Higher Education

By Jonah Wolf 4/23 7:05pm

The soon-to-be-former home of Collegiate School.

Kickin’ Out Old School: Puffed Up Prepsters Warily Eye Collegiate’s Modern Move

Collegiate School is defined on Urban Dictionary as “a haughty, arrogant school.” When the Upper West Side boys’ academy is trailing in a basketball game and rivals start chanting “score board,” the Collegiate heckling squad has been known to chant “college board” in response.

The academy regularly lands toward the top of various publications’ rankings of secondary schools by college matriculation, and it boasts a distinguished alumni list including Cesar Romero, Peter Bogdanovich, Edgar Bronfman Jr. and John F. Kennedy Jr.

Significantly less distinguished has been its campus, a clumsy architectural hodepodge of three buildings around the intersection of Broadway and 78th Street, patched together by time and improvisation. Read More

By Rachel R. White 11/16/12 2:12pm

Higher Education

The Story of ‘No’: S&M Sex Clubs Sprout Up on Ivy Campuses, and Coercion Becomes an Issue

“Sometimes my friends and I stop each other mid-sentence and say, ‘Oh my god, you guys. We go to Harvard. This is so weird,’” Maria, a junior, said recently over Skype chat.

Harvard had been Maria’s dream school for years. (She requested a pseudonym, but not because she’s not proud of her alma mater.) A Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 7/11/12 8:00am

Higher Education

The Professor of Desire: Madison Moore, Yale’s Fiercest Ph.D Candidate

“I do a talk on Tina Turner,” Yale doctoral candidate Madison Moore told The Observer recently, “and I wear a fringed skirt and bust out some Tina moves.”

Mr. Moore is in the American studies department at Yale, and, if you must ask, he is preparing a dissertation on “fierceness.”
“We know about her Read More

By Emily Witt 5/06/11 6:20pm

Higher Education

Family of Deceased Princeton Professor Questions University’s Silence

The family of Antonio Calvo, the Princeton professor whose April 12 suicide was preceded by a controversial suspension, has issued a statement about the university’s silence surrounding the circumstances of Dr. Calvo’s departure from Princeton. The statement further undermines university president Shirley Tilghman’s stance that no details about his situation can be disclosed, Read More

By Emily Witt 5/03/11 11:09pm

Higher Education

The Death of St. Antonio: At Princeton, An ‘Abrupt Leave-Taking’

The people of Princeton University tend to communicate in a shared code. “The Dinky” means the train. “Wawa” means the store. “The Street” is the metonym for the eating clubs that line Prospect Avenue, the mansion-lined thoroughfare that bisects the campus. Discussion sections are better known as “precepts.” And when the university suspends a popular Read More

By Nate Freeman 12/09/10 5:04pm

Higher Education

Reefer Madness! Columbia Drug Pusher Cries Foul on ‘Operation Ivy League’

Morningside Heights is a little less high this week. On Tuesday, police busted a five-person drug cartel at Columbia University, a student-run bonanza of coke, weed and acid that had brought in $11,000 for the kids. The undercover effort was dubbed “Operation Ivy League.”

Now, the would-be kingpins have started to speak, and not Read More

By Nate Freeman 10/01/10 4:34pm

Higher Education

St. John’s Dean Turned College Into Hellish Slave Camp For Scholarship Students

College may be a demanding environment full of soul-crushing pressure and vindictive administrators, but rarely does it descend to actual, whip-crack slave labor.

Well, it came mighty close for the scholarship students placed under the dominion of ex-dean Cecilia Chang of St. John’s University in Queens. The New York Times says that the administrator — Read More

By Dan Duray 9/09/10 5:53pm

Higher Education

Stanley McChrystal’s Yale Course Will Be Media-Heavy, Autobiographical

Shortly after he resigned as commander of U.S. Afghanistan forces, it was announced that Gen. Stanley McChrystal would be teaching a course at Yale next semester. The Yale Daily News recently obtained a syllabus from a research assistant for the class that grants some insight into the topics that will be covered.

Judging Read More

By Molly Fischer 7/05/10 6:06pm

Higher Education

British Publisher Offers Writing Classes, Pastoral Frolics

Screw MFA programs: maybe it would make more sense to futz with your novel under the guidance of an institution that might someday publish it.

The British publishing house Faber has begun offering courses for aspiring writers. “Faber Academy” lasts three days, costs $640, and offers lessons with Booker Prize winners and the Read More

The New York Observer

Kickin’ Out Old School: Puffed Up Prepsters Warily Eye Collegiate’s Modern Move

The Professor of Desire: Madison Moore, Yale’s Fiercest Ph.D Candidate

Family of Deceased Princeton Professor Questions University’s Silence

The Death of St. Antonio: At Princeton, An ‘Abrupt Leave-Taking’

Reefer Madness! Columbia Drug Pusher Cries Foul on ‘Operation Ivy League’

St. John’s Dean Turned College Into Hellish Slave Camp For Scholarship Students

Stanley McChrystal’s Yale Course Will Be Media-Heavy, Autobiographical

British Publisher Offers Writing Classes, Pastoral Frolics

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