People who think the surreal but entertaining high school drama of bad teen movies end after "Pomp and Circumstance" stops playing obviously haven't been to Princeton. An anonymous source recently called out a group of freshman girls who have been referring to themselves as "The Tribe" around campus. Perhaps trying to fight the widespread notion that Princeton girls are the fugliest in comparison with the sexier Ivies by proclaiming themselves as the hottest girls at Princeton, Regina George and company appear to be taking full advantage of rush week and using their marketing prowess to gain entry into one of the exclusive sororities on campus (cross your fingers for Kappa!). Apparently, the girls not only seek exclusivity in social organizations, but also in choice of sexual partners, according to the source, who claims:
They have decided that they are so hot that they will only hook up with legacies and athletes.
Feign surprise at Princeton exclusivity after the jump.
To those insane enough to still want to date someone from Princeton, Yale, et al. after attending an Ivy, a new, more blatantly bourgeois dating service now caters specifically to those elitist desires. According to their mission statement, the Ivy Plus Society, also referred to as TIPS (we couldn't have come up with a more ironic acronym if we tried) aims at creating "a community of talented, dynamic individuals" with 75% of their members claiming single status. Most likely an attempt to encourage genetically customizing future purebred offspring, the new venture founded by Jennifer Wilde Anderson, Yale '01, that stole Harvard's final club/Princeton's eating club concept targets recent alumni from the Ivies as well as their "plus" counterparts, such as Duke and Berkeley. The seemingly arbitrary qualifications even reach across the pond, with the London School of Economics making the list. Taking a Sex and the City approach to elitism and the dating scene, Ivy Plus assures the hesitant with promises of "fabulous":
[W]e all need a few nights to set the roof on fire and fill-up [sic] a glass or three with a dash of chaos & adventure.
Recently, Google suspended 22 Gmail accounts at Brown due to a bug that allowed those students to read other students' emails. This occurred as Google was transitioning some accounts from Microsoft Exchange to Gmail. In some cases, students were able to read others' entire inboxes for a full three days between September 12 and September 14.
But after Google froze the accounts the following week without notifying any IT authorities at the university, Brown's Computing and Information Services department threw a minor hissy fit, citing a lack of communication with the company, even after the problem was fixed within a few days. Director Donald Tom later elaborated:
I've spoken very forcefully with the account [executive], my boss, senior administrators at Brown--including the president. [Google needs] to find a better way to communicate with us.
But looks like Tom had an awfully quick change of heart during the span of time between being interviewed by the Brown Daily Herald and Sarah Perez. In an article published by the Herald on September 16, Tom seemed to get over himself.
... I think that overall, I was just impressed with how fast they handled it.
When not beating out Iowa City for the best college town, Ithaca can get a little dull during its down time. That might explain why a bunch of frat bros have created a new drinking game, now unfortunately available on YouTube. Produced by a vague "Society," the video borderline Chef Tony infomercial details "Russian Roulette," which consists of a frisbee, Solo cups, and Cornellians too sober to simply play beer pong or Kings (yes, we're also wondering why everyone isn't just piss drunk 24/7 in Ithaca).
The girls who brought us the Harvard douchebag contest have extended their reach beyond Cambridge. Yesterday, Windsor Hanger '10, Stephanie Kaplan '10, and Annie Wang '11 of Harvard's Freeze College Magazine launched their new "collegiette's guide" called Her Campus, setting a new precedent for useless Ivy League publications (which, to be fair, could explain about 90% of all Harvard media enterprises).
After contacting co-founder and CEO Kaplan about what these three Prada Devil wannabes hope to accomplish with their new cyber digs, she responded with a lengthy mission statement:
From: stephanie@hercampus.com To: qichen@ivygateblog.com Subject: Re: IvyGate's inquiry about Her Campus Date: Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 4:20 PM
HerCampus.com is an online magazine for college women that seeks to pave the way for the media industry to successfully make the transition online. Her Campus will transition magazines to today's digital world by individualizing its content college by college by setting up "My Campus" branches, beginning at Harvard and eventually expanding to 1000+ colleges and universities nationwide. By supplementing national with local content, Her Campus represents the future of online media.
Uh, was there ever a time when the internet wasn't national? Not only that, but the pearl-donning triumvirate of the Ivy League's new Seventeen seems to think they're the first ones to come up with the idea of female-oriented college media. Read more after the jump.
