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Life is getting tougher and tougher for this year's crop of anxiety-ridden Ivy League applicants—now even the blog they frequent to both alleviate and exacerbate their stress is letting them down...
Even more disconcerting to the Ivygate-obsessed, a Nov. 18 post was neither a snarky analysis of a professorial affair nor a dig at preppy Yale students, but rather a plea for more blog writers...
...fake advertisement,another mocks an incident involving poisoned coffee at the Harvard Medical School, and the third makes it clear that an act of arson by a Harvard grad is very much out of character with an Ivy League education). Clearly, Harvard alums and events are crucial to the blog's content. But how big a deal is the Ivygate dry spell for Harvard students...
...When Ivygate first started, I felt like it was very much a site that people would log on to just to procrastinate, but it occasionally broke news," said Lena Chen '10, writer of the blog Sex and the Ivy. "Nowadays there is no shortage of sites that do exactly what Ivy does...
Horny guys, lowbrow debates and run-of-the-mill spam all seem to be in abundant supply on CollegeACB.com (the acronym stands for Anonymous Confession Board). But what sets this site - and others like it - apart from the coarse commentary found on YouTube or, for that matter, a political blog are the personal attacks against private citizens, often with last names included, that leave victims with little recourse aside from demanding that the anonymous comments be taken down. (See a video of the ACB founder...