The Dartmouth Redemption
In the great pantheon of Ivy stereotypes, Dartmouth kids often get the worst of it. More isolated than Cornell. More conservative than Princeton. It’s the one Ivy school, to be honest, that we’ve ever heard friends say they would never, ever consider attending.
But writing about the Ivy League has been unavoidably educational. And we’re here to tell you that one area Dartmouth kids excel in, and should be pretty damn proud of, is mighty basic: having a lot of fun in their little corner of New Hampshire. People forget Animal House is based on Dart’s Delta Alpha Delta fraternity, and we’ve always been touched by how much real love is paid the Big Green mascot, Keggy the Keg. (A picture of him enthusiastically greeting two small children is our computer desktop at home.)
Yesterday you saw the worst video produced by students in the history of the universe. (Or YouTube, at least.) Today you see the best.
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January 24th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
well-played. all around.
January 24th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
hahahahahha that was amazing
January 24th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
“Delta” should be “Alpha Delta” or AD, not Delta.
January 24th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
this is pretty fantastic
January 24th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Dartmouth is by far one of the most liberal places I’ve been.
January 24th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
IvyGate, IvyGate!!! I just submitted a comment and got the new “waiting for approval” screen….but, the point is, I SAW THE OLD LAYOUT!!!! IT WAS SO REFRESHING!
January 24th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
near the end, you can just make out, “any questions about greek life?”
January 24th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
I’m the tour guide in that video – Directly after I asked, “are there any [other] questions about greek life” a grumbly father retorted, “I think my questions have been answered…” – Best tour I’ve ever given.
January 24th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
meh. i applaud the planning, but the overall product wasn’t as funny as you guys made it out to be.
January 24th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
“Dartmouth is by far one of the most liberal places I’ve been.”
Agreed. It’s so liberal it’s come out the other side and become conservative.
BE POLITICALLY CORRECT OR ELSE!
January 24th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
genius.
January 24th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
Ahh, I miss Dartmouth. And I didn’t even drink. Were you in on it, Jaromy?
January 24th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Dartmouth is definitely as liberal as Penn or Princeton. Our whack-job conservative newspaper is made up for by the err… liberal standards of behavior that are commonplace.
January 24th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
If by “More isolated than Cornell” you mean “Hanover is 13 minutes farther from NYC than Ithaca is, and twice as close to Boston”, then yes, Dartmouth is more isolated.
January 24th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
It makes me very happy that I know half the people in this video.
January 24th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
“Rufio says: I’m the tour guide in that video”
Quiet, you.
January 24th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Conservatives hate the politically correct stances. That’s the lib’s job.
January 24th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
I’m totally sweet!
January 24th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
best school ever.
January 24th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
“It’s the one Ivy school, to be honest, that we’ve ever heard friends say they would never, ever consider attending.”
This is complete nonsense. Dartmouth rocks.
And I’d much rather be “isolated” in Hanover than living in the hell that is New Haven
January 24th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
you know what kind of sucks about dartmouth? having to look over your shoulder when you’re walking home from the library late at night. no, wait a minute, maybe i’m confusing hanover with cambridge, philly, and new haven. but that’s beside the point. who in their right mind would waste 4 years at the mercy of the ivy league’s step child…
January 25th, 2007 at 12:13 am
awesome. ‘nuf said.
January 25th, 2007 at 2:35 am
someguy– how could you forget new york??
January 25th, 2007 at 9:57 am
“And I’d much rather be “isolated” in Hanover than living in the hell that is New Haven.”
Ditto – I said no thanks to Yale.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:12 am
don’t forget that ithaca is a mere hour from the sprawling metropolis of syracuse, NY. home of the carousel mall.
on my last trip to ithaca, i was shocked as all hell to see – gasp!!!- a starbucks had set up shop.
January 25th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
dartmouth is the only college in the ivy league where you can actually receive a decent undergraduate education…
January 25th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Um that’s kind of incorrect, don’t you think? I feel like you can get a decent undergrad education at any ivy except Cornell
January 25th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
we all know providence is the greatest ivy league city
January 25th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
providence is a city?
January 25th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
fuck all this shit people say about New Haven. it gets this overblown reputation because privileged white kids from the suburbs walk around a couple blocks of the city and go “OMG!! look at all the black people! this MUST be the ghetto!”
January 25th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
It’s so cool that this post about a funny video has been hijacked with school-bashing!
January 25th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
I love my school! Its the best. All your other schools are the worst. Poo poo on your geographies as well! I could never understand how some one at a different school would be happy there. So stupid of you to not have come to my school, which is the best.
