Jezebel: Harvard

Jason Segel Thought There Would Be More Pudding

Doug Barry — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:00:00 EST

Actor Jason Segel is presented with his pudding pot by members of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals while being honored as the Hasty Pudding Man of the Year at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Friday, Feb. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds) More »

Claire Danes Wishes She'd Gone to Brown

Doug Barry — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:45:00 EST

Actress Claire Danes, center, is kissed by two men dressed in drag during a parade as she was honored as the Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman of the Year at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) More »

Science Figures Out How You Become a Hipster

Cassie Murdoch — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:45:00 EST

There are many factors that define a hipster in our minds. Glasses always seem to be at the top of the list, but clothing matters too, and, of course, there is their obsession with the latest, coolest music. And it's that quality that a new study from Harvard University sheds a little light on. The researchers found that it's a quest to have unique tastes that drives people into being hipsters. They analyzed the Facebook pages of 200 college students over four years, and they concluded that "students who shared similar tastes in music bonded, instead of those students passing on tastes to each other." More »

Harvard Students Crowdsource Ridiculous, Revealing Tips For Love

Anna North — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:20:00 EST

Have you ever wanted to see the cacophonous and often contradictory body of contemporary dating advice distilled into a single, ridiculous document? If so, a group of Harvard students has now made your dreams come true. More »

Mother Of 11 Is Headed To Harvard

Margaret Hartmann — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:50:00 EDT

Here's a tale guaranteed to inspire you (or perhaps just make you feel lazy): Allyson Reneau left the University of Oklahoma in 1981 to get married and start a family. She told herself that she'd go back to finish her degree when her baby was five, but that didn't happen until 2009. After having 11 children, spending 20 years as a stay-at-home mom, then opening a successful gymnastics school, Reneau was finally able to return to school. For the past few years, this is what her schedule looked like: More »

Tyra Banks Bonded With Her Fellow Harvard Students While Living In The Dorms

Whitney Jefferson — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:20:00 EDT

Apparently, Harvard is not afraid to tell Tyra no: despite how hard she tried, the business school would not allow her to attend if she didn't take up residence in their dorms. Oh, and pay no attention to the eye piece: it has something to do with "smizing" and her new book Modelland. More »

Amy Poehler's Awesome Harvard Speech

Whitney Jefferson — Thu, 26 May 2011 14:47:00 EDT

Last night Amy Poehler spoke to Harvard's graduating class of 2011 in a speech that was filled with personal life lessons, with Boston accents thrown in for good measure. More »

Why Women In Computer Science Matter

Anna North — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:05:00 EDT

Last week, Harvard celebrated a record number of female students declaring a computer science major. But the school — and the field — may still have a ways to go. More »

When Friendship Involves An Audition

Irin Carmon — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:00:01 EST

This year, more female freshman at Harvard rushed for a sorority than in the University's history. This means both less and more than it appears; there are only three sororities on campus, and Greek life has always played second fiddle to the college's more established final club scene. (Remember that AEPi scene in The Social Network? Well, that was sorta realistic.) But it's worth considering, more broadly, why women (and men) seek out social spaces that will include them — and exclude others. More »

Before OKCupid, There Was This

Sadie Stein — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:13:00 EST

In 1965, two rival dating programs were founded at Harvard. People found love, but — in a precursor of Facebook — things quickly degenerated into rivalry and backbiting. More »

Vogue Recycles Nine-Year-Old Natalie Portman Cover

Jenna Sauers — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:33:00 EST

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Black Swan star/Harvard graduate Natalie Portman's January Vogue cover has just been released. And it's been swiftly pointed out that the new cover looks almost identical to Portman's May, 2002 Vogue cover. Only, you know, worse. More »

Harvard Says LGBT Pee-Vandalism Was An Accident

Anna North — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:38:00 EST

Harvard officials are now saying that LGBT-themed books in a university library were drenched with urine not as the result of a hate crime, but because of an employee accident. Obviously, questions remain. More »

Harvard "Gangbanger" Incident Investigated By Massachusetts Attorney General

Irin Carmon — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:12:00 EST

The shut-down of a party for black Harvard and Yale alums — allegedly out of fear that "local gangbangers" were infiltrating — is now being investigated by the civil rights division of the Massachusetts Attorney General's office. More »

