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Modern communication is a perilous pursuit — what with all the Facebooking and Tweets and emails and texts. You lose touch of what it means to be human; to talk to someone face-to-face. And…

The story that will undoubtedly dominate the next few news cycles: Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot and severely injured in Tucson, AZ today. Giffords was holding a public event…

According to the New York Times, a recent autopsy reveals that young football players, even those on the college level, might be at risk in developing CTE.

A brain autopsy of a

Meet Cassius Marcellus Cornelius Clay: aristocrat, eccentric, old-money, nouveau-style. It’s hard to miss him at Yale. At a lanky, near-skeletal 6’5″, the baby-faced blonde, pocket-watch…

In our last post, we stated that Cornell’s administration was hosting a forum to discuss the new policies concerning Greek life.

What happened? Well, according to the Cornell Insider, the administration was met “with interrogation, hisses, boos, bros, and even a Keystone reference as Greek members” discussed the new policy.

Yale videos have long been a hit or miss affair… Elis love to film themselves doing silly things for all sorts of reasons: self-promotion, raising money, cute boyz, etc. But usually, it’s been an undergrad thing. Enter “You, Your Safety, and You,” straight from the Yale higher-ups.

About two weeks ago, Cornell announced measures to crack-down on drinking in the Greek Scene. This is no surprise (unless you are still in Plato’s cave searching for the light) due to…

The Crimson’s FlyBy Blog reports that the annual “Mather Lather” party — at which Ivy League undergrads rub foam all over themselves and pretend to be Ke$ha — was disrupted by a smoke alarm. The…

UPDATED

Yesterday, we dropped Scroll and Key and Wolf’s Head. Now, thanks to an anonymous tipster (as always… grain of salt), here are this year’s future leaders of the free world. Yale’s big…