No Princetonian says, "Penn," without adding "safety school."
But at Harvard, students have taken the back-handed remark — which they direct at arch rival Yale — one step further into cyberspace.
Just in time for the Harvard-Yale football game Nov. 13, Harvard junior Paul Gusmorino registered the domain name www.safetyschool.org and set it to send the naive Web surfer to www.yale.edu. And, to spread the word, Harvard's student government sold "Yale's New URL" T-shirts at the game for $7.
"It's fun to have it," said Gusmorino, who pays his own money to keep the joke running. "I've gotten lots of e-mails from random people that I have no connection to," including "Yalies."
A computer science major, Gusmorino said it was fairly easy to set up the domain name through NetworkSolutions, which provides a domain forwarding service at a reasonable cost.
A spokesman from Yale refused to comment.
University spokeswoman Marilyn Marks and CIT representative Rita Saltz both said they had never heard of a similar stunt achieved by Princeton students or directed at the University.
Unfortunately for Harvard, the T-shirts did not bring them luck during the game.
"[Yalies] still say 'Harvard still sucks. You lost the game,' " Gusmorino said.
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