Club Mistakes Black Harvard Crowd For "Local Gangbangers"

Irin Carmon — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:20:29 EST

A party for black Harvard and Yale alums at a Boston club this weekend was shut down just after 11pm. Why? The club owner was concerned that a long line of black people outside would make the club look bad. More »

Quidditch World Cup Participants Take To New York

Erin Gloria Ryan — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 15:12:00 EST

Harvard Hortails' Billy Gorman celebrates with his team mates in the Quidditch match against University of Richmond during the 4th annual Quidditch World Cup held at Dewitt Clinton Park Saturday, Nov. 13, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Don't Know How You Feel? Your iPhone Will Tell You

Lauri Apple — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 18:09:14 EST

Harvard researchers have created new iPhone app called "Track Your Happiness" that randomly contacts iPhone users to ask what they're doing and how they're feeling. Kind of like Mom! Which raises the question, "why would you want such a thing?" More »

The Social Network, Where Women Never Have Ideas

Irin Carmon — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 12:31:00 EDT

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A white guy invented Facebook. But in Mark Zuckerberg's real-life world, women did more than give blowjobs, and black people said more than "Is this guy bothering you?" So why does The Social Network so badly want to pretend otherwise? More »

Loathsome Dating Site Can Help You Snag A "Harvard Man"

Irin Carmon — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:10:00 EDT

Men bring status and wealth, women bring... discernment, also known as hotness. At least that's the message drawn from DateHarvardSq, a new dating site that pairs "Harvard men" with "discerning" ladies. None of whom, of course, went to Harvard themselves. More »

Sex In The Student Newspaper: A Punishable Offense

Anna North — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:00:00 EDT

An Omaha high school newspaper was pulled — and a journalism teacher disciplined — because of it published articles that discussed teen sex. Another possibly anti-sex newspaper? The Harvard Crimson. More »

Teen Girls Buy Into Camel Ads • Study Says Girls Who Like Sex, Have Sex

Katy Kelleher — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:40:00 EDT

• A series of ads for Camel cigarettes launched in 2007 have proven themselves popular with an underage demographic: teen girls. Girls age 12-16 were twice as likely to list Camel as their favorite brand in 2008 than previous years. More »

Anne's Hasty Decision

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:50:00 EST

[Cambridge, January 28. Image via Splash.]

British Women Apparently Unable To Resist Ivy League Studs

Irin Carmon — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:00:00 EST

Watch out, ladies. British lasses are coming, and they want our most treasured specimens — "Ivy League men"! Worry not about the eclipse of America as a superpower: We've got David Duchovny and, um, "Dan Humphrey" from Gossip Girl? More »

Teens Sue Over Fallout From Sexy Pics • Harvard To Offer Class On The Wire

Katy Kelleher — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:40:00 EST

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• Two teens from Indiana have brought a lawsuit against their school after they were barred from participating in school activities following the discovery of some racy pictures they posted on MySpace. • More »

History Of Violence

Katy Kelleher — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:40:00 EDT

Researchers at Harvard University have created a computer program that maps out the patterns of domestic violence to help doctors diagnose "high risk" patients. Doctors say it will be ready for use in the next four years. [Wired] More »

The Five Fashionable Harvard Majors You Meet In The Recession

Jenna Sauers — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:20:00 EDT

Harvard is broke. Tapping the vast potential value of its own good name, Harvard signed a licensing deal with an apparel manufacturer. And the menswear label Harvard Yard was born! More »

NYC Prep: Are Harvard Grads Really This Assy?

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:00:00 EDT

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Ugh! On last night's NYC Prep, overachiever Camille took a trip to Boston with some friends to tour her dream school Harvard. Her tour guide—an alum/faculty member—was beyond obnoxious, and, as Kelly said, "had a weird voice." More »

Harvard Student Qualifies Her Accusations Of Racism

Anna North — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:30:00 EDT

Chanequa Campbell, who was barred from graduating after Harvard officials accused her of unspecified "wrongdoing" in connection with the murder of drug dealer Justin Cosby, now says, "I did not say Harvard is racist." More »

Harvard Senior Accused Of Involvement In Murder Accuses School Of Racism

Katy Kelleher — Wed, 27 May 2009 09:30:00 EDT

Chanequa Campbell, 21, is a Harvard student and sociology major who has won scholarships through Goldman Sachs, Coca Cola and The New York Times. She planned to graduate June 4th, but because of her alleged involvement in the murder of a local drug dealer, Campbell has been ordered off campus. More »

Do You Have The Guts To Take Online Relationships Offline?

