Tags: tree lighting ceremony, warm and fuzzy feelings
2 December 2010 @ 8:05 PM · 24 comments
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I’ve been missing a green notebook for my Evolutionary Basis of Human Behavior (EEEBW4010) class since Feb. 7th. It should have the name Kimberly Young written inside. It was last seen in the Schapiro computer lab. If found, please contact kty2102@columbia.edu
The purse has large red circles on it, and contained an ID card, keys, wallet, pink headphones, Metrocard, and other important things. Last seen in Schermerhorn 614. If found, please contact rdc2125@barnard.edu
Hi, I’m missing a black LL Bean Backpack, last seen in the lounge of Broadway 12 during the Super Bowl. It’s black, with the initials “BCB,” embossed in grey. It contains an Apple laptop and several important books. If found, contact bcb2131@columbia.edu.
I lost a Lion Laundry bag full of gym items. Contact sac2171.
Black puffy coat with two layers and Burberry plaid pattern on lining. Last seen at Lerner Party Space during Black Students Organization (BSO) party on January 20. Please contact jyc2130@columbia.edu if found. Reward offered.
Yellowish ivory scarf with a lot of print on it. Most likely to be found at 504 Diana or LRC SIPA. If found then you shall be rewarded with my eternal gratitude. Contact: an2503@barnard.edu
Last seen in the Hartley computer lab at around 9 am, on 1/30/12. No case; no password; background is a generic picture of a rower on a lake. About 2 years old and showing its wear. Contact: etp2109.
Last seen at Il Cibreo on January 19 around 1am. It’s beige cashmere with unique colors which complete the original burberry pattern. If you took it by accident please contact aln2133@columbia.edu. If you took it because you like it, not cool.
I lost my umbrella today in Schermerhorn 612. I had class until 12:15, went back tonight around 6 pm, and it was gone. It is Paris themed, so it has the eiffel tower, arc du trimpuh etc. Email lgg2110@barnard.edu.Thanks!
Nights like this make me really love Columbia. Go Lions!
8/7 central
It was so beautiful to see them light the trees up, excitement was surely in the air!
It made me hard and I don’t even have a penis!
And let’s just say I had some trouble containing my joy…
Seeing the trees lit up makes the darkness when you walk out of class at 5 much more bearable and way less depressing :)
is darkest just before the dawn…
fuzzing feelings?
fuzzing feelings?
I don’t mean to put a damper on things but I just feel like nights like these are so whitewashed with political correctness that everything is just meh.
Political correctness? Would you have preferred they hanged heathens from the trees? I just don’ see what you’re basing this on.
I certainly see his sentiment. I am sick of all this “holiday season” bullshit. it is clear that tree lighting is a distinctly Christmas tradition. I mean, isn’t Columbia an Anglican school?
No?
Also, it IS a season of holidays. I mean, did you not notice the Chanukah celebration on the steps last night?
Chanukah was a nominal Jewish holiday until it was commercialized to match up with Christmas. And Kwanza is about as real as Festivus, probably less so.
The comment about the PC-ness and secularization of the “holiday season” and this event was valid. Popular/pop songs and songs wishing for a world with “no religion too” have no place at a tree lighting just like billboards with a silhouette of a nativity scene saying “you know its a myth” don’t need to be put up by the Lincoln tunnel last week. Just because most American’s are/were Christian doesn’t mean that we can be attacked or have our 2nd biggest holiday hijacked. If any other group had signs attacking them put up during their big holidays it would be a “hate crime” and a media frenzy would ensue.
Please let us enjoy our Christmas and its traditions in peace.
Defensive much? Yes, Chanukah is highly commercialized because of its proximity to Christmas (originally, the big celebratory holiday with presents was Purim). But isn’t it a little excessive to claim that other people are HIJACKING your second biggest holiday? What about the Jews biggest holiday? Doesn’t stop college athletics from happening. Doesn’t stop schools or businesses or anything else from going about their every day business. I’m pretty sure that if anyone has hijacked your holiday, it’s stores that turn it into a big commercial event instead of leaving it as a purely religious thing.
Also, I personally see nothing particularly Christian about lighting up the trees on college walk. If they were evergreens and decorated like Christmas trees (ala Rockefeller Center) then yes, I could see it. Just let everyone enjoy the beauty that is a lit up College Walk.
Of course Columbia is an Anglican school. Everyone knows that that there is a sign that reads “Jews, Catholics need not apply” in many if not most academic departments, and that there is a strong anti-Catholic inclination in the syllabus of Literature Humanities. Rumours of course abound of a Hebrew lurking in the ranks of the administration, but these thankfully cannot be confirmed at this time.
Also, everyone knows that certain faculty, whose names shall heretofore be unmentioned, still have a tendency to engage in vicious rants against the “antinomianists” when properly provoked– and not altogether without merit if you ask me. Rumour has it they still resent last year’s victory over the redcoats, but they of course will not admit it.
except tree lighting is a yule celebration, meaning the festivities were technically pagan. any PC attempts were wrongly inferred.
it amazes me the things some people kvetch about
Truer words were never spoken, my friend! As Bwog’s bubbe says, “Azoy gait es,” —that’s how it goes.
Some people have class at 6pm in Hamilton. The event which had so much noise pollution should have been scheduled after classes were over.
I guess it just sucks that you scheduled a class at 6 pm on a thursday…
CAROLYN RUVKUN
Waited an hour to get a freakin scarf. We were promised “500 free scarves” and about 25 were thrown by someone with a really weak arm.
This was a fail event.