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

Valentine’s Day blues, anyone? Dating scene got you down? If so, consider taking the commuter down to Providence, where two guys at Brown may have the answer. With their Web site Prospect and Meeting, Kai Huang ’11 and Arune Gulati ’11 have created a site where student users can list five people they have crushes on, and then receive an e-mail if any of those five crushes in turn have crushes on them.

The site launched Saturday, and, according to The Brown Daily Herald, it already has over 900 registered users. According to the article, the two juniors and newfound czars of campus love hope that each student on campus will one day receive an e-mail from their site that alerts them of the romantic possibilities lurking in cyberspace. Wishful thinking? Well, if the dating scene at Brown is anything like Harvard’s, we can only encourage these innovative ventures, although we’re skeptical about how effective they’ll be.

While much has been written about Yale’s “Sex Week” and the polls conducted by the Yale Daily News, we were wondering if you’d heard about this, the invasion of the Yale Pundits, a humor society, into an official campus debate entitled “Resolved: Reject Hookup Culture.” Apparently, about 30 minutes into the debate, a bunch of horny Pundits and make-out partners got noticeably physical.

Also at Yale, it’s recently been announced that Google will custom design an interface for campus e-mail, which makes us wonder how much longer our own crappy one will continue to exist.

Oh, and one more thing about Yale: remember that crazy admissions video of Yale’s we wrote about a couple weeks back? The one where the admissions guide randomly bursts into a rendition of “That’s Why I Chose Yale” in the middle of the info session? Of course you do. Well, Ben McGrath has written a piece in the “Talk of the Town” section of this week’s New Yorker gauging the reaction from some of Yale’s more conservative, old guard alumni. Let’s just say that the reviews aren’t glowing.

At Princeton, it snowed. Really hard. Like, you don’t know how hard. So hard some classes had to be cancelled and some buildings had to be locked.

And while we’re on the subject of snow, some people at Penn decided to make a giant snowball to block a door, although it’s unclear if the motive was to do something fun on a really snowy day or to create a legitimate barricade from the dangers that lurk outside on that campus. Who knows? Maybe it was both.