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nightlife
College Kids Horrified by Dorks at New Yorker's Dance Party
The New Yorker festival culminated in a rockin' dance party. (Our publisher offered us his spare tickets, which we sniffily rejected. "The New Yorker dance party?" snorted a friend.) IvyGate went, though, and they were scared for their future social life. "This could be you in eleven years," warned the headline. "It was mostly professionals in their late 20s to early 30s talking and grinding." Oh, no, not that! Yep, that's how us post-collegiate Olds party. And then we stumbled home, drifting off to sleep imagining what type of hit our Roth IRA took with the latest crash. [IvyGate]
tough love
How to Weasel You Way Through Your Publishing Job
A young literary agency lass is having trouble making, like, a flowchart of all the publishers! She's taken to the Craigslist personals section for the cure: "I think there's a handful of major conglomerates who own all the main publishers... Does a chart like this exist? I'm a cute girl, and if you help me out I'll send you some free galleys :)" Hey, Ms. Cutie? We just busted you. Consider it your first lesson in tough love, and please take to heart the advice Toby Young just gave me: "Don't get too comfortable. You could be fired in the next 48 hours." In this climate, we're all lucky just to have a job. So do yours.
Promotions
Chevy: 'Show Us Your Tits'
Chevy's new promotion on college campuses: "giving free rides to students who will be filmed via the interior 'Cab Cam.'" Then all the videos go on the web, and the one that gets the most views wins you a new Chevy. In other words, "HEY GURL FUCK ME IN THE BACKSEAT AND WE GET A CAR." [via Adrants]
journalismism
"Embedded" Blogger-Journalism Student Confuses the Hell Out of PBS
Remember the NYU professor who banned blogging about class, after one of her students wrote a piece for PBS's MediaShift blog criticizing the class and the journalism program? Now PBS's ombudsman (they have one?!) has chimed in negatively about the piece: "I have serious problems with the episode that unfolded recently in which a journalism student at New York University, Alana Taylor, authored a Sept. 5 posting as an 'embedded' blogger on MediaShift, writing critically about her class content and professor at NYU without informing either the teacher or her classmates about what she was doing." Um, he wrote over 2,000 more hand-wringing words on the subject. More »
that's elitist
Ivy Leaguers Bitterly Regret Investment Banking Careers
IvyGate has discovered another great way to cover the banking armageddon: Quoting whiny would-be plutocrats who thought their pedigrees would make them fabulously wealthy on Wall Street but now can't even pull down seven lousy figures a year. Instead of becoming Big Swinging Dicks in i-banking, they find themselves working for (*shudder*) retail bankers and — oh God it gets worse — the government. That's right, when you take subsidized government cash to stay in business dumping government-backed mortgages on the government at prices inflated with government money, you're not a capitalist raider anymore, you're a bureaucrat with a salary cap. As you can imagine, this has Harvard grads sounding as bitter as furloughed, Hillary Clinton-voting factory workers in the rust belt: More »
crossovers
Oversharing Now Required Reading at Boston College
Uh-oh. Here's a letter we received from a college student: "I just wanted to let you all know that I am learning about [Collegehumor founder/webtard/Julia Allison ex] Jakob Lodwick in an actual university course, the Sociology of Deviance and Social Control. No joke... Lodwick is in the Emily Nussbaum New York mag article 'Say Anything Kids,' which is about putting one's private life on the internet, and how the young people clearly are too optimistic to see what the pitfalls are. She says that Lodwick's Vimeo is a 'hipster Youtube,' and we had a discussion about the people in the article and how they were clearly extremes of what we 'normal' college students are doing." This class sounds awesome! Let's check out the syllabus: More »
journalismism
Journalism Prof Bans Blogging About Class
After NYU student Alana Taylor wrote a critical piece about the merits of her journalism class for PBS's MediaShift blog, her professor, Mary Quigley, caught wind of it and told the class, "We can all agree that there will be no more blogging or Twittering about the class." Can we all agree on that? Especially since this very same professor had previously told them, “Nowadays it’s essential for journalists to blog." More »
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College Girls Stalking Their Classmate James Franco
The twits at Columbia can be so déclassé: as Vesal Yazdi wrote in the university's Spectator (and as noted by Page Six), they surrounded actor James Franco like cats in heat as he was trying to study in a campus cafe (he's going for his master's in writing at NYU.) They were "crowd[ing] around him and star[ing] into his face and the emails on his Mac..." More »
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