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True Love Revolution Founders Finally Free to Procreate at Will
After years of discussing their relationship on campus and nationally, Sarah Kinsella and Justin Murray—founders of Harvard chastity club True Love Revolution—have finally gotten hitched! Now they are free to delight in various long-awaited earthly pleasures, like filing joint t...
Wednesday, Dec 24
Cry-Bankers, Yale Bashing, and a Naked Guy, Oh My!Fall ‘08 in Retrospect
Here’s wishing happy holidays and long winter breaks to our readers, especially to those poor souls who attend Harvard and Princeton, where fall semester final exams occur after winter vacation. Nassau and Massachusetts Halls: Thou art a Grinch.
Monday, Dec 15
Fake Cornell Returns With Its Collar Popped and a Harvard-Sized Chip On Its Shoulder
Welcome back to IVY reality index, where we watch Ithaca College’s masterful Cornell mock-soap-opera and dissect it with the obsessive zeal of a seventh grade girl seeing Twilight for the eighth time. This time we enlisted the help of Real Live Cornell Guy (and fraternity brother, to boo...
Sunday, Dec 14
Harvard’s U.C. Seeks New President—Entertainment Value Abounds
The University Council for everyone’s favorite self-important student body is currently electing a new president. With polls closing in just 36 hours, Harvard students (apathetic and otherwise) will surely end up with either a prank or a prodigal in office. Ultimately, it doesn’t rea...
Harvard’s U.C. Seeks New President—Entertainment Value Abounds
The Crimson endorsement has been the kiss-of-death in the past two elections. So take to the polls and make it a hat trick, Cantabs. Harvard could use a Hapsburgian prince these days, after all. The University Council for everyone’s favorite self-important student body is currently ele...
Wednesday, Dec 10
Princeton Mourns “Tragic” Loss of Glorious Moneybags
As mentioned above, the Robertson Foundation will be dissolved and its funds will be transferred to an endowment fund at Princeton with the same object and purpose as the Robertson Foundation, as understood and interpreted by Princeton. There can be no further disagreements between th...
Monday, Dec 8
Scary Larry (Sometimes Merry?): Welcome Back to the Show
After his five-year Harvard presidency, Mr. Summers at first seemed to have trouble letting go, colleagues and staff members say. He was on sabbatical but still roamed campus, especially the residential houses and pizza parties of undergraduates, who adored him so much they gave him a st...
Wednesday, Nov 12
Ragtime Nov. 12, 2008: Downturn felt at Columbia, Princeton, Harvard
Brown: A string of thefts sweep through campus. Cornell: “Generation O: Is it Over? Activism after the Election”. Columbia: PrezBo on the economy and its affect on the university. Dartmouth: Penn-Dartmouth voting competition ends in a tie. Penn: Provost leaves for Hopkins. Princeton: Eve...
Monday, Nov 3
If You’re Not a Cornellian You Shouldn’t Sport Cornell Gear
American movies and TV shows are filled with fictional Ivy Leaguers. (To name a few, Bruce Wayne of “Batman” is a Princetonian, Peter Parker of “Spider Man” is a Columbian, and Elle Woods of “Legally Blonde” is a Harvard Law student.) But, as a seeming reflection of real life, Harvard, Yale,...
Friday, Oct 24
Interview: Chester French On Vampire Weekend, Sticky Substances, and White People Music
Max: Yessir. IG: Yeah, I bet. DA: Oh, yeah. DA: I think that’s just the Ivy League thing. I don’t think that anyone would genuinely say we sound like them at all. Max and DA: [laugh] IG: Sounds like it. Max: Yeah, I did. —Interview by Adam Clark Estes. Intro by Maureen O’Connor.
Thursday, Oct 23
ivyTunes: Miracles of Modern Moms
Long ago, in a galaxy far far away, ambitious moms across the world were introduced to the divine sublimity of Harvard alumnus Yo-Yo Ma, and conflated highbrow musical genius with academic success, and then everything was, well, history. Yo-Yo wannabes applied to elite schools en masse...
Sunday, Oct 19
Columbia Students Launch Erotic Review
Congratulations, Columbia! Never again must you covet from afar Harvard’s Matt DiPasquale and his low-budge porn magazine: it’s only homegrown smut from now on. Editor-In-Chief Hoang Jessica Tang (C’09) introduces C-spot as “a new erotic review produced by Columbia University stud...
