Medill Journo All Up in Ivy Dailies’ Piece
Ah, late summer! What a time to work for a daily Ivy newspaper. The semester's about to start, you've spent all summer relaxing with a leisurely weekly publication schedule, and you just can't wait to get after that breaking news!
But ... what's that noise, you ask? That stinging sensation? Oh, nothing, it's only Laura McGann bitch-slapping the shit out of you. The Northwestern (graduate) journalism student scooped the national press in mid-August, when sh'all was sleepin', by revealing that the federal Department of Education has been sharing data from hundreds of student loan applications with the FBI for almost five years. McGann's blockbuster story (it got red-faced pickup in the Chronicle of Higher Ed yesterday and the New York Times today) sets the bar for investigative student journalism, topping David Zhou's Kaavyabomb in the Crimson last semester.
Tough act to follow, Ivy reporters. And you're supposed to be tops in the game. Looks like you've got your work cut out for you!
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September 1st, 2006 at 11:22 am
northwestern? cute. she can break all the stories she wants and then fall flat on her face like the girl in “devil wears prada” when she comes to new york to land a real job. or boston, where people confuse the place with northeastern and think it’s a low-grade trade school…or just a direction. good luck beating out ivy-connected kids, laura.
September 1st, 2006 at 12:07 pm
People really think/talk like the person above me? Jesus Christ. The terrorists have won.
September 1st, 2006 at 12:12 pm
“For her part, Ms. McGann will begin a full-time job at Dow Jones Newswire in September. She graduated from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism in June and was one of several students who were part of a new venture by the Carnegie Corporation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to revitalize journalism education. The Carnegie-Knight Initiative for the Future of Journalism Education, in part, seeks to develop a national investigative-reporting team with students from five participating universities”
September 1st, 2006 at 12:32 pm
reverse snobbery sucks. get off your moral high horses and admit you’re all ivy snobs too, otherwise you wouldn’t be on this website.
September 1st, 2006 at 12:33 pm
they can’t possibly be ivy students since they can’t even recognize sarcasm.
September 1st, 2006 at 12:39 pm
reverse snobbery sucks. get off your moral high horses and admit you’re all ivy snobs too, otherwise you wouldn’t be on this website.
they can’t possibly be ivy students since they can’t even recognize sarcasm
September 1st, 2006 at 12:41 pm
I am a lowly peasent, in search of an ivy queen to lord over me. Don’t worry, I’m not black.
September 1st, 2006 at 3:43 pm
Of course, there’s no mention of the fact that she want to a public university (UCSD) for her undergraduate degree. It makess you wonder if all there is to the Ivy League is rich parents footing the bills.
(Except for that publicly funded part of Cornell, that is.)
September 2nd, 2006 at 11:13 am
To ivoirien… the hilarity of your post is that Lauren Weisberger, who wrote The Devil Wears Prada (which most of us realize is a thinly-veiled memoir), graduated from Cornell. And, I could be wrong on this, but I do believe that the character in the book was said to have just graduated from Brown. Brown, of course, being the school that all of my midwestern friends and family assumed was a small state school since they’d never heard of it. They certainly know and respect Northwestern. There’s your mythical “ivy connection” at work.
September 2nd, 2006 at 11:44 am
Well done, Anon.
September 3rd, 2006 at 11:26 am
who gives a fuck what people in flyover country think?
September 3rd, 2006 at 3:29 pm
Hi, Except! How ya doin? Read this yet?
You sound SO cool, maybe we can hang out sometime!
September 8th, 2006 at 9:46 am
You can devil wear prada us all you want, but we’re still the number one undergrad journalism school in the world. That’s cute though. And who gives a fuck what people in flyover country think? How bout everyone who reads the newspapers that we run.
September 29th, 2006 at 1:31 am
FUCK OFF EVERYONE IVY LEAGUE STUDENTS ARE ALL CAPALITST PUSSIES
September 29th, 2006 at 7:26 am
who teh hell goes to undergrad j-school? northeasternwestern’s newspaper sucks anyway not tha i’ve ever read it
November 28th, 2006 at 6:22 pm
Yeah go home to your mansions you rich fucks. you ungrateful fuckers just leech off your parents while white middle-class kids like me can’t get into your preppy schools because we’re too well off to recieve loans or grants and we’re not rich enough to afford the tuition and board. Go fuck yourselves and try living in the real world before you start working for the government and other corporations that cheat the rest of America.
November 28th, 2006 at 7:50 pm
Yeah, your parents income is definitely why you didn’t get into one of our need-blind institutions. It probably has nothing to do with your borderline racism or propensity for sweeping generalizations. Enjoy your state school and subsequent depressingly middle-American life!
November 28th, 2006 at 7:58 pm
Oh, and trust me, if your parents are too “well off to recieve loans or grants,” [sic] then they certainly could have afforded the $40,000 a year to go to an Ivy. You have to be pretty fucking loaded not to qualify for any aid.
May 19th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
and school with the nickname ‘medilldo’ owns. it’s that simple.