Let's Have Sex in Cabot. Not.

Living in Cabot House can be a drag, but a widely circulated e-mail last week suggested that "a night of wild debauchery" might improve the state of affairs in the faraway Quad House.

An e-mail first sent out on the Wigglesworth e-mail list advertising a dining hall party by the name of "Let's Have Sex in Cabot" had some undergrads scratching their heads over whether Cabot had suddenly become a much more attractive place to live.

But, alas, Cabot has not taken to impersonating Harvard's more promiscuous Houses.

The e-mail was, in fact, sent out as an advertisement for the latest episode of On Harvard Time, which includes a surprisingly hilarious segment on dining hall parties.

But the joke was lost on some.

"Some people thought it was real and asked me where to get tickets," said Rebecca J. Margolies '13, one of the original authors of the e-mail.

According to Margolies, an unnamed UC rep found the e-mail astoundingly "heteronormative" while another student told her upon reading the e-mail, "Oh my god! Ew! I can't believe people would go to that."

But maybe something along these lines—sex, debauchery, etc.—is what it will take to boost attendance at dining hall parties.

Photo by Zachary A. Pollinger/The Harvard Crimson.