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Harvard Is So Rich
Hamilton Nolan · 09/25/13 10:59AMHow to Have Sex at Yale
Hamilton Nolan · 09/13/13 11:21AMYale in Uproar Over Missing Campus Squirrels
J.K. Trotter · 09/09/13 01:45PMHarvard Kids: Rich, Sexless Nerds
Hamilton Nolan · 09/06/13 11:53AMHamilton Nolan · 08/20/13 01:11PM
Animal House Dartmouth Frat Threw a ‘Bloods and Crips’ Party
J.K. Trotter · 08/14/13 10:31AMDartmouth College, the lily-white investment banking camp of the Ivy League, prides itself on its purposely insular and routinely violent fraternities. These two features magically combined last month when Animal House inspiration Alpha Delta decided to throw an enormous “Bloods and Crips”-themed party. Now they’re very, very, very sorry.
Nitasha Tiku · 07/17/13 04:03PM
What's a SWUG? Girl, You a SWUG.
Maggie Lange · 04/10/13 03:50PMA SWUG, or a Senior Washed Up Girl, is a young woman in her final year at a four-year collegiate establishment who has also given up the possibility of youth. They boldly abstain from dressing up, they rarely go to parties, and declare disinterest in romantic or sexual relationships. They want to sit on a couch drinking wine with fellow SWUGs. They are a movement and their interests include apathy and "not giving a fuck."
New York Times Commenters Are Having "butthurt" From Ross Douthat's Column on the Ivies
Max Rivlin-Nadler · 04/07/13 03:20PMRoss Douthat, the young conservative on the Times op-ed page, weighed in today on Susan Patton's totally fucked-up advice for Princeton women. His piece, which lays out that the Ivy league represents the kind of compromised meritocracy that caters to elites like Patton, especially because they give the elite a chance to preserve their wealth and status, is both nuanced and thoughtful. But it's coming from a person who tends towards the right. And attacks the type of meritocracy that has privileged most of the readership of the Times. In other words, commenters are having a really hard time trying to figure out what to make of the piece.
Pat Robertson Blames Ivy League Schools for Lack of Miracles in America
Neetzan Zimmerman · 04/02/13 08:59AMSome Poor Kid's Mom Wrote a Letter to Princeton's Student Newspaper Begging Girls to Date Her Son (UPDATE)
Caity Weaver · 03/29/13 04:50PMEpicenter of Evil (Harvard University) in Quiz Team Cheating Scandal
Hamilton Nolan · 03/22/13 09:05AMLast night, the Harvard University men's basketball team—considered scrappy underdogs in this, but no other, field—upset New Mexico in the NCAA tournament, to the exclusive delight of Harvard alumni. Yet today, in a bit of reassuring proof of the existence of karmic justice, comes news of a Harvard cheating scandal. HIDE YOUR SHAME, HARVARD DEVIANTS: your quiz bowl team was dirty.
Lecherous Webmaster Matt Drudge Tortures Yale Sex Survey Number
Max Read · 03/05/13 11:07AM"1 IN 10 YALE STUDENTS SAY THEY'VE BEEN PAID FOR SEX..." tweeted internet behemoth Matt Drudge just a minute ago. Yikes! Drudge, who is commonly understood to be gay, links out to a report on the blog of anti-Yale crusader Nathan Harden, who looks more or less exactly the way you'd expect a guy obsessed with the amount of sex on the Yale campus to look.
Half-Naked Ivy League Prof Opens Quantum Physics Course with 9/11 Footage, Hitler
Max Read · 02/18/13 05:11PMThere is no (definitive) manual on How to Teach Quantum Physics, obviously, but one imagines that if such a manual existed it would likely recommend against opening your first lecture half-naked, curled into a fetal position while footage of Hitler, Saddam Hussein, and 9/11 play on the projector. And yet! Columbia professor Emlyn Hughes opened his Frontiers of Science—one of the Ivy League university's core classes—with just such a show. Here's how Columbia gossip blog Bwog describes it:
How to Blow $2 Million Trying to Get Into Harvard, Without Getting Into Harvard
Hamilton Nolan · 10/10/12 10:34AMColleges Still Good For Something: Cornell Library Serves as Setting for Porn Video
Caity Weaver · 10/02/12 10:53AM125 Harvard Students Under Investigation for Plagiarizing in 'Intro to Congress' Class
Max Read · 08/30/12 04:36PMIs there anything millenials can't ruin? Harvard University used to be a fairly well-respected Boston-area school. But now that they've been letting millenials in? "Harvard College's disciplinary board is investigating nearly half of the 279 students who enrolled in Government 1310: "Introduction to Congress" last spring for allegedly plagiarizing answers or inappropriately collaborating on the class' final take-home exam."
Complaining About the Sex Lives of Yale Kids Considered Good Topic for Book
Hamilton Nolan · 08/23/12 04:49PMIf you don't have a book contract right this minute, you should very ashamed. Consider: Nathan Harden (pictured), a 2009 graduate of Yale, not only got a book contract, but has already written and published his book, and that book is about how bad it is that kids are into sex things at Yale—a topic that a professional book publishing house presumably considered sufficiently interesting to pay Nathan Harden U.S. currency, to write it.
Yale Creates New, Even More Useless Law Degree
Hamilton Nolan · 07/25/12 11:35AMSince the recession hit, law school degrees have become so toxic and worthless that they are actually worth less than nothing, because not only do they take all of your money and leave in crushing debt but you can't even get a job with them any more and if you could the job would be horrible. So—how to make a law degree even worse? That took the mindpower that only Yale can offer.