The Harvard men’s hockey team took to disproving this point with an amazing 7-5 victory on the road at Yale earlier this month. Despite spotting the Bulldogs a 4-0 first intermission advantage—which prompted WHRB to declare that the men’s hockey team had reached a new “rock bottom”—and a 5-1 lead midway through the second period, the Crimson scored six unanswered goals to overtake Yale for a shocking win.

“Realism assumes that if I win, you have to lose, but this assumption of the zero-sum game precludes the fact that things can benefit both parties.”

Dartmouth wants you to know that hockey is most definitely not a zero-sum game. The Big Green has skated to ties—and thus each side has left with a point—nine times in just 27 games. Every third night Dartmouth takes the ice, skates around for 65 minutes, throws up the white flag and forms a truce with its opponent. If I knew that I had essentially the same chance of seeing a draw as either a win or a loss, I’d stay home. Apparently 4000 strong in Hanover disagree with me. (Are there even 4000 people in Hanover?)

So, you thought they were trying to teach you about existentialism or modernism or chemistry…ism. Nope, they weren’t. You see, sections are all just a subconscious effort to increase your awareness about Harvard sports and Ivy League athletics in general. Either that or I’m just really bored.

—Staff writer Michael R. James can be reached at mrjames@fas.harvard.edu. His column appears every Friday./