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Sitting on Quarterback Sex Assault Story, Yale Daily News Considered Seeking a Private Jet for Witt

Maureen O'Connor — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:50:47 EST

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This morning we read how Yale Daily News, "Gutsiest Campus Newspaper of 2011," sat on the story of perfect Yale quarterback Patrick Witt's sex assault scandal for two months. Now, a humorous coda to their silence: We hear that YDN actually considered calling on wealthy alumni to charter a jet for the campus hero, so he wouldn't have to choose between the Yale-Harvard game and his Rhodes Scholarship interview. More »

Hero Rhodes-Declining Yale QB Withdrew Over Sex Assault Claims, Not Harvard Game

Max Read — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:44:19 EST

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 As it turns out, it wasn't much of a choice: Witt's Rhodes candidacy had already been withdrawn over allegations of sexual assault. More »

The Paranoid Conspiracy Theory of a T.A. Who Says Yale Is a 'Freemason' 'Sea-Monster'

Maureen O'Connor — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:51:53 EST

When it comes to paranoia, certain environments are more fertile than others. Yale University, gothic bastion of secret societies and birthplace of the C.I.A., is among America's most fertile. More »

Yale Football Coach Resigns After Lying About Rhodes Scholar Debacle

Maureen O'Connor — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:15:36 EST

A strange coda for story of perfect Yale quarterback Patrick Witt, who dropped out of the finalist round for the Rhodes Scholarship so he could play in the Harvard-Yale football game: While Patrick was agonizing over his decision, his coach Tom Williams told everyone that he faced the same dilemma as a linebacker at Stanford in 1992, and chose football. More »

Worst Harvard-Yale Merchandise Ever: 'We Are the 6%'

Maureen O'Connor — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:49:46 EST

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%." More »

Most Perfect Yalie Ever Chooses Football Over Rhodes Scholarship

Maureen O'Connor — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:03:45 EST

After weeks of angst, perfect Yale quarterback Patrick Witt has decided to skip his Rhodes Scholarship interview so he can play in the Harvard-Yale football game. Better not lose now, Yale! More »

Yale Quarterback Faces Worst White Boy Dilemma Ever

Maureen O'Connor — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:41:21 EST

Yale University quarterback Patrick Witt is "every inch the football hero," "a contender for the NFL draft," "the most accurate passer in Yale history." He is also very smart, with a 3.91 GPA and a shot at the Rhodes Scholarship. More »

Yale Accidentally Made 43,000 Social Security Numbers Public

Maureen O'Connor — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:17:28 EDT

Oops. Yale University recently announced that the names and Social Security numbers of 43,000 people affiliated with the school were publicly available online for about 10 months. Ivy League institutions, they're just like us: completely and utterly exposed. More »

All Your White Supremacist Yale Classmates Say Hi

John Cook — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:59:01 EDT

The July/August issue of Yale's alumni magazine had an alumni note—one of those little message-board-style missives that lets all your classmates know what you've been up to—that caught Ben Smith's eye. It's from Sam Taylor, class of '73: More »

These Are the 'Douchiest' Colleges in America

Brian Moylan — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:29:29 EDT

While I'd like to retire the word "douche" and its many derivations, that doesn't mean it doesn't have its uses. Just look at GQ, which published a new, revised list of the "Douchiest Colleges in America" today. So what schools made the list? More »

Shocking Turnaround: Yale More Preppy Than Harvard

Hamilton Nolan — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 10:34:29 EDT

Last week we breathlessly reported on America's Whitest Colleges, which we deduced from a list of schools that had signed deals to have Brooks Brothers produce incredibly goofy clothing with their college logos. The single most shocking school that did not appear on that list: Yale. UNTIL NOW. More »

Yale's 'George Bush Frat' Gets Suspended

Jim Newell — Tue, 17 May 2011 16:34:38 EDT

The members of Yale's chapter of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, where both President George H.W. "Poppy" Bush and his son George W. Bush are proud legacies, will be suspended for five years after a little pledge incident involving chants of rape jokes. More »

Random Yale Undergrad Has Eliot Spitzer, Ex-Mexican President on Speed Dial

Adrian Chen — Thu, 12 May 2011 17:54:00 EDT

Some Yale undergrads dug through the cell phone, email and Facebook accounts of a classmate as part of a project, then posted what they discovered on a website for all to enjoy. Shock discovery: Yalies are obscenely well-connected. More »

