May 2011
1 post
Princeton ’06 Is Worse at Email Than Your Elderly,... →
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…
January 2011
1 post
Arizona congresswoman and Cornell alum shot in... →
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…
September 2010
6 posts
CTE Influences Penn Football Player’s Death →
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 …
EXCLUSIVE: Kanye’s New Stylist, Life Coach, and... →
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…
Highlights of Cornell’s Forum discussing New Greek... →
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 Safety Video Makes Dangerous, Bike-Stealing... →
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.
Cornell Plans to Limit Drinking in the Greek... →
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…
Yale Safety Video Makes Dangerous, Bike-Stealing... →
April 2010
49 posts
Harvard Students, Chronically Deprived of Making... →
Harvard students who are lacking a little lust have not one, but two opportunities to kiss in public in the coming weeks. First is for a Boston Burlesque group “Boston Babydolls” who are…
ARTHURGATE: ¿¡Revolución!? Arthur Interrupts Noam... →
He emailed, pontificated, listserv’d, and protested his way to Brunonian infamy (and, we’re guessing, either complete decimation or a total landslide in the upcoming Undergraduate Student…
Columbia Senior Joey Goldberg Throws Hat,... →
Many words could describe this video: fierce, belt-tastic, ironic, adorable, zomg, etc. We’ll just go with hilarious:
Let’s just say that the Yale and Cornell Sams are in…
Yale Dean Not Amused By Your Pranks →
Dear Dartmouth: If you want us to write about you, pass along crazy emails like this one. Mary Miller, Dean of Yale College, responds to “class disruptions” with threats, demands, and…
Tsui Goes Glee →
Yale YouTube celebrity, a-cafella, and theatrical all-star Sam Tsui is about to put his money where his 6 million views are: the diminutive, Disney-Channel-ready vocal savant is auditioning for…
Harvard Foam-Fest Turns Into Fiery Hellstorm →
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$ha — was disrupted by a smoke alarm. The…
EXCLUSIVE: Skull and Bones, 2010-2011 →
UPDATED
Yesterday, we dropped Scroll and Key and Wolf’s Head. Now, thanks to an anonymous tipster (as always… grain of salt), here are this year’s future leaders of the free world. Yale’s big…
ARTHURGATE: Mass-Emailing Brunonian Gets Dissed,... →
“Revolutionary Studies” major (yeah Brown!) and Prez Candidate Arthur Matuszewski drew some flak last week for his flowery campaign spam, which ended up in the inbox of Booker prize…
EXCLUSIVE: Yale Secret Society Taps – Scroll and... →
Yes, it’s that time of year! Through an anonymous tip, I am happy to provide–for your delectation–the 2010-2011 tap classes of two of Yale’s first-string societies: Wolf’s Head and Scroll and Key…
Princeton – Meet Ke$ha →
Paul Muldoon, Pulitzer-prize winning poet, and, more importantly, a tenured Princetonian, has some things to clear up about Ke$ha. For us lacking the cerebral wherewithal to grasp what Ke$ha,…
Yale Presidential Race Gets Dirty: Gordon Campaign... →
We thought we would put our Yale College Council coverage to bed… even despite the 2-vote neck-and-neck result, today’s 12-hour runoff, and the mad duo, Jeff Gordon ‘12 and CoCo Pannell ‘11,…
Brown Rape Lawsuit Hits the Times →
The New York Times has coverage of William McCormick III’s lawsuit against Brown University for allegedly forced out of Brown after a donor’s daughter. A well-placed tipster tells us that…
That Toxic Cloud Rising Over Harvard Is The Poison... →
The Huffington Post reports that “a confirmed norovirus outbreak” has forced the Harvard Faculty Club to shut down after 100 visiting students fell ill.
But the virus, which causes nausea,…
Events Columbia Has Set Up a JumboTron For, In My... →
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Columbia
John McCain and Barack Obama’s joint visit to Columbia
4/20 my sophomore year, they played Planet Earth
The inauguration of Barack Obama
Glee’s …
Dartmouth “Sun God” Marches on Campus for Love,... →
The “Sun God” has been treating the Dartmouth Campus to delightful little performances since he (it?) arrived the beginning of this year– in those formative years, he was known as…
Penn Election Results in Ludicrous Drama; Sun... →
At least Youshaei v. Shuster now seems like a distant memory. The Pennsylvanian reports that Alec Webley, the losing candidate for Speaker of the Undergraduate Assembly “stormed out, tore…
BREAKING: Yale College Council Prez Race Comes... →
We hoped and prayed that Yale’s College Council absurdity wouldn’t end too soon; big personalities, relentless email spam, endorsement-fodder, and ridiculous postering threats galore. Well,…
Underground Movement United Behind Penn Student... →
A tipster sends us this possible indication of grassroots support behind Alec Webley, the kid who lost Penn’s Speaker election. You remember, the one who “stormed out, tore up the voting…
ARTHURGATE: Crazed Brown Prez Candidate... →
Sing muse, of the man of twists and turns! Whose pretentious prose and panlist antics have started just the kind of political scandal that we Ivy Leaguers love to hate. The man in question…
The Website Review with Justine Fields: Cornell... →
Yesterday the oldest independent college daily, the Cornell Daily Sun printed this as their front page.
