m ACTIVITY IN WHICH SOME YALE STUDENTS

RUN AROUND IN A FIELD AND ONE TRIES TO

SNATCH FROM ANOTHER¶S SHORTS A BALL
SACK (I.E. A SOCK STUFFED WITH A TENNIS
BALL DANGLING FROM THE REAR OF AN
OPPONENT¶S GYM SHORTS)
m WHAT IS THE YALE QUIDDITCH TEAM
ENGAGING IN A MATCH?

m http://youtu.be/2FJZ28b46N8
m BATTLE IN WHICH YALE STUDENTS
PREVAILED IN 2006 AFTER A DECADE LONG
FIGHT AGAINST THE YALE ADMINISTRATION.
m WHAT IS INSTALLING SOAP DISPENSERS IN
DORMITORY BATHROOMS?

m http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11064039/ns/us_ne
ws-weird_news/t/against-wall-mounted-soap-
dispenser/
m DURING ONE OF HIS LECTURES HE STEPPED
INTO A WASTEBASKET AND STRUGGLED FOR
A LONG TIME TO EXTRICATE HIS FOOT,
WITHOUT INTERRUPTING HIS FLOW OF
SPEECH; HE ORGANIZED HIS LIBRARY OF
BOOKS BY COLOR; AND HE WAS BURIED IN
FULL SAMARAI REGALIA
m WHO WAS YALE PRESIDENT ARTHUR
TWINING HADLEY?

m http://www.yaleherald.com/archive/xxx/2000.10.20
/news/p5weirdyale.html
m AFTER HIS DEATH IN 1930, YALE WAS ABLE
TO LIFT ITS LATIN REQUIREMENT IN 1931,
BECAUSE AS A MEMBER OF THE YALE BOARD
OF TRUSTEES, HE HAD INSISTED THAT THAT
ONLY OVER HIS DEAD BODY WOULD THE
REQUIREMENT COME TO AN END.
m WHO WAS WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT, YALE
CLASS OF 1878.

m http://www.yaleherald.com/archive/xxx/2000.10.20
/news/p5weirdyale.html
m ACTIVITY ENGAGED IN DURING 1960¶S AND
1970¶S IN WHICH YALE STUDENTS BOUNCED
TO THE PRESIDENT¶S HOUSE AN ENORMOUS
CANVAS OR LEATHER SPHEROID
MEASURING SIX FEET IN DIAMETER,
WREAKING HAVOC WITH LOCAL TRAFFIC
m WHAT WAS ³BLADDERBALL´ ?

m http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bladderball
m INCIDENT ABOUT WHICH JONATHON TUCKER
¶75 WROTE: "The rape of the unfertilized 'egg'
with a tool used for suspending slaughtered
animals is a graphic example of the death-
mentality that is now threatening the vitality of the
Yale community, an ominous portent of the
consequences of the pervasive retreat into sterile
individualism.´
m WHAT IS THE ATTEMPT BY TEAM JONATHON
EDWARDS IN 1975 TO CAPTURE THE
BLADDERBALL USING A MEATHOOK,
LOWERED BY A ROPE FROM A McCLELLAND
WINDOW, ACCIDENTALLY POPPING THE BALL
AND LEADING TO A SPONTANEOUS CHEER OF
³JE SUCKS,´ WHICH REMAINS THE MOTTO OF
THAT COLLEGE TODAY

m http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2001/feb/28/bl
adderball-30-years-of-zany-antics-dangerous-fun/
m HE TOLD A GALACTIC GATHERING IN DENVER
THAT ³HUMANS COME FROM AN ALIEN RACE
OF SHAPE-SHIFTING REPTILIANS THAT
CONTINUE TO CONTROL CIVILIZATION
THROUGH SECRETIVE LEADERS KNOWN AS
THE ILLUMINATI.´
m WHO IS ARTHUR DAVID HORN, YALE PHD,
1976, AND FORMERLY A TENURED
ANTHROPOLOGY PROFESSOR TEACHING
HUMAN EVOLUTION AT COLORADO STATE
UNIVERSITY.

m http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/blog/?p=133
9
m SECRET SOCIETY WHOSE ONGOING MISSION
IS TO SPREAD JOY AND LAUGHTER AT YALE
THROUGH ACTS OF UNSOLICITED GUERILLA
GARDENING AND WHOSE FIRST CAPER WAS
TO PLANT A HEART-SHAPED CLOUD OF 300
PINK TULIPS IN FRONT OF SKULL & BONES IN
APRIL, 2011.
m WHO OR WHAT IS ³BULB & SPADE´?

m http://yaleherald.com/thebullblog/skull-and-bones-
landscaping-courtesy-weird-new-society/
m A RE-EXAMINATION OF THE STORY
SURROUNDING THE CAPTURE AND
DISAPPEARANCE OF A MYSTERIOUS
CREATURE IN BRITISH COLUMBIA IN 1884.
m WHAT IS ³YALE & THE STRANGE STORY OF
JACKO THE APE BOY´ ?

m http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXoXda1qRXQ