32 CommentsWhat’s with the pinwheels on the Butler lawn? Bwog wondered too–apparently, kids from a Long Island high school are setting up 6,000 of them to represent the number of people who die every year from ALS, better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. It’s like a cure is blowing in the wind, or something.
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@al gore when i saw the pinwheels my first thought was that they were a plea for a global warming initiatives to become more like the netherlands. they could harvest lots of energy, even though they are wee.
@also dean rosenfeld of the public health school is currently sick with ALS, so this was organized with him specifically, as ALS is close to Columbia’s heart… he’s amazing!
@im too cool To care about Amyotrophyic Lateral Sclerosis. Where are my bong and my free mp3s? Why is it called Lou Gehrig’s Disease, anyway? Don’t non-white non-athletes get it?
Racism.
@DHI Poor Lou never truly escaped Babe Ruth’s shadow. Even today, Lou Gehrig’s Disease does not get as much attention as “Babe Ruth’s Disease,” obesity.
@... So, I’m shocked by all the people who stole pinwheels from the displays. I hope that they realize that the shiny objects that they’re enjoying represent DEAD PEOPLE. Shame, shame on you.
@you would be even more shocked by all the HOTT dates i score at the morgue then. You know what they say: if her breath is spent, you don’t need consent!
@body-stealer well, when i took a pinwheel, a maintenance guy was throwing all the pinwheels/representations-of-dead-people haphazardly into a box. FOR SHAME, maintenance man, for disrespecting the metaphorical bodies of the dead!
chill.
@... what the fuck are you kids doing on my fucking lawn!!
@give him the stick holy cow I’m going so fast AW FUCK
@Fucking tourists.
@wirc WHAT WE NEED IS THE CHILD CATCHER!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-JzI8Zxx5A
HORRIBLE DISGUSTING CHILDREN!
@it's easy to imagine why Columbia was ok with this, considering Lou Gehrig is one of our more famous alums..
@ahhh i can see the sparkliness from my room.
@shiny I am easily distracted by shiny objects. This has significantly hindered my study habits. Best wishes to the racers, though.
@a race from montauk to columbia. that’s intense and awesome.
@I think it’s really pretty; absolutely gorgeous
@what did the race planners watch eternal sunshine of the spotless mind the night before they planned the race?
still, it’s really cool to see; they’re lucky it’s sunny out.
@sorry #10 meant to reply to #9
@Sprinkles Specifically, the race has a lot of people in wheelchairs, and they started at Montauk and are ending at Columbia.
@Anonymous the reason that columbia is letting a bunch of high schoolers play on the lawn is because there’s some kind of marathon or otherwise very long run that’s ending at the sundial in honor of the same cause.
@mike What? Not that I have anything against them raising awareness for diseases, albeit in a pretty happy, shiny way, but what are they doing here? They came all the way from Long Island to plant some pinwheels in the Columbia lawn? Why Columbia? I guess because of Lou Gherig, but… really?
@sweet is there more to this story, or did the school we attend give our lawn away to high schoolers (albeit for a good cause) on one of the 10 days its available all year
@how how very morbid.
@Why? What other universities in this country serve as playgrounds for non-students?
@why not? Most universities do this kind of thing… it is a service to the community.
what’s the big deal?
@pro-sports guy Don’t you understand? Columbians shouldn’t care about Lou Gehrig’s disease, because it’s named after a ‘dumb jock’ who ‘never should have been admitted’
@mike yeah, you’re right. If Columbia didn’t lower academic standards for athletes, we never would have gotten all those famous Columbia athletes that glorified Columbia like Lou Gehrig, or…
um…
Matthew Fox?
@No, he was a “smart jock” who “won games” and “made something of himself”, things the rest of you haven’t been able to do since about the time he left. Ungrateful athletic charity cases.
@Grumpy Goddamn kids, get off my lawn!
@FREE PINWHEELS!!! FREE PINWHEELS ON BUTLER LAWN!!!
@yess that made me laugh.
@Bwog great photo.