Little kid with parents on College Walk:
“I don’t like the Lions because they lost today… Have they ever won?”
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Oct 24, 2010 
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Little kid with parents on College Walk:
“I don’t like the Lions because they lost today… Have they ever won?”
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43 Comments
@The Band Always Wins Here’s the video of the Band’s halftime show from Saturday: http://bit.ly/9nMhkd
Here’s Dartmouth’s show: http://bit.ly/cOnTnY
And the CUMB was “pitiful” in comparison? I don’t see it.
@Harmony Hunter where’s harmony
@anon what a frontrunner. probably said it while wearing his spanking new SF Giants cap.
@Anonymous what do the giants have to do with anything? being a sore loser from philly?
@troll anon is saying that the kid is homosexual.
@dodger fan um, the number of Giants caps I’ve seen around here have increased by about 10000%. It’s the greatest show of bandwagoning I’ve ever seen, greater even than Philly in 2008. not unexpected, though.
@giants fan since the presteroid bonds days I’m glad to see more Giants hats around. I was used to being the only one but now that we finally got back into the playoffs, I’ll take more supporters.
@dodger fan so how many BONDS #25 jerseys did you buy? ten? fifteen?
@yay arean let timmy smoke!
@If you discredit almost everyone's biggest commitment/achievement/extracurricular activity in high school they wouldn’t be qualified to get into Columbia either. Its impossible to convince people that the athletes should be here when the very thing that makes them so qualified is completely belittled. Take a look at your application/resume and cross out something that you care deeply about, devout 40 hours a week to and are one of the best in your school at. First off, I doubt many of you have something you that qualifies for all three but for those that do (student body presidents, yearbook/newspaper editors, state champ violinist, etc) how attractive does your resume look now?
Read this and tell me this kid shouldn’t be here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703843804575534231916689558.html
@Also, if you don't like student-athletes and want us to drop all of our sports, just remember you’ll have to stop saying you go to an Ivy League School if that happens. The Ivy League is first and foremost an athletic conference. A huge part of what makes each school so desirable is its association with the rest. With no sports teams we would no longer a member of the League and would no longer be so closely associate with the Ivies. Check out this article for one reporters vision of a athlete free Columbia: http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2007/04/06/world-without-cu-sports
It ain’t pretty.
@you can't be serious The article isn’t pretty because its primary purpose was comedic. Columbia would descend into madness and hysteria and loss of prestige if we stopped playing sports? We are more dependent on the fate and fortunes of NYC for prestige than anything else. (See the 1970s and 1980s.) Oh, and the fact that the Ivy League designation wasn’t formalized until after WWII, and that the Ivy League happens to consist of northeast WASPy colonial-era institutions (with the exception of Cornell, which was founded after the Civil War) with longstanding mutual ties because of that historical fact.
@everyone just shut up.
@CC 13 tinkers cuss? really? judging by the freshman class, i thought only people from long island and new jersey were being admitted to this great institution. way to class it up with the southern slang.
@southerner I’ve lived in the South my entire life and have never heard this phrase.
A quick search reveals it to be a British idiom.
I guess making assumptions like that a phrase you’ve never heard is from the South, is like making the assumption that just because someone is an athlete means they can’t be as smart as the standard Columbia student
@ryan stop disgracing my class
@An answer None of the Ivys can give full athletic scholarships and so the general trend is that we all suck. Also its not fair to make statements about the intelligence of person or their capability to get into Columbia/or another Ivy based on their choice to play sports on the side.
@Anonymous Great point. Athletics are, after all, an extracurricular. Just like music, community involvement, and honor society, sports are another way to round oneself out. I know a bunch of athletes here who are incredibly bright and driven, and who do a lot better than I do in the classroom!
@Anonymous Are other extracurriculars 30+ hours a week of intense work? I imagine things like our newspaper and possibly others I do not know about may be. I have tons of respect for people who can pull that off, whether they’e an athlete or a mathlete.
@My sentiment exactly. I think that some of the people who subscribe to the notion that student athletes are intellectually inferior and therefore undeserving of admission to the same school could probably gain a more accurate perspective by trying to manage a full course-load while going to practice for several hours every afternoon or training in the weight room for several hours every evening and waking up early every Saturday morning for a full afternoon running on some field or court. It might be especially instructive, given that the football team tends to be the most frequent target of scorn, to try doing that while carrying ~30 lbs of athletic gear and slamming with full strength into aggressive opponents. I never played a team sport, but I think that with a just little thought one can imagine that it requires quite a substantial dedication. Those who represent our school on the athletic field are under-appreciated.
@yeah.. I happen to know that some sports have wealthy alumni pay parents the tuition, thus full athletic scholarships do in face exist!
@Columbia The only place where the marching band, which doesn’t march, is more successful than the football team.
@Anonymous i really dislike the marching band, no offense. they’re annoying.
@FYI I AM STUCK ON THEIR MAILING LIST AND IT IS AWFUL. and any time someone tries to get off the mailing list, all the bandies mercilessly mock said individual…its rough.
@Anonymous For pretty much any student group mailing list with a @columbia.edu domain:
Send an email to majordomo@columbia.edu. Leave the subject blank. Type “Unsubscribe [name of list]”, where the name of the list is whatever comes before @columbia.edu. You should get a confirmation of unsubscribing in seconds. This is the only possible way to unsubscribe.
@Anonymous they mock you, but they eventually give you the unsubscribe instructions.
