Yale Movement for Beauty and Justice Founder: French Vacations, Dead Bunnies… Political Campaigns?
It feels like just yesterday that IvyGate introduced you to the willowy, manic, bunny-loving Justine Kolata, ’12: founder of Yale’s most vapid and unintentionally offensive extracurricular, “The Movement for Beauty and Justice.” In our cattier days, we were fairly harsh on the confused freshmodel, as she pranced around faux-philosophizing. The idea that a fetishization of aesthetic “beauty” — which, as any History major can tell you, has contributed to genocide, war, eating-disorder epidemics, etc. — could cure all of the world’s ills… well, it struck us as a little irresponsible. There’s a reason we don’t call “Art Museums,” “Beauty Museums.” A reason why Beauty (tea-cups, stargazing, and floral arrangements) rarely = Justice. And a reason why power-brokers — Ivy and non-Ivy grads alike — have done pretty despicable things in the pursuit of glittering “pretty” things (gold, land, blonde-hair-and-blue-eyes etc.)
We’d like to think we live in less scathing days, so for now, we’ll go easy. Surely things couldn’t get any worse than that misguided freshman year mistake? Unintentional ideological commonalities with Mein Kampf aside, Justine seems very nice…
After all, she recently invited ALL OF YALE to spend the summer at her family’s Villa house in the South of France (pictured left). Yeah, really. Justine spammed all of her Facebook friends with promises of “medieval villages, horses, french markets, cheese, wine, hiking, paleolithic caves, wonderful art, jazz and opera concerts etc.,” open to anyone who is “nice.”
Perhaps this is Justine’s way of publically mourning the death of Beauty and Justice. No, not the ineffable metaphysical concepts she fails to grasp, silly! Her two pet rabbits, named Beauty and Justice–the Movement’s adorable mascots–passed away two weeks ago; according to the YDN, “the first died of natural causes and the second of loneliness.”
Or perhaps the faux-Euromantic villa excursion has a more cynical goal in mind: buttressing Justine’s nascent political career! Yes, Ms. Kolata–after her extensive experience with tea-preparation, pastry-baking, and mass contempt–is running for Yale College Council Vice President… but actually Junior Class Council President. What the hell? All that we know is this campaign video–featuring a man with a whip, Justine reading from a script hidden in a Law School book she claims is “Shakespeare,” awkward grinding attempts, self-caricaturing, and the lyrics “don’t trust a ho, never trust a ho”–is nothing short of sublime:
It’s so nice to see that our old friends are keeping busy.
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