• Brown: Fox News should spend more time with this Ivy League president 
• Columbia: Lee Bollinger: How fucking sick was it when I stuck it to that terrorist dude?
• Cornell: I suck at chess
• Dartmouth: Dems "gang up on Clinton" 
• Harvard: Ah yes, this is why I read the Crimson 
• Penn: A Democratic debate at a West Philly college? Has to be... Drexel!
• Princeton: "There comes a time in every person's life during which he or she questions the value, worth or relevance of his or her opinions in the grand scheme of things."
• Yale: Swimmingly good year for the ol' Yale coffers

We dispatched Daniel Belkin, Dartmouth senior and opinion columnist for the Dartmouth to give us a rundown on the school's furious preparations for tonight's debate. Stay tuned for his report on the event itself.

The mean streets of Hanover, New Hampshire seldom produce headlines that garner the attention of the world outside the confines of the White Mountains. Stories that chronicle squirrel infestations or scandals at the local Chinese restaurant (personally and affectionately deemed "Pandagate") are the ones that paint the broadsheets and tabloids of the Upper Valley of New Hampshire. But all that ends for at least today.

The gang of loveable losers vying for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination are rolling into Dartmouth for a nationally-televised debate as the eight aspiring chief executives continue their horserace to inherit the utter and complete mess that President Bush has left his screwed successor. Both MSNBC and New England Cable News are co-sponsoring the much anticipated verbal jousting match, airing live Wednesday night from 9pm to 11pm. And despite being in notoriously frigid New Hampshire, no disgruntled snowmen will be grilling the candidates - à la the infamous YouTube/CNN debate. MSNBC has called in the big guns of political journalism to referee the bout: Tim Russert, the moderator of NBC's Sunday morning staple Meet the Press. Suck on that, Anderson Cooper.

After the jump: The awful truth about Dennis Kucinich.

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