The Ivy League may be the crème de la crème when it comes to academics, but that doesn’t mean the Ancient Eight are without their share of faults and scandals.

Here are eight scandals that blemished the Ivy League's good name:

1. The Columbia University Noose Incident: In October 2007, a hangman’s noose was found pinned to the door of Madonna Constantine, an African-American professor known for her work on racism. President Lee Bollinger denounced the incident calling it “an assault on African Americans and therefore… an attack on every one of us.” The case was never solved, and Constantine ended up being accused of plagiarism several months later.

2. Harvard Police Force Accused of Racial Profiling: For years, African-American students at Harvard University have accused the campus police force, which is predominantly white, of racial profiling. In one particular instance, police mistook a student on campus for a robbery suspect. Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree agrees that incidents like this warrant investigation, because “black students arrive on campus aiming for academic success but instead find themselves under suspicion.” The investigation is on-going.

3. Ivy League Nude Posture Photos Scandal Rocks Yale and Harvard: In the late 1970’s, an employee at Yale University unlocked a secure room in the Payne Whitney Gymnasium and found thousands of photographs of nude students sprawled across the floor. Apparently, the subjects in the pictures were incoming freshmen that attended the two Ivy League universities between the 1940’s and 1970’s. The photographs belonged to William Herbert Sheldon, an American psychologist who claimed to be studying the rate and severity of rickets, scoliosis and lordosis. While the Yale employee who stumbled upon the room burned most of the photographs, some of the pictures survived and were later transferred to the Smithsonian. In 2001, those final images were destroyed.

4. Brown University Queer Alliance Party: In 2005, Brown’s annual Sex Power God party got out of hand and emergency medical services received a record number of calls due to binge drinking and drug overdoses. Jesse Watters, a Fox News producer, infiltrated the party and recorded scenes of “guys kissing guys and girls making out with girls.” After the clips aired on The O’Reilly Factor, David Greene, Brown’s vice president at the time, commented that “the university had done such a thorough job of eradicating its Christian past that events like the Sex Power God party fit right in with Brown’s current fundamentalist creed of moral relativism.”

5. University of Pennsylvania Student Loans Scandal: As a predominantly business-focused school, Penn’s most notable scandal is unsurprisingly the dullest of the Ivies. In April 2007, a probe into the relationship between money lenders and the financial aid offices of various universities revealed that schools were receiving kickbacks for directing students to specific lenders. Penn was among the schools found guilty of this practice and had to reimburse many students.

6. Dartmouth's Zeta Psi Fraternity Caught Circulating Lewd Newsletter: In May 2001, Dartmouth’s Zeta Psi fraternity ceased to exist after news broke that members of fraternity were circulating newsletters describing their sexual exploits with other students. The newsletters contained photographs of the women involved, as well as a detailed account of the sexual activities. The final edition of the newsletter even promised that a future edition would offer “date-rape techniques.” In 2009, the long-disbanded frat may return to the campus under new management.

7. Cornell Faculty Member Found With Child Pornography: In October 2002, Robert Mosher, a former information technology staff member at Cornell, was arrested for possession of child pornography. At first, the university suspended him with pay, but when the investigation turned up more evidence, he was fired.

8. Princeton-Yale Admissions Debacle: In 2002, Princeton’s Director of Admissions Stephen E. LeMenager used the information of Princeton applicants – social security numbers and birth dates – to illegally access a website designed by Yale for prospective students. Apparently, LeMenager used this access to see if the prospective student had been accepted into Yale. If they had, he either tried to court them away from Yale or scratched them off Princeton's admissions list.