Yes, we've heard them all: Harvard sucks and Princeton doesn't matter. P'ton stands for "Perrier tickles our noses". Life after Princeton consists of getting drunk and marrying them, said F. Scott Fitzgerald.

The formula is tired: Yale's heard the same Princeton jokes for the past two centuries. You would think then that the YDN, the nation's oldest collegiate newspaper, would bate indulgence of such frivolity. They never have.

Tough reality set in Saturday when three FBI vans pulled up alongside the YDN's Park St. office to arrest two known hackers -- and would-be pranksters -- F. Trowe '03 and B. Hapsburg '04, days after they had uploaded headlines of an admissions scandal involving Yale's old foil Princeton.

The article, which detailed how Princeton officials had illegally entered Yale admissions websites to investigate potential applicants, was parody. The two writers -- Trowe and Hapsburg -- uploaded it on Thursday alongside factual headlines describing freshman orientation and Maya Lin's Yale Corporation victory.

It was no surprise then that viewers of the YDN website took the story seriously. The libelous news hit the airwaves across the country: yahoo.com and drudgereport.com featured it, and Yale and Princeton officials were both contacted regarding implications and further action. Trouble is the story wasn't true.

Tipped by Princeton officials, the FBI stepped in Saturday to shut down YDN servers in accordance with 1999's Digital Integrity Act. Two respectable SWAT team members then escorted perpetrators Trowe and Hapsburg through the streets of New Haven to install new FBI Newsletter vending machines in place of ones once operated by the YDN. All four were then robbed on Dwight Street.

YDN Princeton parodies have had a controversial history: 1917 April Fool's headline Krauts Beat P'ton in Ivy Eight has been hailed by some revisionists as major reason for our entrance into WWI, and maybe more so the less clever 1916 April Fool's Pres. Wilson swoons regularly.