MetaFilter posts tagged with ivyleague

What's the problem with Yale?

roomthreeseventeen — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:28:51 -0800

William Deresiewicz examines the pitfalls of an Ivy League education Apparently, the Ivies prepare you for... mediocrity.

Old Boys, Old News

GrammarMoses — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:15:04 -0800

MeFi's celebration of the Ivy League continues with "The Facebook of Wall Street's Future," a New York Times map of social and professional connections in the tradition of They Rule (previously on Metafilter here, here , here and here). For those who might have trouble accessing the NYT site, I've also uploaded the graphic here.

The case of the Ivy League posture photos

alphanerd — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:44:11 -0800

ONE AFTERNOON IN THE LATE 1970's, deep in the labyrinthine interior of a massive Gothic tower in New Haven, an unsuspecting employee of Yale University opened a long-locked room in the Payne Whitney Gymnasium and stumbled upon something shocking and disturbing.

Shocking, because what he found was an enormous cache of nude photographs, thousands and thousands of photographs of young men in front, side and rear poses. Disturbing, because on closer inspection the photos looked like the record of a bizarre body-piercing ritual: sticking out from the spine of each and every body was a row of sharp metal pins. The case of the Ivy League posture photos.

I wonder if they serve Tiger Penis Soup...

keli — Sat, 08 Nov 2003 12:08:26 -0800

Princeton University Eating Clubs A walk down Princeton's Prospect Avenue leads visitors to illustrious clubs like The Tiger Inn and Colonial Club. Ramen be damned!

please talk to my agent

111 — Mon, 14 Jul 2003 10:33:34 -0800

The Ivy League pop stars! Gossipy article reveals how universities throughout the USA are frantically fighting each other in order to attract celebrity professors. Niall Ferguson, Deirdre (born Donald) McCloskey and Saul Bellow ("teaching load: one course a year") are some examples. Considering these people are already engaged in their own love affair with the public eye (book tours, book deals, media events etc), are they the best choice from the academic point of view? Do traditional universities really have to resort to namedropping? And just between us, anybody out there ever had or currently has classes with bigwigs that turned out to be really fascinating or really disappointing? first link via those elitists from aldaily

Darthmouth Swimming

SandeepKrishnamurthy — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 15:03:00 -0800

Budget cuts threatening your college athletic team? No problem. Raise $210,000 on eBay.

mkultra — Mon, 07 Oct 2002 09:23:35 -0800

Scramble bands. The Ivy League (as well as other U.S. universities, typically with bad football teams) have a notorious tradition of marching bands that don't march. Columbia's band recently got in hot water (again) for a swipe at the Catholic church during a Fordham game. Did you play in the marching band at your college? More importantly, did you play a real instrument? Me, I blew bubbles and played the squeegee mop at Columbia.

realityblurred — Thu, 25 Jul 2002 18:51:56 -0800

Princeton admissions officers broke into Yale's admissions system using prospective students' birth dates and Social Security numbers. They "viewed Yale admissions decisions" of 11 students; Princeton's dean of admissions says "[i]t was really an innocent way for us to check out the security." The FBI is "assessing the information to see if there is a federal violation."