Police have recently identified 24-year-old Raymond Clark as a suspect in the Anne Le murder at Yale. Cops arrived at his apartment in Middletown, Connecticut but did not arrest him, claiming to only have a "person of interest." A lab technician at the lab where Le worked, Clark displayed visible chest marks and also failed a polygraph test. But according to a source close to Clark and his family:
Of course, he had scratches on his arm--from his cat. I know he didn’t do it, but I can’t understand how anybody would do that in the first place and put her in the wall like that. And they would have had to do it at night because certainly nobody could have done it during the day when everybody was looking.
Clark hadn't been seen since last Thursday following the Tuesday disappearance of Le. Le's body was found this weekend in a chute in the basement of the pharmacology research facility on 10 Amistad Street. Yale has since increased security in the surrounding area following the murder. Le's fiancé Jonathan Widawsky, who had been cleared of being a suspect, has been assisting police with their investigation.
Harvard Medical School recently announced that it would loosen its restrictive policies regarding student-media interaction. Called "ill-advised" and "problematic" by Harvard professors themselves, the old policy stated:
All interactions between students and the media should be coordinated with the Office of the Dean of Students and the Office of Public Affairs. This applies to situations in which students are contacted by the media as well as instances in which students may be seeking publicity about a student-related project or program.
Dr. Nancy Oriol, the developer of a guideline that essentially censored HMS students on medical conflicts of interests, continues to insist that the policy's goal was to "help students, rather than limit speech or control what they say on controversial topics."
This comes after HMS came under fire for its dubious approach to medical ethics and suspiciously opportunistic professors, including those who served as paid consultants to drug companies and brushed off questioning students who didn't want to kill their future patients. (HBS is looking less corrupt by the minute.) But in a less than prudent choice of PR action, HMS didn't even bother submitting its conflict of interest policies for review to the American Medical Student Association last year, promptly receiving the very non-Harvard grade F from the board in 2008.
Read more about the irony of Harvard's crappy report card after the jump.
Recently, an email has been circulating around Yale ranking the attractiveness of 53 freshmen women. Titled "The Preseason Scouting Report," it apparently ranks the women by how many beers guys would need to find each girl hot. (Go ahead and park the ambulances in front of Stiles to be on the safe side.)
IvyGate has been trying to track down the elusive email, but sources in New Haven have been hesitant to share the document, citing fear of negative consequences from university administration, who have not yet caught the perpetrator. According to a Yalie:
From: [redacted]@yale.edu Subject: Re: Do you know where I can get this email? Date: Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:15 PM
Everyone I know who has it knows the author, who has expressed a desire to minimize proliferation at this point. Less publicity might equal less punishment if/when he/they get caught. The university is pretty pissed because we've had a few very public cases of sexual harassment over the years (google: i love yale sluts) and I think they're gonna crack down on this one.
If any Yalies want to share the misogynistic wealth, email IvyGate at tips@ivygateblog.com.
Yesterday, the Cornell Sun published a photo of a severed pig's head on the Arts Quad, displayed in all its rotten glory along with a sign proclaiming, "Maybe it's the beast, maybe it's just us."
According to Dear Uncle Ezra, a campus-related advice blog and Cornell's own stand-in Carrie Bradshaw, the slaughtered head may have been a fraternity's collegiate reference to Slope Day, Cornell's drunken end-of-the-year party. It might also be a literary reference to Lord of the Flies. (Too stupid to create their own reputation so they had to steal Dartmouth's and Brown's? We thought as much.) Uncle Ezra went on to elaborate on the accused frat members:
Perhaps, deep inside, they truly crave the common sense authority that members of a mainstream society have and yet they have been denied by this godless institution where apparently "adult" students behave within a supposed institution of higher-learning as if it was merely high school with no rules.... I would hope that, in the future ... other students at Cornell would see past some silly fraternity idiocy and be more disgusted by the deplorable self-poisoning and immorality occurring around the fraternity's fitting choice of symbolism...
People who think the surreal but entertaining high school drama of bad teen movies end after "Pomp and Circumstance" stops playing obviously haven't been to Princeton. An anonymous source recently called out a group of freshman girls who have been referring to themselves as "The Tribe" around campus. Perhaps trying to fight the widespread notion that Princeton girls are the fugliest in comparison with the sexier Ivies by proclaiming themselves as the hottest girls at Princeton, Regina George and company appear to be taking full advantage of rush week and using their marketing prowess to gain entry into one of the exclusive sororities on campus (cross your fingers for Kappa!). Apparently, the girls not only seek exclusivity in social organizations, but also in choice of sexual partners, according to the source, who claims:
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