<3 The U-Store…A musical number from Les Miserables, of course!
Well, actually, no.
But still, as this Youtube video (via Yale Daily News) attests, it was pretty epic when it happened during lunch in Davenport College (one of Yale’s 12 residential colleges). The clip shows a group of students spontaneously belting out a rendition of “One Day More” as a fight between Harvard and Yale, in light of Saturday’s Harvard-Yale football game (Harvard won). The production even included brass and string instruments!
When can we expect something similar to happen in Rocky dining hall? It would be EPIC and would definitely pump me up for the rest of the day. Perhaps the two opposing sides could be students and grade deflation? That’s the closest thing I can come up with that can be considered our rival.
Yalies even produced their own version of “Where The Wild Things Are” with the Yale football team (complete with Arcade Fire, of course!). It’s pretty hilarious, and it definitely beats Yale’s traditional “Bladderball” event, which was just bizarre. The video after the jump:
Ever since we awkwardly (and unwittingly) sat down at the German table in the Rocky dining hall back in October (after a confusing ten minutes we excused ourself with our only German phrase, guten tag), we’ve had a somewhat strange relationship with the residential dining hall language tables. We understand–really nice for native speakers who miss their mother tongue, useful for aspiring linguists, another way for uber-competitive Princeton students to show off–but the little Lou Dobbs in us sometimes wants to shout out “English! We eat our food in English in America!”