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Harvard Student Groups Run Out of Acronyms

In a recent development that continues to baffle leading math experts across the nation, Harvard student groups have exhausted all possible acronymous combinations.

The discovery was made when the newest student group, Indian-Croatians for Athletic Equality tried to officially register their organization, only to find that the acronym ICAE was already in use by another student group, the always controversial Immigration Control for All Ethnicities.

The Indian-Croatians decided to change the name of their organization to Indian-Croatians for Justice in Sports, but were disappointed to discover that the International Court of Justice Simulation had a prior claim to the acronym ICJS.

Frustrated, but not
defeated, the students settled on the name Subcontinental-Balkan Natives Seeking to Initiate Reforms to Ensure Parity in Endeavors of Recreational and Competitive Outdoor or Indoor Activities. Unfortunately, the Society of Bosnian Nationalists for Stable Interest Rates and Expansionary Policies in Economic Recessions Caused by Overt Investment in America (SBNSIREPERCOIA) dates back to the 1890s.

After several more failed attempts, the Indian-Croatians, with the help of the Harvard Math Department, discovered that--despite being technically impossible--Harvard student groups had exhausted all possible combinations of the twenty-six letters of the alphabet.

Harvard Professor Oliver Knill said, "The Harvard community, and the math community, has long operated under the assumption that acronyms were a renewable resource. You see, given any acronym, we had guessed that a new acronym could be generated by simply adding an additional letter." With a grim shake of his head, Knill added, "It turns out, we need to reevaluate many of our assumptions about acronyms."

Knill said ominously, "For our society, this revelation comes as an inconvenient truth."

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