Remember when Vampire Weekend released “Harmony Hall” last month, allowing all of us Mohi-tians to briefly step away from the course notes and Blue Java pastry bags littering our Butler desks and, for the most fleeting of moments, take part in a glamorous dream world of – gasp – celebrity?

Yeah, us too. Well, according to a little bird at McSweeney’s, “Harmony Hall” was not Vampire Weekend’s first pass at a Columbia-related song title. And who can blame them? Whether it be the peculiar farmlike qualities of Avery or the non-existence of Sker-mer-horn Hall, there is vast fodder to muse upon at Columbia (so vast that like, we literally do it professionally, y’all).

Here were Vampire Weekend’s rejected Columbia song titles:

• “McBain Roof”
• “The Kids Don’t Stand A Chance (Against Housing Selection)”
• “Prezbo’s Audi”
• “At the Theological Seminary”
• “I Stand Corrected (Said By No CC Boy Ever)”
• “Everlasting Carlton Arms”
• “Roar, Young Lion, Roar”
• “Diana Dining Dollars”
• “Speaking Fellow”
• “re: Butler stacks” (Bon Iver cover)
• “Chicago Manual of Style”
• “On Butler’s Facade”
• “Bacchanal Kids”
• “Athena’s Nips”
• “Stress Culture Blue”
• “Lerner Turnstile”
• “Barnard Chimmy Changa”
• “Low Step”
• “Core Curriculum Kwassa Kwassa”

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