N.Y. Daily News Exposé Blows Lid Off Columbia’s Hardcore Curriculum

by Nick Summers | November 27, 2006 at 5:27 am

<em>N.Y. Daily News</em> Expos&#233; Blows Lid Off Columbia's Hardcore CurriculumTo hear the New York Daily News tell it, Columbia students barely have time to go to lecture, what with all the naked parties, library sex, and classroom demonstrations of cat-o'-nine-tails sadomasochism going down at every turn. A breathless and alternately outraged/pervy Douglas Feiden tells every sordid detail of the "X-rated" "playpen for sexual hijinks" that is "Columbia Gone Wild" -- the anal sex broadcast on campus TV, the workshop for "kicking and trampling" sex ... it's Sodom and Gomorrah U!

It's in the Daily News, so it's gotta be true. But just to make sure, we polled some friends in Morningside: How often do Columbia kids get laid?

  • "once every six months. columbia is a rough world for single people."
  • "the average in the engineering school is probably like once a semester"
  • "i would say within the first week of a new class, then consistently for 3 weeks, then it would get ugly"
  • "either I missed out or everyone else in college isn't having sex at all."
  • "i can't make a funny comment about it at the moment...i'm too tired. watching 5 episodes of veronica mars in a row has exhausted me"
  • "I've kind of got a girl right now, but we're both too busy to actually have sex. I think a lot of people are in my boat, and they deal with it by commoditizing and scheduling time for sexual pleasure as they would a meeting with their adviser"
  • "Random hook-ups do happen, but it is probably rare for most students. At night people just go back to their rooms and finish their homework or maybe heat up a hot pocket" 

Oh. Well then. As for the truthiness of the rest of Feiden's story, maybe one of our ex-girlfriends put it best. "i can honestly say that neither me nor anyone i know has ever participated in S and M at this school," she IMed. "unless you count having sex in a twin XL bed as pain."

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5 Responses to “N.Y. Daily News Exposé Blows Lid Off Columbia’s Hardcore Curriculum”

  1. Columbia Greek Says:
    November 27th, 2006 at 11:06 am

    I do not know anyone who has ever been to one of these naked/bondage/sex parties. Pretty much everyone I know has a pretty regular sex life, but that’s because pretty much everyone I know is in a fraternity or sorority. Frats get knocked at Columbia, but frat boys get laid, even here.

  2. Sam Jackson Says:
    November 27th, 2006 at 11:42 am

    Columbia Greek: Why? Or does it defy explanation.

  3. Columbia Non-Greek Says:
    November 27th, 2006 at 1:50 pm

    Most people I know have a regular sex life as well. And the majority of them are non-Greeks. I think the perception of our school as an over-sexed campus is a bit extreme, but those out there who think no one is getting laid must just not be in the loop. Or really unattractive.

  4. Furnald Hall '69 Says:
    November 28th, 2006 at 4:50 am

    Oh-Oh, that dismal poll …it’s just like the College was in ‘69; ABSOLUTELY THE SAME! My sympathies; we were miserable then.

  5. ro54ck Says:
    August 7th, 2007 at 7:35 pm

    m921k