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According to IvyGate, graduating seniors with aspirations of making it on Wall Street should re-evaluate their short-term career goals–as soon as possible.
Speaking to an unidentified Ivy-Leaguer-turned-investment-banker, Dan Haley confirmed that, due to the current economic climate, internships at financial firms have become the unicorn of th...
Last week, the Nixon Library released over 198 hours of President Richard Nixon ranting and raving about--more or less--everything.
From the press to the Ivy League, Old Dick Nixon hated it all, and he wasn’t afraid to let everyone within an earshot know it—whether they cared to listen or not.
Thankfully, the mad ramblings of this presidenti...
Two years ago, January@Brown, the Web 2.0-inspired name given to Brown’s 10-day not-for-credit winter academic term, was born—probably from some ill-conceived notion that students love their university so much that they simply cannot get enough of it during the other eleven months.
As it turns out, however, 99.9 percent of the students do not ...
Last Tuesday, John Krasinski, Brown ’02, returned to his alma mater to impart wisdom upon the hundreds of adoring fans and students that came to hear him speak at Stuart Theater.
That’s right; Jim, the lovable, mischievous Assistant Regional Manager on NBC’s hit series The Office, is an Ivy Leaguer.
With such an impressive resume topped by b...
Anne Hathaway is known as an actress with promise but also with very bad taste in men. It was just this summer that her former boyfriend Raffaello Follieri made headlines and not the good kind. He was arrested on fraud charges, sullying Hathaway’s name and supposedly causing naked pictures of her to fall into the FBI’s hands.
Now the ever-repu...
Every Ivy League university has been accused of grade inflation, the timeless art of giving students an A simply because they are special snowflakes, at one time or another, and today, it’s Brown’s turn.
According to the Office of Institutional Research, more than half of the grades issued last year (50.6%) were A’s. Since 1994, the number of ...
For the uninitiated, Sex Power God is the annual fundraiser thrown by Brown University’s Queer Alliance. In 2005, the event came under heavy scrutiny when conservative political pundit Bill O’Reilly aired raunchy footage taken at the event on Fox News and 24 students ended up in the hospital.
Since then, event coordinators have taken great str...
Scarlett Johansson, Kristen Bell and Jessica Alba all share one thing common: they’ve never done a nude scene in a movie, much to the dismay of men everywhere. However, thanks to a Brown professor, that’s all about to change – sort of.
Professor of Computer Science Michael Black and his associate, Alexandru Balan, have developed a sophisticate...
The key to becoming an ordained minister isn’t religious piety or devotion; it’s pressing a button on the Universal Life Church homepage and filling in some basic biographical information.
That’s right – with a simple click of the mouse, you too can become a minister for ULC, spreading the word of God to, uh, all your friends on campus.
The ...
“Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried.”
Thanks to the Chuck Norris Random Fact Generator, Chuck Norris, also known as Walker Texas Ranger, became an Internet legend – a meme that simply will not die.
Now, the creator of the infamous compendium of tall-tale facts that revitalized Norris’ defunct career, Brown’s very own...
Who sends telegrams in this day and age? No one, that’s who.
Still, the Brown chapter of the Medical Students for Choice hopes to revive the age-old custom of communicating through the postal service—rather than by e-mail or instant messaging—with their new fund-raising scheme, the Condom-Grams.
While the price has yet to be announced, the p...
Last night, the long-awaited episode of Gossip Girl in which Columbia University masquerades as Yale finally aired, and Columbia students everywhere took to their common rooms, quads and lounges for a solid hour to watch their campus make its GG debut together.
In case you missed it, the BWOG has a brief, yet informative recap of the show, com...
Before viewing the rankings, let’s put things into perspective. Many Europeans have a chip on their shoulder when it comes to their education system, and they get offended when someone from the United States claims to have a larger one on theirs.
Case and point: On October 1st, an OTR editor declared that Harvard, Columbia and the University o...
Miko Exoticwear, the sex shop located on Wickenden Street near Brown, has closed permanently, leaving the one or two oversexed Brown students in existence with no place to turn to satiate their hedonistic desires.
According to the owner, the reason for the shop’s untimely demise was “mismanagement of funds by the store’s manager.” However, giv...
Trojan Condoms released their third annual Sexual Health Report Card today, and the Ivy League took two of the top five spots and placed favorably overall.
For the uninitiated, the Sexual Health Report Card ranks 130 colleges and universities based on the quality and availability of sexual health services and resources on campus. And so, in th...
The 2009 College Sustainability Report, also known as the “Green Report Card,” is finally out. And so, let’s all take a break from ogling gorgeous celebrities to evaluate a much more serious set of Ivy League rankings.
For the uninitiated, the annualized Report Card measures the sustainability – i.e. a school’s ability to meet “the needs of th...
Fact or Fiction:
According to urban legend, a Princeton graduate, who worked on Wall Street at the time, went into a New York City bank and asked for a $5,000 loan.
When the loan officer asked him why he needed the money, the man responded, “I’m going to India on business for two weeks and desperately need the loan to cover my flight and hot...
The U.S. economy is in shambles, and those of you who studied finance, economics or business management hoping to one day score a prestigious Wall Street job are screwed.
Don't fret, though!
Here's something to cheer you all up and help you forget that your careers -- for all intents and purposes -- are doomed.
If HALCALI's new video doesn...
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 Madonn...
Last week, Forbes released their inaugural list of the best colleges in the United States, and my alma mater, Northwestern, came in eleventh place, beating out four of the eight Ivy League universities.
Don’t believe me? Here’s the evidence, Mr. Naysayer:
1. Princeton University
2. California Institute of Technology
3. Harvard University
...
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