Ivy League Conservatives

If you’re new here and like what you read, subscribe to my RSS feed. Thank you for visiting!On today’s Ask Dartmouth: Is “The Big Green” really Dartmouth’s mascot? If so, where does it come from and what does it mean?

From the Daily Pennsylvanian:
University City has received excellent marks in all subjects on its 2008 District Report Card.
According to the report, in the last 10 years UCD has seen a 20-percent decrease in crime , a 16.5-percent increase in employment, improvements in pedestrian lighting and numerous green initiatives. Additionally, it has $4.5 billion invested in [...]

Have you ever wondered how Dartmouth’s trees are managed? I have, and apparently, so have others. 

Advice to Cornell’s incoming freshman class from columnist Laura Temel: Two-year plans. I like it. How many of us switched our majors three or four times because we came into college thinking we’d be pre-med?

Harvard opens its first office in China. 

From Yale:
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The Yale athletics department mourns the passing of former head football coach John Pont, who passed away Tuesday morning at the age of 80. Pont died at his home in Oxford, Ohio, after a battle with cancer.
Pont was named Yale’s head coach on March 6, 1963. He had spent the previous [...]

Power Line takes on Priya Venkatesan and Dartmouth’s writing program. 

For affordable housing, transportation, the whole nine.

The lowdown: The sequel to Transformers was filmed earlier this month at Penn, but the actual setting of the movie will be the campus of our bitter rival Princeton, where the Transformers team has also filmed. Penn students feign outrage. Not that centuries-old college rivalries matter to most media types, but someone should’ve at least sent a [...]

A Columbia grad turned phone sex operator. A wunderkind named Lukasz Zbylut who came close to sweeping Ivy admissions. And Harvard grads who’ve spurned Wall Street in favor of public interest careers. Read it all at IvyGate.

A nice piece about the Bulldogs that are getting ready for the Olympics at Lake Placid’s Olympic Training Center.
 

This guy deserves to receive the rape, torture and agony he wrought on this poor Columbia grad student, whose testimony helped jurors find him guilty on all but two of the forty-something counts against him.

…if gas prices continue to climb. [The Ithaca Journal]
RADNOR, Pa. — Ithaca’s air service could become an unwitting victim of high fuel prices, as multiple U.S. airlines are likely to default and fail in the coming months while other airlines retrench, according to a recent study,
“Oil Prices and the Looming U.S. Aviation Industry Catastrophe: A [...]

New York Magazine covered Harvard’s Class of 2003 just had their five-year reunion, and their write-up made one thing crystal clear for me: I’ve got a lot of work to do in the next three years. From the piece, which you can also read here:
Roughly a third of Harvard’s class of 2003 lives in New [...]

Congratulations to these fine student-athletes. Here’s the breakdown, by school:
Dartmouth: Damon Wright, CF (Giants); Russell Young, P (Indians).
Harvard: Shawn Haviland, P (A’s).
Princeton: Spencer Lucian, 2B (Yankees); Christian Staehely, P (Mariners).
Yale: Ryan Lavarnway, C (Red Sox); Brian Irving, P (Giants); Steven Gilman, P (Tigers).