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In Which We Make a Drinking Game While Watching Ivy

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

ICTV’s ground-breaking new show, “Ivy,” which is subtly set at Cornell.It’s official: the second episode of Ivy, Ithaca College’s horribly amazing TV show about Cornellians, is up. And it’s 2am and I just got back from the library and am in an, um, “study” daze — so I’m going to “write up” a drinking game while I watch it to, er, take the edge off. Here’s the rules: make one drink labeled CU for when something realistic happens and another one labeled IC for when something unrealistic happens! Unfortunately, all I have to drink is shitty Wegman’s Sangria. (Can someone please get them a liquor section, stat? I’m tired of having to go to Northside when I want my daily regimen of milk, eggs, and vodka.) Do me one better and post Cornell- and Ithaca-themed cocktails in the comments! My personal guidelines after da jump.

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Eight Ways to Embrace Your Cornell Caricature

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

ICTV’s ground-breaking new show, “Ivy,” which is subtly set at Cornell. Whenever somebody dresses up in your clothes and acts like you, you’re supposed to say some shit along the lines of “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” Unfortunately for those of us who speak solely in adage, this response doesn’t work as well as it should for the recent depictions of Cornell in the media at large. First, there’s Ivy, a new “realitydramacomedy” produced by Ithaca College’s student-run television station that follows the overdramatic foibles of six (stereo)typical Cornell students. It’s kind of like Gossip Girl, but with less attractive, more poorly trained (if you can believe it) actors.  And then there’s the Oct. 30 episode of The Office, which featured (lovable?) loser Dwight Schrute as a hopeful Cornell applicant — much to the chagrin of douchebag “alum” Andy Bernard. Some might say that these portrayals are infuriatingly inaccurate, but, again, those of us committed to aphorisms will have to shake our heads and say: “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.” Look through this list of nine Cornell Caricatures, and learn to love your stereotype:

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