Dodai Stewart — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:00:00 EST

We've posted about online dating experiences — specifically the horror stories and the Worst Date Ever™ — but the Wall Street Journal's Dara Horn writes about "Operation Match," the innocent dawn of technology-assisted love: More »

Renee Zellweger Has Had A Little Too Much Hasty Pudding

Anna Holmes — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:50:00 EST

[Cambridge, Massachusetts; February 5. Image via Getty]

Some People In Politics Live In An Alternate Universe

Megan Carpentier — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:30:00 EST

Once upon a time in a universe far, far away, a group of supposely intelligent women decided that Barack Obama wasn't sexy enough for them. And thus the world was denied his image in a Harvard Law beefcake calendar. I guess we'll always have People. [Politico]
Obama has told people he wants Lieberman to continue to caucus with the Dems, something Lieberman is swearing that he won't do if Democrats take his committee assignment away. Let the whiny bitch go, please. "No drama Obama" doesn't have to mean rolling over for Lieberman. [Huffington Post]
Speaking of the Senate, the difference between Norm Coleman and Al Franken in the Minnesota Senate race is down to 204 votes. One more reason to cut the dead weight, Harry Reid. [MSNBC]

Some Career Paths Just Don't Work For Working Moms

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EDT

"Mothers who work and those who stay home often end up judging one another," writes Maya Dollarhide Lucca in a CNN article about working moms. Shocker. But this issue will not go away, and the two sides are each adamant that they are right. Dr. Scott Haltzman, a clinical psychiatrist and an assistant professor at Brown says: "It's very clear to me, from what I've seen in my clients, that children who are put in day care, not raised by their mothers at home, feel a real loss. They feel the absence of those parents and it affects how they want to parent their own children." But author/psychologist Debra Condren counters: "Each time the media reports an interview with yet another professional woman who has seen the light and taken time out for motherhood, everyone breathes a collective sigh of relief. Finally, this woman has figured out what's really important. But keeping yourself from your own ambitions, dreams and career goals can be soul destroying." More »

Harvard Doc Likes Big Butts And He Cannot Lie

Dodai Stewart — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:00:00 EDT

Dear Dr. Ronald Kahn of Harvard Medical School: Your new study is amazing. You found that subcutaneous fat (that's fat right under the skin, for those who don't know) which accumulates around the hips and bottom may offer protection against diabetes. Love it! See, researchers have always known that fat in the abdomen — visceral fat — can raise a person's risk of diabetes and heart disease. Duh. But pear-shaped people (cough!) are less prone to these problems. So, Dr. Kahn, it was sheer genius when you decided to conduct experiments on mice. Because you found that subcutaneous fat transplanted into their bellies cause the mice to lose weight and show improved blood sugar and insulin levels. Crazy, right? Even crazier is what you said about fat: More »

Aliza Shvarts: The Halloween How-To For Harvard Students

Jennifer — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:30:00 EDT

Aliza Shvarts '08 is more than just an alleged abortion-inducer; according to our commenters, she is also a style icon of sorts. In fact, we predict that come Halloween, students all over Cambridge and other rival Ivies will be dressing up as the suddenly-notorious art student from that other East Coast institution of higher learning. In order to help them along, we decided to create a handy guide to recreating Aliza's look... Black leggings? Check! Fringe boots? Check! Leopard-print shorts? Of course. Everything they need to create a Shvarts costume (except for the discarded uterine lining), after the jump. More »

The Best Email I Have Ever Received

Moe — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:40:00 EDT

There are no facts, only interpretations, and if you comprehend an interpretation to its very depths you're likely to change your mind about it, as I have on occasion on this blog when challenged on one of the metaphors, metonyms and anthroporphisms marching around in the mobile mind army of thoughts and variables I falsely perceive to make up some sort of truth, which you may perceive to be a long-winded preamble to telling you I received an email Wednesday evening from a certain individual I'd described upon very little scrutiny as "amusingly pretentious," in a post of earlier this week. Was it unfair? Why not leave judgment to the herd?

