Yale’s “Rumpus,” an old IvyGate favorite, posted a new issue online recently. While the articles are excellent, the true treat is the pages and pages of the membership of Yale’s “exclusive” secret so...
As IvyGate reported last week when this letter was but a mere blip on Dartblog’s webpage, a group claiming to be comprised of Dartmouth faculty members filed a complaint detailing the Dartmouth Board...
Thanks to a piece posted today by the good people at The Dartmouth, IvyGate’s attention was brought to a recent study by the Center for Responsive Politics, a group tracking campaign finance data. Ap...
Paul Fussell, the historian and Penn professor, died yesterday. His most visible work concerned World War I and II*, but in 1983 he gave us Class: A Guide Through the American Status System, which we...
In early May, a conservative blogger placed a $10,000 bounty on copies of Obama’s college transcripts from his years at Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard Law School. Ten thousand dollars! On Monday, ...
Today is Harvard’s graduation! To honor Harvard’s mission to serve humanity, here is a compilation of some recent student accomplishments: Drunkenly stealing, driving, and crashing an ambulance: “Whi...
Yesterday morning, Columbia President Lee Bollinger received a copy of a strangely-formatted letter in which Randy S. Raghavendra, a former employee who filed a suit against several Columbia employee...
A few days ago we discovered footage of Fareed Zakaria 1) name-dropping IvyGate 2) during a speech at Johns Hopkins University 3) for their 2011 Commencement 4) by quoting a comment 5) on a post enti...
Some excerpts from The Dartmouth’s superb report on the 17 arrests over Hanover’s Green Key Weekend: Safety and Security received its first call at 8:35 a.m. on Friday morning about a male student na...
Three weeks ago, we suggested that Occupy Princeton should drop out of Princeton. Because it’s a little silly to protest Wall Street—or the present economic order, or income inequality, and so on—if ...
Dartblog—the student-imperiling Dartmouth-centric blog—has published an elaborate letter drafted by a group of faculty and staff who (anonymously) allege that Dartmouth’s Board of Trustees has been b...
For the past few years, The New York Times’ college blog “The Choice” has profiled several high school seniors as they make the journey from boys to men, girls to women. Each year, six to eight aspir...
Meet The Dartmouth’s Nate Davis. Decked out in his baby blue bow tie and Ray-Ban sunglasses, he reports back to the Dartmouth community as “Heterosexual Correspondent” to On the Mark with Clark, a ne...
Barnard College just released the transcript from Obama’s commencement address, in which he congratulates Barnard’s alumnae, encourages their ambitions, and basically spells out what he thinks of the...
Over the weekend, The New York Times released some nifty graphics about the state of student debt in America. Although the numbers only go from 2004 to 2010, a couple things are pretty clear. For one...
UPDATE: Cornell administrators have suspended Sigma Pi. UPDATE: Sigma Pi releases statement [PDF]. On Sunday morning, someone standing on the roof of Cornell’s Sigma Pi fraternity (pictured) threw gl...
Last week, a Crimson blogger wrote that Columbia has the worst athletics program in the Ivy League. Which is a bit like saying that Purdue has the worst comparative literature program in the Big Ten....
UPDATED: The Sun uses QuarkXPress, and other revelations! On Friday afternoon, “J.C.F.”—that would be Juan Forrer, the Cornell Sun’s “E.I.C.”—apologized for accidentally publishing profanity in Frida...
After choosing to disband following a particularly nasty scavenger hunt (oxymoron?), a tipster tells us Penn’s AEPi chapter will rise again, as APES. For those of you not in the know, APES is the com...
Harvard instructor Mey Akashah was busted Friday trying to sneak marijuana into Bermuda for a weekend trip with her husband. Airport police were alerted by drug-sniffing dogs to 6 grams of pot wrappe...
A photographer onscene at Occupy Wall Street’s May Day demonstration caught a gaggle of Princetonians marching with the commoners. Guess what their banner said. EVEN PRINCETON. Get it? Edgy. Cool. Su...
UPDATE: The Cornell Sun’s Jeff Stein confirms that both Sig Chi and Phi Sig are being investigated for violating Cornell’s pledging policy, but that neither will be kicked off campus. A well-placed t...
You might wonder, why do we always see Ivy League characters in books, movies, and on television? Well, when you get 7 of the country’s most prestigious schools together with Cornell, their combined ...
This might be nothing (let us know!) but it is interesting: For the past ten months, Richard Levin—the President of Yale—has been locked in a mysterious court battle with a resident of North Haven, C...
FuluMail, the online intimidation tool recently founded by two Princeton students, is undergoing renovation. Here might be why: over the past few weeks, FuluMail has transmitted a staggering amount o...
Secret societies prefer to keep their member-only activities covered in a heavy blanket of innuendo, secrecy, and rumor. Cornell’s Quill and Dagger, on the other hand, prefers to wrap their members i...
Brown University, the tropical island to which celebrities deport their children, doesn’t have poor people: Under 50 percent of students receive financial aid, and a majority of students pay full tui...
As Heidi Klum likes to say, in fashion, one day you’re in and the next day you’re out. The fashion industry can be tough, and you have to be competitive to keep up. So when it came out that Harvard f...
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