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

At Penn, a Wharton professor just conducted a study about weather conditions and college matriculation, drawing the conclusion that visiting a college campus on a cloudy day may actually increase a student’s desire to go to that school.  According to The Daily Pennsylvanian, after having studied the effects of weather on a pool of 1,284 students as they visited an unnamed college, the professor was apparently expecting the opposite results. While we’re all for academic exploration, we at FlyBy would like a judge’s ruling on this study by seeing whether it actually holds with any of the remaining 6-plus billion people on the planet.

At Princeton, the Princeton Committee on Palestine and Amnesty International organized an eight-hour protest this past Thursday of the Israeli-built wall that divides the West Bank. To show their support, the protestors built a wall of their own outside Frist Campus Center—16-feet-tall and made of Sytrofoam and wood.

Down in Providence, it looks like there might be trouble in River City. Well, at least for our friends at The Brown Daily Herald, which published an op-ed by an anonymous author who may have plagiarized from an article in the Providence Journal. The Brown Spectator has a side-by-side comparison of the two pieces if you’re interested, which you probably won’t be once you start reading what the piece is about.

The Sierra Club has ranked the University of Colorado, Boulder as the greenest college in the United States. According to the Sierra Club’s website, the survey was based on eight categories: efficiency, energy, food, academics, purchasing, transportation, waste management, and administration. Shocker: Harvard wasn’t even in the top 10 (even after the institution of Meatless Mondays).

Oh, and before we forget: This past Wednesday was “tapping” day at Yale—you know, the day when the would-be “Masters of the Universe” put on creepy capes and come take their pick of eager underclassmen. Oh, the meaningless anachronism of it all…