• Brown: Mayoral candidate banned from campus after “tossing pro-life video” — only in Providence, I guess?
• Columbia: Or maybe not only there: New York state politics — it just keeps getting better!
• Dartmouth: Senior starts his political career really early, hoping to become either Chris Young or Charles Rangel, depending.
• Harvard: Extra! Extra! Rich people, or students, or something, should spend more money, because that’s “honest”!
• Princeton: “This is the first in a three-part series on careers in investment banking and consulting.”

• Brown: “Brown Dining Services’ new Club Plan meal option, which allows seniors to enjoy gourmet food at the Faculty Club, kicked off this year and attracted four subscribers.”
• Columbia: This blurb on an Italian restaurant has — so far! — 51 comments. Welcome to the internet, Spectrum!
• Cornell: “Wind turbines. PRETTY WIND TURBINES.” -Cornell Daily Sun
• Harvard: Faust indicates that she is literally the opposite of Larry Summers — like, if they were in the same room, the room would explode.
• Princeton: The image accompanying this article, of a Princeton girl buying Cheerios at the supermarket in lieu of an eating club is poignant. Very penultimate-scene-of-Hurt Locker. It’s after the jump!

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• Cornell: “I feel that an event that cost $27,000 and took 11 months to plan speaks for itself.” Um, right!
• Dartmouth: SO IT BEGINS. (Student Council, we mean!) Life is about to get sooo much more irritating, you guys.
• Harvard: There’s a new Egyptology professor — does this mean Indiana Jones is like real life now?
• Princeton: Ivy Council to meet at Princeton, will accomplish a great deal, probably.
• Yale: Student scores $666 on Jeopardy!, the real version for adults even! (Your IvyGate blogger feels a bit amateur now.)

• Columbia: Winter Olympics ongoing; less than a week until your IvyGate blogger gets his Parks and Recreation back.
• Dartmouth: This is all well and good, but what does ZAC Posen think about Iran?
• Penn: Shrug, um, we’re not sure how to feel about this. “Good”!
• Princeton: OMG ARE WE STILL TALKING ABOUT THAT HORRIBLE COLUMN AND INSANE HYPOTHETICALS?!?! Thank god Princeton kids are confined to Princeton where they can’t infect us.
• Yale: Yale Law alum tapped for court seat. This could be taught in j-school as an example of a “dog-bites-man” story.

• Princeton: You get a Kindle! You get a Kindle! Everybody gets a Kindle!… and they won’t help you study.
• Brown: You may get Rashid Khalidi for a lecture, Brown, but Columbia gets him every day.
• Harvard: Famous figure skater makes her classmates feel even more inadequate.
• Dartmouth: You guys, distribution requirements are really hard to complete!
• Yale: “[The vegan options] take room away from other food that tastes better,” says the whiniest Yale undergraduate in the world.

• Princeton students get bloggy, observant, and frustrated—“Today, Princeton has a $12.6 billion endowment, and the foosball table in Forbes is being held together by 2 plastic pens. FML.”
• Brown seeks volunteers for “piloting boats, tending the fires, selling merchandise.”
• Yale encourages eating Fritos in the library by rendering fines fiction.
• At casino night, Columbia students rolle dice for the dough, fedoras fly.
• Harvard dominates in the Rice and Bean Pot Burrito Eating Contest.
• Italians come to Dartmouth, get “very involved with the Italian club.”
• Penn students meet the internet, “About five clicks in, I see a screenful of penis all up in my grill.”

• Brown: Which is easier, a fatwa joke or a Padma Lakshmi joke? Or a greatest-living-novelist-maybe can be reduced to two memes joke?
• Cornell: Chief Investment Officer chooses perfect time to resign.
• Princeton: Money has been saved, but no more printing out your own personal copies of Tristram Shandy.
• Harvard: “Communism has been reduced to a losing strategy, from the day we can say ‘free parking’ or ‘go to jail.’“
• Dartmouth: Wait, Hanover has FOOD now? Major step up!

• Yale: “I’m That Girl. You know, the kind who wants attention and seeks to get it by reciting past ’scandalous’ indiscretions. Sound familiar? Yep, that’s me! Me! Listen to me!”
• Cornell: Okay, this was for a good cause, but the Kiss-In took place on Ho Plaza?
• Columbia: An intern interns.
• Brown: Simmons bails out of Goldman Sachs.
• Penn: Sorority members to become “twins.” Good thing they’re all identical anyway!

Your IvyGate editors were stuck in a snowdrift yesterday, and will be really busy this morning, so here is a RagTime designed to catch you up on news you missed. Get it while it’s lukewarm!

• Brown: Confidential to non-Ivy students reading this blog — you can transfer to Brown, like, really easily! And then take whateeeever you want.
• Columbia: “LionPAC calls itself “Columbia University’s pro-Israel public affairs committee” rather than a lobby group, though it does go on a lobbying mission to Congress every year. Spectator regrets the error.” Congratulations on the most unnecessary correction ever, Spectator!
• Cornell: Congratulations on the most decontextualized image ever, Sun! [This time we mean it.]
• Harvard: Exxon on the Charles! Just one more reason why Boston is the worst city in America. [This is a meme, we're starting it, and you can't stop us.]
• Yale: This poignant article made us think about people different from ourselves! STRONGLY RECOMMEND.

• Brown: If there’s one thing that will prepare you for a classroom full of rowdy ten-year-olds, it’s four years at Brown!
• Columbia: Student group to ensure all coverage is fair, but especially fair to Israel.
• Penn: SNOW DAY! SNOW DAY!
• Princeton: Okay, now we’re getting jealous.
• Harvard: David Souter to emerge from his hobbit-hole, speak at Commencement, then will return home, by getting into a time machine that will take him back to 1852.