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The New York Observer just released their list of this year’s 100 Most Powerful People in Real Estate. Rounding off the upper echelon of the city’s developers, scions, and politicians is none other than PrezBo. Says the Observer: “In a town where real estate is rarely measured in acres, Lee Bollinger is leading Columbia toward a 17-acre expansion, adding 6.8 million square feet to the campus. With the help of eminent domain, or at least the threat, he will be responsible for the wholesale transformation of West Harlem.”
PrezBo narrowly beat the guy responsible for NYU’s 6 million sq. feet of Greenwich Village expansion as well as New York’s new governor, David Paterson.
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@Juli Check back for our class day coverage at the end of the day!
@does bwog continue in the summer?
@graduate very strange bwog doesn’t have an open comment thread for class day / graduation.
@or... any coverage on the class day speeches! come on!
@they read them in the order that you sit in. you give them a card with your name on it.
@On graduation day “Where are you sitting?”
“I’m between Zermello and Frank”
@loud noises ok, so this grad thing is kind of intriguing.
in what order are these names being read? it kinda sounds like a blurofnoise, but it’s def. not alphabetical…
@graduate is anyone watching quigley’s class day speech right now? this is beyond embarrassing.
@... I thought it was pretty good, actually.
@we measure Manhattanville in acres because it reminds us of the time of plantations.
@ha ha ha get it? because columbia is as bad as slave-owners…. obviously
@actually i was going for the meaning at the other end of the whip, so to speak.
@what do you call it when you buy an entire fishing pier in manhattanville?
reel estate!
@Prezbo... was ahead of David Patterson? It wouldn’t be the first disabled black man he beat out of New York real estate.
HEY-oh!…I’ll be here ’til thursday
@damn that was a good one
@FYI CULPA’s back up.
@Answer... Unless you’re talking about something going on DIRECTLY in the middle of campus, it was probably the AIDS walk, which happened today…several thousand cheering people take a long time to cross 110th St, and make enough noise to reach all of Morningside Heights.
@Wait, They were cheering for AIDS?
@dumbasses there are other schools at columbia university besides CC and SEAS. the B-school’s grad is today
@geez lighten up, buddy…
they are still testing the a/v equipment as well. wasn’t the b-school grad ceremony in low?
@Why would anybody care about their graduation?
@loud noises they’re reading out names, and there’s this level of cheering that’s *so* consistent that i’m convinced it’s taped…
@senior no we don’t get a run through… who knows what the noise is. I can’t hear anything from EC
@loud noises Is a commencement run-through happening? Is that the loud noise outside?