Right now, what seems to be a solid column of rape-whistling women and male allies is making its way down College Walk, chanting in unison. It’s cacophonous, powerful! More to come later.
Edit: Alex Port sends aerial photos from East Campus–after the jump!
Check back later tonight for complete TBTN coverage by Anna Phillips and photos from Kate Linthicum.
Tags: take back the night
17 April 2008 @ 6:05 PM · 23 comments
on WKCR Fined $10k For Being Lazy
Name: Emily Selinger, lost 5/10 somewhere at Senior Ball, gaslight, or 1020. ess2168@columbia.edu
Found in one of the couches in the Wallach Sky Lounge. Returned to Hartley Hospitality Desk.
Dark blue-green plaid Old Navy jacket and green scarf. Misplaced in EC on April 30. If found, please email abc2160@columbia.edu. Thank you!
PointMobl Black Retractable Micro USB AC Phone Charger. Lost it in Hartley lounge. E-mail: nnamdi.nwaezeapu@gmail.com
Lost a Black High Sierra backpack containing a white binder and a red pencil bag in Ferris Booth Dining Hall on Wednesday, April 25th, around 7:30 to 8pm. It was left on a chair in the second floor in a table around the middle of the room close to the staircase. If spotted someone taking it or found, please call immediately at 208-964-6780 or email rm2999@columbia.edu
Light blue, hardcover. Beginning Level. Lost last Tuesday in the Barnard 2nd floor women’s bathroom.
If found, please contact jac2295@columbia.edu
Lost a Blackberry Bold from Verizon Wireless at ADP on Saturday night. If found please email rsf2121@columbia.edu or call 601-994-3697. There will be a $$ reward!!
These were lost potentially on philosophy lawn on the evening of April 17th. The earrings are large silver flower cutouts and the mood ring is a blue band with small flowers inset. Both are old with a lot of sentimental value attached. Would greatly appreciate their return if found. Please contact on2139@columbia.edu/
646-496-3613, will reward with home baked goods and eternal gratitude.
Droid II Phone without any particular markings. Possibly left at the street fair or in Math. Contact cw2453.
I left my grey, cylindrical hamper in the Hartley laundry room and when I returned it was gone. I left it on the washing machine farthest from when you first walk in. If you have it, please return it, no questions asked. Email cgs2133@columbia.edu
happy now…
thx bwog!
It sounds like they’re saying “What do we want? Pastry! When do we want it? Now!”
I couldn’t agree more.
it was “What do we want? Pussy! When do we want it? Now!”
safety…?
Oh wait, it’s bwog, I’m supposed to be an asshole!
call a march in favor of gentrification in harlem?
Take back the blight!
What if the night didn’t want to be taken back?
because there is an accumulation of sand in our vaginas.
They march because some of us remember what it felt like right after, when the whole world wasn’t safe and locking the bedroom door was the only thing to do.
More of us than you might think.
If you ever talk to women on serious, sober terms (or hell, serious drunk terms work too) then ask if they think the stats are true. If you don’t ever have that chance, then maybe the problem is on your end.
rape-worthy must be practicing at the firing range. Nice groupings!
those sideways photos give me vertigo.
It is so pathetic that they didn’t allow men to participate in years’ past. What utter childishness.
I agree. After having been thoroughly raped by Columbia these past four years, I feel I should have the right to march. Unfortunately, I can’t actually walk, as my asshole is now large enough to easily accommodate fair Alma Mater.
Men did march last year, and have done so since 1998. Please get your facts straight.
This is arguably the most ridiculous event in the whole wide world.
Could you possibly imagine spending your Thursday night marching about, while yelling about rape?
It’s absurd. Barnard really is a school of morons.
the coorinators are all in columbia college… and “yelling about rape” is a pretty pathetic understanding of what the marchers are doing. Yeah.
You couldn’t be more incorrect. The march isn’t just to yell about rape and it isn’t all Barnard people. I go to Columbia and this was my first year marching. There are numerous reasons why we march. I marched to show support to those who have been sexually assaulted and to say it’s okay to speak up.
(and someone who does not go to Barnard, and someone who did spend his Thursday yelling about rape) I am really glad that the organizers recognized that sexual violence occurs to men as well. The inclusion of male survivors and allies is a great step forward for the march.
Don’t need the “support” offered by strangers yelling in the streets to speak up.
If something illegal, unfair, and wrong has been done to someone, then “locking the bedroom door” doesn’t seem like the logical next step.
It is not someone’s fault if s/he gets sexually assaulted. Quite the opposite. It IS that person’s fault if they don’t tell anyone and then claim no one else cares.
the fuck over yourself. you’re no better than anyone else, deal with it.
much easier said than done.
I think when you get raped, ‘logic’ goes out of the window.
It’s not their “fault” if they don’t come forward; what a fucking tool you are… you make it sound like getting raped is like getting your iPod stolen, and there are no emotional consequences for the victim. Why do you think the identity of the Journalism student who was raped & tortured wasn’t disclosed? Do you think it’s easy to live with that?
“sexual violence” sounds kinky
photos/audio/video of the event anyone?
http://nyc24image.blogspot.com/2008/04/taking-back-night.html
feel free to comment there too