Tag Archives: Washington Square News

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

As seen in the Washington Square News. NYU’s College of Nursing will hold its first-ever commencement exercises today for its students after nearly 75 years as a division of the Steinhardt School of Education. Elevated to the stature of a … Continue reading →

As seen in the Washington Square News. Jason Nicholas, 36, reminisces of his youth as he walks by hundreds of NYU undergraduates in Washington Square Park — some lounging on the fountain’s edge with a textbook, some playing Frisbee under … Continue reading →

As seen in the Washington Square News. East Village residents continue to protest the construction of high-rise buildings in the area after a new 21-story building is slated to be constructed at 110 Third Ave. next spring. Uproar over the … Continue reading →