no lock-picking or theft involved - just pure social engineering. They reconnoitered the Cantabs' stadium and designed their own card stunt. The day of the game, they dressed up as the "Harvard Pep Squad", and passed out their cards, without, apparently, raising an eyebrow. And not once, not twice, but three times (or more!), they got 1800 Havard students and alums to declare as one: "WE SUCK".

In their own words, or as told by the Yale Daily 'News'.

A bunch of Yalies pulled a similar prank at this year's The Game, but there was no lock-picking or theft involved - just pure social engineering. They reconnoitered the Cantabs' stadium and designed their own card stunt. The day of the game, they dressed up as the "Harvard Pep Squad", and passed out their cards, without, apparently, raising an eyebrow. And not once, not twice, but three times (or more!), they got 1800 Havard students and alums to declare as one: "WE SUCK".

In their own words, or as told by the Yale Daily 'News'.

but I did find this cool article on how the North Korean stadium displays use children as "human pixels" for their grand displays of supposed superiority... and how difficult it is to train children in other countries to do the same thing.

At this year's Harvard-Yale Game, a number of Yale students dressed as the 'Harvard Prep Squad' gave out large cards to fans in the Harvard side and convinced them to hold them up after a Harvard touchdown, proudly spelling out "WE SUCK." Quite possibly the greatest prank ever... http://www.harvardsucks.org/ (Yale '04, been reading /. since living with two CS majors)

They even say so themselves...here's the proof! Yale-Harvard 2004, Harvard Sucks -- and they know it!

(they admit it themselves!)

Digitize this.

Everyone knows that Harvard sucks.