RagTime: Political Edition

  • 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.”

RagTime: Club Plan and Cheerios Edition

  • 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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RagTime: Filthy/Gorgeous Edition

  • 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.)

RagTime: Man Bites Dog Edition

  • 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.

RagTime: Ice Dancing Edition

  • 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.

RagTime: RagRoulette Edition

RagTime: Printing Quota Edition

RagTime: That Girl (and Friends!) Edition

RagTime: Playing Catch-Up Edition

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.

IvyGate: Winter Blunderland Edition