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Type of site | Blog |
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| Created by | Chris Beam and Nick Summers |
| URL | www.ivygateblog.com |
| Launched | 2006 |
| Current status | Inactive |
IvyGate was a blog and online news source covering news and gossip at Ivy League universities. The site was written and edited by students and recent graduates. [1]
IvyGate was founded in 2006 by Columbia University alumni Chris Beam and Nick Summers. [2] The blog covers the "follies" of Ivy League schools, such as a Princeton University class president accused of setting a squirrel on fire, a University of Pennsylvania graduate student who turned out to be in prison, and a Yale Skull and Bones member arrested for burning an American Flag. [3]
IvyGate rose to prominence through its investigative reporting of the details of the "Impossible is Nothing" Internet meme, concerning an impossibly boastful video résumé produced by then Yale student Aleksey Vayner. [4] [5] [6] It was a nominee for the 2006 Weblog Award for "Best Educational Blog".
A minor controversy arose in December 2006 involving Beam's father, prominent Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam. The younger Beam had covered a Brown University professor who wrote prolific letters to the editor in The New York Times . Five days later the elder Beam covered the same story in his column, without attribution, leading to humorous but well-publicized complaints of plagiarism. [7]
Beam has written for the online magazine Slate and The New Republic , and his fellow Columbia graduate Nick Summers is an editor for The New York Times .
The blog was the first to publish results of the U.S. News & World Report 2007 college rankings. [8] It also broke the scoop on the disbanding of a Yale fraternity, [9] and broke the Pi Phi Rush Guidelines controversy at Cornell. Adam Clark Estes, a former editor at IvyGate, was criticized for making fun of the death of a Cornell student who had died due to swine flu in 2009. [10] It employs reporters and commentators throughout the Ivy League, though reporting is sometimes viewed as displaying favoritism.
IvyGate's last post was published in October 2015. In 2018, the site was taken offline. [11] Its archives can still be found using the Wayback Machine. [12]
The Ivy League is an American collegiate athletic conference of eight private research universities in the Northeastern United States. It participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I, and in football, in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). The term Ivy League is used more broadly to refer to the eight schools that belong to the league, which are globally-renowned as elite colleges associated with academic excellence, highly selective admissions, and social elitism. The term was used as early as 1933, and it became official in 1954 following the formation of the Ivy League athletic conference.
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Impossible Is Nothing is a 2006 video résumé by Aleksey Vayner which became an Internet meme.
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The 2009–10 Ivy League men's basketball season was the 56th season of Ivy League basketball. The Cornell University Big Red won their third consecutive Ivy League Championship and were the league's representative at the 2010 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. Seeded 12th in the East Region the Big Red won their first two games over number five seed Temple University 78-65 and number four seed University of Wisconsin 87-69 before falling to number one seed University of Kentucky 62-45 in the Sweet Sixteen. They were the first Ivy League team to reach the Sweet Sixteen since the 1978–79 Penn Quakers and set an Ivy League record with 29 wins.
The 2012–13 Harvard Crimson men's basketball team represented Harvard University during the 2012–13 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Crimson, led by sixth year head coach Tommy Amaker, played their home games at Lavietes Pavilion and are members of the Ivy League.
The 2004 Cornell Big Red football team represented Cornell University in the 2004 NCAA Division I-AA football season as a member of the Ivy League. They were led by first-year head coach Jim Knowles and played their home games at Schoellkopf Field. Cornell finished the season 4–6 overall and 4–3 in Ivy League play.
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