@Take a look at the headline size spec used in 1983 when women were first admitted to the college. Two words, probably 300 point font. That’s the benchmark for spec, so a president resigning…eh, that earns the 80 point relatively speaking
@speccie In the Spec office, 2875 Broadway–that one’s actually hanging on the wall I think.
Also, #6 is right–all caps is style for the lead story, which is the most important story of that particular day, but doesn’t signify anything astronomical.
@watcher I love how Bwog ignores the Shapiro story for 18 hours and then belittles Spec for playing it up. Would you be giving them shit if it was Galil or Quigley? I smell anti-Barnard bias.
@nah they’re just making fun of the headline, not the coverage. if you haven’t noticed, spec headlines have been creeping up in size, and they’ve been giving lots of undeserved shit all-caps billing.
@barnard if it wants so much coverage, it should get its own newspaper.
oh, right, it has one, and no one reads it, meaning spec and bwog have to answer to all kinds of bias allegations when there’s not enough barnard news…
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@schap's gone since shap is leaving maybe columbia can finally merge it into one larger columbia. hah take that!
@btw they keep updating the Shaft:
http://blog.columbiaspectator.com/housing_2007/
@Take a look at the headline size spec used in 1983 when women were first admitted to the college. Two words, probably 300 point font. That’s the benchmark for spec, so a president resigning…eh, that earns the 80 point relatively speaking
@Anonymous where can one find that 1983 copy of the Spec?
@speccie In the Spec office, 2875 Broadway–that one’s actually hanging on the wall I think.
Also, #6 is right–all caps is style for the lead story, which is the most important story of that particular day, but doesn’t signify anything astronomical.
@Er... Isn’t the all-caps thing just the usual style for whatever the top article is? The Times does it, too. (No, not as big as today’s, I know.)
@sooo... is spec not reporting on how they fell for the Jester-CUSJ hoax?
@watcher I love how Bwog ignores the Shapiro story for 18 hours and then belittles Spec for playing it up. Would you be giving them shit if it was Galil or Quigley? I smell anti-Barnard bias.
@nah they’re just making fun of the headline, not the coverage. if you haven’t noticed, spec headlines have been creeping up in size, and they’ve been giving lots of undeserved shit all-caps billing.
@I mean without this headline inflation, they wouldn’t have had to run a banner thing that made it look like pearl harbor happened.
@barnard if it wants so much coverage, it should get its own newspaper.
oh, right, it has one, and no one reads it, meaning spec and bwog have to answer to all kinds of bias allegations when there’s not enough barnard news…
@barnard, go away honestly, why is anti-barnard sentiment a bad thing?
@honestly Dean Galil’s resignment was in a font much smaller than this font size. Barnard editor maybe?