Wisps of cigarette smoke froze in midair at the Advocate building early this morning, when the Crimson announced that Ratatat and Sara Bareilles would headline this year’s Yardfest. Just months ago the Undergraduate Council and campus “Fun Czar” obliterated whatever hip currency th...

Yesterday morning, Generic Good Morning Message (GGMM), a popular email update at Dartmouth commented on the selection of President Jim Yong Kim. The comments were racist as hell, and consequently made a lot of people very angry.  GGMM managed to pull out just about every Asian-directed xenophobic ...

Brown: Columnist with fitting name writes about elitism, world questions relevance Columbia: Students tired of doing work for classes, beg for help Cornell: Daily Sun wants to hire a “Public Editor,” we’ve already applied Dartmouth: “While pursuing our dreams in this academic...

Earlier today, the Dartmouth Board of Trustees announced that Harvard professor Jim Yong Kim would ascend the green presidential throne in Hanover. Dr. Kim was the chair of the Harvard Medical School’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and previously headed up the World Health Or...

IvyGate’s Guide to Admissions: Part IV Somewhere between F. Scott Fitzgerald’s untimely death and that Tom Green movie about Harvard, some misconceptions of the awesome Ivy League education have spiraled out of control. First of all, the classes are not that difficult—s eriously. And i...

The recent lathering of attention received by Ithaca College’s Cornell spoof, Ivy , puts the short, sordid history of Ivy League soap operas into perspective. For about a decade and a half, students inside the gates have been making soap opera-style parodies of their wild Ivy lifestyles. After...

IvyGate’s Guide to Admissions: Part I Lately, the cavalcade of admissions soothsayers seems to stretch from high school guidance counselor’s offices all the way to the bank—not to mention a stopover at the open palms of admissions coaches. Neither here nor there, the secret to getting ...

Freeze Magazine, a year-old online magazine for college girls, recently opened the polls for their second annual Mr. Harvard Freshman contest. The magazine describes itself as the source for students “too old for Seventeen, but not yet ready to move onto Marie Claire,” and the contest st...

The University Council for everyone’s favorite self-important student body is currently electing a new president. With polls closing in just 36 hours, Harvard students (apathetic and otherwise) will surely end up with either a prank or a prodigal in office.  Ultimately, it doesn’t reall...

At 11:24 on Friday night, a student reported to Princeton’s Public Safety Office (PUPS) that a man was “sprinting” around campus with an AK-47. At 12:40, PUPS notified the students with this curt, misspelled, and mysterious text message or email: This is an actual emergency and not...