Wednesday, Oct 15
Prof. Releases New Textbook, Poor Students Cower in Fear
Plenty. For it was in December 1992 that Mankiw startled the textbook world by leaving the publisher of his intermediate macroeconomics text to write in introductory text for a rival firm, for a $1.4 million advance, or roughly three times the previous record for a college text… Mankiw, of...
Monday, Oct 13
Opinion: Book Club Interview: Simon Rich
Oh, of course not. Luckily the Lampoon has no social criteria for joining. It’s all anonymous submissions. You don’t know who you’ve let on staff until they’re there. Which is a miracle because if they had any kind of social element to their try-out process nobody would get in. When I was at the La...
Thursday, Oct 9
Ivy Profs Sign Petition to Destroy America
Just kidding. There’s no petition to destroy America. But professors from Columbia, Harvard, Brown, Cornell and many other schools have signed a petition to support Weather Undeground co-founder and McCain boogieman Bill Ayers. While Obama is trying his best to distance himself from th...
Emma Watson Finishes Touring Harvard, Gives Yale a Whirl
Saw her walking around with one of the head tour guides, and now she’s in the admissions office having an interview. Once I muster the courage (read: creepyness), I’ll take pictures from the bushes or save her from being run over by a bus or something.
Thursday, Oct 2
IvyGate Book Club: “Free-Range Chickens” by Simon Rich
One and a half years later, I’m a reader of Frank Rich’s New York Times columns and have been keeping up with his son’s stories and sketches. In this same time, Simon, Harvard ‘07, went from being the editor of the Harvard Lampoon to writing a commercially successful, critically popular col...
Tuesday, Sep 23
Opinion: Yale or DYE (Q: What’s that stick for? A: Your ass)
Meet DYE, the Dartmouth Yale Enthusiasts, who, according to a recent email they sent to fellow Dartmouth students, “is a group of aspiring Yale undergraduates, providing support to one another during our (hopefully brief) intermediary period here at Dartmouth. We provide transfer ap...
Monday, Sep 22
Lost and Found: The Owl Final Club Member’s Manual
What would you do if one day you were walking along Harvard Yard and suddenly came upon THE MEMBER’S MANUAL OF THE OWL CLUB FOR MEN??!! (For those of you who don’t know, the Owl Club is one of eight final clubs at Harvard, boasting exclusive all-male membership, vast alumni connections, and...
Thursday, Sep 4
HUPD White: Harvard Campus Police Accused of Racial Profiling
According to The Harvard Crimson, this review was formed in response to an incident where university police stopped a young African-American man using tools to remove a lock from a bicycle. After a conversation “laced with obscenities,” the police learned the young man was the owner of t...
Friday, Aug 15
Ivy League Scores Low in Forbes’ College Rankings
Ouch. Maybe Forbes has a point about the attention liberal arts colleges can provide their students, and about certain schools floating comfortably on their reputations, but saying Dartmouth students “are not particularly happy with the quality of their instruction” smells a bit fis...
Monday, Aug 11
Harvard Freshman Just Wants to Help (Spam Your Inbox)
Though members of Harvard’s class of 2012 haven’t moved in yet most are already familiar with Luis Martinez. He’s that guy that’s been Facebook-messaging them registration instructions, financial aid deadlines and prayers for good housing placements. According to an anonymous tipst...
Thursday, Aug 7
British Journalist Attends HBS, Tastes Frat Life
If we were all given a time machine and a fat envelope from Harvard College, chances are that many of us would take it. Because when it comes down to brand appeal, endowment size, and ability to inspire a tangled matrix of envy and admiration, Harvard is king. But since most of us will never [...]
Monday, Nov 5
Opinion: Harvard Political Blogs: Crazy Informative, With a Touch of Anti-Semitism
Bikini Politics, which boasts "the body-politic will never be the same," is run by Harvard grad student Paloma Zepeda. It's not so much a women's issues blog as a news blog in the inflection of women's issues. We all know what that means.
Thursday, Aug 23
Harvard Crimson Has 800 Editors. Literally.
Uproar at conservative education blog Phi Beta Cons (part of the National Review Online) over the revelation that the Harvard Crimson has literally hundreds of editors. 800 last year, to be exact -- that's one in every eight undergrads. Beta-Con Travis Kavulla, Harvard '06 and former C...
Monday, May 7
Harvard Students Live Out Global Domination Fantasies
There's just one problem: Yale had the idea first. Earlier this year, Gabe Smedresman, Yale '06, designed a campus-wide game of RISK that ended up attracting over 350 students. (Check out the original Yale version here.) Do the Harvard biters give credit? Meh, sort of. If you look at the Harva...