UBC's 'Fight Me' Cups Are Back, Shamelessly Throwing Shade at SFU and UVic

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Recently, UBC’s campus store restocked a provocative cup that boldly trashes SFU and UVic, sparking lively banter among students and netizens. This is not just a fun campus souvenir; it reflects the unique love-hate culture among North American universities. From UBC’s drinking capacity comparisons to the decades-long crosstown rivalry pranks between USC and UCLA, North American colleges compete through sports and campus hijinks, showcasing a vibrant and individualistic campus atmosphere. For students and parents preparing to study abroad, understanding these fun campus memes not only helps you appreciate the diversity and fun of overseas student life in advance, but also aids in better integrating into the local environment later. CheersYou（清柚教育） suggests that prospective international students, when choosing schools, in addition to focusing on academic rankings and career prospects, might also learn more about the target school's unique campus culture, so as to find the best-fitting study abroad destination.

UBC's Bookstore is truly full of surprises. First, the Lululemon collaboration school uniforms were snapped up wildly 👇

Now UBC's provocative cups are back on shelves, boldly trashing SFU and UVic 👇

This must be tough for the Yiwu factory owners, having to double-check which school's order it is before shipping 😅

SFU and UVic alumni be like: Don't make us come over and kick your ass 😊

Netizens immediately started their close reading. Netizen 1: So UBC has the most water content?

Netizen 2: UBC means we're all half-bottles shaking, so no one should look down on anyone else 😅

Netizen 3: I was about to swear, but seeing it's about comparing drinking capacity, never mind, after all it's a party school.

Netizen 4: If it's comparing BCIT's employment rate, then that would be well-deserved.

U of T netizens be like: We don't fight or scramble, everyone knows who's number one in Canada 🍁.

But UBC isn't the only one in North America throwing shade; USC isn't far behind.

USC's football team trounced Stanford, to the point the school had to deploy drones for a spectacular show.

Netizens be like: USC is too extravagant, with honor guards and fireworks, making it look like a centennial celebration. Doesn't Stanford have any face to save?

UCLA and UC Berkeley sent their congratulations, after all, the common goal is to beat Stanford 😅

Although these California schools are always bickering, when it comes to Stanford, they're all sisters in a shared era.

Ridiculous Feuds Among North American Universities

The love-hate relationships among North American universities have deep historical roots—some are rivalries between sports teams, others are due to regional "no room for two tigers on one mountain" situations. The students have gotten used to dissing each other and clashing at every turn.

USC vs UCLA

Red and blue have always made a classic pair; USC and UCLA have been in this love-hate relationship for 80 years.

Both schools have top-tier football teams nationwide, and as cross-town rivals, they're always fighting to be the top dog in Los Angeles.

The history of their feud dates back to a 1941 football game. USC, a football powerhouse, was stunned by UCLA's tie, and a USC student group calling themselves the "Trojan Knights" (a bit chuunibyou) stole UCLA's "Victory Bell".

UCLA, seeing their turf invaded, immediately launched a counterattack.

So one morning, USC students found their Tommy Trojan statue sprayed with blue paint, UCLA's signature color 👇

Anyone can spray paint, so a few days later UCLA's Bruin statue was sprayed with USC's signature red and yellow 👇

This back-and-forth prank war lasted a year, cementing a "feud" that has persisted for decades, not only on the field but also in daily life, with mutual disdain akin to elementary school bickering.

UC Berkeley vs Stanford

USC and UCLA fought over a victory bell; UC Berkeley and Stanford have been at war over an axe for over a century.

The football match between UC Berkeley and Stanford is known as the Big Game, an epic annual showdown that has made the two schools century-old rivals.

As early as 1899, before a game, Stanford students suddenly brandished an axe and hacked at a blue-and-gold scarecrow, reciting a specially written "beheading poem". Ridiculously, they even brought the axe to the field and performed a ritual on the spot.

Who wouldn't be scared? You're supposed to play a game, why resort to supernatural attacks ❓

UC Berkeley students grabbed the axe and ran, covering for each other, leading to a high-speed chase through the streets of San Francisco. Stanford students and fans led the pursuit, and later San Francisco police joined in... During the chase, the axe handle was broken.

Eventually, through a clever deception, UC Berkeley students successfully brought the axe back to their fraternity, later storing it in a bank vault. For every big game, they'd transport it in an armored car and parade it around, showing how much they valued it.

This axe lay as a trophy in Berkeley for 31 years until 1930, when Stanford's chuunibyou student group Immortal 21 (the Immortal 21) recaptured it. The process was dramatic, involving smoke bombs and street car chases, as if they were robbing a bank 😅

Over the next 40-plus years, the axe was stolen back and forth between Stanford and Berkeley—Berkeley students stole it 3 times, Stanford students stole it back 4 times, a case of mutual home invasions 😅

MIT vs Caltech

MIT and Caltech are also old rivals, these two top-ranked tech schools in the US specialize in academic brawls.

Though separated by thousands of miles, they can't stand each other, since there can only be one top tech university in the US.

Starting in 2005, students from both schools began pranking each other. First, Caltech students crashed MIT's freshman orientation week and handed out 1,000 free T-shirts with "MIT" on the front and "Because Not Everyone Can Go To Caltech" on the back (because not everyone gets into Caltech).

This was infuriating. So MIT students stole Caltech's antique cannon—how they transported it from the West Coast to the East Coast, we have no clue 😅

Caltech, true to form for prankster science students, later bought a bunch of MIT mugs, modified them, and handed them out to MIT freshmen. When cold, they looked ordinary with MIT's logo; when heated, they turned Caltech's signature orange and displayed "The HOTTER Institute of Technology". Everyone had to admit, that's ruthlessly clever.

MIT vs Harvard

As two top schools in Boston, MIT and Harvard are also long-time foes.

Although Harvard and Yale are the traditional football rivals, MIT loves to crash the party. It's a two-person game, but the third party insists on making its presence known.

At the 1948 Harvard-Yale game, MIT students buried wires in the field, planning to detonate them to form the letters MIT. Fortunately, the first prank failed 😅

In 1982, MIT students again detonated a large balloon with "MIT" on it, stealing the spotlight from Harvard's home game 👇

In 1990, MIT launched a small rocket with an MIT banner, flying over Harvard's goalposts 😅

In 2006, MIT hackers struck again, changing Harvard's motto "Ve-ri-tas" on the scoreboard to "Hu-ge-Ego" (meaning huge ego). That year, Harvard suffered a crushing defeat to Yale—nothing is more savage than twisting the knife like that.

MIT alumni say: We never associate with Harvard. Unless we can't cut it at MIT, then we're forced to go to Harvard 😅

Columbia vs NYU

Also cross-town rivals are Columbia and NYU. As local heavyweights in NYC, they frequently bicker.

Every year, when the Empire State Building lights up, they compete to see who can be more extravagant.

Columbia mocks NYU's overall strength not matching its own, while NYU dissects Columbia's location not being as prime.

Columbia's original motto is "In Thy light shall we see light." The snarky version trashing NYU: "If you wanted to screw around NYC for four years of college, you should have gone to NYU."