Following a push by the state of Connecticut to tax Yale University, New Jersey residents are pushing to tax Princeton University as well. Yeah. Pay up, motherfuckers.
Class War: Yale Edition
Yale University is sitting on an endowment worth $25.6 billion. The state of Connecticut, on the other hand, is pretty broke. Now, Connecticut wants to tax Yale’s endowment. This could be more revolutionary than it sounds.
Yale Professor Resigns Over Halloween Costume Debacle
A Yale professor who argued for students’ right to wear culturally insensitive Halloween costumes and triggered outcry on campus has announced her intentions to resign from teaching at the university.
"Fuck Forever" Shirt Throws Yale Club Into Mannered Turmoil
You oafish hillbillies who spend your time reading Gawker.com may not realize this, but respectable people who went to respectable schools like Yale have their very own high class private clubs in Manhattan. Do not sully them with your tasteless “novelty” t-shirts!
How the Rich Get Into Ivies: Behind the Scenes of Elite Admissions
A million-dollar full-ride scholarship endowment to an Ivy League school is a good deed. But it doesn’t just earn you karma—it nets you fawning emails from the school’s development officials, customized campus tours for your kids, and private meetings with the school’s president, leaked Sony emails show.
Ivy League Admissions Are a Sham: Confessions of a Harvard Gatekeeper
I graduated from Harvard in 2006, and have spent eight of the last nine years working as an admissions officer for my alma mater. A low-level volunteer, sure, but an official one all the same. I served as one of thousands of alumni volunteers around the world—a Regional Representative for my local Schools Committee,…
Harvard Professors Now Officially Prohibited from Banging Undergrads
Harvard professors are no longer allowed to engage in "sexual or romantic relationships" with undergraduates or with grad students under their direct supervision, Bloomberg reports. Previously, student-teacher relationships were frowned upon, but only officially prohibited when the student was in the professor's class.
Rich Colleges Get Richer and Richer
The 1%-vs-99% inequality dynamic that plagues America's economy as a whole extends to the world of higher education. And the richest universities in America had a great year last year.
Everybody likes to troll Harvard, even the New York Times.
Ivy League School Will Offer Class on "Wasting Time on the Internet"
Next year, at the prestigious University of Pennsylvania, a group of students will screw around online. Between lectures on thinkers like John Cage and Betty Friedan, they'll be asked to browse the likes of Tumblr or Twitter and hopefully, by they end of the semester, they'll have something meaningful to say about it…
Harvard's endowment grew 15.4% last year and now stands at $36.4 billion. Harvard remains very rich. If you give money to Harvard rather than to a better charity, you are an asshole.
After posting "years of subpar results," three of Harvard University's top money managers are leaving. Despite "years of subpar results" from top money managers, Harvard University is still rich as hell.
Harvard Plans to Hail Satan, Confirms Conservative Fears About Harvard
An undergraduate student group has announced plans to hold a Satanic "black mass" on Harvard's campus Monday evening, freaking out Catholics and conservatives who probably figured the Ivy was a dark servant of Beelzubub all along.
Teen Accepted to the Entire Ivy League Announces He'll Go to Yale
The high school senior accepted to all eight Ivy League universities has made The Decision. In a LeBron-like move, Kwasi Enin held a press conference at his Long Island high school to announce he's taking his talents to New Haven. Looks like Cleveland got robbed again.
Yale Student Says University Forced Her to Gain Weight
A 92-pound Yale history major says the university's health center told her she needed to gain weight or take a leave of absence from school. She's spent the past 6 months trying to put on pounds for her weekly weigh-ins.
Harvard Kids Even More Entitled Than You Think
Harvard: where the men play croquet, the women wear pearls, and everyone has an A average. Or A-, if we're being specific.
Harvard Students Pose as Yale Students, Show Tourists Around Campus
Ahead of the 130th Harvard-Yale football game set to take place this Saturday, the boys from Harvard's student-run Internet comedy news show On Harvard Time decided a classic Harvard-Yale prank was in order.
Shit-Stained Shirts Strung Up Around Yale, Poop Crisis Escalates
Perhaps unsatisfied with ruining Yale students’ clothing by peeing and pooping in unattended dryers, an unidentified individual spent Thursday night hanging several articles of poop-smeared clothing on a clothesline near Berkeley College, another of Yale’s residential colleges. (The original poop-related incidents…
Who’s Pooping in Yale’s Laundry Rooms?
Yale University, a squirrel-less arrangement of faux-ancient stone buildings in southwestern Connecticut, has a major pooping problem. Since the beginning of September, someone—almost certainly a Yale student—has placed human feces, urine, and/or food in running dryers installed in Saybrook College, one of the…