@unsubscribe cumb Oh, for fuck’s sake (courtesy of Mark Tabry):
In anticipation of the imminent flood of “get me off the band list”
requests that usually follow an e-mail like this, I will post the
instructions to those of you so foolhardy as to think that you are
above the band. *cough*
1. Open up your e-mail client. Usually the “picture” on your desktop
that looks like an envelope. No. Not that trash can thing. That’s
something different. Yes, I know most of your e-mail consists of
penis pill ads and love letters from your stalker, but I assure you
that it’s the envelope.
2. Create a new message and address it to majordomo@columbia.edu.
Major Domo is a retired Japanese soldier who is now employed by
Columbia with the job of removing people from various mailing
lists. His job is quite boring, especially given his heroic
background, so treat him nicely.
3. In the body of your message, write “unsubscribe cumb”. No more,
no less. Major Domo prides efficiency.
4. Click send. You will receive a message when you’ve successfully
been unsubscribed. It usually happens within a few seconds, because
Major Domo’s years in the service have left him with almost
superhuman reflexes. It’s the only thing that keeps him going.
@NO WAY If you were at the game, you would have seen how pitiful our marching band was in comparison to Dartmouth’s. Our football team gave quite a showing, and only lost in the very end of the game, with the marching band there was no competition.
@I didn't see any marching bands yesterday I did see two groups of strange kids running around and some of them were using musical instruments.
Stop calling them a marching band. It’s insulting to the band nerds who actually are in marching bands.
@??? Are you talking about the 20ish people from Dartmouth, who couldn’t all play in the same time signature, versus the 50 or so people in CUMB?
@An honest question If we never win at sports because we cannot recruit the requisite number of athletes to field a team that can compete with the other universities we play (presumably because Columbia is a primarily intellectual not athletic institution), why do we use admissions spots on athletes that could not get into this school otherwise?
@Anonymous oh my god shut up
@Alum The other universities we play are also primarily intellectual and not athletic. That’s not why our football and basketball teams do poorly. Besides, many of our other teams do quite well against the same opponents.
@People like you need a reality check Guess what? Athletes are all around you in your classes, and many of them dominate you in the class room just as they could physically. Wake up and realize it is a very small minority of athletes that are ‘under qualified’.
Happen to see a list of Columbia’s notable alums? Check it out and then respond to this with the number who were student athletes. You may find this enlightening.
Oh, and in case you or any of you who gave this a ‘thumbs up’ want to educate your truly brilliant minds check some of these out:
http://www.gocolumbialions.com/ViewArticle.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=9600&ATCLID=3678731&SPID=3886&SPSID=43668
http://www.gocolumbialions.com/ViewArticle.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=9600&ATCLID=204761824&SPID=3887&SPSID=43675
http://www.gocolumbialions.com/ViewArticle.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=9600&ATCLID=204978129&SPID=3890&SPSID=43696
You must have some sort of mental fortitude if you’re here at CU, even if you don’t show it. One would think that people like you would know to get your facts straight before you speak. I wish this was not anonymous – you should be embarrassed because you truly sound like an idiot. I’m not even an athlete. It just absolutely blows my mind that all you supposedly intelligent people can be so oblivious, snide, and foolish. Fuck you sir. Fuck you.
@thoughtful I could not agree with you more. Thank you for sticking up for the Columbia student athletes – you are a breath of fresh air. And thank you so much for pointing out those great examples. It is admirable how generally the Columbia student athletes manage to juggle 4, 5, 6 classes with daily practice, weekend trips and tournaments, and on top of that, be great trusted friends to others. These student athletes got in because they have shown they possess something that took 12 or so years of their young lives to build: a balance between a pursuit that sets them apart (while making many sacrifices, like giving up a social life at a young age, or living away from family to train) and the ability to be an exemplary student in class. Kids who do well in pure academics have no guarantees of “making it”after college. It is those who are likeable, flexible, have integrity, can motivate others through leadership by example, have built great networks, and lastly, who are backed with a great education like one from Columbia, that have a better guarantee. This applies to both student athletes and non athletes. But these traits are likely already developed in student athletes due to the adversities they have overcome and learned from by the time they get out. Comments like from “an honest question” are disrespectful and reckless towards any Lion, and uneducated. Sadly it’s so easy to use a laptop and type away careless thoughts and comments, in much the same way it’s so much easier to root for a winning team.
@thoughtful I’m not an athlete -I’m a Parent of an athlete who pays tuition and doesn’t enjoy seeing my child go through some very tough times when classes and practice/tournaments just don’t seem like they should go together. But my child loves being a Lion nevertheless, and there’s nothing I can really do about it.
@Indignant hoary alum poor kid, very true. my kid said the same as we rolled past the campus in a city bus. do they ever win? Yes, in baseball and women’s soccer, but men’s hoops and football? apparently we don’t have a tinker’s cuss of a chance of winning, despite… everything.
@You do realize that you sound like the whining little kid, right? For a little kid it’s understandable, but for a “hoary alum[nus]”…
@bbal our basketball teams are actually pretty good. stop hating.
@Hey losers Where are the free food events? I’m starving.
@Apparently They won in the 1960s.
@Anonymous I guess you missed the 3 straight home games they won against Princeton, Lafayette, and Towson.
@Anonymous if i were a football player, it would suck to see bwog post that second half of the comment. you could have just said the first half, they have won 3 games this season.