Game? What game?

Big deal. That's what many students around campus said they thought about the Penn-Princeton basketball game which took place last night at the Palestra. Although some students said they did not go to the game because they were studying for inconveniently scheduled midterms, others said they just couldn't care less. As an exodus of Quaker fans poured through Locust Walk and into the Palestra at 7 p.m. last night to watch what is traditionally considered the biggest rivalry in Ivy League basketball, College senior Angela McNally was browsing through the bestseller rack at Van Pelt Library. "I can't really get into basketball," she said. "I never even got around to buying a ticket." College sophomore Constantine Pavlos, who was casually picking at a plate of fast food at the Shops At Penn Food Court at 34th and Walnut streets, agreed. "I like football, but I don't really like basketball," he said. Most of the students in the almost-vacant Food Court shared an indifferent attitude. They did not want to talk about why they were not nestled in with the crowd at the Palestra last night, and many did not want to give their names. "I have too much work," grumbled one student, shielding her face with her hand. "I was really hungry so I decided to go to the Food Court instead," said another, who pleaded several times that his name be withheld. He added that he thinks "athletics are too overrated in this society in general." Another student, sitting alone in a booth and cutting a slice of pizza into small squares, said he "didn't really care" about the game. "I'd like us to win, but I have better stuff to do," said the student, who also asked not to be identified. At the video arcade in Houston Hall, one student was so mortified that he could not make it to the basketball game that he ran and hid by a pinball machine. "I don't want my name in," he said. "I'm so embarrassed that I'm here and not there."