Sibling rivalry takes center stage this week.
We know, it's a weird analogy.
After all, Dartmouth is more like the creepy bastard child of the Ivy League than an actual sibling. But we recently came across a Penn student with a disturbing secret - she has an actual, biological brother who attends Dartmouth.
Meet Rachel, the managing editor of this fine publication, and her brother Jacob.
It's hard to understand - they grew up in the same house, ate the same food, drove the same car - and yet somewhere along the line things went terribly terribly wrong for Jacob. He started rock-climbing, he refused to shower or eat anything but granola, and then he insisted on heading out to Hanover to attend a school with the worst sports program in the country.
Strange, indeed.
But instead of waxing all poetic about nature vs. nurture, we decided to do some first-hand investigating to see if Dartmouth students do indeed know what organized sports are.
First, we called Jacob. After a couple tries - apparently cell phone service is not so hot out in the middle of nowhere - he finally picked up.
"I don't know," he said when we asked who was going to win. "I didn't even know they were playing each other."
After he hung up on us, we decided to give the mother of the siblings a ring.
"Who's playing?" she asked. We informed her of the details - you know, that team with the 40 wins over the last five years versus the one with 12 - and after some prodding, she confirmed that Penn will in fact win.
She just had one more question.
"What sport are they playing?"
No wonder her son ended up at Dartmouth.
Penn 21, Dartmouth 19
