That’s right, despite Harvard having one of the lowest admission rates in the country, out of the five young male contributors who applied, four got in. To put that in perspective, Harvard’s regular decision acceptance rate this year was 3.8%, but if you look at The Choice’s male guest bloggers, Harvard has taken 80% of them. Even factor in the two women who applied but didn’t make the cut, that’s still 57% of the applicants getting in to Harvard, a school that has prided itself on their single digit acceptance percentages.

So how did this happen? Is Harvard’s admissions office reading The Envelope, Please? Does The Choice have some magic crystal ball to find future Harvard admits? Or, is writing for the most famous newspaper in the world the answer to an increasingly competitive college application process everyone is trying to game?

Whatever the reason, it doesn’t actually seem to be working in Harvard’s favor. While Harvard’s yield for the class of 2016 was 81%, only one of their four chosen bloggers over the years decided to take the Crimson up on their offer. Again, to break it down into numbers, 81% for 2016ers, 25% of NYTers. Ouch. The other three decided to take their talents to Stanford, Yale, and, double ouch, Vanderbilt.

Check out Davis’ introduction to The Dartmouth community below at three minutes:

Now, the year I graduated—this area looks familiar—(laughter)—the year I graduated was 1983, the first year women were admitted to Columbia.  (Applause.)  Sally Ride was the first American woman in space.  Music was all about Michael and the Moonwalk.  (Laughter.)

UPDATE: Sigma Pi releases statement [PDF].

On Sunday morning, someone standing on the roof of Cornell’s Sigma Pi fraternity (pictured) threw glass bottles at several black students while shouting the name of Trayvon Martin. Though the fraternity has been “fully cooperative” with law enforcement officers (according to the Cornell Police Department), two key details remain disputed: how many people were on the roof, shouting and throwing bottles; and whether any of them belong to Sig Pi.

Eyewitnesses told the Sun that they saw “a group” on the roof; but the fraternity claims that a single individual, who is not a brother, threw bottles at passerby.

Late Monday night, another story emerged on Cornell Hub, an anonymous forum populated by Cornell students, where a nameless poster wrote:

I actually know exactly who it was. Ready for this Cornell Hub? Sig Pi will claim otherwise but it was three guys who are all preppy spoiled and racist rich bitches.

The same poster then published the names and faces of three current Sig Pi brothers. Two of them, the poster suggested, were directly involved in the incident. A third “wasn’t really taking part and didn’t instigate it but still was there and didn’t say anything so guilty by association.” In an email to IvyGate, Cornell Hub’s administrators confirmed that the post originated from a computer on Cornell’s campus.

Each brother mentioned appeared to be white.

Though the poster did not provide evidence beyond his own statements, subsequent replies—many of which have been deleted—appeared to confirm that Sig Pi brothers were involved in the bottle-throwing incident. Mixed in were expressions of shock:

• if this is accurate.. wow shit just got real.
• Sig Pi’s new pledge class is really douchy and cocky, doesn’t really surprise me that they would do this. This is more like the shit I would’ve expected from Psi U.
• those three shitheads are really really unlucky that that mod got fired yesterday.. god only knows until whoever is left sees that.
• Last kid … wasn’t involved, it was the other guys. He’s legit and a chill guy.. and a townie. He wouldn’t do that.
• GTFO. Mods ban this guy please? Also those three dudes that got named are gonna be pissed haha
• SHIT. JUST. GOT. REAL. holy poppycock. I know two of them.
• well here goes the shitstorm. in a couple of minutes this thread will be all over campus
• Obviously it was brothers, and I would more concerned about getting shit tossed at my head that could kill me regardless of racial motivation.
• This shit is getting real. Sigma Pi is toast.
• Anyways, those three guys that were doing it all look like rich bitches and are gonna get poppycocked. They’re exactly the type of people who would be throwing stuff at black girls and being racist

(Cornell Hub’s filter substitutes “poppycock” for the word “fuck.”)

Around 10:30, Cornell Hub’s administrators began removing posts identifying the Sig Pi brothers.

In an email, a Cornell Hub administrator told us:

We have no idea whether these three people were involved and we have deleted all posts referencing them by name in accordance with our rules, as well as other posts that may have been perceived as invasions of privacy or hurtful gossip. All the posts on the board are made by anonymous Cornellians and though we can verify the posts were made from Cornell’s campus in this specific instance we always caution users to take everything they see on the Discussion Board with a grain of salt.

