27 CommentsWhile Bwog enjoyed the sunny weather on such a splendid day, several things also caught our attention:
Bacchanal festivities coincided with today’s, er, other special celebrations, including Battle of the Bands, a much-too-limited barbecue, a moonwalk, and a sorority-sponsored “munchies” sale. Columbia’s beloved mascot was also spotted roaming about (pictured to the right), giving hugs and shaking hands with the chilled-out student crowd around College Walk. In the meantime, pre-frosh were abundant for SEAS Days on Campus. Talk about hyperbolic advertising.
Bacchanal- Bwog reader Alex Port brings us news that the Joseph Urban stage models on the third floor of Butler (which have been there for ages) have been removed. What will the Butler treasure chest reveal to us next? Perhaps Robert Moses models instead?
- As if the to-be-built Northwest Science Building weren’t enough, the J-School plans on doing some construction of its own. The Stabile Student Center is scheduled to open in Fall 2007, complete with café space, outdoor seating, and a glass enclosure. Glass is all the rage in these parts, it seems…
- Since we’re on the theme of architecture: SEAS Class Day speaker Santiago Calatrava has designed a 2,000-foot tall Chicago tower that could trump every other building in America. Daaamn. [Insert “ivory tower” joke here.]
- Spectator‘s most recent multimedia project happens to be on the arrest of Robert Williams, although it seems a bit New York Post-ish for the Spec’s image. Really, “Perp Walk,” guys?
– MIP
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@wow that matt sanchez post deserves bigger mention. if jeffrey hunter northrop XIV merits a post, this guy’s begging for more.
@Anonymous Did anyone read this? http://www.matt-sanchez.com/matt_sanchez/2007/04/take_back_the_n.html
Matt Sanchez gets mad because Columbia students wanted to arrest the rapist.
@how stupid can you be. The article criticized members of the ISO who called the manhunt/arrest “racial profling.” What a crappy little troll you are.
@Anonymous That’s not what the article says at all.
“In the following days, students who typically call for the end to profiling and accuse the “pigs” of racism were insisting the police act to capture the rapist.”
@yo steve Out of context that sentence could support either you or that other person.
@Anonymous Read the article. Bottom line: Sanchez uses the rape to slam the ISO and Take Back the Night.
In Sanchez’s words: “Almost everyday, on College Walk, members of the International Socialist Organization (ISO) set up a small table and aggressively flag passing students down to talk to them about how racist the NYPD are. Every year students at Columbia University, and across the country, participate in the Take Back the Night March an event that promotes itself with pictures of bananas and underwear and the slogan “Got Consent?”.
Question: What do these two movements have in common?
Answer: A complete refusal of reality.”
@Anonymous “The article criticized members of the ISO who called the manhunt/arrest “racial profling.”
The article never made claim that the ISO called THE manhunt racial profiling, he slammed them for their TYPICAL outcries of profiling. He was saying he was surprised that Columbia students were asking the NYPD to arrest the suspect, since the ISO cries out against police brutality and profiling. You can’t equate the ISO ‘s stance to Take Back the Night. Because ISO gets angry about police actions, Take Back the Night makes no such statement about the police.
Plus that quote that you pulled was a revised version that he posted. In my opinion it is no less ridiculous.
@Anonymous Usually when I disagree with Sanchez, I at least can respect his writing. But that post of his is unworthy of any respect. Thanks for bringing it to my attention, Stephen.
@Pussy Learn to hate
@why no holi coverage? it was awesome
@Stabile Are they going to vacate the Furnald single that will look out into the Stabile cafe?
@hmm must have been dan okin
@Dan Okin eats babies and shits roses
@Anonymous Hey Bwog!
Give On Religion some of that good ‘ol Urinetown love. It sold out last night.
@speaker Question, is there going to be a speaker at the university graduation on the 16th?
@absolutely some call him PrezBo
any other speakers are invited to class days for each school im pretty sure and there arent really outside speakers at actual graduation
i may be wrong though but i think this is how it went last year?
@the main speaker on commencement is the president. it’s university tradition.
@ahahaha Lerner Sucks so much that the J-School decided to create a cafe for its own students. Awesome.
and seriously folks, how many times do we have to explain columbia’s speaker traditions?
http://wikicu.com/University_Commencement#President.27s_Address
http://wikicu.com/Class_Day
@free association Calatrava
Architecture
Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
Chris Shrugged
Chris Kulwalik
Bill O’Reilly
Satan
Destruction
Finals
@news Sorry, Calatrava’s tower in Chicago isn’t really news at this point. I remember seeing an article on it a couple summers ago.
@frumph Um…am I the only one that thinks Roar-ee’s shorts are too tight?
@i love that the post says “Just our opinion.” because when I read that I thought “yea and every bwog reader’s opinion too…within maybe 12 hours max”
oh columbia, how predictable can you be.
bitch.
(is that a new trend on posts? i like it and am taking it up)
@yeah but how is it sensationalist?
@umm what are you talking about? do you even know what a perp walk is?
here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perp_walk
i’d say it’s pretty damn accurate.
@well I don’t think the issue is the accuracy of the term, but rather that they made it their browser title.