Two weeks after the coalition death toll in Iraq passed 4,000, and a month after one of the youngest casualties of the Iraq war – an 18-year-old Queens resident -- was buried, residents of the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn seem to agree that the U.S. has overstayed its welcome in the Middle East.
Monthly Archives: August 2007
If your mortgage lender goes bust… don’t panic!
As seen in the New York Daily News. Those risky mortgages of recent years dragged down plenty of homeowners, but now they’re taking out many of the huge lenders that underwrote them. Big names like HSBC, Countrywide and even Citigroup have grappled with growing defaults. … Read More →
Guest Editors Re-Die, Nerds Rejoice
Our maligned guest stint has come to a close, ladies and gentlemen (we can hear you cheering already), and we're happy to say that it's been grand. We hope we were able to keep you from falling asleep during office meetings, at the very least.
Ivy Motto Poll Results: “God” and “Truth” Triumphant
The people have spoken! It's been roughly 24 hours after we posted our lovely little poll asking what the worst motto in the Ivy League was and the results are in: Cornell's English-language douchebaggery is vindicated, topping the rest by a landslide with 113 votes (or 31.9 percent) indicating that an Ivy motto without Latin is like a Leaguer without a trust fund.
Cornell Takes Top Honors in Motto Contest, Douchebaggery
A good motto is like a one-night stand. Immediate, satisfying, and best explained in the least amount of words possible ("Yeah?" "Yeah."). We here at IvyGate love 'em, as indicated by our own sitting on top of this page. But it's hard to match up to Motto Magazine ("Purpose, passion and profit," in case you're wondering), which is an entire glossy dedicated to the craft that was originally started by two Wall Street Journal alums.
Just yesterday, this incredibly niche magazine released its first annual Top 10 Motto List, and higher education was the target. The best? Our good friends in Ithaca, of course, with the sage, hallucinatory words of "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study."
Yale Continues to Fuck Up, Loses 10,000+ SSNs
They say 80 percent of success is just showing up, but in the age of the hacker, it might be closer to 100. According to Yale officials in the Yale Daily News, the social security numbers for more than 10,000 current and former students, faculty and staff were compromised last month following the theft of two university computers.
Assault Rifle Flap Puts Kibosh On Yale Frat?
Rumors on the interwebs, and by that we mean an anonymous tipster, says that the Yale Chapter of Beta Theta Pi was disbanded by the fraternity at last week's "General Fraternity" meeting.
What Does A Liberal Look Like? According to Lucy Morrow Caldwell, A Harvard Student (UPDATE)
Lucy Morrow Caldwell. Just yesterday, this name elicited a firestorm across teh_interwebs when Slate ran a "report" showing that Rudy Giuliani's 17-year-old daughter Caroline, Harvard '11, was a de facto member of the "Barack Obama (One Million Strong for Barack)" Facebook group.
Your résumé: Lights, camera, action
As seen in the New York Daily News. When Scott Levine went after a job at a Fortune 500 company, he wanted to sell himself more than his résumé allowed, even with an extra page. Believing his winning personality just didn’t come across on paper, … Read More →
What Happened To Hydrogen?
As seen in the “Business” section of The Huffington Post. When it comes to the economy, we ought to look much deeper for a solution — like on the atomic level. Some researchers at Purdue University recently claimed to have perfected a new hydrogen-generating technology … Read More →