Ivy League

Indian Giver: Rightbloggers' Yuks at "Fauxcahontas" Elizabeth Warren Turn to Trail of Tears

Liberal fave Elizabeth Warren is running for Scott Brown's Senate seat in Massachusetts. Just after she announced in September, polls showed her six points behind the incumbent; now, she's running about even with him. Yet if you'd only been following rightbloggers on this race, you'd assume that sh ... More >>

Knicks' Point Guard Jeremy Lin Does the Impossible

Phenoms who come in under the sports radar are almost exclusively confined to baseball. There are so many examples of this that they almost defy counting -- a 19-year-old Dwight Gooden matures early, just a year out of high school and can suddenly throw a 97 mph fastball past experienced major leag ... More >>

I'm Being Taught at Yale!

As you may have read in yesterday's Page Six, Yale University is currently offering a course in nightlife which features texts by me! My work has finally gone to college! Doctoral candidate Madison Moore is teaching "Dance Music and Nightlife Culture in New York City," for those who can afford to ... More >>

Columbia Marching Band Banned From Game For Being Slightly Irreverent

​Columbia's marching band was banned (and subsequently un-banned) from performing at Saturday's football game against Brown for pointing out the simple fact that Columbia hasn't won a game all season. After every game, the band plays the school fight song "Roar, Lions, Roar." But after the tea ... More >>

Godlike Yale Boy Chooses Football Over Rhodes Scholarship As World Watches

Yale University​Have you been following the saga of Patrick Witt, the most perfect college student in the United States? Witt, class of '12, is a gentleman athlete and scholar who has been faced with a difficult situation: do a Rhodes Scholarship or play quarterback in the annual Harvard-Yale ... More >>

Kim Kardashian Does Not Destroy The Culture

​Last night, I spoke before a group of gay journalism students at Columbia and was surprised to find that one of their top concerns was that Kim Kardashian brings down our culture! I was amazed that serious Ivy League students even devote brain cells to thinking about the Kardashian clan. Bu ... More >>

Two Harvard Grads, Two WWII Stories, in A Twentieth Century Tale

Harrison David, Columbia Dealer in Operation Ivy League, Gets Six Months for Guilty Plea

​One of the drug dealing frat boys busted at Columbia University late last year pleaded guilty today to the criminal sale of a controlled substance, accepting felony charges in exchange for light sentencing. Now he's off with just six months in jail and five years probation, though the felony ... More >>

Why I Hate Being Gay! 62 Reasons!

Here's why we hate being gay

The Day (This Week) That Manhattan Media Ate Itself, Threw Up and Then Ate That

​Maybe it's the weather, but today has been sort of annoying and self-involved for New York City media types (no, really, even more than normal), especially the ones required to read the internet all day. Everyone seemed a little bit crazy and angry or at least feigning outrage, and so, just t ... More >>

Yale's Frats Just As Fratty As Can Be

​Yale is under federal investigation for "its failure to eliminate a hostile sexual environment." Its frat boys seem to be running rampant, not letting their fancy Ivy League-ness get in the way of behaving like cavemen. Sixteen students filed a complaint in March accusing the university of a brea ... More >>

SAT Question on Reality TV Gets Entire New York Times Article; Kids Should Chill

Not an Ivy League grad​If you pay close attention, you'll notice that the New York Times is more or less a newspaper about getting your kids into an Ivy League school. The paper's knows their audience, so they host Q&As with important deans, devote entire blogs to the admissions process (with ... More >>

Upper East Side Mom Sues Preschool That Killed Her Kid's Chance at an Ivy League in Just 3 Weeks

No fun at preschool!​Getting your kid into a decent preschool, with "decent" dependent on a certain set of socioeconomic, cultural, and often status-based "ideals," has long been a harrowing, horrible New York City tradition. Enough so that British publication the Daily Mail, writing about the ... More >>

'Baby Drag Queens' Taking Over the Ivy League!

Geri Visco​ When I went to Columbia University, there were no drag queens in sight except for an occasional professor who'd accidentally put on his wife's halter top. But the other night at the very same school -- 800 years later, mind you -- the place was positively crawling with them. It ... More >>

Princeton

It's Harder to Get Hired at Per Se Than It Is to Get Into Harvard

​Although it's hardly news that being a server at Per Se isn't quite the same thing as being a server at Applebee's, CNN's Eatocracy today spells out exactly how yawning that discrepancy is.

