Ragtime February 8, 2008: “Take a moment. Bend over,” and prepare to feel the long dick of Ragtime.
- Cornell: “Take a moment. Bend over.” Tawdry sex expose? Nope! Just another review of Vampire Weekend.
- Columbia: Most irrelevant Spec story in recent memory.
- Dartmouth: What were you expecting when you decided you wanted to live in a forest for the best four years of your life?
- Princeton: Aha! So that explains all the old people working out in our gym.
- Yale: Four years of being a varsity athlete may help you get a plum job even if your grades are lousy and your SAT score is abysmal.
- Harvard: Whatever, Harvardians. Authentic or not your campus architecture still sucks compared to Princeton, Duke, or Chicago.
- Penn: Experts cite the obvious.
–Compiled by James Yu
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February 8th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
That Dartmouth article is not only from yesterday’s issue of the D, but you included it in yesterday’s Ragtime.
well done.
February 8th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Collegiate Gothic is a silly farce. Only Columbia and Harvard have buildings that aren’t painfully anachronistic.
February 8th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
your link to the Columbia story isn’t relevant to Columbia at all. it’s a link to the DP of Penn. FAIL.
February 8th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
your link to the Columbia story isn’t relevant to Columbia at all. it’s a link to the DP of Penn. FAIL.
February 8th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
“painfully anachronistic”? what an idiot. princeton and chicago blow harvard’s architecture out of the water. plus, they actually have a campus and don’t live at the mercy of a dirty city.
February 8th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
It’s Winter Carnival and you choose an old D article to post? Go to the middle of the homepage on try LOOKING at the 20 juicy articles covering the best weekend ever. When else do profs voluntarily cancel classes for 3 days of debauchery?
February 8th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
So what, plagiarism scandals are so passe now that they don’t even get mentioned?
February 9th, 2008 at 1:25 am
I can’t believe you missed [boring topic] at [Ivy League school]! IvyGate, you really aren’t what you used to be…
February 9th, 2008 at 11:23 am
My SATs are better than yours, Yu.
But why are you still clinging to it for justification four years later?
February 9th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
The Harvard article speaks truth. Even Columbia is pretentious, although few schools actually have neoclassical architecture. Collegiate gothic is a joke. Some of the collegiate gothic out there is so watered down it could look like my local church.
February 9th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
confusing nyu and columbia? (the “have a campus” part)
February 9th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
the harvard article speaks truth, the architecture up at harvard still kind of sucks. i remember being on a tour up there in high school and my friend, up us stopping at the science center remarked, “man i got to get a picture of this piece of shit. i totally would never go to a place with such piss poor architecture.”
he wouldn’t have gotten in anyway, but the point still stands. actually i think architecturally yale’s campus is the most interesting. penn and dartmouth are pretty weak sauce if i had to name the bottom of the league in terms of architecture.
February 10th, 2008 at 12:19 am
harvard’s science center truly is the architectural bastard child of this shitshow school. there are really only a handful of buildings that actually look nice, but of the few that do, they really do. columbia doesn’t even have that many buildings, and i’d put brown below penn or dartmouth.
February 10th, 2008 at 1:52 am
The one screaming defect of architecture at Penn, Columbia, and Yale is that right next to these pretentiously dusty and ancient facades you have factories, cement towers, science center cubes, etc etc – for want of space. In short, nothing beats the authenticity of Oxford or Cambridge. I will say that for Columbia’s own limitations, the architects did a pretty good job. The layout of campus is schematic, purposeful, and effective: the central “temple” that is Low Library winged by two smaller domes of faith left and right, with Low Plaza serving as the “agora” of the virtual city, separating into several smaller quads of adorned buildings. Columbia proves the thesis that the only way to build a beautiful campus in a packed urban environment is to build it symmetrically. Take a look:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5629428147683274829&q=Columbia+aerial&total=110&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
February 10th, 2008 at 1:59 am
Wow, that guy who wrote the article on Harvard architecture clearly knows NOTHING about architecture. So so so pedestrian an understanding.
February 10th, 2008 at 2:05 am
as if you do? architecture is subjective. if we don’t like it, then it sucks. and yours does suck.
February 10th, 2008 at 3:48 am
Clearly you have not read The Fountainhead, Ryan D.
February 10th, 2008 at 9:52 am
That Harvard freshmen must think he’s the smartest kid ever. He uses “big” words throughout when more common synonyms would get the same idea across just as well, if not better. My advice to him is to just leave the 95% of Harvard students that are cool alone and stick to the 5% that are total assholes and ruin it for everyone else.
“the loose unity of the Harvard aesthetic is testament to our lack of pretension”
Wow. Just… wow.
February 10th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
I agree with the guy from Harvard -at least at Harvard you get the feeling it is proud of its American roots and its place in American history. Why, it’s downright Emersonian. Not that Boston isn’t otherwise an appalling city with the rudest fucking group of people in the world, however.
February 11th, 2008 at 3:02 am
Yeah benj!
February 11th, 2008 at 3:44 am
Holy SHIT, that idiot really said that?! Fucking Harvard dorks are absolutely brainless when it comes to real-life. Sorry, but SO true.
February 12th, 2008 at 12:46 am
Never been to Oxford, have you? Lots of industry in and around Oxford. Lots of industry next to many 500+ year-old European universities too. Only a Barnyard girl would be impressed by your “facts.”
February 12th, 2008 at 1:01 am
Oxford is not packed the same way as Yale is.