Harvard Virgin Leo Keliher Not As Horny As The Times Made It Sound

Moe — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:40:00 EDT

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Remember Leo Keliher? He's that virgin I made fun of last week after the New York Times Magazine published his musings on why he felt it important to deny his ever-present lust. It was a really cheap shot, not that it isn't always a cheap shot with me, but it was a cheap shot because some of the things he said made me think about actually thinking about the whole thing — lust, desire, need, self-sacrifice, blah blah — for a few minutes before I took the whole "God grant me the wisdom/empathy/attention span to resist the overpowering urge to turn this whole story into an explicit doggy style church pew fantasy, but not just yet" route. Leo, the son of a child molester whose mom's second husband had left her for a woman 20 years younger, who had seen a lot of shit for someone barely born in the Reagan administration, seemed like an extraordinarily thoughtful person. I emailed to tell him that, and he emailed me back and I thought I'd share. More »

Dear Ivy League Virgins: Did You Ever Think Maybe Fucking Once In Awhile Would Make You More Fun?

Moe — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:00:00 EDT

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What if I had stayed a virgin? I entertain this thought sometimes, like when reading the New York Times Magazine story on Ivy League virgins. The difference between Ivy League virgins and regular virgins is that while regular virgins are scared of kids and Eternal Damnation, Ivy League virgins are scared of oxytocin. And to that end, they're not completely retarded. Oxytocin is the neurotransmitter released in the state commonly known as "infatuation", and it's probably the reason I personally sort of avoid sex these days, because of the chance said sex will lead to infatuation, which can be really fucking distracting. But I'm glad I wasn't always this way, because of girls like Janie Fredell. Janie, pictured, is a virgin. She is very very serious about limiting her oxytocin. She is so serious that she doesn't realize that her best friend Leo, an aspiring monk and her male partner in Harvard's "True Love Revolution" abstinence club, jerks off every morning to a fantasy about fucking her doggy style in a confessional. No seriously! I mean, the story doesn't specify the doggy style, but check out this passage. More »

What, You Assumed The Blind Guy Would Be A Faithful Husband? Did None Of You See Ray?

Moe — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:00:05 EDT

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Oh, what? You thought blindness would be an effective antidote to the old "wandering eye" problem? Wrong! Being blind just means crap taste in hotels. But here's the part we don't get: why, after you've been illicitly screwing some broad at the 94th street Days Inn do you take your wife back there? And what's more highbrow, Days Inn for a blind man in New York, or T.G.I. Friday's for a closeted gay and his orgy club in New Jersey? Is any of this as highbrow as getting called "guido" by the Jersey shore posse of Ashley Alexandra Dupre? Glamocracy's Megan Carpentier and I discuss all this, Obama's mystery brother in RED CHINA, and how the unprecedented JP Morgan-Bear Stearns-Fed bailout came together because the JP Morgan investment banking chief and the new Bear Stearns CEO were frat brothers at Duke. Oh yeah, and Obama is about to address the subject of his insane pastor who thinks white people control everything. That's happening now! Liveblog it, folks! More »

New DKNY Designer Rachel Bilson Can Neither Sketch Nor Sew

Jennifer — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:30:00 EDT

DKNY Jeans has announced a "partnership" with Rachel Bilson, who will be doing her own denim line for the brand. "Fans of 'The O.C.' really like DKNY Jeans, and I know they make great stuff, so I thought it could be good... I can't draw at all, so I won't be doing any sketches, but I am learning to sew," she says. [WWD, sub req'd]

Newsweek ponders why Ivy League students...

Jessica G. — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:45:00 EST

Newsweek ponders why Ivy League students aren't getting laid, despite the fact that they're publishing erotic magazines by the boatload. Here's one reason: deconstructing sex is the least sexy thing in the world. Ivy leaguers are sitting around discussing Foucault on fucking, instead of you know, actually fucking. Here's a second reason: Ivy League students are almost exclusively nerds. Despite some jocks and hipsters who are the exception to the rule, the majority of most Ivy Leagues consists of a seedy nerd underbelly that rarely emerges from the science library. This is why, according to Newsweek, "In 2006, nearly half of Harvard undergrads who responded to a survey reported they had never had intercourse." [Newsweek] More »