Asian Pick-Up Artist Teaches Ivy League Asians to Bed Blondes

Maureen O'Connor — Mon, 09 May 2011 15:33:06 EDT

Meet J.T. Tran, "The Asian Playboy" and America's "#1 Dating Coach for Asian Men." He makes a cameo in Wesley Yang's New York magazine article about high-achieving Asian-American underdogs. As an aerospace engineer, J.T. spent his spare time studying from The Game pick-up artist Mystery. Soon, he became the Kumon math teacher of seduction. More »

Perfect Chinese Daughter Becomes a Blogger

Maureen O'Connor — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:32:24 EDT

After 18 years of toiling under the Kumon-math-driving whip of Tiger Mother Amy Chua, Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld has launched a blog. Noooo! Don't waste your perfect brain on blogging! Don't you know bloggers are LOSERS, Sophia?! More »

Fancy Law Students Play With Dog, Reports Important Paper

Hamilton Nolan — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 09:42:04 EDT

The many perils of law school—how we love to cover them! As does the Lamestream Media. In fact, competition for stories about law school is now so strict among media outlets that the New York Times—once considered a "prestigious" news outlet dedicated to matters of public import—has written and published an entire story about how law students can borrow a dog to play with for 30 minutes at a time. More »

Today in College Sex: Masturbation Guides and Naked Parties

Richard Lawson — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:00:02 EST

Despite current statistics, it seems college students are always doing sex things. One day it's a fucksaw demonstration, the next it's a naked party that gets out of hand or publicly posted guides on how to masturbate. The latter two are what we're talking about today. More »

Just in Time for Yale/Harvard Football Game, Harvard Mocks Murdered Yale Student

Richard Lawson — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:39:42 EST

Higher learning's most charming rivalry, between dusty old fart-factories Yale and Harvard, always heats up this time of year, but rarely this badly. In a timely response to Yale: The Musical, some Harvard kids made a parody. A bad one. More »

Neither Diddy Nor the Designers He Hires Design His Clothes

Maureen O'Connor — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:20:44 EDT

A design firm tweets that Diddy clothing line Sean John stole a design they made for a symposium at the Yale School of Architecture. That's what you get for demonstrating your cool design skills with the word "Seduction." More »

Christine O'Donnell's New Campaign Strategy: Not Going to Yale

Max Read — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 01:55:01 EDT

Republican Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell did not go to Yale. (Or Oxford, for that matter). How do we know? Because she just told us, in this new ad. How else do we know? Because she's against masturbation. Hey-o! More »

Yalies Accidentally Treated Like Regular New Haven Residents

Hamilton Nolan — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 11:24:33 EDT

Last weekend marked an outrageous and ignoble milestone of disillusionment for more than a hundred Yale students: New Haven police rudely broke up their party as if they were regular townies. Needless to say, academe is aflame. More »

'Operation Nightlife': Kicking Ass and Tasering Kids

Jeff Neumann — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 16:53:21 EDT

Police in New Haven, Connecticut have launched a program called "Operation Nightlife" in order to crack down on violence at nightclubs. Armed with assault rifles, last night they raided a Yale party and tasered a student for being "uncooperative." More »

Meet Kanye West's Stylist and Trusted Confidant: A Yale Undergrad

Richard Lawson — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:47:40 EDT

Say hello to Cassius Marcellus Cornelius Clay, a Yale sophomore whose life changed at Barneys one day, when fashionable rapper Kanye West complimented him on his shoes and, eventually, invited the lad to travel the world as Kanye's right-hand man. More »

What Class Should James Franco Teach at Yale?

