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more about #ivyleague more comments → iplaudius: The judge added, in an aside, “And don’t even get me started on Ivy League universities and tax-free real estate.” more » crookedE: This is fantastic. more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: You're attacking Columbia? What fun! more » Perhaps Not: FUCKING YES. Long time coming. As one of your alums, I say "Suck it, Columbia." A liberal arts university with an eight billion dollar endowment shoul... more » DennyCrane: So, you're saying Columbia is Casey Johnson? more » TableNein: All this story is missing is Justin Long and Jonah Hill as the unlikely heroes. more » Astigmatism: Lovely; now wait for this to be overturned on appeal. This goes squarely against both Kelo and the Court of Appeals' ruling last week in the Atlantic... more » resipsaloquacious: I'd like to drop some personal blight on that statute's book. more » misslinda: I blame James Franco. more » econdave: Here's the dirty little secret: there's nothing particularly glamorous about being an Ivy League grad. (I didn't go to Harvard or Yale, but have 2 Ivy... more » smithhimself: Smithhimself was at The Game on the Yale side. A cheerful day with the usual drinking that continued at the Elizabethan Club. Compared to watching Neb... more » milominderbinder: Oh yeah fancy degree people??!! We have something better... Tim Tebow! Suck on that. more » missdelite: I just want to see the front of that guy's bodysuit. more » TheBusinessGuy: more » TheRtHonPM: But on the plus side, isn't this the same game where a few years ago, a bunch of Yale yahoos tricked the Harvard crowd into doing a card stunt that re... more » -
#shutupcollege
Court: Columbia Lies, Is Dumb
An appeals court ruled that Columbia University can't use eminent domain to grab property it wants for its expansion just by calling its neighborhood "blighted." The judges pointed out: Columbia is so freaking shady. More » -
#awesomethings
The 99th Percentile Bowl: 2009's Harvard-Yale Game, A Compiled Air-to-Ground Report
The Harvard-Yale game's a storied tradition for Ivy League grads who enjoy comparing degree sizes/names. For everyone else, it's an opportunity to watch America's Prestigious Ivy Grads try to act like normal football fans, which they can't. So: what happened?! More » -
#higherlearning
Man Punching Woman Fails to Make Ivy League Edgy
It took a punch to the face to make newspapers edgy again. Could a drunken punch to the face (of a woman), after an argument about racism, make the Ivy League edgy, too? One Columbia prof is testing that theory! More » -
#ivyleague
Harvard Has a Little Poison Coffee Problem
Somebody tried to kill a bunch of lab workers at Harvard Medical School two months ago, with deadly poison. This is just coming out now, because Harvard does not want you to know about its deadly coffee machines. More » -
#shutupcollege
Harvard Students Now Living How They Imagine Poor People Must Live
Oh oh oh, merry Christmas, it's a semi-credulous story in the New York Times about Harvard students and deprivation. Our nation's greatest treasures (Harvard students) are quite literally going to die, from poverty! More » -
#ivyplus
Ivy Leaguers Now Networking With Their Peon, Bush-League Bretheren
Sign That Shit's Bad: Ivy League alum deigning to include the previously excluded, those wannabe-Ivy guttertrash punks! What used to be considered a step above Chico State now makes the cut for scholastic Blue-Blooded's get-togethers. What gives? Introducing Ivy Plus. More » -
#mediacrack
The Nation Staying Afloat With Yard Sales
In your fading Friday media column: America's most august lefty magazine learns how to makes Ca$h the Ebay way, Ivy League murder obsession explained, Suze Orman may wake you up soon, and some assholes still love Tom Friedman. More » -
#schoolforscandal
Yale University, Murdertown of the Ivies
The grisly killing of Yale student Annie Le, whose body was discovered stuffed inside the wall of a campus lab yesterday, is just the latest in a string of high-profile crimes long enough to support a Law & Order spinoff.
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#todayshappenings
Harvard Prof Grazes Cow In Harvard Yard
Retiring Harvard professorColonel SandersHarvey Cox doddered onto Harvard Yard yesterday to graze his cow, as is his god damn right. More » -
#shutupcollege
The Ten Types of Harvard Wannabes
William Fitzsimmons, Harvard's dean of admissions, is taking questions on the New York Times' website. So far, 788 queries have been submitted. What do these questions tell us about American higher education? That it can make you crazy, times ten. More » -
#fashion
The New Look: Ivy League Jerk Chic
Are you Trad? Totally tradded? Traddin' it up? Doesn't the very term "Trad" sound like the first name of some prep school prick? Trad Rockefeller III, the inventor of the "Look at my blazer" look? It's all the rage! More » -
#fashionrocks
Harvard's Fashion Line Just Like Harvard: Moneygrubbing, Elitist, Passé
Hard-up Harvard needs cash. So they signed a ten-year licensing deal with Manhattan fashion firm Wearwolf to lend their name to Harvard Yard, a clothing line endorsed and inspired by the ubiquitous Ivy League name-dropped school. It's awesomely ridiculous. More » -
#bestandbrightest
Harvard Fails to Shut Up Own Students
Harvard Medical School tried to tell its own students they couldn't speak to the (scary) media without the school's official permission. Shut up, college—literally! Haha. No we did not go to Harvard, why? Luckily! More » -
#shutupcollege
Blood Art Sex Magik Too Hot For Yale
Yale art major Aliza Shvarts induced many throwups amongst people who read about her induced-abortion art project last year. But she also induced, uh, Yale not letting somebody have a blood drive, for art? Something something, "meaning." Yale! More » -
#cowards
Yale Press Sides With Religious Fanatics Over Own Author
Yale University Press is publishing a book about the Danish Muhammad cartoon controversy of 2005. But Yale will not publish any images of the cartoons, or Muhammad, because Yale University Press is run by freedom-disregarding accommodationist pussies. More » -
#whocares
College Rankings Totally Made Up
Listicle publication Forbes says that the US Military Academy, of all places, is "America's Best College." Is that even allowed? Competitor listicle publication the Princeton Review has struck back with its own outrageously outside-the-box college ranking listicle items! More » -
#education
Ashley Judd To Write Wry Coming-of-Age Novel About Harvard
Famous Judd Ashley Judd has enrolled at Harvard! She is working toward the Kennedy School's Mid-Career Master in Public Administration. That is the program for people who want to, like, run countries or the UN. More » -
#trendwatch
Privileged Elites Offer Each Other Helping Hands
The players: Manhattan media playboy Jared Kushner's younger brother Joshua (pictured); Harvard students; rich people; and NYT faux-trend specialist Allen Salkin. It's a case where both an idea and the meta-coverage of the idea are equally enraging! More » -
#ivyleague
Let's Talk About That Harvard Murder and Race
So, a young black man is murdered on the Harvard campus by another young black man; a black female Harvard student is kicked off campus as a result, and charges racism. Can you spot the elephant in this Ivy room? More » -
#ivyleague
Dumpster-Diving Townies Menace Princetonians
Princeton was on lock down because somebody saw somebody walking around with a gun! But now the "all clear" has gone out. It was just drunk dumpster-diving townies threatening the Ivy Leaguers with a squirt gun, as usual: More »
