Beware of the Official and Unofficial Ides of March

The Harvard Crimson ran a short story in Friday's edition of the paper on the Harvard Radcliffe Science Fiction Association's (HRSFA) performance of an abridged "Julius Cesar." The students performed on the steps of Memorial Hall and employed bed sheet togas and umbrellas as costumes. The Crimson reports that turnout was low, but the student group considered it a success. "Rachel S. Storch ’10, who played Cassius and Plebian Number One, said that the event was intended partly as an opportunity for club members to release aggression, but mostly to just 'confuse the tourists.' " Nerdy flash mob? Could be. But as the warning of the Ides of March were being played out by the HRSFA players just across Harvard Yard (in what looks like Lamont Library) a rogue group of players were invading a reading room and giving the sixty-second version of Cesar's assassination. And, for the gorilla warning of the Ides of March we've got video.