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  • May 2008

    • Pinched Oxford Wants $2.5B

      Christian Science Monitor  |  May 29, 08 7:08 AM CDT

      Pinched Oxford Wants $2.5B

      (Newser) - Prestigious Oxford University is pleading poverty and has begun a campaign to raise funds to make it competitive with Harvard, Yale, and Princeton for academic talent, reports the Christian Science Monitor. The university—actually a collection of individual colleges—aims to raise $2.5 billion, but even that is chump change compared to Harvard's $34 billion endowment. More »

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      Harvard  • endowment  • Oxford University  • Yale  • Cambridge University  • Princeton  • alumni

    • Best Alma Maters for Billionaires

      Forbes  |  May 22, 08 3:00 PM CDT

      Best Alma Maters for Billionaires

      (Newser) - Bill Gates and Carl Icahn may be college dropouts (Harvard and NYU, respectively), but most billionaires carry a sheepskin diploma with them. These top-tier universities have educated the most billionaires: Harvard: with 50, including Steve Ballmer, Michael Bloomberg, and Sumner Redstone. Stanford: was founded by a billionaire and counts 30 among alumni, including  Nike founder Phil Knight and Google's Sergey Brin and Larry Page. University of Pennsylvania: 27, mostly products of its prestigious Wharton School. Alums include The Donald and SAC Capital founder Steven Cohen. Yale: 19,  including Sears chair Eddie Lampert and private equity guru Stephen Schwarzman. Columbia: holds 15, most notably some guy named Warren Buffet. More »

  • April 2008

    • 'Abortion Art' a Hoax, Yale Says

      Washington Post  |  Apr 18, 08 11:00 AM CDT

      'Abortion Art' a Hoax, Yale Says

      (Newser) - When Yale art student Aliza Shvarts said she’d impregnated herself “as often as possible,” aborted all the results, and intended to display the resulting menstrual blood, people got a bit upset. Students gathered in protest as the story blazed across a disgusted blogosphere. One problem: It was all made up. Yale said yesterday the piece was a “creative fiction,” the Washington Post reports. More »

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      art  • abortion  • Yale University  • hoax  • Yale  • Aliza Shvarts

    • Insemination, Miscarriage Make Yale Senior's Art Project

      Yale Daily News  |  Apr 17, 08 1:34 PM CDT

      Insemination, Miscarriage Make Yale Senior's Art Project

      (Newser) - A Yale art student repeatedly impregnated herself and then induced miscarriages with drugs; her undergraduate thesis documenting the process goes on display next week. The exhibition will include video of the miscarriages, the Yale Daily News reports, and also the student’s own preserved blood. Aliza Shvarts insists “it’s not the intention of the piece to scandalize anyone”—but classmates aren’t so sure. More »

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      art  • Yale  • miscarriage  • Aliza Shvarts

    • Inside Oliver Stone's Leaked Bush Biopic Script

      Slate  |  Apr 8, 08 4:40 PM CDT

      Inside Oliver Stone's Leaked Bush Biopic Script

      (Newser) - The script for Oliver Stone’s biopic about George Bush has leaked to the press, and Juliet Lapidos picked through it to find some choice lines for Slate: The future president’s proudest moment at Yale? Pouring “cheap vodka into a large garbage can” while another frat pledge “mixes in orange juice.” The day after he turns 40, a hung-over Bush gives up on a jog: “Heart POUNDING in his chest. ... Then leans over, retching.” More »

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      George W. Bush  • film  • Dick Cheney  • alcoholism  • Yale  • Oliver Stone

  • March 2008

    • War Game Takes Colleges by Storm

      New York Times  |  Mar 21, 08 12:15 PM CDT

      War Game Takes Colleges by Storm

      (Newser) - Somewhere, Harvard is plotting an assault on Yale, while Cornell forges an alliance with Princeton. Such mass maneuvers are routine in GoCrossCampus, a Risk-like online war game in which teams of hundreds of players move armies across virtual versions of real campus locations. But it’s the real-world interaction, as students hash out strategy, that could make it the next Internet phenomenon to come from college entrepreneurs, the New York Times says. More »

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      Internet  • social networking  • online gaming  • Yale  • free online games

  • February 2008

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