Reeling from the loss of University-funded booze, Harvard undergraduates faced yet another personal invasion last week—a violation of their inboxes.
The brothers of Theta Delta Chi (TDC), a fraternity from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), added to Harvard students’ ever-growing spam levels when they emailed a large portion of the undergraduate population invitations to a “Fuckin’ Spookalicious Pre-Halloween Party.”
Katherine M. Bringsjord ’09, while wary of the E-vite, laughed at the cyber-booty call. “I just think it’s hysterical that they have to outsource,” she says.
The most alarming aspect of this mass email was not the lack of available ass at MIT—old news—but rather the fact that the TDC bros were able to get such a large number of undergraduate email addresses. Alberto Mena, President and co-Rush Chair of the MIT TDC chapter, refused to comment on their questionable advertising tactics.
“With a simple command on fas.harvard.edu you can list the username of everyone with an account on fas.harvard.edu,” David J. Malan ’99, a computer science lecturer, writes in an email. “In theory, someone at MIT could simply ask someone at Harvard to execute that sort of command, [but] truth be told, it’s not that hard.”
Pierre S. Sowemimo-Coker ’09, a recipient of the spookalicious invitation, was suspicious of the email. “I thought it was an MIT prank. It’s kind of creepy,” says Sowemimo-Coker.
However, there is some validation in receiving an elite (albeit sketchy) invitation to a tech-frat down river.
“At least they know where the best girls are,” Bringsjord says. “We are awesome!”
Again, Mena could not be reached for comment.
