Ivy League Notebook, Yale Index

Ivy League Notebook

In the drug-fueled mayhem that was Brown's Spring Weekend, a Providence police officer, perhaps having ingested one too many of those strange looking mushrooms that floated so freely around campus, opened fire with a can of pepper spray on "a small off-campus party." The Providence police had received a call from a neighbor complaining of noise, and arrived at the house of Todd Berman '98 at around 1 a.m.

There they found "maybe 10 people, six of whom live there," and saw fit to "deploy so much pepper spray that the house needed to be evacuated." Students were outraged by this supposed act of police brutality, apparently not the first in the area.

Cornell

We may now add Cornell's Chinese Student Association to the myriad coalitions of animal rights activists, rainforest preservationists, and health care providers who want to blame McDonald's for the general apathy of the American people. This summer, Cornell student Paul Leung began circulating an email expressing his disapproval of McDonald's ad campaign promoting the release of Disney's Mulan.

Leung felt that the ads, which feature Ronald McDonald in a martial arts headband karate-chopping the golden arches, "perpetuate stereotypes."

His email campaign, which earned him a profile in Entertainment Weekly magazine, has failed to garner him or the Asian-American community any kind of apology from McDonald's.

Harvard

Teetotalling Harvard officials, still reeling from the repeal of prohibition laws, are now up in arms about a new brand of beer that will bear the name of their oh-so-precious institute of higher learning. The Harvard Trademark Office, leery of associating the University with an alcoholic beverage, has put its lawyers on the case.

But the Lowell Brewing Company of Massachusetts denies that the name of their new Harvard Lager has anything to do with the University. According to marketing manager Martin D. Finnegan, the name was chosen based "on the history of our city." Harvard Lager will sell for about $5 a sixer.

Compiled by Gaylen Moore from the Harvard Crimson, Brown Independent, and Cornell Daily Sun.

YALE INDEX
1. 1. Number of new treadmills in Payne Whitney Gym Fitness Center	12
2. Number of residential college Masters who tell their frosh that their college is "the best"	12
3. Cost of Swing Space, in millions of dollars	18
4. Cost of Payne Whitney Gym renovations, in millions of dollars	38
5. Gross domestic product of Tuvalu, an island in the South Pacific, in millions of dollars	7.8
6. Number of years it would take for Tuvalu to renovate PWG	4.9
7. Number of singing groups participating in fall rush under the auspices of the singing group council	13
8. Number of extra syllables required to tell people that your major is Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, not Biology	13
9. Amount of money owed to Yale by the Daily Caffe, in dollars	34,000
10. Number of days Yale gave the Daily Caffe before evicting them	90
11. Amount of money you owe Yale each year, in dollars	30,830
12. Number of days Yale gives you before putting you on bursar's hold	7

--Compiled by Anne Kinderman and Sharon Lin

Sources: 1, 2, 6) Arle Numbers Research Council; 3) Yale Office of Public Affairs; 4, 9, 10) YDN; 5) The World Factbook, 1997; 7) Christian Williams, TD '99; 8) Yale College Programs of Study, 1998-1999 11) Yale Office of Institutional Research; 12) Yale Financial Aid Office

JULIA TIERNAN/YH Just days after the Daily Caffe closed its doors, Bruegger's Bagels shut down its Broadway store citing financial problems. The chain's Whitney Avenue l;ocation is expected to follow suit soon.

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