It was all part of a plan to “promote the shit” out of their redesigned website, as…
Ivy League, Unite! To Put One More of Our Own on... →
John Paul Stevens’s announcement of his resignation from the Supreme Court really struck us here at the IvyGate offices — he was truly the last of his kind. That’s right, the last (maybe EVER!)…
Brown Sued For Alleged Rape Coverup →
The BDH reports that William McCormick III, formerly Brown ‘10, and his parents have sued Brown University and several of its officials — including President Ruth Simmons. The suit alleges that…
IVYGATE ENDORSES: “YCC Candidates… PRETTY YCC... →
Normally, College Council elections are a painfully dry, pretentious affair–and in the Ivy League, an especially uppity one. Thankfully, this year has been markedly different. Ruthless…
Dartmouth Prez Discourages Humanities, Encourages... →
In a video on leadership recently recorded for the Washington Post, Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim takes a rather dismissive tone towards the wishy-washy Humanities:
“You are not going to make it…
Brown Daily Herald Caught Up In Plagiarism... →
The Brown Spectator has published allegations against a recent op-ed published by the Brown Daily Herald, claiming that the anonymous Herald author plagiarized from the Providence Journal….
A Cooling of Tensions in Spectrum-Bwog War? →
Word has it that Columbia’s undergraduate magazine, the Blue and White, plans to run a story on graduating Spectator editor Melissa Repko. That’d be standard enough, if maybe a little weird, had Blue and White
Alumni Roundup: IvyGate Editors Loose in the Big... →
When we heard Maureen O’Connor was promoted to full-time editor at Gawker — and this after the Style section thing! — we thought we’d round up all the old hands and see what exactly they’re up…
UPDATE: Cornell ADPhi Fratboys Placed on Social... →
It’s been a busy month for our favorite “literary fraternity” ADPhi. First, they got busted for some slovenly hazing. Then, they blatantly lied about it. Next, everyone from Gawker to…
PICS: Yale Secret Society Pre-Tap Night →
As we write, the Yale ghosts and ghoulies are coming out to play, caped and masked, in a desperate attempt to lock down their taps in the Junior Class. By the end of tonight’s pre-tap, each…
UPDATE: Movement for BJ Founder Justine Kolata... →
Yale superstar and beauty-justice-conflating sophmodel Justine Kolata is, apparently, not running for Yale College Council VP after all. According to a message posted on YouTube and several…
When Harvard Television Shows Rain, They Pour →
Harvard’s answer to The Daily Show, On Harvard Time, and Harvard’s answer to, we guess, Hannah Montana or something?, Ivory Tower (starring Caroline “Rose” Giuliani!), have both…
Yale Movement for Beauty and Justice Founder:... →
It feels like just yesterday that IvyGate introduced you to the willowy, manic, bunny-loving Justine Kolata, ‘12: founder of Yale’s most vapid and unintentionally offensive…
Princeton Eating Clubs Don’t Know What Hipsters or... →
A tipster sends us an email from Princeton’s University Cottage Club to its members on a theme party whose “theme” seems to be the dissolution of the relationship between sign and signified….
Cornell Sun Establishes West Coast Bureau, Reports... →
A tipster asks: “Is it weird that Cornell is running articles on UCLA in the Daily Sun?” To which we say: Yes! [Except that the article is about drugs, which are needed to make an Ithaca winter…
Cornell Coach Heads to BC →
After one of Cornell’s most successful bball seasons ever, its head Coach Steve Donahue is jumping ship, leaving the Ivy League’s fair shores and heading to the ACC. And apparently, that’s not…
RagTime: Strong Opinions Edition →
Brown: “Hey, we have humanities here too.” Um, did anyone at comparative-literature-y Brown FORGET there were humanities (excepting when they were high)?
Columbia: College students have…
ELECTION SPECIAL: Yale College Council... →
Ivy League: meet the politicking, wheel-greasing, soon-to-be-YouTubing Yalies poised to fight it out–tooth, nail and Facebook–for Yale College Council prez. This race is shaping up to be a…
No More Easy A’s at Yale →
Gawker reports that teacher-student sex has been officially banned by Yale. Can a ban on student-student sex be far behind?!
Where Does Your Alma Mater Fall on the Stress... →
The Daily Beast, for some reason totally not related to linkbait, has released a list of America’s fifty most stressful colleges — taking into account tuition, academic rigor, acceptance rate,…
Columbia Spring Concert Lineup: Ghostface Killah,... →
Via Bwog, Columbia’s interestingly-named Spring “Chewbacchanal” just released its rather questionable lineup: Ghostface Killah (haz-been rapper), Of Montreal (steakhouse-sell-out…
Princeton Freshman Suing Over Test-Taking Time →
Diane Metcalf-Leggette, Princeton ‘13 and soccer recruit, is waging a legal campaign against her university in an attempt to get twice as much time on exams as everyone else….
Yale Senior Goes Missing →
Soon-to-retire Yale Police Department chief Perotti just sent out a worrying email. Anthony Kinuthia (pictured above), a Kenyan Yale Senior who recently withdrew from school, is nowhere…