Lots of curious looking people with unusual stories: they must be Columbia students. They’re captivating, posed in their dorm rooms with whatever they’ve got around—a bassoon, a rat, a teenage mutant ninja turtle action figure. Two enterprising student photographers, Angela Radulescu and Bennet Hong, knocked on their doors and shot them—99 times.

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Dartmouth’s campus is no stranger to controversial attempts at humor.  The Dunyun attempts to bring witty commentary to The Big Green’s tiny, oh-so-important corner of New England, laced with criticisms of some of Dartmouth’s most cherished traditions, such as drinking shitty beer andinteracting with wild-life.  Most of the site’s humor stems from its accurate parody of the social norms surrounding the Greek scene, and at times it paints uncomfortably accurate pictures of student life.  In poking fun at its own North Face-clad audience, however, The Dunyun occasionally toes the line between relevant (after-all, who hasn’t hooked up in the stacks?) and borderline offensive (I believe Haiti jokes are the realm of Rush and Cornell’s own Ann Coulter).  In fact, according to tipsters, some students have already expressed concern and notified the administration of their moral indignation at the flippant coverage of recent charitable efforts at the school.  Given the school’s recent string of mea culpas on behalf of its squash-match-ruining students, it will be interesting to see how much longer they will be able to keep up the good fight without apologizing for it.

Found via a Google Alert for “Ivy league”:

“I was asked why my blog was titled “Ivy League Neck Tats”. Basically it’s just a mockery of people who think there’s an issue with me having a neck tattoo and attending an Ivy League university.”

(Sadly, we never see the neck tattoo itself, but we’re assuming it’s a picture of Amy Guttmann, because why not?)

Hey, that reminds us! Have you read our Yalie fashion columnist Rene Bystron yet? He’s a mockery of people who thinks there’s an issue with him being fashionable and attending an Ivy League university! Or something! Go!

Guest of a Guest recently made some conclusions about where the Princeton diaspora settles once they hit New York. Breaking down the New York hot spots by the Eating Club alums who hang out there, the article does an alarmingly good job at calling the Tigers stripes.

First of all, eating clubs are all too Princetonian to begin with. At Brown, the “bohemian eating club” is the city of Providence, but we’ve never harbored the illusion that society at Princeton was neatly regimented enough to contain Mean Girls-style cliques. Don’t all eating clubs have exactly the same sort of people — Princetonians?

No, there are many different types of Tigers outside the Amory Blaine archetype. It’s convenient that they’re going from the nation’s most socially stratified campus  to its most socially stratified city: one-to-one comparisons between the top-shelf Ivy club and the equally prestigious Rose Bar flourish.

Other highlights are the spot-on Princeton-to-Williamsburg assumptions:

Preppy Princeton might not overflow with bohemians, but the school’s soon-to-be-starving artists probably eat up at the Terrace Club’s buffet. You can find Terrace alums chains-moking at grungy/artsy venues like Glasslands, Union Pool and Galapagos or trying to catch a big break with their band at Mercury Lounge or Cake Shop.

After the jump, see what the bloggers had to say about Tiger Inn, eBay founder Meg Whitman’s son, and your mom.

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Jonathan Pappas, the founder of BoredAtButler and its spin-off sites at other Ivies, has posted an announcement declaring the site temporarily shuttered. Don’t fret, posters — he says the site will come back, once he’s developed the coding to censor recent “slanderous and racist comments.” Pappas told us:

It kind of just started all of a sudden. They came out of left field and they would just post racial slurs the most offensive things you could possibly come up with.

Pappas believes that the slurs, which were consistently posted via proxy servers, were intended to berate and annoy him personally, as they’d also surfaced on a side project of his unconnected to the BoredAt network.

Inside Higher Ed reminds us that JuicyCampus shut down earlier this year, too. (How quickly we’d forgotten!) But Pappas seems serious about bringing back BoredAtButler in the hazy, distant future. He’s soliciting help from current Ivy League students and expects a newly coded site, with an improved “trash” feature — the first revisions to the site’s code since it launched in 2006, he says — to launch before 2010.

Despite BoredAtButler’s disappearance, new sites have been cropping up to chronicle the ids of Ivy League Students. I Saw You Harvard reads something like a Cambridge version of Craigslist’s missed connections page. After all, why actually have sex when you can passively reach out to the cute girl from sociology class? A sample post:

I saw you…with your British charm and your long black peacoat. Studying all day in Lamont for French and Ec10. I’ll help you practice your french kissing…” Exam season, what hath thou wrought?

The post-verbal web phenomenon “FML” has caught on, too, with Harvard, Yale, and Princeton affiliate sites. All seem to be thriving, with Princeton’s site in particular attracting follow-up comments. While Pappas claims that BoredAtButler users were driven off the site by racist trolls, these sites may prove a hardier bunch — after all, there’s a bit more je ne sais quoi to the pursuit of love or hyperbolic complaining than to simple boredom. Either way, BoredAtButler will likely return, but the interest in community microblogging — tiny, anonymous updates to a college-wide blog — is a legacy greater than the site itself. FML!

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.

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