46 CommentsUpdate, 6:10 pm: A tipster passed on some photographic proof of Oprah’s visit.
Update, 1:36 pm: According to a tipster, Oprah is officially off campus. She was last seen driving away in a black Suburban in front of Barnard Hall.
The day we’ve all been waiting for has come. Oprah Winfrey is currently speaking on the third floor of Barnard Hall to a group of sixty selected Barnard students in search for their thoughts about what young female students feel about the status of women today. With all the excitement over one of America’s most important women presence on campus, female Columbia College students pose the question: Can they be strong, beautiful women, too?
Beautiful No Matter What They Say
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@A UNH student I thought these two colleges were supposed to be classy institutions.
@Anonymous she looks hungry
@CC '12 you should all get over yourself and read prezbla’s article in the spec yesterday about how good things occur on both sides of broadway- http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2012/02/15/symbiotic-relationship
@Anonymous It’s not like Barnard said this is only for Barnard Students. When Chomsky spoke last semester anyone could attend because the venue was large and he was invited to speak. Oprah invited herself. She wanted to speak with Gloria Steinem (who attended a women’s college) and women who have reaped tremendous benefits from her activism. Oprah chose Barnard. Oprah’s production team chose the venue and that limited the number of student to sixty.
Secondly, cut the crap, without institutions like Barnard College all across, the country proving that women are just as capable, and without activists like Gloria Steinem women would not be allowed to attend CC or SEAS in first place. I am so glad Columbia finally got it together and went co-ed AND I am so happy to be a Barnard student. It doesn’t have to be mutually exclusive.
@Anonymous just because I go to Barnard doesn’t mean I have to upvote every Barnard poster…esp. the dumb ones. Come on. Why can’t we all just hold hands and be happy?
@Anon pretty sure oprah wasn’t out there from 6:36pm to 1:36pm. fix it bitch.
@Anonymous What did she give out to the audience?
@Anonymous I called my mom, and my sister in the background: “Ferrari for you, Ferrari for you, Ferraris for everyone!”
@Anonymous CANT WE ALL JUST GET ALONG?!?!?
@JOHN TRAVOLTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
@Oh God.... Were you on Carman 4?!
@Oprah Guys, it’s not about who goes to what school, or who can spell what word, or who is somebody else’s cum dumpster. It’s about all of us sticking together as one human race. Also, it’s about you tuning into the OWN network.
@CC 12 I love Oprah, but not as much as I love my Barnard friends!
Like most people on this campus, I judge people by their character, not what college they are in.
Barnard jokes are for underclassmen, grow the fuck up.
@YOU. You win all of the awards. Good on you.
@YOU'RE ALL THE WORST To all the Barnard students thinking they are doing any good by “defending” their school here, and to all the Columbia students who think they are being cool, hilarious, renegade badasses by attacking Barnard students
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA0IpS_3S-0
@Anon Is it just me or are the like and dislikes effectively a poll of the readership of Bwog.
@anon As if.
@Ha! Oprah came to Barnard. We get to use your libraries, take your classes , dine in your halls, be leaders on your clubs. Suck it. And CONTINUE to me tight about it. And tomorrow…we’ll still be runnin’ shit.
U mad?
U y no stop us? (Oh yeah, you’re administration gets something out of this partnership too
@CC'14 *be leaders IN your clubs
*”and CONTINUE to me tight about it” – unintelligible. Do you mean “be uptight?”
* “u y no stop us” = y u no stop us
* “you’re administration” – YOUR administration
* close parentheses
That’s why you go to Barnard.
@anon Yay generalizations!
@BC '13 fuck off.
@BC 2012 These double standards are getting out of hand. Whenever I identify myself as a Barnard student on bwog, I find myself proofreading my comments as thoroughly as my essays because I know my thoughts won’t be heard if I offer up anything else to nitpick (or worse). Other BC friends have lamented the same thing.
I understand the need to represent your school in a positive light. I don’t need anyone to point out to me that having to work harder when negative stereotypes are working against you is not a new phenomenon. That doesn’t mean it’s right. This university happens to house four colleges whose students interact as classmates, friends, boyfriends, girlfriends… We are too familiar with individuals at the different schools to perpetuate these broad generalizations, especially to this extent.
Check some of this hostility. Not every comment in this informal online forum should have to be copyedited ten times over like a cover letter.
All that aside… HOLY HELL, THAT’S SOME TERRIBLE GRAMMAR. Almost looks fake…
@Anonymous Clearly a case of drunkbwogging.
@Anonymous Girl shut the fuck up, you’re making the rest of us look bad.
@Agree this shit is not okay.
@* your*
…barnard
@Anonymous Was she looking for the Chabad House? – http://www.chabadstudentcenter.com/multimedia/media_cdo/aid/1764563/jewish/Oprahs-Visit-to-Hasidic-Brooklyn.htm
@oprah I thought she was looking for Chabad House – http://www.chabadstudentcenter.com/multimedia/media_cdo/aid/1764563/jewish/Oprahs-Visit-to-Hasidic-Brooklyn.htm
@Stanley Cavell I MISSED HER?!
@BC '15 Plenty of esteemed and/or otherwise famous people speak at Columbia College as opposed to Barnard and nobody even questions it–we recognize that CC women are just as strong and beautiful as any of us, but please just let us BC ladies bask in Oprah’s glory for a moment without making this a competition, k?
@A CC lady Yes but if someone that big was speaking at Columbia and y’all weren’t invited there would be a hissy with the destructive force of an earthquake.
@Anonymous this is real, yo
@To be fair I go to Barnard, and I wasn’t invited either.
@Anonymous Exactly. Any one of the CC people who are complaining should have just crossed the street to come lurk outside Barnard Hall like the rest of us.
@you were, but you don’t read your emails.
@BC That’s a little presumptuous.
@I NEVER thought I'd say that I wish I went to Barnard…
low point?
@Why the fuck wasn’t I invited?
– CC ’12 trying to live his best life
@Oh God ….
@Anonymous Columbia College women are strong and beautiful, too!
@Anonymous nope, sorry.
@Anonymous 39 barnard women are pissed about being barnard women
@Anonymous highlight of my day: watching oprah get mobbed by shrieking barnard girls. (from the math library)