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CNN has invited the Barnard Community to put on their most patriotic Barnard sweatshirts and join the cable station in Times Sq., as part of its Election Night Watch Party. CNN is offering the Barnard gals pretzels, (presumably non-alcoholic) warm beverages, heat lamps and topical political trivia!
An email sent to Barnard students explains that “VIP guests will receive priority seating and be in the best spots to be panned by the camera or interviewed by a CNN anchor. CNN asks that you wear Barnard sweatshirts, hats, and other paraphernalia so that you may be easily identified as a Barnard student.”
Plus, if these pretzels, heat lamps and shot at Eternal Television Glory are enticing to enough students, CNN will arrange for a van to collect the ladies of Barnard and deposit them at the Times Sq. location.
CNN has not invited Columbia students to the fancy outdoors bash! But you can read the full email after the jump.
Dear Students:
Be at the crossroads of the world (and possibly on the JumboTron) on Election Night! CNN has invited students from Barnard to join its Times Square Election Night Watch Party and live broadcast as VIP guests. The newly renovated Duffy Square, with seating on its lighted, ruby-red steps for 1,500 people, will serve as CNN’s television studio for the night and the site of a flurry of Election Day activities, including:
–iReports to be uploaded on CNN.com
–a live CNN broadcast on the Times Square Spectravision video screen
–heat lamps and warm beverages to keep the crowd warm
–pretzels, popcorn, and hot dogs served throughout the day
–political trivia games, and
–a League of First Time Voters station
VIP guests will receive priority seating and be in the best spots to be panned by the camera or interviewed by a CNN anchor. CNN asks that you wear Barnard sweatshirts, hats, and other paraphernalia so that you may be easily identified as a Barnard student. If there is enough interest, transportation will be provided from campus, leaving at 5:00 p.m., arriving in Times Square shortly before 6:00 p.m., and returning to campus at around midnight.
To reserve a seat at the event, and on the bus, email Susan Cohn (scohn@barnard.edu) ASAP but no later than Friday afternoon at 3:00 p.m. Transportation will be guaranteed only to those who email by the deadline. Please indicate:
1. Name(s) and class year(s) of students requesting seats at the event
2. Name(s) of students requesting seats on the bus
3. email addresses for each student
4. cell phone numbers for each student, if available
An email will be sent out on Monday confirming reserved spaces and providing more details about logistics.
And of course, don’t forget to vote!
Sincerely,
Dorothy Denburg
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@"...CNN will arrange for a van to collect the ladies of Barnard and deposit them at the Times Sq. location.” Ten years ago, CNN would not have been able to get away with that kind of wording…
@yeah, but does CCSC have VIP tickets?
@CCSC As this is an open event, Columbia College students can definitely still go!
Look for a CCSC email shortly to tell you more details about traveling downtown together and taking part in this great event.
@anyone rather watch election night in the warmth of a lounge and eat food and whatnot than be in the cold and forced to be enthusiastic? just wondering.
@ehh warmth, yes. but for a lot of people on this highly political campus, enthusiasm will not be forced.
that’s a once in a lifetime opportunity. and hey, they have heat lamps.
@YAY SEAS is invited!!! And I just registered. =)
@yeah CCSC is apparently the only student council that didn’t bother.
@well SEAS is invited.
@and ESC responded!
@well good for Barnard. Why be jealous that they’re getting recognition, even if CU didn’t get invited? They’re an fine institution in NYC as well. It’s better than having NYU students if you ask me
@*invite invite, not invited
@i heard they did invited columbia students, but the CCSC never responded.
@i wonder why would they ever choose to invite barnard over columbia?
@probably because barnard students are less likely to act like radical leftist idiots.
@agreed once upon a time, I kinda liked the guy for being honest enough to stand up to his party when they were wrong.
but now he’s a total sell-out. what a yutz.
@McCain From honorable, reasonable war hero to lying scum bag. How the mighty have fallen.
@WTF what the hell. they get bloomberg, they get cnn. columbia gets nothing. does barnard get the perks because they’re perky?
@over/under on the number of barnard students wearing Columbia gear?
@#10 again Let me be clarify:
You can’t continue to justify using Columbia for name recognition because “its more well known than Barnard” if you pass up opportunities like this to raise the profile of YOUR institution (“The Liberal Arts College For Women in New York” as it says on the corner of 116th and Bway) on national TV.
Just saying.
@apologies poster 1 for my redundancy
@News speaking of CNN. what’s up with the bitters hating on Prof. Khalidi?
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/29/campaign.wrap/index.html
@suspicious... …this just sounds like an elaborate ploy to get a bunch of unsuspecting barnard chicks into a van…
@or you can just borrow a friend’s barnard sweatshirt and rsvp if you are a girl
@actually.... Columbia students have been invited…check in with the various political groups on campus some have invites to send members to this same event.
@what the hell inviting barnard and not columbia would be like inviting oprah’s little sister and not oprah herself.
errr…not to say that columbia = oprah but you get what I mean
@ya homie This is nice…perhaps the first time in history there’s a kinda cool benefit to being Barnard and not Columbia.
@Except for the whole getting a Columbia degree but not actually going.
@it's pretty vicious CNN strives to create ‘2 Columbias’ through these divisive tactics
@!!! http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/29/campaign.wrap/index.html
@It gets better... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/mccain-funded-work-of-pal_n_138606.html