Yale Bowl, Harvard Yale Game, 2019. Photo: James Storer.
They did not like the Harvard Band halftime show.
Protest at the Game
November 23, 2019
Yale Bowl, Harvard Yale Game, 2019. Photo: James Storer.
They did not like the Harvard Band halftime show.
What makes you say it was the Halftime Show?
It was about Climate Change and the 2 universities roles in it.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/11/24/protesters-interrupt-the-game/
hhttps://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/28147080/harvard-yale-game-ends-darkness-climate-change-protest
Because they came on the field right after the half-time show.
Why would they be protesting Harvard’s role in climate change? Harvard has one of the most energy efficient campuses around. They have toilets that flush two ways, one for urination and one for bowel movements. It makes much more sense that they would be protesting a half-time show. I think they’re using climate change as a cover.
Well, you are wrong. This was planned for months. Do you really think they knew what the Halftime show was going to be for months? Besides in the link below, the Captain of the Harvard Football team states that the Football team stands with the protestors, and it is about Climate Change.
Right after the Halftime show is actually the best time to protest. Everyone wants to see the 2nd half of “The Game”, but the game is delayed due to a protest means most people are around to see the protest’s message.
You do realize that big companies “put lipstick on a pig” and still continue with their actions.
Yes, Harvard puts lipstick on a pig, but they and Yale have $71B tied to climate polluters.
“clear their combined, $71 billion endowments of investments in corporations tied to oil, gas and coal. They also protested the schools’ holdings in Puerto Rico debt, seen as exploitation of a poor, besieged territory of the U.S.”
https://www.nhregister.com/colleges/article/Protest-at-Yale-Harvard-delays-start-of-2nd-half-14857798.php
““When Harvard and Yale invest in companies that destroy our planet, and its people, they are complicit in the climate crisis – nobody wins. Inaction is no longer an option.”
“Our universities profit from climate injustice and ignore student voices. Today, we take action,” the pamphlet read.
“Harvard and Yale students stand united in demanding that our universities:
“Disclose how much of their $71 billion in endowments is invested in the fossil fuel industry and Puerto Rican debt.
“Divest from fossil fuel companies and cancel holdings in Puerto Rican Debt.
“Reinvest in environmentally sustainable and socially responsible initiatives.”
The pamphlet went on to read: “We support and are not targeting the Yale-Harvard football game but business cannot go on as usual during the climate emergency.””
If it was about the HalfTime Show, then the “cover” blew up and noone knows that it was about the halftime show. I’m sorry but either you are trolling me or you fail to realize that just b/c a corporation does some stuff does not mean it’s enough.
Have you never seen a Harvard Band halftime show?
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1968/11/14/off-key-band-shows-jangle-some-nerves/
They were making believe they were protesting climate change because they don’t want to seem like prudes. They really fooled you!
re: The Game and The Protest
Reminding me of why I never go to the Game at the Yale Bowl.
PS How many Yalies does it take to turn on a light bulb?
Answer: zero. New Haven looks better in the dark!
I suppose i sympathize with the protesters, however, as I have proven elsewhere using about 1 minute of google research, approximately 100% of the bloat in fossil fuel use and electricity use in the United States can be accounted for by eleven states–all of which are in the South, all of which are red states, and all of which used to be in the Confederacy–Texas, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, etc.
Their peak use is summer, all summer long.
The facts are somewhat different than protesters contend.
Since Bill McKibben (harvard 82) wrote his first book in 1989, the USA has actually DROPPED in per capita fossil fuel use and per capita electricity use, once you take out those eleven states.
Also, since 1989, renewable energy now accounts for 15% of electricity generated; we have electric cars and hybrids; gas mileage averages 30-50mph; and we don’t see huge gas guzzlers on the road anymore (unless you are in florida or alabama, of course).
My wife and I keep the thermostat at 66 in the winter, and pretty high in the summer, and we use efficient light bulbs and have a very, very low electric bill (PA is top ten in least electricity used nationally). On our block, people have solar panels on their roofs, our neighbor drives an electric car, and everybody takes the train to work downtown or anywhere. Lots of people ride bikes, even in winter.
And China, not the US, is the biggest user of electric power, and the biggest user of coal, and the biggest polluter. None of the companies that Harvard or Yale hold stock in do any business like digging coal in China; those are state run businesses controlled by China.
So is the protest misguided? No, they have some kind of point.
But let’s give credit where credit is due; Bill McKibben, we all LISTENED to you back in 1989.
The USA is the BEST in the world at saving and conserving energy, and at not polluting.
We deserve a cheer, not a protest.
Art K
for the USA
Philly, PA