CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — The plastic horns that created a drowning buzz during the 2010 soccer World Cup are being banned from this weekend’s 127th football game between Harvard and Yale. But some students are still making noise about vuvuzelas.
Harvard Associate Athletics Director Timothy Wheaton said in a statement this week that noisemakers won’t be allowed inside Harvard Stadium for Saturday’s game in the interests of sportsmanship.
That was bad news for 19-year-old Yale freshman Jonathan Desnick. He bought 700 blue vuvuzelas, each emblazoned with a big “Y,” to bring to the game. Desnick says he plans to sell them anyway at the tailgate.
Twenty-two-year-old Harvard senior Collin Galster says he understands the need for the ban but sees it as another form of “social control.”
