It looks like the College Events Board won’t be taking Mather House to its upcoming Dinner and a Movie Night on Thurs., October 22.

After the CEB announced that its seemingly benign event would include a showing of Where the Wild Things Are, Mather’s own wild things were unleashed on the House’s open e-mail list.

“DECLARE WAR!” wrote one Matherite.

Earlier this year, Mather House HoCo decided to hold an exclusive bonding sesh on October 16 (the date of the movie's premiere), particularly for the sophomore class. Remember those t-shirts on Housing Day?

But the CEB decided to encourage the College community to see the same movie six days later. For free. (Mather was planning to charge all along.)

Mather HoCo approached the CEB to reconsider the movie choice. But after a campus-wide poll, students overwhelmingly voted for The Wild Things. The movie. Not the Matherites. More on the mutiny after the jump.

Mather wasn’t going to let the CEB have the last word, though. In response, Mather threatened to withhold House funding for the CEB’s Harvard-Yale pep rally. In years past, the CEB has sought the consent of the 12 upperclassmen Houses to use funds allotted for one night’s brain break for the pep rally. The other 11 Houses, by the way, gave the CEB the go-ahead.

“The goal of the Pep Rally is to build Harvard spirit against our adversary Yale and create an enjoyable event for all Harvard students, but currently Mather House is preventing that goal from being realized,” the CEB board wrote in an e-mail to Mather this morning.

But Mather HoCo wasn’t being vindictive—so they say.

The belligerent back-and-forth that has taken place over the last few days has been for naught.

The College Fun Czar has tamed the Mather beast—she told the CEB that it was ultimately up to the Dean and Harvard University Dining Services to reappropriate those brain break funds for the Harvard-Yale pep rally.

Maybe not the appropriate title, according to one avid (maybe rabid?) Matherite.

“btw, i have a problem that ceb keeps calling it harvard-yale. it’s mather-yale. get it right,” one wild thing wrote in an e-mail to Mather-Open.