RagTime Special Edition: Farewell Columns
A few of the Ivy dailies have a tradition -- a combo of classy and self-indulgent -- of giving departing columnists and reporters the opportunity to write one final column. In their minds, it's the column by which they will be remembered for all time. (This is not always a good thing. Trust us on this.) Most of them put more time into these than they care to admit. But rarely do you get a chance to examine these good-byes as a whole. So we've rounded up some of this year's batch. They're not necessarily the best of the bunch, but they're the ones we noticed. (Look for more as some of the other dailies close out for the summer.)
- Columbia: Copy editor loves her job; other editors find this incomprehensible, but dare not question it [Spec]
- Columbia: I have awesome, quirky friends and many ex-boyfriends. [Spec]
- Columbia: The Internet has changed everything! [Spec]
- Columbia: I actually went to class. [Spec]
- Cornell: U.S. News ranking is just a number. Right? [Sun]
- Cornell: I toiled away four years at a college daily, and all I got was this lousy column [Sun]
- Cornell: What we learned from reading this column: Cornell has a "Ho Plaza" [Sun]
- Cornell: New drinking game: take a shot for every tired socialist cliche [Sun]
- Yale: A 10-step guide to selling out [YDN]
- Yale: Idealist somehow emerges with ideals intact [YDN]
- Yale: There is no "bubble" [YDN]
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May 5th, 2007 at 8:58 am
roger low is the man!
May 5th, 2007 at 9:43 am
“Blah, blah, blah, capitalism sucks. Just look at North Korea, the worker’s paradise. Or China. China in 1980 = >30% of population living on US$1 or less a day. China in 2000 = ~5$ of population in the same conditions. All hail the power of socialism! Wait…you mean China went capitalist after 1980? You don’t say! Those evil, money-grubbing, poverty-erasing capitalists…”
Sheesh, I didn’t want to believe it before, but maybe there’s a reason so many people express derision towards Cornell.
May 5th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
How progressive, their hearts beat for the proletariat as whilst their parents dish out 40,000K for them to graduate from the People’s Re-eduation Center. They will now go out into the world armed as a united vanguard of Ivy Leagers and use the fraternal solidarity of their connections to save the people, one i-bank position at a time.
Self-rightious snobs of the world, unite!
May 6th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
good god, steve engler is a tool.
May 7th, 2007 at 3:26 am
09yalie: yes.
May 7th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Hey guys,
what were your departing columns?
May 8th, 2007 at 9:31 am
CC ‘07 says:
Hey guys,
what were your departing columns?
ZING!!!!!!!111!!!1
May 8th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
Uhm…actually there are a number of people at Cornell are there on scholarship, because their parents don’t make enough in a year to pay for housing, let alone tuition. I know several. I’m pretty sure, then, that not all students who support the downtrodden masses are “self-rightious [sic] snobs”–they’re just kids with a conscience. That’s more than capitalist assholes like you can say for yourselves.
Frankly I think if we had a few more bleeding-heart liberals like Taylor actively working for change we’d be a lot better off than we currently are with all these trust fund babies who are happy to sit back, turn their brains off, and watch the rich getting richer while the poor flounder.
We’re never going to solve our social problems until we start caring for our own.
May 9th, 2007 at 10:07 am
As a Cornell alumnus I would like to point out that the more dignified and traditional name for what is commonly called Ho Plaza is “Central Avenue” (as indeed the pair of stone gateposts down by Gannett were still lettered the last time I was there). The Ho name, introduced about 1996 after the Ho family gave the university a big sum of money, was supposed to refer only to that part of Central Avenue directly between Willard Straight Hall and the Campus Store.
(Gosh, I must sound like some sort of old fogey…)
May 9th, 2007 at 10:09 am
As a Cornell alumnus I would like to point out that the more dignified and traditional name for what is commonly called Ho Plaza is “Central Avenue” (as indeed the pair of stone gateposts down by Gannett were still lettered the last time I was there). The Ho name, introduced about 1996 after the Ho family gave the university a big sum of money, was supposed to refer only to that part of Central Avenue directly between Willard Straight Hall and the Campus Store.
(Gosh, I must sound like some sort of old fogey…)
May 9th, 2007 at 10:14 am
why would you ever take money to name a major part of your campus “Ho”?
-someone who almost went to “Dummer” University