14 CommentsLooks like the scales of justice just got a little more balanced at the Law School, where a sharp eyed tipster noticed that the older, traditional, decidedly Christian logo:
has been replaced by something more sleekly innocuous:
As we noted before, Columbia did decide to stick with the royalist crosses, but apparently takes a federalist attitude towards its satellite institutions. Besides, spades are so in these days.
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@UNIFORMITY Can’t we get a presidential commission on university symbols and create some uniform standards for symbol usage? this choose your own approach is ugly.
@actually It’s better now than it ever was before.
See the old Law Logo:
http://columbia.bkstore.com/default.asp?s=79083957974%7C707&m=0303&p=25425
@well they can’t decide. that logos on a lot of documents and on the wall when you enter greene. but on official stuff and on banners they used to use the shield in white on a blue background. Now they just use the jumbo-uggo-crown.
@umm it’s called Relay for Life. kind of a big deal.
it’s also Dean’s Day.
@crosses and spades I can understand wanting to ditch the crosses being we are a secular institution. But shouldn’t we also ditch the crown? I don’t recall Columbia being a monarchy.
@ominous That’s as far as YOU know.
As for that abominable music…I’ll gladly give up my hearing for cancer fund raising.
@prezbo is my enlightened despot
@steps is there something going on on the steps today? I can hear the music across campus; it’s been going on all day and I’m suprised bwog hasn’t done anything on it
@steps a cancer awareness event. Breast cancer I believe. Lots of fundraising and whatnot. BAKE SALE!!!!!
@shakespeare Nay knave, for the Bard speaketh: “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers”
@Smartleby The difference between a cross and a spade is miniscule at best and, in the above example, unnoticable. Since the modern spade shape comes from the Spanish deck of cards which featured swords, this shouldn’t surprise anyone.
I find this change exciting and good. In light of Meslier’s quote (incorrectly attributed to Diderot), “Let us strangle the last king with the guts of the last priest.” I suggest we find some priest entrails to string on that damned crown, or better yet, burn the whole mother down.
@the spades seem so commercialized and watered down.
@agreed plus everyone knows they’re purely historical.
@:( :( i’m an atheist, but the crosses just seemed classier.