I was somewhat distressed by the elitism of Dara Horn's '99 column ("Rules of the Game," Nov. 21). In a piece that she seems to consider light and endearing, Horn describes what makes the weekend of The Game "so much fun." First, we Harvard students, in a moment of oceanic feeling, can recognize that in the end we are really not all that different from...the student body of Yale University.
Second, for one weekend a year, we can do "what most of America does all the time": we can "get involved in something that has nothing to do with us and whose consequences do not affect our lives in the least.
After this brief vacation, the implication seems to be, bonded Harvard and Yale students return to our important business while the rest of our compatriots continue to languish in their frivolous lives. Certainly snobbery of this sort is a blemish, like flatulence or a stain on a shirt, that plagues many of us from time to time. But as with those unpleasantries, it really is nicer for everyone if we don't flaunt it in public. --Aron R. Fischer '99
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