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Classic Harvard-Yale Tie
Gets Documentary Gloss

Crimson comeback was behind headline 'Harvard Beats Yale 29-29'

Boston Globe Boston Globe Nov 20, 08 2:39 PM CST
(Newser) - The 40th anniversary of a classic game in the football rivalry between Harvard and Yale has inspired a documentary, Mark Feeney writes in the Boston Globe . The contest is as notable for “its time-capsule aspect” and rising-star participants (future Oscar winner Tommy Lee Jones) as for the underdog Crimson's miraculous comeback, which occasioned the headline, and movie title, Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 . More »

More about:  NCAA football • Harvard • rivalry • Yale • Tommy Lee Jones • Doonesbury • Harvard Crimson • The Game • Garry Trudeau

Tony Blair Nervous on First Day of School

Former British prime minister debuts today
as Yale prof

Yale Daily News Yale Daily News Sep 19, 08 1:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - It’s the first day of school for Tony Blair, and the former prime minister confesses to having a case of nerves. “I was never a star student,” says Blair, who is embarking on a 3-year teaching gig at Yale. Blair tells the Yale Daily News he’s excited, but he’s also aware that he's going to be “mixing with a whole lot of people who I’m sure are a whole lot more clever and smarter than I am.” More »

More about:  Tony Blair • Ivy League • Yale

Harvard Bumps Princeton
in Top Colleges List

Smaller class size helps Harvard back to top of influential US News ranking

Associated Press Associated Press Aug 22, 08 9:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Harvard has reclaimed sole possession of the top spot in the ever-controversial US News and World Report rankings for the first time in 12 years. Princeton slipped to second, with Yale in third and Stanford and MIT tied for fourth spot. The magazine rates the halls of learning based on factors like SAT scores, reputation, and selectivity . More »

 Pinched Oxford Wants $2.5B 

Needs cash to compete with Ivy League

Christian Science Monitor Christian Science Monitor May 29, 08 7:08 AM CDT
(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 »

More about:  Harvard • endowment • Oxford University • Yale • Princeton • Cambridge University • donors • alumni

 Best Alma Maters
 for Billionaires 

Yeah, Harvard's the place to be

Forbes Forbes May 22, 08 3:00 PM CDT
(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 »

'Abortion Art'
a Hoax,
Yale Says

Student maintains that she impregnated herself over and over

Washington Post Washington Post Apr 18, 08 11:00 AM CDT
(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 »

More about:  art • abortion • Yale University • hoax • Yale • Aliza Shvarts

Insemination, Miscarriage Make Yale Senior's Art Project

'I hope it inspires some sort of discourse,' says student, preparing for angry response

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

More about:  art • Yale • miscarriage • Aliza Shvarts

OPINION

Inside Oliver Stone's Leaked Bush Biopic Script

Slate looks at some key W moments

Slate Slate Apr 8, 08 4:40 PM CDT
(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 »

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

War Game
Takes Colleges
by Storm

CoCrossCampus blends online play with real life interaction

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

More about:  Internet • social networking • online gaming • Yale • free online games

UPDATED

William F. Buckley Jr. Dies at 82

Influential conservative columnist founded National Review

New York Times New York Times Feb 27, 08 10:32 AM CST
(Newser) - Conservative columnist and editor William F. Buckley Jr. died today at age 82; he suffered from diabetes and emphysema. Buckley founded the opinion magazine National Review , hosted the show “Firing Line” and wrote 45 books. The author of God and Man at Yale and defender of Joe McCarthy was “replete with $10 words and a darting tongue,” the New York Times eulogizes. More »

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