Some of the Ivy League dailies need to get their priorities straight.

You know things are messed up when you win the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship and isn’t a featured story on the home page of your very own college newspaper.

(Insert picture of Rhodes Scholarship winner Joyce Meng…oh wait, there is no picture online)

There either must be some serious haters out there running papers across the Ivy League, or the Rhodes Scholarship isn’t quite what it used to be.

In what one can only explain as an odd disconnect between what appears in the print and online versions of the Daily Pennsylvanian, the story of Wharton senior Joyce Meng winning the Rhodes (which appears on the front page of today’s paper, albeit at the bottom), somehow did not make it to the top three featured stories on the webpage.

What did make the top 3 features?
1. Men’s basketball losing (again) to Howard
2. Women’s soccer losing in round 1 of the NCAA College Cup (Okay, you can make the case for that)
3. An aspiring student singer/songwriter playing at one of dozens of Management 100 events being held across campus. (A heart-warmer, but not that rare)

As much as I love a man who can play a mean chord, I think we should be paying slighty more attention to Meng.

Elsewhere around the Ivy League, results were mixed on how prominently the news of their respective Rhodes scholars were displayed.

I’ll let you check out the sites for Harvard, Dartmouth, Columbia, Yale, and yes, even Princeton, and judge how they covered the announcement.

Are these winners getting their full 15 minutes, or are we so jaded with winning that the Rhodes has become almost a right we take for granted, and not a privilege?

Congrats Joyce. If it’s worth anything, you’re the top story in my book.

Tags: Hating, Rhodes Scholarship

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