Ragtime February 2, 2009: Lingerie Bowl, We Hardly Knew Ya
Brown: Hippie Ivy attempts Super Bowl-related misogyny, fails.- Brown: Stuff White People Like hosts seminar. No, seriously.
- Columbia: Mystery! NYPD goes Law & Order on a kid during neurobio class. Anyone got details?
- Cornell: BREAKING: College kids sometimes make dirty jokes on Facebook. BREAKING: Old people don’t appreciate this.
- Harvard: Queen of the Rom-Com and sourest face in Hollywood, Renee Zellweger, to be Hasty Pudding honoree
- Penn: Nerdiest story of the day
- Princeton: Katie Couric to be chipper/inspiring at Class Day
- Princeton: Oh look! An entertaining and humorous take on bicker. Rarer than an albino squirrel, almost as majestic.
- Dartmouth: Freshman “caught up in this idea of democracy.” Don’t worry, it’ll pass.
- Yale: A cappella lawsuit settled.
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February 2nd, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Stop ragtiming and start reporting, please.
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Stuff White People Like, hilariously dissects the cultural shibboleths of whiterpeople, from a totemic devotion to environmentalism (Princeton’s widely publicized sustainability programs are very whiter) to competition over who is devoted to the most obscure bands, to a selfconscious effort to appear sufficiently openminded by carefully befriending enough people of different ethnicities.
(The group is called whitER to denote the pervasive influence of status competition among this demographic.) Whiterpeople are difficult to define, but, like pornography, can largely be recognized on sight. They can be roughly described as urban hipsters, the high SAT verbal-scoring folks who are significant mainly because they have significant influence on advertising, journalism, and cultural media of most kinds. You don’t have to be white to be a whiterperson, though it helps – and the ivy league, though not exclusively populated by whiterpeople, has a significant amount of whiter influence.
Whiterpeople reliably vote Democratic and form a large proportion of high-achieving Democrats. (Of the 90% of journalists that are Democrats, chances are that 100% of them are whiterpeople.) Perhaps their most distinguishing characteristic is their disdain for the “wrong sort” of white people; those who are not sophisticated urbanites, and their careful use of shibboleths (most recently, being careful to refer to Bombay as “Mumbai,” demonstrating their cultural sensitivity) to enforce this distinction.
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Ivygate,
what has befallen thee? Like a drunken sorority girl, you are getting progressively more uninteresting.
Love,
your readers
February 2nd, 2009 at 11:19 pm
dear maureen o’connor:
you suck, or at least ivygate has sucked since you started running it. do us all a favor– find some one else who is willing to do some actual work on this. i’m sure you’ll be able to find something else to put on your resume that nobody will mind you screwing up.
love,
all of us
February 3rd, 2009 at 1:28 am
…Why are so many people taking the time to actually post a comment if he/she doesn’t like what the entry’s about?
Just shut the fuck up and do something better with your lives. Good God.
February 3rd, 2009 at 6:17 am
Hey,
so two Columbia kids started this new blog. looks potentially interesting
http://theyounganddisenchanted.wordpress.com/
February 3rd, 2009 at 10:43 am
Shut up “Haha” its probably Maureen denying that this blog hasn’t sucked since the summer.The reason people are complaining is that its the only comprehensive blog for the ivy league and I want to know what my friends are up to. This blog is just real boring now.
1) you don’t even update ragtime everyday
2) you just post links of topics mainly from the daily newspapers or smaller blogs.
get more creative.its not that difficult. look at other successful blogs…have more controversial discussions. and have people actually go to events take pics or video things and post them on here.
also cover more topics in your blog…from sports, entertainment, politics, etc.
Most importantly allow more contributors. get at least 2 of them at each school…
just stop sucking
February 3rd, 2009 at 11:24 am
Aliza Shvartz is being included in some book about girls’ first periods written by a 2013 Yalie (took a gap year to write it). After Vayner, she was the staple story of this blog… and you’re not even cashing in?
February 3rd, 2009 at 1:13 pm
It is true there has been real dropping of the ball here. Not so much reporting. The last Yale story was the Game– really ivygate?
-Y ‘09
February 3rd, 2009 at 3:12 pm
as a while person, i find stuffwhitepeoplelike humorous but rather offensive. such blatant oversimplifications and stereotypes only serve to create more divisiveness between the races. appalling.
February 3rd, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Hey doubleivy. Does your name mean that you went to two ivies.
COOOOOOL DUDE.
February 3rd, 2009 at 11:33 pm
It’s not cool. Trust me.
(Perhaps an article about ivy undergrads going to ivy grad schools, IvyGate? Anything other than RagTime?)
February 4th, 2009 at 12:09 am
HAHA ALIZA SHVARTS HAD A LITTLE RAG TIME OF HER OWN GET IT????????????
February 4th, 2009 at 1:44 am
I GET IT!
But, yes, this place has been really boring/unoriginal for a while now. I need better procrastination (read: masturbation) material. You’ve let me down, IvyGate. Literally. :(
February 4th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
@ b’11: what stories on ivygate have you been masturbating too?
lena chen?!?!?! good god. it’s probably something even worse.
February 5th, 2009 at 4:31 am
We need another Vayner AND A NEW SITE REDESIGN to spark things up.
February 5th, 2009 at 11:42 am
@Keggy
I feel the design of the site is fine. What they need is to stop having lazy contributes. I hope all of them have 4.0s. Well if they are all seniors maybe they are too worried about post grad life to deal with the blog. If that is the case they need younger contributes who care about this kind of stuff
February 5th, 2009 at 11:59 am
Seriously? It’s goddamn Thursday, people. A people’s rebellion is brewing, and my mouse cursor hovers ever so precariously above the IG button in my bookmarks toolbar – delete or not delete?
February 5th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
I am considering not using IvyGate as one of my “go-to-when-bored” websites anymore. The sad part is the very low set of criteria to be on that list and IvyGate’s failure to meet it.
February 5th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
@similarly
i find myself in the same boat. after gawker, gothamist, the nytimes page, and the freakanomics blog, i sort of run out of stuff to read. any other suggestions for stuff that is mildly interesting/updates alot?
February 5th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
if you’re a sports person, you can spend countless hours on deadspin.
February 5th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggghhhhhh!!!!!!!! WHYYY ARE THERE NO UPDATES HERE ALL WEEEEEEEEK???????????
DONT EVER DO THIS TO ME AGAIN, IVYGATE!! And stop reporting “real news” – your blog is supposed to be about dumb stuff people in ivy league schools do.
THIS IS EVEN WORSE THAN THE TIME YOU LEFT THE TOPLESS PICTURE OF THAT UGLY COLUMBIA GS ON THE FRONT PAGE FOR LIKE A WEEK WITHOUT ANY NEW STORIES. AT LEAST THEN I COULD LOOK AT TITS, EVEN IF THEY WERE UGLY.
February 6th, 2009 at 1:01 am
Aaaaa aahhh aahhhhh i am going crazy because there are no ivygate updates. what the hell i will come and stalk you and force you to write some. you are so damned lazy.