January 25th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
prov is a city!
January 25th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
You’re wrong. I love my school! Its the best. All your other schools are the worst. Poo poo on your geographies as well! I could never understand how some one at a different school would be happy there. So stupid of you to not have come to my school, which is the best.
January 25th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
i heart sig nu
January 25th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
i suck.
January 25th, 2007 at 11:57 pm
10:08pm is dead on. Why can’t weeeee be friends?
January 27th, 2007 at 12:22 am
can we all agree that every ivy is an amazing school and every ivy has incredible students? well, one caveat: can we pretend cornell isn’t part of the ivy league? i mean, seriously, how’d we get stuck with them?
January 27th, 2007 at 11:53 am
cornell is by far the funnest one i’ve been to and i’ve been to a couple of ivy’s. plus brown is notched lower in those bullshit rankings.
January 27th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
I fortuitously happened upon the prank right before it happened…what wasn’t shown clearly was that the running and screaming people were carrying 12-packs and large (half-full) liquor bottles..and were spraying alcohol everywhere…One mom was like, “Do they do this for ALL tour groups?”
January 27th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
I have to say, as a Brown student and a member of the Brown Tour Guides, possibly the best, most coordinated, and hilarious stunt ever pulled. Short of kidnapping the Tour Guide (go Brunonians!). But well done!
January 28th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
The students reponsibly for the Jack-o-Lantern, the humor mag that did the video, are also the guys who came up with Keggy. No surprise there, eh?
January 28th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
*responsible
January 28th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Drink responsibly responsible with responsibilitifulness.
January 29th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
No wonder Dartmouth has the happiest students.
January 30th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
Two videos that demonstrate how much harder we are than all of you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HjAMiLgLm0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fm1qwkC5gk
January 30th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
D’06- you forgot to include the video of our football team pummeling the shit out of holy cross in that fight they had… i heard some kid knocked out one of holy cross’s coaches too….
February 1st, 2007 at 5:57 pm
I should have gone to Dartmouth. That way I would have been a drunk with an Ivy education instead of a drunk with a Chicago education. And the courses would have been easier.
February 5th, 2007 at 2:36 am
kid with Lehigh shirt has it right. you want to party? head to the Hill at Lehigh.
March 28th, 2007 at 7:05 am
Rick, the fact that you found Chicago classes tough says a lot about Dartmouth! Doesn’t it?
May 28th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
This is the best thing I have ever seen….
August 22nd, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Hey Rick…
u chicago courses are not tougher than dartmouth courses. i dated a girl there for a long time and had many friends there as a result. over and over i heard that the school is top notch, but the students are mediocre… which is why the courses seem harder. furthermore, dartmouth is on a trimester where we take organic chemistry in two terms. uchicago taught the course over 3 quarters. dartmouth shoves the same amount of materials into 33% fewer days. finally, i wrote two papers for my girlfriend once (she procrastinated to the point that she couldn’t finish all her work). I never took one class in either subject, or read any books, and i was able to land 2 solid Bs on the two 10 to 11 page papers.
chicago is a great school… but anyone who says it’s harder is kidding themselves. Dartmouth was the toughest academic environment I’ve ever been in… my friend at UCLA MD/MBA program has said the same thing (which was hard to believe at first since medschool is supposed to be unbelievably difficult).
November 18th, 2007 at 4:35 am
jacko pulled a hysterical stunt. i only wish that the damn princeton marching band could take a hint and a cue from us and not come into the Hop playing “tequila” at 9 am the morning of our football game…
don’t they know that us dartmouth kids are still very hung over saturday mornings? well played, keggy. keep it real.
November 18th, 2007 at 4:36 am
jacko pulled a hysterical stunt. i only wish that the damn princeton marching band could take a hint and a cue from us and not come into the Hop playing “tequila” at 9 am the morning of our football game…
don’t they know that us dartmouth kids are still very hung over saturday mornings? well played, keggy. keep it real.
April 19th, 2008 at 11:00 am
The University of Chicago is great, but really, that’s where fun goes to die. At least at Dartmouth we have the best of both worlds: stellar academics, and a great social scene; Ivy League. I wish I could say the same for Chicago. So how is Hyde Park? I hear its absolutely wonderful this time of year…not as nearly as much gang violence.
April 19th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Stellar academics? Really? When your school wins half the Nobel Prizes in econ (or ANY subject), you can talk. Until then, STFU, hick.