is there any such thing as unintended paralipsis?

Alex Klein, wtf is wrong with you? Why are you writing sarcastically and like an idiot?

the “exclusive” source has also written anti-frat columns in the Sun on multiple occasions. ever considered that he might have an agenda in telling you this? jumping the gun much, ivygate?

Two Brown frats are about to loose their charter and get kicked of campus- you should look into writing about this too, not just Cornell.
Delta Phi and Theta Delta Chi

I think it’s worth clarifying that this post neither criticizes Cornell nor upbraids its fraternities; it merely reports the obviously significant and exclusive news that a major frat is soon to be shuttered. To this blog, hazing is no more than a funny, foolish fact-of-life. In addition, the post’s main source is our tip and extensive quotes from a Cornell Daily Sun article; the Gawker link is minor and contextual, and was written by Foster Kamer, who has no affiliation with IvyGate. Finally, we have often reported on Yale’s own foibles, drunken and otherwise.

Sure, buddy. Here’s a collection of some of your hard-hitting reporting on Yale over the past month. Your school can do no wrong:

“Even more suspicious: who would choose anti-fun Harvard over Yale, Duke, Penn or Columbia?”

“In a cleverly disguised email from a faux-Admissions Office account, Yale’s pro-pranksters just made good on their annual tradition of society-curtain-drawing.”

Some shit about gnomes.

“But when [Yalies] do communicate with outsiders—perhaps while taking the bulldog out for a walk—they have a particular charm that seems to be a blend of smarts, ironic humor, and a genuine love of the mothership.”

“Not much editorial content to add: either you know these hot young future oligarchs, or you don’t.”

“As we write, the Yale ghosts and ghoulies are coming out to play, caped and masked, in a desperate attempt to lock down their taps in the Junior Class.”

“It’s a hip-hoppy story of social awkwardness that only Yale’s distinctive off-campus party scene could produce.”

Klein if your goal is really to report on “obviously significant” events then explain the disproportionate amount of anti-greek articles (hazing, pledging, rushing, or otherwise) and the obvious bias over which schools you report on positively and negatively.

seriously, it’s just shitty reporting.

Good riddance – now only if Cornell could get rid of the Pike brothers from the university.

I knew a lot of good people in the Greek System, none of them were at Pike.

I really doubt these houses would have been held accountable if it had not been for Ivygate and other wesites reporting these events.

I think it’s worth clarifying that the author of the post descending into the comment thread to defend himself. Shouldn’t his work stand on its own? Man, the people who write about Cornell on this blog are so disgustingly lame it really is a tragedy. They’re self-serving, shameless hacks who’ve decided to make a name of themselves out in the big bag blogosphere by whoring themselves for Ivygate.

In response to Ben, isn’t it the job of the media to hold people accountable for their actions? And considering the severity of the hazing, shouldn’t the Pike brothers be held accountable? As long as IvyGate reports the truth, I don’t see a problem with this.

HAH Alpha delt getting punished?…I would pay to see that though it will never ever happen. Those assholes do whatever the fuck they want to and buy their way out of trouble. Let’s see some better research before prematurely calling a victory in your vendetta Alex. Biting the bullet my ass.

Aaaaaand Penn’s fat sorority is shutting down. There must be better things to write about…

Look at the crest… pKa sounds like a chemistry frat…

…it’s not a chemistry frat buddy. and to ben or penn>ben or whoever the fuck… the issue is that ivygate might not be reporting the whole truth due to certain and blatantly obvious bias.

I’m not saying it is… just that it sounds like one… sort of like mu alpha theta or psi chi

Collegetown, you are an idiot.

because i doubt the validity of random tips placed to a clearly anti-greek blog writer whose preferred writing style is to rant about shit that only matters to him?

obviously.

to penn>ben, it should be noted (and it was not noted anywhere…not even in the Cornell Sun) that the Pike incident happened during Rush Week, to RUSHES. This was not an incident of hazing, since the kids involved weren’t even affiliated with the house in any other way than being there. I’ve heard the Pike side of the story (which it seems no one else will listen to) and they’ve said that they didn’t make the kids do anything, since they had no sway over the rushes anyway!

As for being shut down, I think there are too many prominent, wealthy alumnae in the area to permit it being shut down permanently. I’ve heard from a good source of my own that it’ll probably only be 4 or 5 years before they’re allowed to come back (it may be longer until Pike actually decides to).

As for Travis Apgar, the majority of Cornell (especially the Greek community) know that he’s a douche: heavily anti-greek and pretty much out to get the Greek system. What he probably doesn’t understand is that the majority of alums who donate to the school were Greek and donate through their former houses. Cutting down on Greek houses is basically equal to cutting down on income.

It doesn’t matter that the students were rushes. Frats can’t make pledges do anything, technically. Hazing is something pledges have to undergo to BE IN THE FRAT. At Pike, if you are right, Maggie, Hazing is something RUSHES ALSO have to undergo to BE IN THE FRAT. Either way, people interested in the fraternity are experiencing forms of abuse that are only made possible by the culture of conformity propagated by Greek life. And the reason the majority of alums that donate to a school are Greek is because people in fraternities and sororities are wealthier than the majority of the student body and have the expendable income to donate to schools. Please note that Harvard, which has no Greek life, is by far the richest school in the world.