When not beating out Iowa City for the best college town, Ithaca can get a little dull during its down time. That might explain why a bunch of frat bros have created a new drinking game, now unfortunately available on YouTube. Produced by a vague "Society," the video borderline Chef Tony infomercial details "Russian Roulette," which consists of a frisbee, Solo cups, and Cornellians too sober to simply play beer pong or Kings (yes, we're also wondering why everyone isn't just piss drunk 24/7 in Ithaca).

After the jump, learn the rules!

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The last time IvyGate posted about a Harvard boy and his dong, you gagged and begged us to never do it again. But try as we might, we can't stay away from Harvard or dongs.  Below is a video unofficially titled "Harvard Bros," starring two mustachioed Havard "bros" rapping about their penises. We'll just call it "The Dong Song." According to Abel Acuña, the video's director, "Harvard Bros" won best music video at the Harvard Undergraduate Film Festival.

According to resident IvyGate film critic (me) the video offers some decent production value but lacks that Cambridge intellectual punch we've seen from favorites On Harvard Time. Acuña mentioned to us that he's all about entertainment, and those VES film studies fools can kiss his Harvardwood ass.

Full disclosure: the latter part of that sentence is largely fabricated. But that doesn't mean it's not true. After the jump, more videos from Acuña's production company Senior Spring. Read the rest of this entry »

A tipster let us in on this little gem from Mark and Jess of New Haven, Connecticut. The couple thinks they're the best pair ever for the CBS enthusiasm fest also known as The Amazing Race. The video alternates between shots of them wearing matching green polos—green is the color of intelligence, btw—and sweet photos of them hanging out all over the world. While the general emotions at play when watching the video are difficult to articulate, the contestants-to-be sort of sum it up:

Mark: So anyway we are perfect for The Amazing Race. We are super smart, super competitive, and let's be honest, not too bad looking either.

[insert bikini-laced photo montage]

Jess: Listen, I didn't go to Yale just to get married and pop out babies. I need some adventure and some excitement.  And I need to know that Mark can keep up with me.

The obvious preggo joke to be made can be found here. As for the beau, Mark is a Yale admissions officer so you can be sure he has his values in order. (Hint: The members of 2013 from the Deep South better be super smart, super competitive, and damn good looking.)

Handily, the video seems to have some loose ties to Mixed Company of Yale, who have been busy busy posting spoof videos. So we're left curious as to whether or not Mark and Jess are really TAR wannabes or just, well, wannabes. After all, the show has a history of hosting Ivy League questionables, like Harvard Law grads Heather and Eve who got booted in Season 3 for taking a cab after being instructed to walk.

Real or not, that Mark and Jess sure have an awesome life. And we wanna be a part of it so we've filled out some application questions. Read after the jump.

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Mixed Company of Yale, who've been busting out "exceptional a cappella since 1981," recently released a music video called "Single Asians." This cheeky rendition of Beyonce's "Single Ladies" starts out with some nice references to how much Asian girls like to study for their pre-med classes and engages increasingly stereotypical imitations of Asian women.  Aside from the geisha comment and the fairly shocking subtitled final verse, here's the best phrase:

At the restaurant
I'll taste your sauce
And you can slurp my sushi.
I like it raw,
So bring it on,
And me love you long time.

Readers have stuffed our inbox with pretty angry reactions about the video's racist undertones and how it actually manages to be more misogynistic than Beyonce's original version. One would think that the recent Dartmouth racist email extravaganza might have postponed any racy releases at least until next month. But given that all of the girls singing the song appear to be Asian, it's no big deal, right?

We tried getting in touch with Mixed Company but they're apparently cool with letting the video speak for itself. Read the song's lyrics in full and post reactions after the jump.

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