Anonymity Fun While It Lasted
Hi, I'm Chris Beam ... and I'm Nick Summers. And we do IvyGate. We both graduated from Columbia, '06 and '05. We've been running this little lawsuit magnet since July, and we figured it's time to stop pretending our identities are some big secret.
We know you're full of burning questions, like "What the hell do I care?" and "So what?" We're telling you this because some of the stuff we've been covering (fraudulent megalomaniacs; intra-paper scuffles; profs we'd like to tenure, over and over again) shouldn't be done from behind a veil. And we're confident enough in the reporting behind our newsier items that attaching our names is just a journalistic no-brainer.
So, I'm Nick ... and I'm Chris. Aleksey Vayner, please do not come to our homes and kill us.
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October 30th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
Come on, James is the least valuable member of the Franco family. It’s all about Dave. Or Tom.
October 30th, 2006 at 12:26 pm
Holy shit, I should have guessed…
October 30th, 2006 at 12:36 pm
Proud of you boys!
October 30th, 2006 at 2:19 pm
was part of this. but chris beam. that explains why the whole thing is actually funny and well-written.
October 30th, 2006 at 2:54 pm
Someone else guessed that you were from Columbia because of all the snarky anti-Yale comments you made (in their minds).
‘admin2′ is just so catchy, though…
October 30th, 2006 at 4:59 pm
columbia traditionally has far more beef with princeton than yale…though it’s true that a vast number of columbians appear to be yale rejects
October 30th, 2006 at 5:47 pm
Ah, I had a feeling this was made by Columbians. Far too much collaboration with the Bwog for it not to have been.
October 30th, 2006 at 9:10 pm
So Nick and Chris, whatever happened to that “No more Aleksey Vayner stories” pledge?
October 30th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
comgrats on coming out boys…i know its hard to do.
October 31st, 2006 at 12:27 am
Columbia traditionally has beef with nobody…because we’re full of fucking pussy vegans.
October 31st, 2006 at 12:56 am
I had to mention that the guy who plays Harry Osborn in that movie kinda does look like Aleksey. Although it doesn’t look like he can bench press 495 pounds. But hey, Impossible Is Nothi… erm, nothing is impossible.
October 31st, 2006 at 10:34 am
slow news day, I guess. Not every day has a kid at Yale telling ridiculous lies.
October 31st, 2006 at 11:11 am
You guys have the worst journalistic ethics, ever. Journalists should not have opinions. Nor should they ever be anonymous. Nor should they talk about other journalists. Nor should they write about them. Nor should they have fun.
November 2nd, 2006 at 5:11 pm
Neah, we get into Yale. But what the New Haven is there to DO there, beh? Columbia can get uptight but it has New York and there’s a scandal every month. Good times.
April 30th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
So, some kid from Brown was telling me about the tenured temptresses of the Ivy League at some site called ivygateblog…and then I got here, and realized I really should have known. Who else but “we write because we fear death” Summers and Beam?
I know I’m a little late finding you…but better late than never, right?
May 5th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Yeah yale doesn’t reject us – we reject yale. i got into both places and chose to come to columbia because . . .
New York >>>>>>> New Haven
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