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IvyGate, the Ivy League blog, covers news, gossip, sex, sports and more at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale.
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Check Out the 99% of Yalies Who Are in Secret Societies

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...

1 day ago

UPDATE: New Hampshire AG Reviewing Dartmouth Whistleblower Doc, May Investigate College’s Board of ...

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...

3 days ago

Shocking Study Reveals Ivy League Profs Support Obama, Liberalism

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...

4 days ago

Paul Fussell is Dead

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...

26 may 12

Are Obama’s College Transcripts the Latest Birther Obsession?

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, ...

25 may 12

Harvardians Continue to Thrill and Impress Everyone

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...

24 may 12

PrezBo Accused of Inflicting “Unbelievable Pain and Suffering” on Former Employee

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...

24 may 12

BREAKING: Fareed Zakaria Responds to Our Desperate Email

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...

24 may 12

Dartmouth’s Descent Into Chaos

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...

22 may 12

Can Students Fix the Ivy League?

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 ...

22 may 12

Princeton Student Worked Really Hard On This Rap Video

21 may 12

In Elaborate Document, Dartmouth Faculty and Staff Allege That Bankers Burgled Dartmouth

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...

21 may 12

The New York Times Has Discovered How to Get into Harvard: Be Male, and Write for The New York Times

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...

16 may 12

Introducing The Dartmouth’s ‘Heterosexual Correspondent’

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...

15 may 12

Obama Kinda Just Said Barnard College Isn’t Really Part of Columbia University

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...

14 may 12

New York Times Data Tells Us That Ivy League Tuition on the Rise, Debt Varied

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...

14 may 12

Harvard Has a Baseball Team?

10 may 12

[UPDATED] Did Cornell Hub Reveal Who Shouted Trayvon’s Name in Sunday’s Bottle-Throwing Incident?

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...

08 may 12

The Columbia-Harvard Blogger War Begins Now

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....

08 may 12

“Arts & C***”: Was the Curse Word Terrorizing the Cornell Sun Planted by Their Own Staff? [Updated]

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...

07 may 12

Penn’s Closed AEPi Chapter Will Rise Off-Campus as APES

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...

03 may 12

Harvard Instructor Pleads Guilty to Elaborate International Pot-in-Underwear Smuggling Bust

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...

02 may 12

Princeton Occupiers Have the Most Condescending Sign Ever

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...

02 may 12

TIPSTER: Cornell To Eject Sigma Chi, Phi Sigma Frats for Pledging Rituals, “Greek System is Dead” [...

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...

27 apr 12

The Not-So-Far-Fetche d Fictitious Alumni and Attendees of the Ivy League, Part I of II

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 ...

26 apr 12

Yale President Richard Levin’s Mysterious, 10-Month-Long Court Battle

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...

25 apr 12

“This Is Just The Beginning” of Princeton’s Worst Website

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...

24 apr 12

Members of Cornell’s Quill & Dagger Call Themselves “Soulmates”

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...

24 apr 12

Poor People Don’t Go to Brown, The Coolest College Ever

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...

23 apr 12

Harvard Fashionistas Digitally Alter Body Images in the Name of Fashion

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...

21 apr 12

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