The Ivy League's side hustle—pricey summer camps that don't improve a student's chances of admission—are raking in revenue by preying "on the anxiety of parents."
ThinkProgress goes long on this question: "If [Jason "Latinos Have Low IQs" Richwine's] dissertation was bad enough to get him fired from the Heritage Foundation, how did it earn him a degree from Harvard?"
Epicenter of Evil (Harvard University) in Quiz Team Cheating Scandal
Last 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.…
There's a lot of Jew-Hating Going on at Boston Colleges These Days
It's just about time for Hannukkah and anti-semites all over Boston are spreading pretty hateful stuff around.
Kink Comes to Harvard as Student Group for BDSM Lovers Gains Formal Recognition
A Harvard student club that has been meeting stealthily for over a year to discuss matters of bondage and discipline is set to receive formal recognition form the university's Committee on Student Life according to The Crimson.
How to Blow $2 Million Trying to Get Into Harvard, Without Getting Into Harvard
This Boston Globe story on a Hong Kong family that decided to hire the "admissions consultant" firm IvyAdmit—led by a former Harvard professor—to get their kids into Harvard must be read to be believed. There is a lawsuit now, of course. Briefly:
Harvard Crimson Editors Have Bigger Balls Than Your Media Boss
The privileged young people of Harvard College are not often recognized for their integrity and backbone. They made a whole movie about how Zuckerberg stole Facebook from the terrible Winklevoss twins, for instance. And just last week more than 100 Harvard students came under fire for a cheating scandal that…
125 Harvard Students Under Investigation for Plagiarizing in 'Intro to Congress' Class
Is 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…
Here Are America's Next Top Insane Quotes from Tyra Banks' Hollywood Reporter Interview
Forehead Tyra Banks recently sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to discuss Cycle 19 of America's Next Top Model (all the judges and mentors you love—Nigel, Jay, and Miss J—have been fired and replaced with sandbags with frowny faces drawn on them), her hopes for the show's future (it's been moved to Fridays at 8…
Unabomber Sorry He Can't Make Harvard Class Reunion But He's Still In Prison
Ted Kaczynski, better known to mail recipients everywhere as the Unabomber, was sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing three people and injuring nearly two dozen others, so it came as little surprise to his former Harvard classmates that he was unable to attend their 50th class reunion.
Andy Samberg was Harvard's 2012 Class Day Speaker
Continuing what is now apparently a tradition of having SNL alums deliver its commencement speeches, Harvard invited Andy Samberg to impart his "unqualified" pearls and impressions (Mark Zuckerberg, Mark Wahlberg, and Nicholas Cage all make a cameo appearance) to the graduating class of 2012.
There Is Actually Nothing Better in the World Than Talking About Yourself
Harvard psychologists have found that people are so desperate to share random bits of information about themselves (their habits, their likes and dislikes, what, all bullshit aside, they really think of Girls), they are willing to give up ACTUAL FREE MONEY to do it.
Why We're Talking About Barack Obama and Derrick Bell Now
So Andrew Breitbart's belated death-rattle made its debut last night, and here's what it is: Barack Obama, in 1990, gave a speech saying nice things about a bad man named Derrick Bell. He also hugged the bad man, Derrick Bell. Ipso facto reduction ad absurdum habeas corpus hocus pocus, Barack Obama is a bad man as…
Harvard Kids Painfully Overestimate Ability to Mock Their Own Elitism
Let's learn about Harvard kids and their senses of humor! A Harvard tipster sends us the following explanation for the video you see above:
Hero Rhodes-Declining Yale QB Withdrew Over Sex Assault Claims, Not Harvard Game
Remember Patrick Witt, the Yale quarterback who chose the Yale-Harvard game over a chance at a Rhodes scholarship? As it turns out, it wasn't much of a choice: Witt's Rhodes candidacy had already been withdrawn over allegations of sexual assault.
Creepy 27-Year-Old Posed as Harvard Frosh Because He 'Was Lonely'
Last Thursday, a 27-year-old named Abe Liu was cited by Harvard police for "using a falsified identification card" and warned against trespassing in college dorms. It was apparently the first time he'd encountered the police—but he'd spent the semester posing as a Harvard College freshman, sleeping in friends' dorm…
GZA Finally Makes it to Harvard
GZA, the man who becomes the head when Wu-Tang Clan forms like Voltron, will be giving a guest lecture at Harvard next month. Better than a mountain climber who plays an electric guitar, amirite? This "Ivy League lecture as album promo tour trend" is the coolest thing to happen to the Ivy League since the Dartmouth…
Worst Harvard-Yale Merchandise Ever: 'We Are the 6%'
Behold: the snobbiest Harvard University merchandise ever created. A company selling t-shirts and pinnies for Harvard-Yale football game has a special line of OCCUPY YALE shirts. Slogan: "We are the 6%."
To Occupy Harvard, You Need a Valid Harvard ID
Updated. Three hundred protesters marched through Cambridge, Massachusetts last night. Their goal: Occupying Harvard Yard. Arriving at the edge of campus, the protesters found the University's gates locked and guarded by a phalanx of campus police. Boston's CBS affiliate reports:
