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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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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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(Note: everything reported here was seen or heard directly by the author, and all opinions expressed are solely his own.)
Well, Obama won. No huge surprise there.
A bit more surprising was Yale's reaction. Upon learning of his impending victory, Yalies went wild, flooding courtyards. One obviously inebriated student was heard yelling "Vom fo...
Who watches Gossip Girl – and actually enjoys it?
Please raise your hands post-haste, so that I know whom to shoot first during the forthcoming Zombie Apocalypse.
Last night, this dreadful excuse for “television entertainment” singlehandedly lobotomized the American public, placing each of us into a catatonic state of shock.
Seriously, we ...
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, collectively known as Brangelina, are no strangers to adoption. In fact, they appear to be singlehandedly pioneering the trend of celebrity adoptions in Hollywood with their “Gotta Catch ‘Em All” mentality.
For Max Lanman ‘10, this adoption trend, especially to the Brangelina degree where it entails importing chil...
Nobody likes the city of Boston. If you think otherwise, please stop perpetuating this myth immediately.
Still, in its on-going bid to become the most hated city in America, Boston continues to add to the ever-expanding list of reasons to never visit Massachusetts.
The most recent addition? Limiting the annual Yale-Harvard tailgate to a meas...
Remember The Dark Knight, the greatest cinematic masterpiece of all-time? Well, a group of like-minded (READ: totally awesome) Yalies got together and turned it into a power ballad musical.
Oh, be still, my beating heart.
Written by Marshall Pailet and James Pollack, the theatrical production is a line-by-line retelling of the film’s narrati...
From Alexander Dominitz, the director for the student-run film production company Bulldog Productions, comes a music video of a song styled after Jay-Z's "99 Problems" about Martin Luther and the Reformation. Don't write it off without watching it: the video's both well done and entertaining. There is also a website up with cast and crew bios an...
Yalies celebrated the end of midterms in style on Friday at the school-sponsored Safety Dance, but the real festivities took place after the ‘80s-themed shindig came to an end.
According to the Yale Daily News, roughly 100 students left the Safety Dance and went over to Palmer House on Lynwood Avenue for a party of a different sort – one where...
Tonight just a little of the focus on John McCain and Barack Obama will be diverted to that other guy in politics. Remember George W. Bush? He’s still our president though no one really agrees with what he says anymore and his approval rating is just about hitting rock bottom. Still, the spotlight will be on him as the movie W. premieres.
The ...
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...
I’m sure Gossip Girl’s Serena van der Woodsen knows a thing or two about interventions. There was the alcohol abuse, a couple pills here and there, and some really epic meltdowns, but in her most recent intervention, she’s not on the receiving end.
While their TV alter egos were taking Yale by storm in this week's episode, actors Blake Lively ...
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