'Yale' Students Protest Yale Athletics

On Harvard Time’s annual video for The Game is up and this time they’re 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 ‘15 and OHT took to New Haven, where they posed as Yale students protesting the amount of money spent on a poorly-performing football team.

“We are spending more on Yale athletics than is being spent in public works in the city of New Haven,” Clark says in the video. “And what does that even get us? Every single year we lose to Harvard.”

And the best part? Yale students actually agree. Just watch the video.

This comes of course after last year’s Fake Yale Tours video, and, more recently, Yale College Council President Michael Herbert’s cringeworthy counter-video in which, it seems, Yale challenged UC President Gus Mayopoulos ‘15 to a boxing match (?!). We’re not entirely sure what that was about, but it ranks high on the unintentional comedy scale. Though we sure learned a lot about Yale’s cinematography skills (otherwise known as iMovie). Gus put it best himself in his response video,

But apparently it wasn’t as easy this time around for OHT. According to the Yale Daily News, Yalies “found out” about OHT’s plans while they were “protesting.” President Herbert “approached the group on behalf of the Yale student body,” whatever that means.

During an interview, one vigilant Yalie even played last year’s video in an attempt to prove to Sam Clark that he was, in fact, Sam Clark. And not a Yalie.

To which Clark responded, “I get that so many times, I’ve gotten that from a lot of people.” So, here’s to OHT, and its intrepid journeys into the wastelands of New Haven.

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