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Oh, Yale. When will you learn? First you rip off (half of) Harvard's motto, and now this. In a desperate attempt to distract people from the fact that it's only the third-oldest institution of higher education in the U.S. (our own Harvard, of course, being first), Yale has resorted to financial attention-getting techniques. On the heels of the announcement that Harvard has lost $8 billion, or 22%, from its endowment, Yale is coming out with news that its own endowment has dropped 25%, finally making Yale the leader in something. (It's about time.) But those figures may be misleading: Harvard lost 22% through October of this year. Through the same period, Yale is down only 13%. The 25% estimate comes from University President Richard Levin, who says the school has lost even more money in November and December. Assuming Levin's numbers are correct, Yale's endowment now stands at a paltry $17 billion in comparison to Harvard's $28 billion, and Yale's loss for the year was about $5 billion. That's just not going to cut it, Bulldogs—you've got to bleed more bucks.

Ivy League schools aren't supposed to have good basketball teams, are they? They have teams for fun, so they can relax their weary minds with sports, but no one expects them to be a powerhouse. They're supposed to suck. A good Ivy League team might rip the fabric of the universe.

We've been sitting on this one for a while, but it's hard to resist. Bostonist is fascinated by the return of H Bomb, Harvard University's sex magazine. So, what are they doing to bring the sexy to the Ivy League? For starters, they took nude photos. And then they brought in the big guns--former presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich.

A story about hookers would usually be part of the Boston Blotter, but the sudden burst of coverage in the Suburban Hooker Plague deserves its own post.

Harvard is putting all the money it has (see: "Harvard's Rich, Bitches!") to some truly good use by expanding financial aid packages to students. Here's the details from the AP: The university said it would replace all loans with grants, and spend up to $22 million more annually on aid, mostly targeting middle- and upper-middle class students. Families earning under $60,000 already pay nothing to attend the world’s richest university, with an endowment of nearly...

No Christmas shopping today. No Thanksgiving shopping, either. Get your remote control warmed up and tell the family they're on their own for dinner, because there's a lot of sports to be watchin' today. The fun starts at 2:00, when the Revolution try to get from "happy to be in the championship game", which is old hat, to actually winning the thing. They're matched up against Houston for all the marbles again; goalie Matt Reis...

The Celtics extended their undefeated streak on Friday night to eight games, but fans of the Bill Belichick School of Gloat-Free Victories can take heart in the fact that the team wants to take it to the next level. "We are nowhere near where we want to be," is the quote, provided by Paul Pierce, that sums up Friday night's game at the Garden, which ended with a 92-91 Boston advantage over Miami. Yes, the...

Harvard is breaking through its upper crust and trying something daring – a nighttime football game! What a novel concept! But scheduling its first nighttime football game – also the first home game - has been more difficult than they thought. For starters, the original date fell on Yom Kippur. Second, residents of Allston are not happy with Harvard's plans. Residents of Allston are never happy with Harvard's plans. The Yom Kippur problem was fairly...

A blogger was doing his thang, writing about his life and whatnot. Only what was going on in his life was a court case, and his blog had an effect on the outcome.

If you love the dish from a certain entitled university "outside Boston," an Ivy League gossip site has brought back RagTime, a roundup of Ivy-League news. The two gentlemen behind IvyGateBlog, Chris Beam and Nick Summers, shifted to a twice-daily posting schedule, and they dropped RagTime, thinking no one really cared. Along with 56 commenters and hordes of silent Internet lurkers, Bostonist was thoroughly despondent. IvyGateBlog's interpretation of university events, such as "LaRouche followers...

Harvard students were producing yet another season of Ivory Tower. The good folks at IvyGate just reminded us that season 4 of the all new Ivory Tower is well under way. The Harvard College soap opera describes themselves as a show "Completely acted, directed, written, and produced by Harvard undergraduates, Ivory Tower is Harvard’s very own soap opera. Both parodying and revealing the world of Ivy League sex, lies and privilege, college has never been this much fun! Ivory Tower provides the only campus opportunity for professionally-minded students to start producing fiction television today." After the 90's version was retired from Harvard-Radcliffe Television the show hit a hiatus until broadband brought it back. Now you can catch all the latest action from the other side of the river via YouTube. Episode 1 of season 4 hit the net in November, just last week Episode 2 was granted upload status. While students are spending their precious moments creating quality internet episodes the members of the presidential search committee are hard at work. They're still looking for that replacement for the departed Larry Summers. The Crimson recently shortened their list to four candidates; today they're saying "members have expressed enthusiasm" about two of the four. Sounds steamy – stay tuned an announcement is due in early February. In the mean time feel free to catch up on your favorite soap you keep forgetting to TiVo.

The Harvard Crimson is mired in the controversies of copycat cartoonists, quote cribbing, and an editor who would like to hide in a spiderhole. It's not a good sign for the future of journalism when the editor of an Ivy League paper takes damage-control tips from Saddam Hussein. You'd think the Harvard kids would have learned their lesson after Kaavya Viswanathan's legendary fall from grace. But, in the past few weeks, plagiarism fever has...

You may or may not already notice, but within the next 24 hours there will be a great outpouring of buses and cars from Harvard Square and surrounding areas. This weekend marks the big ivy league match-up in football between Harvard and Yale which dates back to 1875, and this year Yale is hosting.

For the uninitiated, Kaiju Big Battel is a wrestling league of sorts, in which competitors dressed as imagined Japanese B-movie monsters compete in miniature cityscapes - sort of a live interpretation of Mechagodzilla vs. Godzilla. There is, naturally, an extensive and amusing back story to explain this silliness, involving (of course) a galactic battle between good and evil. Apparently, the evil Dr. Cube and his posse (the "Rogues") are now taking the quest for evil victory beyond the ring, attempting to brainwash the Tufts campus with radio waves and convert students to his evil minions. To combat this, some good guys ("Heroes") have formed (surprise) a rock band that will counteract the radio wave brainwashing. So really it's just a rock show this evening at P.A.'s lounge in Somerville. ("3 Bands, One Cause," says the website. The cause is defeating Dr. Cube and the bands are Z.W.A., Peelander-Z, and Poison Ivy League.) But it promises to be an extremely amusing, absurdist rock show with many weird costumes, and, we imagine, some wrestling.

GoodGenes.com just started in the mix of the Boston University NPR station WBUR’s underwriting statements. When non-commercial radio isn’t asking for money and isn’t providing program content they’re bringing you non-comparative, non-qualitative commercial advertisements from euphemistically named underwriters. Bostonist thought we would check out one of the newest underwriters so you don't have to. Good Genes is a matchmaking website. It’s not your typical online dating site like Match.com that’s open to anyone, or even eHarmony.com that requires you to fill out a personality profile before you’re matched to a mate. The Good Genes site targets those Faculty, Alumni, and Students of Ivy League and other college and universities. There are a number of ways that you can verify your affiliation with the institutions on their list. Once a user is verified they are allowed to pay the membership fee and search the biographies of other elite-educated for their perfect match for only $60 each month.