23 CommentsFor a little extra context regarding the whole GS Class Day rescheduling debacle (which could have ended worse), check out GSSC’s survey, embedded below. They surveyed about half the graduating class, as well as a handful of CC, SEAS, and BC students.
Highlights: 62% of graduating seniors have at least one guest unable to come, the average family will be out $500, and almost half of those surveyed agreed with Dean Awn’s decision not to start at 5:30 am.
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@Anonymous I feel pretty terrible for this person. But your joke was still hilarious.
@Anonymous Graduation ceremonies are dumb.
The end.
@12 Year Old During the meeting last night, Ms. Thong ejaculated, “Some guests can’t come!”.
@Problem Solved Obama cancels and hands out campaign rally vouchers to the graduating Barnard class. The orignal schedule goes as planned, and Barnard students can hear Obama preach to the choir as he panders the pivotal female vote on his own time.
@whoa that powerpoint is NICE
@Anonymous I bet the GS Class Day Travel Fund paid for it.
@Anonymous Almost half of those surveyed agreed…so doesn’t that mean that more than half disagreed with the decision?
@Anonymous to think, none of these problems would exist if there was a SINGLE UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGE.
@Anonymous Um, are you aware that very, very few universities have a single undergraduate college?
@Really Columbia University should rescind the acceptance of Obama’s invitation to speak for Barnard and instead bring back Abrahamson so we don’t have the Class Day for hundreds of GS students ruined just so Obama can pander to Barnard girls.
@Anonymous Can Columbia University rescind the offer? I mean, isn’t Barnard an independent liberal arts college, only affiliated with Columbia? However, I do wish that they could hold this on their campus somewhere (didn’t they hold graduation or something in the gym last year?)
@duh Columbia can’t per se, but they could force a cancellation by not allowing Barnard to use South Fields…
@Umm Why can’t Barnard have their Commencement on their own campus?
@Because There isn’t a space large enough on Barnard’s very small campus. Thanks for asking, though! Astonishing, really, that you’re the first to raise the question.
@Anonymous Barnard’s problem.
@Anonymous Except now it’s become GS’s problem. Which is not okay. And I say this as a Barnard senior.
@Anonymous It doesn’t surprise me that Dean Awn promised to boycott commencement if the date changed, and then supported the date change. This reeks of the time he told GSSC to investigate student interest in Latin diplomas, and then confronted with the news that GS students overwhelmingly supported the idea, said “as long as I am Dean of GS, there will be no Latin diplomas.”
@Anonymous Why do people care about the language of their diplomas? Is there something I’m missing?
@Word Isn’t the idea of a latin diploma antithetical to the mission of GS (as I understand it)? I think people care because it makes them seem fancy. It’s probably steeped in tradition and hullabaloo, which is fine if you care about that kind of stuff.
@I think.. The allure is the fact that the other undergraduate liberal arts colleges, CC and BC, have Latin diplomas. Giving GS students an English diploma for an otherwise identical degree serves to further differentiate them from their traditional peers.
@whatever I wasn’t there to hear what he said, and really I don’t care.
Do you really want Dean Awn to boycott your graduation? If I get up there and he isn’t there I’m going to be fucking pissed.
@Anonymous embedded where?
@Conor Fixed. Sorry, this website is basically held together by chewing gum and paperclips.