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Tipster/photographer Jason Patinkin just sent the following photos Bwog’s way. “Well bwog, I hope you enjoyed the last week of sitting on the steps, because once again Columbia taketh our favorite midday hangout. Indeed the construction of wooden posts and metal bleachers across the steps begins today (or maybe yesterday),” he writes.
It’s that time of year again when graduation preparation coincides with the most beautiful week of the year. Gather ye steptime while ye may/Old Time is still a-flying/And this same flower that smiles to-day/To-morrow will be dying.
More of Patinkin’s photos after the jump.
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@nah he’s sleeping with the personification of bwog
@no, he's sleeping with all of them.
@jason patinkin must be sleeping with one of the bwog editors.
@this doesn’t seem like much of a tip. it’s pretty obvious they’re setting up bleachers. i didn’t need someone to take pictures and put them on bwog to figure it out
@spec so now all that’s missing is some spectator editorial demanding “the administration” reconsider graduation preparations in the future.
@Are you light blue? Dear (?),
Congratulations! As you may already know, CCSC has been working on our I Am Light Blue campaign this semester in order to celebrate the fantastic things our students, faculty, and alumni are doing on campus and in the world outside Columbia. You have been nominated to be Light Blue by a member of the student body and we would like to feature you in our end of the year publication and video. Sunday, May 4th, the Council will host our final Light Blue event where we will give away free t-shirts and light blue food (ie cookies with blue frosting) and we would like to distribute a booklet where students can read about the interesting work other students are doing and the impact they are making. If you are interested in being a part of our project, we would love for you to answer the below questions and email them and a photo of yourself back to me. If you are interested in being a part of the video, please let me know. It will probably be filmed this Saturday betwen 1 and 3pm and only take 10-15 minutes of your time. If you have any questions, please let me know.
Congratulations again from all of the Council.
All my best,
Michelle
—
Michelle Nicole Diamond
Student Body President
Columbia College, Class of 2008
@Typical So typically Columbia: image > students
Actually a lot of things > students
@hey let’s build some bleachers, guys! What’s that? Student groups have reserved the plaza for the weekend? Well, I’m sure these enormous metal structures won’t get in their way.
@UGH Bwog quit your exaggerating, this is NOT the most beautiful week of the year last week was MUCH nicer. This week has been rainy and cold WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!
@Columbia's admins... can suck it. I mean REALLY, they close the lawns for 75% of the year, only open up the lawns so prospective students can see them, and believe that they’ll be able to use the lawns all year…
Only for them to leave, and to have the all the lawns close after two weeks, and/or littered with crappy, flimsy fences to discourage use.
The Furnald Lawn isn’t used for ANYTHING, and it’s been fenced in for the last two weeks….what the hell Columbia? I pay $40k+ a year for this shit?
Why the hell do we have grass, and pay to take care of this grass, if we can’t use it?
@well you have to admit that they are aesthetically pleasing, and Columbia’s image is extremely important to the administration
@Forget aesthetics... There are things like nature….sprinklers…buying new grass (which Columbia does every year ANYWAY) which keep grass looking “aesthetically pleasing.’
I can understand if they want to keep them closed after rain, but otherwise its a BS excuse that Columbia deserves nice grass on its campus that can rarely, if ever, be freely used to its paying customers/students.
@are you claiming to know more about how to keep grass green than people who do it for a living, and then concocting a conspiracy theory about how the administration has it out for anyone who wants to use the lawns?
@admin alert! ADMIN ALERT! #35 = #30 = ADMIN = FOUL BEAST
@in the know the bleachers for graduation are ALWAYS built in the last week of classes. You can make whatever argument you want about 3 weeks in advance being too long, but for the past 8 years construction has consistently taken place in the last week of classes.
@untrue KCST is always after the last week of classes, and the bleachers have never been built beforehand in the past.
@maybe the columbia admin is just so lazy that they have the construction automatically scheduled to start on a certain date each year, and forgot that everything(finals, graduation etc) has been moved back one week this year thanks to mlk day being a week later.
that said this saddens me greatly, for i adore KCST, and i am sorry they have to suffer for that administrations idiocy.
@protester lets do a sit in on the lawn
@BOO I’m a senior, and I want to enjoy my last few weeks of hanging out on the steps in the sunshine!
@If you build it they will come.
@that's what she said
@DHI See this is why in the unlikely event that I ever make any money, I’m not going to give it directly to the administration, because they’ll just use it to build bleachers across student space.
Disclaimer: I have a small part in the KCST show that’s getting majorly fucked by this unnecessarily early construction.
Disclaimer: I like to be outside on the steps instead of walking around some ugly-ass bleachers.
@student I hate Columbia.
@if you hate columbia then why do you go here?
@meh If you love columbia so much, then why don’t you marry it?
@All I see everywhere on campus, are advertisements for “Cane Toads”. “Cane Toads”.
@wow this is def earlier than ever before.
and to think i thought the fact they planted a shrubbery on furland lawn in between kcst performances last year was annoying. this school is idiotic sometimes.
@Ernest Herrera This is going to get in the way of Cinco de Mayo.
@ugh i hate this crummy weather.
@well besides tomorrow, it is supposed to rain for pretty much the next ten days straight.
http://www.weather.com/outlook/recreation/ski/tenday/10025
@anti-forecaster eh, forecasts past about 3 days are never true.
The weather folks just take whatever they have on day 3, and paste that for infinity. At least one day this weekend is going to be a super-nice, blue-sky day.
@OmniVore How you can take bath in sun when is not wet?
@tbf bwog has since slyly deleted the offending “indeed”.
@ELREY aren’t they doing this a week early?
what a load of shit
@auuugh this is insane – kcst has that space reserved for thursday-saturday and now they’re building risers over it
thanks a lot, administration, you’re a fucking disaster once again
@emilyw oh hey columbia put up bleachers on low plaza three weeks before commencement, but TWO DAYS before kcst’s show opens on low plaza. that’s neat. awesome. you just do that.
@yeah there are a few more events for Low Plaza until the last day of classes.
:(
@tbf to be fair, the first use was in a quote from the tipster.
@this is so annoying. I’m graduating and I don’t like that the bleachers are in the way.
@bwog You used the word “indeed” in consecutive sentences which is awkward sounding. Plus you put a comma after one of them and not the other. Points off.
@Wow, I’m glad I’m not the only one who notices these things. Bwog, please do something about it! It’s driving me crazy.