Before Princeton decimated Columbia's tiny, optimistic dream of actually celebrating after their homecoming game, IvyGate ventured forth to the tailgate with a camera in tow to capture the hope on everyone's faces and the light beers (two ID's required to drink!) in some people's hands.  As to actual homecoming coverage, eh, we'll leave that to the Bwog.  (In case you care, 27-24 Princeton.)

More photos, including Princetonians in doofy boater hats and hot girls in track bottoms, after the jump:

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This is how the world used to be for us ladies:  If you went to Health Services, no matter your complaint, you were invariably given a pregnancy test.  Of course, what with the recent update at Brown’s Health Services, a friendly visit might go a little more like this: Here is a pregnancy test, we hope that sex was worth it.  Now, would you like us to help you achieve orgasm next time?

That’s right, according to an article in the Brown Daily Herald, it seems that Brown’s Health Services have undertaken a new cause: Ladies Must Finally Achieve Orgasm (LMFAO) --and no, it's not really called this.  We're just messin' with you.  You can thank all the girls who actually went to health services because they couldn’t come for this.

More to moan about, after the jump:

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Apparently a diamond really is forever, because we all tried our hardest (or at least I did) to forget about Matt DiPasquale (Harvard ’09), his flaccid dong, and most of all his porno mag "Diamond," but it just isn’t going away.  The Harvard Voice recently published a series of candid interviews with DiPasquale and his never-actually-topless-vixen Fiona.

It turns out that DiPasquale had originally gazed toward the future of Harvard porn and imagined his baby to be bigger, grander, and…featuring a nekkid Teaching Fellow.

Choice quotes from the interviews, after the jump.

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• Princeton: "I Could Be McCain's Econ 101 Teacher"
• Princeton: COMBO shows that many Princeton students aren't sure whether their families were rich or poor, methinks their personal statements revealed otherwise
  
• Dartmouth: The most depressing Career Fair ever
• Harvard:  Blindly follows Columbia down the "now that Obama mentions it" ROTC policy reform path
• Harvard:  Frosh get famous on the internet, nothing to do with anything, they're not really famous, guys, they're just running for UC
• Yale: Yale "might have climaxed when it comes to your sexual health"

• Columbia: Brinkley no longer wants to be provost, prefers to teach, thanks.

• Columbia: Smackdown between begging bum and freshman girl proves that perhaps Take Back The Night is not as lame as we anti-feminists pretend

• Columbia:  Shakira and Sachs on stage together, still visually pleasing even if you studied French

• Cornell:  Transfer students marginalized, secretly wish they had transfered somewhere else

• Cornell:  "He laughed his ass off while I shook my eye-tits to and fro."

• Yale:  A cappella groups slapped, not tapped

So maybe you didn't get into the Ivy of your choice.  Maybe you're gorging yourself on extracurriculars at Cornell to make that Harvard transfer app shine a little brighter.  Or maybe you're a Barnard girl covertly sitting in on CC Lit Hum lectures in a Columbia sweatshirt.  Of course, bemoaning your enrollment status at one of the best colleges in the country isn't usually the purpose of a student organization.  At least, it wasn't until DYE came along.

Meet DYE, the Dartmouth Yale Enthusiasts, who, according to a recent email they sent to fellow Dartmouth students, "is a group of aspiring Yale undergraduates, providing support to one another during our (hopefully brief) intermediary period here at Dartmouth. We provide transfer application support, interview preparation, and standardized test reviews. Additionally, we have social events that make the experience at what is not Yale a little bit more like if it were Yale."

More about DYE, after the jump:

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• Harvard: Comp sci kid attacks and batters cops (three times!), is subsequently arrested
• Cornell: Feel bad about yourselves Um, no idea why this showed up on the Daily Sun's front page this morning (really, it did).  This editor feels like an ass.
• Cornell: But ironically, a similar (and current) version of the same as above.
  
• Columbia: Revisiting ROTC policy causes student groups to squabble, ignore bigger issue at hand

Male chauvinists, stop reading now, or forever mourn the loss of the next minute of your life: Senator Hillary Clinton, presidential unhopeful, gave a press conference at Barnard College today addressing a recent US Government Accountability Office report on pay inequity for women in the workplace.  IvyGate was pleasantly surprised that Barnard let us into the press room, where we proceeded to snap a bunch of shots of HRC from close range.  But, before the photo barrage, let us turn to the topic at hand: the fact that, on average, women earn twenty percent less than men for the same work.  The fact that Hillary earned (we're ballparking here) twenty percent less votes than Barack Obama was not mentioned.

Although we had our suspicions about this press conference (suspicions involving the barely-departed coattails of one Barack Obama, see Liveblog 9/11/08), Hillary was eloquent, thought-provoking, and (we can't believe we're typing this) funny.

Some highlights, after the jump:

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Last Night's Party Crash has a simple mission: Find the biggest parties at our respective schools and document the good, the bad, and the drunken. Because the best cure for a hangover is to wake up the morning after and realize that yes, that dress did make you look fat. Interested in contributing? Get in touch: robyn@ivygateblog.com

Date: 9/12/08
Crash Site: A Saturday night dual birthday celebration at St. A's
You Might Recognize: The notorious chandelier from Vampire Weekend's album cover.

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IvyGate is at Columbia University, liveblogging the ServiceNation presidential candidates forum.  Check in while we let you know our every semi-relevant (grammatical accuracy not-guaranteed) thought:

6:15: IvyGate is on Low Steps, currently an epic camping ground:

More coverage, after the jump:

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