As seen in the Washington Square News. Only one Ivy has managed to escape the bilious spew of this column’s author, and its name is more pretentious than any other in the league: Columbia University in the city of New … Continue reading
Category Archives: Newspaper Clips
Take one from UPenn: elevator traps
As seen in the Washington Square News. In the Ivy hierarchy, the University of Pennsylvania is a little lost. For starters, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report place Penn in the murky space behind Princeton, Harvard and Yale, but … Continue reading
How to really spruce up Bobst
As seen in the Washington Square News. Sneetches. The Lorax. The Cat in the Hat. No, that’s not what you saw during last night’s drug trip and I don’t need a tissue, either. I’m referencing the animated bliss of Dartmouth’s … Continue reading
Cornell’s satellite, or, a desperate cry for attention
As seen in the Washington Square News. I’ve mentioned in a previous column that Cornell is the odd man out in the Ivy League. Founded in 1865, Cornell is the youngest in the Ivy family, and proponents of birth order … Continue reading
Brown plays a sex party safe
As seen in the Washington Square News. You know, I really didn’t want to end up writing about sex again, but “whoops we had slaves” Brown got jealous of all the attention I gave Harvard last week and busted out … Continue reading
Art porn? Harvard’s H Bomb is more of a bottle rocket
As seen in the Washington Square News. Disappointed that they weren’t the first Ivy snagged by snarky journalists, those exhibitionists at Harvard University had to go along and get naked for an article in The New York Times Magazine titled … Continue reading
Yalie confronts the horror of losing, comes out snobby
As seen in the Washington Square News. Yalie Sam Heller trusts in Yale’s exceptionalism, but he thinks sometimes Yalies let their elitism allow it to get away from them. Well, at least that’s how he starts the piece “Elitism isn’t … Continue reading
Blowing the lid off Princeton’s box
As seen in the Washington Square News. A recent undercover piece in the New York Observer highlighted the “unethical and inappropriate” conduct of Princeton University’s eating clubs – for example, at the University Cottage Club’s annual lingerie party, where male … Continue reading
Housing Guide 2007: Brooklyn
As seen in the Washington Square News. Living in Brooklyn is like the buzz cut to Manhattan’s mullet – Manhattan might be all business in the front and all party in the back, but Brooklyn’s the place you’re going to … Continue reading
How YouTube Makes – and Breaks – Political Careers
As seen in NYU Livewire, Arizona Reporter, Epoch Times and The New Black Magazine. An official photo of former U.S. Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. appears on the screen, backed by a rhythmic soundtrack that recalls Sly and the Family Stone. … Continue reading
For political blogs, a rising influence on the campaign trail
For spending all night in a mad house, Alex Pareene looks sprightly.
His tweed jacket is a bit rumpled, but there’s no restraining the ironic anti-Wonkette shirt beneath it, crisp and white with fire-engine red piping. As the editor of the popular political blog his shirt derides, Pareene’s usually known for his biting sarcasm. Tonight, Election Night 2006, he seems less acerbic. Continue reading
The Campaign Blog Frontier
As seen in the New York Press. As a blogger and self-appointed “Netroots Coordinator” for senatorial candidate John Spencer, R-N.Y., Bob Fois has become the very online persona he hates—the originator of the hundreds of emails that fill in the … Continue reading