What's the Street Price of Cocaine at Columbia University? (UPDATED)

​Holy Scarface! Five Columbia University students/fratboys were busted this week for selling all kinds of crazy drugs at school. Ivy League? More like High-vy League. Luckily, via Columbia's BWOG, understanding the numbers of the busts also gives us a chance to understand how much drugs cost a ... More >>

How Not to Regret Your Life in 23 Easy Steps, by The Internet

​What is happening to everyone? This week, two prominent blog posts about regrets people have surfaced on the internet. One, made up of all stripes of reader submissions at the New York Times CityRoom blog, the other, via The Hairpin, made up of women in their 30s' submissions at AOL's Lemondr ... More >>

Live: Gordon Voidwell Brings Racially Charged Downtown Self-Deprecation To The Apollo

Request "African Art at the MoMA." Pics by Andrew Friedman, more below.​Gordon Voidwell The Apollo Saturday, October 16 Better Than: That show about race and the workplace that's sometimes on PBS at 5 a.m. "Tonight, we're gonna ask a lot of questions and not answer them," warned Gordon Voidw ... More >>

Microcrisis Watches the Bubble Pop

Ralph B. Pena directs Ma-Yi Theater's latest at Here

Ra Ra Riot

Sexting's New Extreme: Young People Can't Stop with the Mid-CoitiuSMS

​The "Kids" these days! They're so easily distracted. Even, apparently, from sex. Because some of them are picking up their phone and texting while having it.

I've Hit Rock Bottom! I Played Beer Pong!

​Somebody stop me now because my worst nightmare has come true. The other night, I found myself fully conscious and in charge of my actions, yet actually playing a game of Beer Pong at a local gay bar! I always thought this was the trap door to rock bottom--that surely someone who went to an ... More >>

I Will Not Watch Jersey Shore!

​MTV has created a media sensation with its hair-gel-filled Jersey Shore show about a bunch of gum popping no-brainers sharing a house in Seaside Heights.

Why Taylor Swift Ain't a Mess

​AOL's Popeater blog just asked me for quotes about why that pretty little Taylor Swift hasn't fallen into the "hot mess" trap that some other young stars, a la Lindsay/Britney/Xtina/Miley, have flirted with. My stunning reply: "Unlike so many young stars who've turned into walking train wre ... More >>

Princeton+Phil & the Osophers+Ice Palace

Free Yacht Trips for "Special" People (Especially If Young, Hot)

It sounds like a truly altruistic offer: A small group of friends with a 50-foot yacht were looking to fill their craft on weekends, and realized one way to do so was by providing free sailing trips around New York Bay. So in the fall of 2006, they set up a website where folks could sign up to joi ... More >>

Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 Wraps Up the Boomer Era

A documentary about a legendary Ivy football game—fought to a tie

LION’S DEN

Take the subway to see Cornell at Columbia

Best Album, Vituperative Backlash Be Damned: Vampire Weekend

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

Even the hoariest haters eventually succumb

My Biggest Career Mistakes, Part Two (A 500-Part Series)

Clip Job: Why Ivy Leaguers Come to the Village

Hate Us or Love Us

The Mind-Body Problem

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful—and smart: College students who model

Mehta Fiction

Enjoying the source of the latest plagiarism scandal

You Be the Judge

Supreme court-watching at these fine locations

Summers Storm

Women, science, and a Harvard president's notorious remarks

Bonfire of the Humanities

A legendary editor at Harvard University Press asks, What good are books?

Porn on Campus

Student smut, sometimes unauthorized, makes a splash at universities

Wanted: Really Smart Suckers

Grad school provides exciting new road to poverty

Ga-Ga-Ga-Goils! A Counterculture Cornerstone Turns 40

Word Slayers

Letters

Clarify Your Dissent

Maps and Chaps

••• The New Geography Reaches Critical Mass

Ketchup Versus Ketjap

Quit Playing Games (with my heart)

East of Eden

Make Gender Not Love

The Joylessness of Sex