I Tried to Start a Campus Controversy, And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
It's a scandal-off! Columbia is abuzz -- or trying to be -- over two controversies right now. One involves right-wing allegations of a slush fund subsidizing elite Manhattanites' abortions. The other is about ... a club sports flyer. The contest is closer than you might think. Observe:
Junior Chris Kulawik, the school's resident conservative, penned a column last week pointing out that if Columbia will privately cover abortion costs up to $500, and students pay only $350 in Health Services fees, the remaining $150 must be coming from "somewhere else." Ominous! Just the kind of abortion hors d'oeuvres the New York Sun would love to sink its teeth into. But Kulawik is up against ...
"Stop being a pussy." That's the line on an orientation week flyer that landed the club hockey team in surprisingly hot water, with all four student council presidents co-signing an outraged letter to university administrators. That's two more presidents than signed a letter protesting the scheduled lecture from Holocaust-denying, Israel-off-map-wiping Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, one student noted. (He also found the university-approved 2004 t-shirt at right. (Disclosure: We know the guy.))
Which wannabe furor will prevail? We'll bring the nachos, you bring the Columbia student's uniquely insatiable appetite for protests.
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September 29th, 2006 at 2:18 am
That’s just bad economics. If I pay $1000 for health insurance and they cover a $2000 emergency medical procedure, where is the rest of the money coming from? Secret Zionist health plan? No, everyone else who paid insurance and didn’t need anything. In my four years at Columbia, I went in ONCE with a soar throat. I like to think that I personally subsidized a half-dozen abortions.