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Memories from Orgo Nights past
Tonight, we celebrate our school as best we know how with communal food before finals and offense given to everyone and everything!
At precisely the stroke of midnight, in Butler 209, the Columbia University Marching Band will be hosting “the 60th consecutive 69th semi-annual Orgo Night.” This alleged act of public service (as well as an attempt to lower the curve for tomorrow’s organic chemistry exam by storming Butler’s stronghold) is your chance to embrace the hatred you’ve built up over the past semester and these last few weeks. For a taste of the night’s entertainment, check out the promotional posters. Seats go quickly, so be sure to head over early.
After Orgo Night head over to LeFrak Gym on Barnard’s campus for Midnight Breakfast. This year will be a celebration of Barnard’s 125th anniversary with a theme of #tbt. The event is free for all students with a BC/CUID. If you are a Barnard first year student, you get early access with doors opening at 11:00 pm for first years and 11:30 pm for upperclassmen. All other Columbia students will be admitted at 12:00 am.
Go forth and soak up the night with food and laughter. We’ll see you there as we can’t wait to see what jokes CUMB has for us this semester.
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@Anonymous that has to be the most unclear hashtag I’ve ever read, btw.
I know you meant “boycott orgo night”, but it scans as “boycott or go night”, which is kinda flip-floppy.
@CC '15 can someone verify is carry that mattress thing is still happening
@Anonymous when can you resort to punching these pussified oversensitive liberals in the ovaries? #violenceIStheanswer
@Anonymous Fraid not. Info desk for trolls is closed.
@but like when we gonna find out about pbk
@I get it I get sensitivity. I was an RA. I’ve written people up for bias incidents. I understand the fever on campus about the tragedy of sexual assault. As a man, I’ll never truly understand the pain that victims have felt, but I can sympathize and I can advocate. As a PoC I understand the sensitivity around issues of the black community right now.
But I can’t shake the feeling that the War on Fun, something that we saw as the administrators taking policy too far and outside the realm of productive safety for students, is no longer led by the administration. Instead I feel like WE took up the mantle of the war on fun…and this is no longer productive
Just something to think about.
@anon Oh my god, thank you! I think the people calling to cancel orgo night are a very small minority, who also recently have had their freedom of speech violated (nypd breaking up protests), so why would they then attempt to curtail the freedoms of another (unrelated) group?!??
@please Can Orgo Night please not be in Butler this year? If it is, I won’t be able to attend. Butler has been a trigger for me ever since I bombed my econ final freshmen year.
@This is ridiculous Highly offensive that you would make light of this critical issue. You are a class A felon and a racist. GO AWAY NO ONE WANTS YOUR INPUT!!!
@please :( meanie
@To be fair yes, they are jokes. But still we have to admit CUMB goes over the acceptable limit more often than you think. That “acceptable” line is of course a gray area, but joking about people who have died from disasters (e.g. MH370, South Korean ferry) is something I would say that is disrespectful for people who’ve been impacted by the incident.
To draw a perhaps far-fetched analogy, would people acceptable for the sake of humor to play around with 9/11?
@Um Yes.
Should we ban cards against humanity from dorms as well? We have to reduce the risk of people offended!! Think of all those poor Columbia undergrads!!
@Cards against humanity in dorms and school-wide events The discrepancy in scale – individual unit within confined space vs. collective student body in public area – makes them different cases.
Calling for a bit more sensitivity is just a matter of playing more nicely when with other people.
@I understand I get what you’re saying, but I feel like a lot of these dissenters suffer from ‘Chef-From-South-Park’ Syndrome. Too many times, I have seen people at orgo night laugh at offensive jokes when they couldn’t really identify with the issues, only to blankly stare and mutter “that’s not funny” when a different gag hit a little too close to home.
Can you be offended/upset? Yes. Do you have to laugh at all the jokes? No. But if you’re laughing at any of them, you shouldn’t then be taking to your facebook page about how offensive that one knock-knock joke was because your uncle was killed by a door. Dish it out, take it.
The only people who you can respect from the #boycottorgonight movement are the people who actually do not laugh at any kind of offensive joke. I would merely pity these people, as they spend their lives in a constant state of stress, agonizing over whether or not their french fries might be a trigger for someone whose ancestors died during the Irish Potato Famine.
@Anonymous Very well put. (And I’ll use that ‘door’ thing. That was top.)
This thing isn’t new- I’d have expect someone who “Didn’t like it last year” to go Maya Peterson on the next one, show folks how it’s done.
@Freedom Fries You darn communist you
@Anonymous You sir, are a genius. Those analogies tho!!!!
@Anonymous News fucking flash, you can (bright and shining star that you are) opt out of both Orgo night and cards against humanity. If you’re worried about a discrepancy in scale, just don’t go to Butler 209 the night before the Orgo final.
@meh There is a difference between being offended by a joke and not allowing the idea to flow at all. Was I offended by the ISIS posters and does it trigger awful memories if they were to mention 9/11? Of course. But, if I want my right to disagree to be respected, I have to accept their right to say anything, as offensive as those things may be.
Also, the danger comes when it becomes accepted that these things are not jokes. I don’t think there is anything CUMB does to imply that what they do is serious and doubt you can find a student that says they get their opinions from CUMB…If anything, the CUMB’s efforts to establish themselves as a crude, disrespectful, and entirely silly group highlights that the things they say are frowned upon and wrong.
@The Onion, 13 years ago “Everything Is Fine, Quadragon Officials Report.”
(Jus sayin)
@Thanks Appreciate the alternative perspectives. Good to learn about the other side.
@Heisenberg The reason why most Columbia students don’t like these extreme left-wing liberal activist groups is because they are oversensitive about the stupidest things, what is racist about orgo night? If you don’t want to go then don’t go, but don’t ruin it for the rest of us.
@Can someone please tell me Why in the world people are asking to cancel Orgo Night? I’ve watched the old shows, they aren’t any more racist or sexist than literally any comedy ever. In fact, most of the jokes are just about other Ivies….is that what’s racist? If we start stifling this sort of free speech, what is even left of opinion? If Orgo night is unacceptable, does that mean that every television show should be replaced with activist manifestos? How much more can the average person put up with this before it becomes meaningless?
@No Clearly, the racist jokes are not the ones about the other Ivies. Is this even a real comment.
@OP here Is sarcasm even a real rhetorical device?
@Anonymous Shhh now, my darling, don’t you know that it’s not fashionable to say anything nice about this school or any of the fun activities people do here? If you continue like this, people will think you’re from Texas.
@WOW The most insightful bwog comment I’ve ever seen
@Honestly If you want to boycott orgo night, go ahead; we don’t want you there killing the vibe anyways.
@?? So whats the deal? Is this still happening?
@!! yes
@Henry #boycottorgonight
@In before the shitstorm lolz
@Anonymous #boycottorgonight
@Anonymous but there’s so much material to work with!! trayvon brown riots, Jackie from UVA / carry that rape, the sweet beta disney tunes, the Palestinian students of Columbia’s ISIS chapter and those crybaby pussies at the law school… will make for a great show
@Anonymous we should all organize a rape-in to protest the event! I’m sick of CUMB marginalizing minority majorities with their joke rape.