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October 27, 2007

After definitively telling Bostonist that a scabies outbreak happened at Harvard's Pennypacker Hall, the school's University Health Service (UHS) sent out an e-mail saying might not have been scabies after all. Maybe. The memo from UHS sent Wednesday afternoon states that the results are inconclusive and that the ants in the Pennypacker pants resulted from "unknown" causes. Ivy Gate Blog has a copy of the memo, which says, "As is frequently the case with rashes,......

Continue Reading "Scabies Debate Rages at Harvard"

September 16, 2007

Ivy Gate Blog has been compiling videos of Ivy-League students acting like idiots. Harvard students produced a fine piece of work in which two shirtless male students make an "avant-garde peanut-butter and jelly sandwich" while chugging booze: The one on the right appears to channeling the accent adopted by "Mr. Boston," competitor on the dating reality show I Love New York. Video originally posted to YouTube by HarvardHooligan. His parents are proud.......

Continue Reading "Somehow, Harvard No Longer Seems As Intimidating"

August 6, 2007

No, not that kind of hedge. Harvard lost $350 million by investing in a hedge fund. Maybe they thought the hedge fund would rake in the cash because it was run by a man who used to manage Harvard's foreign stock holdings. They were wrong. When Jeffrey Larson left the confines of Harvard to run his own firm, Harvard gave him a parting gift of $500 million. Larson lost the $350 from that and sold......

Continue Reading "Harvard Hedge Takes a Beating"

January 31, 2007

Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock? will screen at the ICA this Sunday afternoon and next Sunday afternoon at 2:00 pm. Tickets are available online. Is this piece of art the work of a) A five-year-old b) Your old college roommate who put "magic mushrooms" on her pizza c) Famed painter Jackson Pollock Harvard researchers are saying that, whatever this painting is, it probably isn't "c." Harvard researchers tested three paintings owned by Alex Matter,......

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