Richard Lawson — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:54:34 EDT

The actor and hiptellectual (we're just making up words these days, right Sarah?) announced on Good Morning America today that he will be teaching a "very special class" in New Haven next year. What should it be? We have ideas. More »

Yale Fan to Be Beat Up At Harvard for Four Years

Richard Lawson — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:39:20 EDT

And by "beat up" we mean slapped at weakly and then called poor. A young Oregonian actually named Yale W. Fan has decided to attend Harvard over his namesake next year. The exciting story is here, you fucking nerds. More »

Bill Clinton Just Runs Everyone Off the Road

Hamilton Nolan — Mon, 24 May 2010 09:12:01 EDT

Bill Clinton, who is no longer the President, still gets a big old motorcade, which is a good thing, because he needs several extra vehicles around him to fend off the multiple slack-jawed civilians sideswiping him at every turn. More »

All Four of Those Quadruplets Are Going to Yale

Adrian Chen — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:23:06 EDT

Remember the Crouch Quadruplets? They all got into Yale and the Times wrote about them, and haters began to hate. The college "wooed them heavily" and now they've all committed. Gawker: Your source for everything Yale. Update: Admissions drama! More »

Today in Gays: How Gay Is Too Gay?

Richard Lawson — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:51:50 EDT

Let's take a look at gay news of the day. There's a porn star who continues to be too gay, bisexual softball players who aren't gay enough, and a celebrity who is about to reveal just how gay they are. More »

People Better Than You: The Yaliens of New York

Richard Lawson — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:51:21 EDT

This afternoon the New York Observer presents us with an anthropological study of Yale graduates living in New York City, and it is predictably O Rly? Not the actual article (so much), but the Yalies themselves. Oh the Yalies. More »

Barebacking Gay Porn Star Too Hot for Yale

Adrian Chen — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:24:41 EDT

This is a story about gay porn star Brent Corrigan and how Yale canceled his speaking engagement. If you don't want to read about gay porn stars or precious campus activists or Yale, stop reading now. Ha, thought you did! More »

Yale Secret Society Tap Wears Che Guevara-Inspired Shirt

Maureen O'Connor — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:34:18 EDT

Conspiracy theorists, can you feel the excitement? It's Yale pre-tap night, when the pimply kids who will someday control the world's puppet governments run around campus looking like fools, so they can join Secret Societies. BullBlog and IvyGate have pictures. More »

Hot Teacher Sex Banned by Yale

Hamilton Nolan — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:14:28 EDT

A sad day in the history of free love: Yale has formally banned faculty members from having sex with undergrads. Well, what the fuck is the point of teaching at Yale now? "Harold Bloom joke." [Typical Yale pic via] More »

Yale Preserves Bobblehead Dolls for Future Generations of Supreme Court Superfans

Jeff Neumann — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:30:44 EDT

The university's law library, which is said to have the "best collection of rare law books in the world after Harvard and the Library of Congress," is now focused on preserving toys depicting Supreme Court justices. More »

NBC Deletes Message Board Overrun with Conan Separatists (and a Weird Yale Theater Plug)

Maureen O'Connor — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:23:35 EST

Just when NBC thought it could slip back into Lenonian ennui, aTonight Show forum for "things you want Jay to see" overruns with I'M WITH COCO's and is deleted. Weirdly, Brian Williams' daughter singing Ke$ha on YouTube plays a role. More »

Squash Players Can Be Gigantic Dicks Sometimes

Alison Flood — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:33:00 EST

You may find yourself wondering if Sqash is a collegiate sport. The above Trinity vs. Yale game proves that Squash is not only a sport, but one that demands a high level of threatening machismo. More »

Yale: The Horror Movie!

Maureen O'Connor — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:23:09 EST

The jazz hands admissions video was much friendlier than this. Yale's newest videographic extravaganza demonstrates how, halfway through senior year, the Yale Alumni Club uses Stockholm Syndrome to impound new members with physical intimidation and deadly weapons. More »

Yale Sorority Girls Are Pretty, Smart, and, Most Importantly, Pretty

Richard Lawson — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:10:10 EST

Gaining a reputation for producing silly and misguided student videos, Yale has released another smash hit! This one is for the sorority Pi Phi, which attracts potential rushers with promises of fun activities, intellectual rigor, and people thinking you're pretty. More »

Yale Freezes Over

Hamilton Nolan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:33:03 EST

Yale's endowment has recently plummeted to a marginally less insane multiple of billions of dollars. In addition to layoffs and salary freezes, the nobles of New Haven may soon find themselves subjected to an agonizing bout of extreme survival training. More »

Yale: The Musical!

Richard Lawson — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:40:52 EST

Interested in going to Yale? Would you be more interested if some people sang and danced for your pleasure? The school's admissions department sure seems to hope so, if their "That Why I Chose Yale" recruitment video is any indication. More »