IvyGate Needs Help…

…With editing, fact checking, and developing basic understandings of the stories they cover in their blog posts. Last night IvyGate blogger Eve Binder did a short post on the fallout from Tony Manfred’s “Throw Goldman Sachs Off Campus” column. In the post she mentioned Oliver’s recent “spoof piece”:

And then, in the pièce de résistance of total freakout, Oliver Renick of the blog Cornell Insider whittled a “spoof” of the piece entitled “Throw Tony Manfred Off Campus.”

Renick, who paralleled the structure of Manfred’s column so exactingly that someone might want to talk to him about the definition of “plagiarism,” had this to say about Manfred…

Really? Oliver paralleled the structure? If IvyGate actually read Oliver’s post they would have discovered that it is a straight copy-paste job of Manfred’s original post- minus a few alterations- with Tony Manfred’s name substituted for “Goldman Sachs” from the original column. That’s why it’s called a “spoof.”

But for the parts of Oliver’s post that IvyGate did manage to skim over, they pointed out that Oliver spelled the name of Cornell’s daily newspaper wrong seven times in a row:

Aside from the fact that Renick doesn’t seem to realize that the name of the Cornell newspaper is actually the Sun, not the Stun (either that, or he has some major Freudian slip action going on)…

Hm, let’s see, the Cornell Insider Author’s Page clearly says that Oliver is a Junior, so from their standpoint there could be several things going on here: 1) Oliver stole the ‘t’ from IvyGate (see image).  2) Oliver’s typing skills are so bad that he managed to accidentally insert a “t” into Daily Sun seven times in a row. 3) Binder is making a very weak attempt at a joke.  4) Despite being on campus for more than two years, Oliver is unaware of the name of Cornell’s daily newspaper.  5) There’s another reason why Oliver has been referring to the Sun as the Stun in his humor piece as well as all of his blog posts for the last year or so. Somehow IvyGate managed to miss the $100 dollar question on this one.

After screwing up every detail of the Harvard-Yale game, mixing up a Frisbee and a Lazy Susan, getting pranked by the Lampoon, not being able to understand other prank letters (NSFW), and being incapable of consistently posting for more than a month or so at a time, I think it’s safe to say that IvyGate needs some help.