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The quick and dirty about what's been going on around the Ancient Eight (and other schools too).

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Abigail K. Fiedler

The quick and dirty about what's been going on around the Ancient Eight (and other schools too).

Students at Columbia have been over-indulging in Nutella lately, and it's turned into quite the hot topic. While reports originally claimed the university spent $5000 on the stuff in one week, the figure has now been reduced to a more modest $2500. Apparently students have been filling cups full of Nutella, or just taking full jars back to their rooms, meaning around 100 lbs was disappearing each week. Lucky for students, there are no plans to take away the delicious hazelnut treat any time in the future, leaving all of us at Flyby extremely jealous but also kind of relieved we don't have such easy access to unlimited Nutella. That 100lbs has to go somewhere, guys…

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The quick and dirty about what's been going on around the Ancient Eight (and other schools too).

Harvard may be (partially) responsible for Facebook, but that doesn't mean that other Ivies can't make their voices heard via various social media, both on- and off-line. This week, several of our peer institutions did just that.

Harvard students were baffled this week when Instagram pictures surfaced of YouTube sensations Glozell and Jenna Marbles palling around in Harvard apparel. What? While we at Flyby aren't quite sure, it seems it had something to do with YouTube's upcoming "Rewind". We'll keep you updated as this story develops.

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The quick and dirty about what's been going on around the Ancient Eight (and other schools too).

Even Jon Stewart has weighed in on what's going down this weekend, and it's not looking good for the Bulldogs. According to the Yale Daily News' Cross Campus blog, when asked by a Yale student which team would win The Game, Stewart said: "I'm pretty sure Goldman Sachs wins that one." That means Harvard, right?

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The quick and dirty about what's been going on around the Ancient Eight (and other schools too).

Though Tigers in years past have chosen to poke fun at Harvard students for our less-than-universal access to hot breakfast, they're not laughing anymore. Now, in fact, they wish they were us. A recent news story in the "Daily Princetonian" berated Princeton's lack of a shopping period at the start of the semester, listing Harvard as the primary example of a place that does it right. We may not get to eat pork rolls for breakfast, but who needs those when we can use all the money we're saving on add/drop fees and spend it on hot breakfast in the Square?

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The quick and dirty about what's been going on around the Ancient Eight (and other schools too).

Dartmouth seems to have found itself in the midst of what IvyGate has described as an "epic hazing scandal." While "epic" brings to mind greatness and heroism, in this case, there seems to be something rotten in the state of New Hampshire. Earlier this month, 27 (!) members of Dartmouth's Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity were charged with hazing violations that occurred during the 2009 and 2011 fall pledge season. Apparently SAE pledges were forced to "swim in a kiddie pool of rotten food, vomit and other bodily fluids; eat omelets made of vomit; and chug cups of vinegar." That's disgusting.

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The quick and dirty about what's been going on around the Ancient Eight (and other schools too).

The University of Pennsylvania is in danger of losing its accreditation as an institution of higher education if it does not extend the length of its academic year. According to The Daily Pennsylvanian, Penn administrators are working on a proposal that would move the start of the University's 2013-2014 school year to Aug. 28—the first time since 1974 that the school would start classes in August. State regulations require semester-long college courses to meet for at least 42 hours of instructional time, but The DP writes that under Penn's current schedule, some classes meet for as little as 36 hours.

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