On Monday, Ithaca College’s student-produced reality series, Ivy, debuted on the ICTV network, and the reception amongst Cornellians, whom the series is loosely based upon, was mixed.

According to the co-producers of the series, Rachel Hastings and Ed Pietzak, Ivy is a dry comedy, faux-reality show—not unlike MTV’s Laguna Beach—that closely follows the misadventures of a handful of fictitious Cornell students.

However, while some Cornellians appreciated the tongue-in-cheek portrayal of life on their campus, others were less enthused by the show’s reliance on superficial stereotypes.

Zack Mast of the Cornell Daily Sun writes:

For the most part, the caricatures are fair, but some of the jokes — especially Amanda’s stubborn reverence of Ugg boots and North Face jackets — feel, at times, a little too convenient. Yes, sororo-sluts do exist, but Ivy almost directly compares the vapid, image-obsessed life of The Hills to life on the Hill.

That is, at least in the premiere, it presents a vain, shallow social niche that really only exists on Cornell’s surface. There isn’t any mention of Cornell’s finer, more subtle stereotypes — no hockey madness, no hipsters, no hopeless engineers struggling to worm their way through a booze-soaked Friday night in Collegetown. Instead, the girls constantly appraise their social standing as the guys play squash and attempt to get laid. Does no one study at this school? Also, who wears Cornell gear after freshman year?

Just sayin’.

My, my – several weeks ago, I reported on the Cornell-centric Office episode that painted the University in a poor light, and I was inundated with comments assuring me that Cornellians had funny bones.

However, as Mast has proven, they do not.

Ah, it feels so good to be vindicated.