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Students Revolt Against Big Bank Recruiting

Protests spread across Ivy League campuses

(Newser) - Half of those surveyed in Harvard's class of 2010 went into finance or consulting; at the University of Pennsylvania, the figure was even higher—and some students are fed up with the "brain drain." Inspired in part by the Occupy movement, students have launched protests against recruiting... More »

Yale Bans Kegs at Tailgates After Deadly Crash

No more box trucks, either

(Newser) - Yale has banned kegs from all student athletic games or functions in the wake of a U-Haul crash that killed a woman at the Harvard-Yale football game in November. The new rules also prohibit box trucks and the like from tailgate parties unless driven by an official vendor, reports AP... More »

Tiger Mom: I'm a Paper Tiger When It Comes to College

'Most hands-off parents we know,' says Amy Chua

(Newser) - You can all relax. Tiger mom Amy Chua isn't driving her first-born daughter nuts haranguing her to study and barring sleepovers and TV now that she's in college ( Harvard, of course ). The fiercely strict mom is "probably the most hands-off" college parent, Chua writes in... More »

Harvard Swamped by Early Applications

Early admissions program reinstated for first time since 2007

(Newser) - The Occupy movement has reached some college campuses , including Harvard, with some demonstrators protesting high tuition. But apparently current high school students have not been swayed, because Harvard has been absolutely flooded with early applications: 4,245 as of yesterday, to be exact, a number that is more than twice... More »

Students Walk Out, Rip Harvard Prof for Economy Woes

70 exit class in protest against influential Prof. Greg Mankiw

(Newser) - Who's responsible for the economic troubles in the US? A group of Harvard students believe it's partially the fault of a conservative university professor, who has apparently sent out his minions to wreak economic havoc. Some 70 students walked out of Professor Greg Mankiw's economics class last... More »

Coffee Lowers Depression Risk in Women

2-3 cups a day reduced depression risk by 15%

(Newser) - Maybe those pit stops at Starbucks are really worth it after all. In a new study, women who downed two to three cups of caffeinated coffee a day were 15% less likely to experience depression; those who drank 4 cups or more, 20% less likely. The Harvard study of more... More »

Larry Summers: Winklevoss Twins Are 'A**holes'

Former Harvard president says he rarely encountered such 'swagger'

(Newser) - Just in case The Social Network didn't beat this point home for you, former Harvard president Larry Summers thinks the Winklevoss twins are "assholes." The brothers, who infamously sued classmate Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly stealing their idea for Facebook, went to Summers for help, but he dismissed... More »

Ivy League Offers False Hope to Kids It Won't Accept

Elite universities profit from acting interested in unqualified students

(Newser) - Ivy League schools cram high school students' mailboxes full with glossy recruitment packages, only to greet them weeks later with far less appealing rejection letters. Critics say elite universities like Harvard and Columbia set up potential applicants for disappointment by wooing them with pamphlets, posters, and promise, pocketing hefty application... More »

Post-Harvard Bummer: You Have to Clean Your Own Toilet

Oh, yeah, and actually show up for work

(Newser) - Get ready for the real world, Harvard seniors: You're actually going to have to show up for work, and you're—whoah!—going to have to clean your own bathroom. Who knew the world could be so harsh? But that's the straight dope from one of Harvard'... More »

Trump: Obama Wasn't Qualified for Ivy League

President was terrible student, Trump claims

(Newser) - Move over birthers, here come the "graders." President Obama was a "terrible" student who didn't deserve to get into the Ivy League universities he attended, Donald Trump suggests in an interview with AP . "I heard he was a terrible student, terrible. How does a bad... More »

Tiger Mom's Kid Gets Into Harvard

...and Yale

(Newser) - Take that, haters: You may not like Amy Chua's parenting style, but it has apparently returned a child that is Harvard material. And Yale material. Sophia, 18, is currently deciding between those institutions, reports the Boston Herald . And Chua isn't taking credit for the acceptances. "I don’t think... More »

Harvard Brings Back ROTC

Move follows repeal of ban gays in the military

(Newser) - ROTC will be back at Harvard now that Don't Ask, Don't Tell has been repealed, reports AP . The university will recognize the Navy's Reserve Officer Training Corps program, an insider says. Harvard—along with Yale, Columbia, and other big-name schools—gave ROTC the boot 41 years ago amid protests over... More »

Recruiters: Columbia, MIT Are So 'Second-Tier'

If you didn't graduate from Harvard, good luck getting a top job

(Newser) - If you’re determined to get a great job, you might want to quit your course of study at Cornell or Dartmouth and transfer to one of the "top 5" schools: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and Wharton. A new study shows that recruiters for the best law firms, investment... More »

Google Database Tracks Popularity of 500B Words

We use 'women' a lot more than we used to

(Newser) - Google has quietly released a massive database that's as scholarly a tool as it is fun to play with. Called Ngram , this digital storehouse contains 500 billion words from 5.2 million books published between 1500 and 2008 in English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, and Chinese. It lets anyone search... More »

Harvard: Urine-Soaked Gay Books Not a Hate Crime

Just an accident resulting from ... pee on a shelf?

(Newser) - Those 36 books on LGBT topics that were damaged with urine at one of Harvard’s libraries? Not a hate crime … just an accident, university police have determined. A member of Harvard’s library personnel accidentally spilled a bottle of urine that was found on a shelf, the Harvard ... More »

Ivy Donations Are 'Loathsome'

Giving to 'Affirmative Action for Rich' is 'moral crime,' writes Hamilton Nolan

(Newser) - Gawker's Hamilton Nolan is scrambling onto the anti-Ivy League bandwagon by slamming donations to the elitist institutions as "loathsome" and a "moral crime." The schools "are terrible choices for huge donations. Supporting education is a worthy cause; but there are many, many more effective ways... More »

The Social Network Gets Zuck All Wrong

Harvard classmate says Mark was cool kid on campus

(Newser) - Aaron Sorkin’s new movie, The Social Network, appears to be a "paranoid, sleazy, and grim" imagining of the founding of Facebook, in which Mark Zuckerberg, a cantankerous outsider, creates his social network in a bid to impress buxom women and callow preppies. “That completely misses the point,... More »

Let's Scrap Final Exams

Harvard is right: They don't help students learn

(Newser) - Harvard made exactly the right move when it declared it would no longer require final exams, writes Jonathan Zimmerman. Critics immediately pounced, calling it yet another example of coddled students and weakened standards. (One example here .) Nope, writes NYU history professor Zimmerman in the Christian Science Monitor . That's an... More »

Class of 2014 Doesn't Know Cursive, and Other Facts

But they do know Fergie ... the singer, right?

(Newser) - US News & World Report is ready to shock us all with its Best Colleges 2011 ranking, which places Harvard smack dab on top. Again. But—news alert!—Princeton has tumbled from tying the venerable Crimson to No. 2. That list, which you can see here , doesn't wow us... More »

Harvard Grad Gets a Shot in NBA

Jeremy Lin says he's not interested in labels

(Newser) - Jeremy Lin has landed his dream job, but it wasn’t easy. “Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won’t necessarily help,” he tells the Washington Post . The 6-foot-3 guard signed with his hometown Golden State Warriors as... More »

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