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

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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 Steve Huff 4/11/12 2:57am

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U.C.L.A. Pulls a ‘Vassar’ on 894 Prospective Students

A few months back Vassar thoroughly embarrassed itself when a ‘technical glitch’ delivered 70 acceptance letters to high school seniors the world over–by mistake. Now U.C.L.A. has been struck by the same mysterious case of the stupids. If anything, the California school’s boo-boo was worse, since this time 894 high school students had their hopes raised, then dashed: Read More

By Steve Huff 1/28/12 6:58pm

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From Vassar's sesquicentennial celebration

Vassar Applicants Learn About Acceptance and Rejection the Hard Way

From Vassar’s sesquicentennial celebration

Vassar College recently ruined the weekends of applicants around the world–by sending out more than 70 mistaken acceptance letters to students who had applied for early decision admission. Students from Singapore, Tunisia and the U.S. all went through something of a roller coaster ride due to a basic clerical error: Read More

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

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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

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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

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