Keep 'em coming!

• Columbia: Casual Encounters at its best.
• Harvard: A HLS message board post threatens gun violence, temporarily shutting down summer classes.
• Harvard: Ivy Leaguers take over the New York Times letters page in reaction to its Wall Street versus activism article.
• Princeton: "Even at Princeton University there are slackers, and Gary Klondike is one of the best." Watch The Take Home Final.
• Penn: One tipster requests that that we print an addition to an earlier post on Ivy League cocktails to include the Pennsylvanian: apple brandy, Madeira, egg white, and lemon.
• Penn: The new College of Arts and Sciences building has been named after a gossip columnist. Students are not amused.

A particularly detail-oriented tipster noticed that, during a bit about forms of identification on last Thursday's Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert brandished a PennCard.

John T. Lowey, are you out there sans ID?

Perhaps Colbert brought it back as a souvenir from filming on campus when the show relocated to Philly during the Democratic primaries. Refresher video after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

Folks have apparently known for awhile that Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal participated in, ahem, an exorcism while a student at Brown. Now that Jindal has been increasingly mentioned as a potential vice presidential candidate for John McCain's ticket, it seems like a good time to go over the details again. As TPM's comprehensive roundup reminds us, Jindal wrote extensively about this experience, in which he and his prayer meeting buddies exorcised the demon out of his friend "Susan" and cured her cancer to boot.

More Satan-rific details after the jump.

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A military veteran taking classes at UPenn was shot to death early this morning, the DP is reporting and a university spokesman told IvyGate. L'Salle Harvey was affiliated with Veterans Upward Bound, a program that provides free college prep courses; the shooting occurred far from campus, and the university knows only what it's reading in the DP, spokesman Ron Ozio said. Calls to program officers' homes were not answered.