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Ragtime January 7, 2008: Because Stuff Happens Over Winter Break
Brown: (Small) Bombing at Starbucks. Columbia: Cafe Swish to repoen (maybe). Penn: Senior found dead outside nightclub. Princeton: CEO alum may seek CA governor seat. Harvard: Law school dean, Kagan, to join Obama cabinet. Dartmouth: Construction of Alpha Phi house postponed until econo...
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.
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...
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...
The First Rule of Yale Club Is Get the Hell Out of My Yale Club
Anonymous Yalies railed against the “invasions of crowds from such lowbrow places as the Bronx” in a Monday New York Post article. Mrs. Harrison DeSilver (according to New York Magazine’s Daily Intel, this is the name of an architecture firm upstate and not a well-chosen pseudonym) says:
Tuesday, Nov 11
The Latest Nontroversy: YDN vs All Things Good (i.e. Obama Campaigners)
Last Thursday, the Yale Daily News rained insulting (and aged) statistics onto the campus’s crowd of Obama supporters. The title of YDN staffer Divya Subrahmanyam’s article alone could reap the scorn of anyone who’s ever worked on a campaign: “Double take: Months of canvassing, 43...
Monday, Nov 10
Ragtime November 10, 2008: In Which We Buy Bike Locks and Stop Baby-Talking to Grandma
Brown: Over-enrolled students finally move into freshman housing, are not amused Columbia: Founder of student porn mag thinks Columbia is “sexually stagnated” relative to other colleges Cornell: Greeks dance for children (disclaimer: not as awesome as it sounds) Dartmouth: $220 m...
The Rest of the Best: In Which We Take Over 02138’s Job
No list of Harvard disrepute could be incomplete without a dirty old man. Now it’s not totally fair to make that sweeping statement. Malcolm McKesson, heir to a New York fortune in chemicals manufacturing, studied art history at Harvard after his (2) grand tour(s) of Europe and later chann...
Thursday, Nov 6
Everything Is Different Now
Barack Obama graduated from Columbia University in 1983 and from Harvard Law School in 1991. Michelle Obama graduated from Princeton University in 1985 and from Harvard Law School in 1988. From the Bush League to the Ivy League. Education is the power to change.
Wednesday, Nov 5
Ragtime November 5, 2008: Obamania!
Brown: Students celebrate Obama’s win. Cornell: “Obamania erupted in Collegetown just after 11 p.m. as Barack Obama was declared the next president of the United States.” Columbia: Bara-Columbia (College). Dartmouth: “Obama Wins Handily” Penn: Students march to City Hall. Princeton: Ca...
Tuesday, Nov 4
Ragtime November 4, 2008: “We’re Donating Our Ragtime Status to Obama” Edition
Brown: Stanley Fish says universities have unrealistic/ill-conceived goals. Columbia: Spec’s election blog. Cornell: Instant messaging actually laden with emotion. Penn: University to keep spending money, despite economy/lack of money. Princeton: 97% 76% of faculty donations to O...
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,...
Ragtime Nov. 3, 2008: Ivies Feel the Pinch of the Downturn
Princeton: Senior has been missing since Halloween.Harvard: Agreed: “But people have forgotten that there is another right essential to American democracy, nearly as important in what it symbolizes: the right not to vote.” Yale: “We’re in a pause mode.”
Thursday, Oct 30
Alleged “White Guilt” Spray-Painter is a Tease
Earlier this month, Maureen and I linked to a series of Yale Daily News articles devoted to “WHITE GUILT,” the enigmatic message sprayed rather artlessly on Dwight Hall at Yale, and on buildings at two prep schools nearby. Given the graffiti’s vagueness, it is not surprising that literal...
Tuesday, Sep 30
Will the Cavalcade of Oversexed, Social Climbing Ivy Leaguers Never End?
This week, New York Magazine strengthens its iron grip on the sexual narratives of upwardly mobile Ivy League females in New York. That’s right, the people who brought you “The Overserved Ivy Banker Chick” would now like you to meet “The Single College Girl Obsessed With a Yale Law Student...
Sunday, Aug 17
Harvardian of Montreal Hates Yale, Loves Princeton?
Princeton, for those who don’t know, has a higher per capita endowment than Yale or Harvard. But maybe the proletarian-cum-Ivy Leaguer justified it all because unlike Yale, Princeton is a monstrosity of extreme wealth floating in, well, the heated pool of an exclusive seaside resort.
Monday, Jul 28
Love Will Bring Us Together - Yale Hosts High Profile Christian-Muslim Conference
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:30 - 8:45Word of Welcome, Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University. Word of Welcome (in Arabic), Joseph L. Cumming, Director, Reconciliation Program8:45 - 10:00Keynote Addresse, Grand Mufti Mustafa Ceric. followed by Q&A10:00 - 10:45Coffee/Tea10:4...
Tuesday, Jul 22
I’d Tap That: Skull & Bones Does Spring Break
Once again it’s time for another installment of everyone’s favorite chick lit romp through the mystery-filled tomb of Skull & Bones–er, Rose & Grave. Yale Grad (’01) Diana Peterfreund delivers schadenfreude, secret society pranks and sex (okay, foreplay) on the beach in Rite...
Tuesday, Jul 15
Prodigygate Part III: In Which Osberg Actually Files a Lawsuit
Rough, but last I heard, schools don’t usually make a habit of locking students out of their rooms just to be a bitch. Osberg wants $15,000 (about 0.00006% of Yale’s endowment) and to be re-admitted into the program, but that looks doubtful. Any Yale MFAs still reading IvyGate these days? Sen...
Tuesday, Jul 8
Cultural Anthropology 101: A Whole New Way to Appreciate A Cappella
History cites that the Whiffs, as it is popularly known, began as a university quartet in 1909 that met for weekly concerts at Mory’s Temple Bar, the famous Yale tavern. Related Posts July 8, 2008 — Lost Tennenbaum Child Shown the Door at Yale (3)June 27, 2008 — She’s Back! (2)September 28, 2...
Lost Tennenbaum Child Shown the Door at Yale
In a story sure to provoke equal parts sympathy and schadenfreude among the Wes Anderson loving, art-school rejected smart set, the New Haven Register is reporting that Annabel Osberg, a 19 year old painting prodigy, has been dismissed from Yale’s prestigious graduate program in art.
Sunday, Dec 16
George H. W. Bush: One Last Bonesman Bash?
An interesting coincidence: The same weekend that George H. W. Bush (Y'48, S&B'4life) dropped by New Haven to receive a Yale alumni award, witnesses saw a truck from the nearby Hamden Rental Center unloading an impressive quantity of tables and chairs at the Skull & Bones tomb. Fam...
