Just what we need. Another useless flat screen TV. And they got rid of two computer consoles to install it.
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Bwog Staff on
Dec 05, 2006 
28 Comments
Just what we need. Another useless flat screen TV. And they got rid of two computer consoles to install it.
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28 Comments
@i wish... people found something else to get worked up about!!
@i wish i’d gone to another college!!!
@note If you follow bwog’s link to email the library, the library will know you came from bwog as their comment form captures your “referral” page. Might diminish the power of our individual voices…
@other hand or it could demonstrate the power of bwog to keep an eye on them.
honestly, I don’t think they check referrals for every suggester.
@UPDATE the library people replied to my complaints. nothing about the tv screen, but the computers are being reinstalled today.
@anyone else who pay attention the flatscreen messages? One of the screens reads,
[you + library = good]
I kid you not.
@because for engineers, more technology, whatever the effect, is automatically good. the thought in butler was probably along the lines of simplicity = elegance. lamentably, though, a flatscreen blaring ads is the antithesis of elegance.
@MUDD The TVs in Mudd lobby were installed w/o taking away the computers. I dont’ understand why they cant do the samething in butler
@... $10 to the first SEAS kid that figures out how to put hardcore porn on there.
@six I’ll do it for $300.
@alright i’d pitch in $10 to that fund…
@Now why can’t they stick these flatscreen TVs in the dorm lounges… (like our neighbor to the west, Stanford)
@Anonymous i think we’re forgetting the main point, which is, those computers were useful.
@Old Man Winter You ungrateful kids! I remember the days when we had to buy a newspaper or turn on the TV in order to know what to buy.
@useless useless!!
@gp2115 Commenter #2, I believe you mean “homey,” or at least, I hope you do.
@uhh upon reinspection, yes…yes I did
@hmm I assumed Commenter #2 meant “comely.”
@wirc Hell, Butler is homely. On the outside, it’s like a fat debutante wearing jewelry in all the wrong places. The interior is beautiful though.
@complained done; I hope others do the same.
@i think you all are ignoring the real culprit here… the evil leftist jihad anti-computer terminal wacko GENDER STUDIES DATABASE!!!
@contact the library tell them to get rid of it.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/help/suggestions.html
@generally the tvs are donated by companies in exchange for ad time
@that is even more ridiculous. the tvs have no tangible benefit for university life or any other goal of the administration, and providing free video ad space to companies is tantamount to inviting times square to campus.
@Complain The library administration, in my experience, is generally receptive to student comments. Send them an email telling them to put the computers back.
@who does one contact to complain about this?
also, why does columbia privilege the display of useless info on $3000 flatscreen tvs over more pressing needs (financial aid? fixing the crumbling ceilings of our dorm rooms? etc)
@ugh what an aesthetic malfeasance! why does butler’s beautiful historic lobby need to be marred by this sports-bar-style rubbish? to display ads for blue java and clio? and what possible excuse could there be to remove the computer consoles beneath it?
@addendum I’m glad I’m graduating…butler was warm and homely, and this makes it feel oh-so-institutional. you expect these things in the media-saturated business school, but not here.