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Yale's Endowment Drops 25 Percent, Hits the Panic Button

Yale's Endowment Drops 25 Percent, Hits the Panic Button

Since the beginning of the summer and the start of the global economic collapse, Yale University’s endowment has nosedived, losing roughly 25 percent of its total worth, or $5.9 billion, in only six months.

 

In an open letter to the community, University President Richard Levin confirmed the drop, but assured distraught Yalies that, despite the...

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Comforting Words From An I-Banker: "Say Goodbye to [Your] Wall Street Dreams."

Comforting Words From An I-Banker: "Say Goodbye to [Your] Wall Street Dreams."

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...

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President Richard Nixon Hated the Ivy League, Secretly Planned Its Destruction

President Richard Nixon Hated the Ivy League, Secretly Planned Its Destruction

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...

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Bronx Borough President Confirms Obama Tap During Yale Talk

Bronx Borough President Confirms Obama Tap During Yale Talk

Did you know there are five boroughs in New York City?

 

That’s right; five. Smug Manhattanites love to pretend that the Big Apple begins and ends with their tiny, bourgeois island, but they’re wrong.

 

If you head northeast, you’ll wind up in the Bronx, a place that Yuppie parents warn their impressionable children never to go to at night lest ...

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Yalie Goes Away For Thanksgiving Break, Returns to Find Stranger Sleeping In Bed

Yalie Goes Away For Thanksgiving Break, Returns to Find Stranger Sleeping In Bed

Common Sense Lesson #1: Ivy League or not, never leave the door to your residency unlocked.

 

Over the weekend, a Yale student learned this harsh lesson the hard way when she returned from Thanksgiving Break to find her room in shambles and a strange man sleeping in her bed.

 

Hayley Carpenter ’11 arrived on campus on Saturday morning, and when ...

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Harvard-Yale Game Puts Nine Students in Hospital, Stirs Controversy Over Yale's Berlin Wall Prop

Harvard-Yale Game Puts Nine Students in Hospital, Stirs Controversy Over Yale's Berlin Wall Prop

Despite Boston’s attempt to rain on everyone’s parade with their draconian alcohol laws, the Harvard-Yale tailgate went off without a hitch.

 

As everyone knows, the best way to gauge the “success” of any collegiate shindig is by reviewing the number of alcohol-related hospitalizations, and this year, there were nine in total, which is admittedl...

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Harvard Crushes Yale (Again), Alcohol Flows at Annual Tailgate

Harvard Crushes Yale (Again), Alcohol Flows at Annual Tailgate

For the second year in a row, the Harvard Crimson dominated the Yale Bulldogs, shutting out their longtime rivals 10-0 in the 125th edition of the Game.

 

Of course, this result should come as a surprise to no one, especially after Yale’s 37-6 beating last year. Even those wearing the tacky blue-and-white sweaters must admit that it was wholly e...

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A Yale News Brief: The $1,000 Tickets and the $1,000 Tylenol Theft

A Yale News Brief: The $1,000 Tickets and the $1,000 Tylenol Theft

Forty years ago in 1968, an unidentified Yale student purchased eight tickets to the Game, the annual football grudge match against Harvard, for a paltry $48 and sold them for $1,000 to desperate alumni in New York, who were unable to secure tickets after they had sold out.

 

This week, a similar sequence of events transpired at Yale.

 

First, t...

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The Yale Club Invaded by the Bronx, Investigated By the IRS

The Yale Club Invaded by the Bronx, Investigated By the IRS

The Yale Club in New York is supposed to be a posh haven in the city for alumni of the respected Ivy League. Instead, complain some members, the club is being overrun by outsiders and worst of all many of these outsiders come from the Bronx.
 

The New York Post is reporting that lately the club has hosted a rash of weddings and one member insist...

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The Harvard Crimson Challenges Yale Daily News to Football Grudge Match

The Harvard Crimson Challenges Yale Daily News to Football Grudge Match

That’s right – the Harvard Crimson staff just laid down the gauntlet to their bitter rivals, and now, it’s up to the Yale Daily News editorial team to pick it up and bludgeon them with it.

 

On November 22nd, the Yale Bulldogs will face off against the Harvard Crimson for the 125th time in one of the most anticipated games of the Ivy League seas...

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