Update: Cornell Hub has posted the full contents of their email below.

This morning, a poster disputed the thread’s consensus:

It wasn’t those guys. They are three freshmen who weren’t even there. Stop accusing people and let the administration figure it out. Those three are not involved in the investigation, one of them isn’t even on campus this semester.

The thread was locked a few hours ago by the website’s administrators, who cited the thread’s “propensity for personal attacks and invasions of privacy.”

Amazingly, a Spec blogger seems to have taken the jab completely seriously, and has written a crazy-insane bulleted list about how terrible Harvard is. A sampling:

2. Most racist law school students. “Today are are lots and lots of extra blacks on campus.”

3. Largest number of university presidents who have been forced to resign over sexist remarks. In 2006, Harvard president Lawrence Summers resigned his position after suggesting that there aren’t many women in the science and math fields because…uh, because women aren’t good at science and math. Whoops!

4. Longest amount of time a university community was willing to tolerate their sexist president. This category is like a breath-holding contest, except instead of timing how long people can go without breathing, we see who can ignore sexism the longest! Harvard wins! Summers made his controversial remarks in 2005, and stayed on as president for another year (and then got a paid, year-long sabbatical after that).

Yeah. 

What’s even stranger is the Spec’s supposed awareness that nobody cares:

Bragging about being the second-best sports program in the Ivy League is like boasting that you had the second-hottest prom date at your homeschool. It may be true, but it’s nothing to be proud of.

Maybe not, actually. The article’s irony is also kinda betrayed by the author’s unusually specific vitriol, which leans heavily on “official” parenthetical statements: “(official nickname: “If I wanted to be called Alex, I would have gone to a state school”)”; “(official slogan: “All of my favorite sportswriters were born in the nineteenth century”); “(official drinking game rule: “Nothing that’s not poured from a decanter”).”

Yowza. This sounds personal! Did these two gentleman have a senior year falling out at Groton, or wherever? Lacrosse camp in Maine? A South American NOLS expedition from hell? (We’re using our imagination here.)

On Friday afternoon, “J.C.F.”—that would be Juan Forrer, the Cornell Sun’s “E.I.C.”—apologized for accidentally publishing profanity in Friday’s paper. The word, which Forrer declines to reveal, had been used to “identify” a professor. To add to the hilarity, Forrer claims the Sun was pranked vandalized:

The paper was vandalized Thursday night as The Sun celebrated its last night of publication for the semester. About 150 people gathered at our offices during this particular occasion. This is something that The Sun has been doing every year since I first joined.

[...]

The word is vulgar, and I can only issue the strongest condemnation of the person who put that word into the paper. Moving forward, we will be reconsidering whether we can host these sort of events at our office and taking steps to ensure that this type of error never happens again.

So why would this brotherhood dismantle itself and vacate their fraternity house by choice? Because it’s badass. As our tipster tells us:

Their fling tanks said “Rise of the Apes,” clearly acknowledging, and proud of, the fact that they were soon joining the “esteemed” ranks of off campus fraternities.

Off-campus “pseudo-Greek” iterations of former fraternities are common at Penn — Theos (The Old Sammy), OZ (Old ZBT), the Owl Society (Psi U’s logo) — and usually command a certain degree of “cool,” something our tipster tells us the former AEPi brothers hope to capitalize on. As a Daily Pennsylvanian columnist wrote the last time an off-campus society was established, “Those unofficial societies always throw the rowdiest parties anyway.” And who needs a national fraternity brotherhood when you have that?

However, at a court hearing Monday, Akashah pleaded guilty to illegally transporting the pot into the country and failed to produce any documentation of her prescription, which Bermudian Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner candidly termed “strange.” Akashah said she knew the pot was illegal, but “responded illogically due to the amount of pain I was in.”

The judge declined to sentence Akashah, stating that a conviction would have an “overwhelming effect” on the fragile Harvardian.

Akashah received a doctoral degree from the Harvard School of Public Health last year and now holds a temporary position as an environmental health instructor at HSPH set to end May 31. According to The Crimson, a Harvard administrator declined to comment as to whether Akashah would receive any disciplinary action.