Associate professor Lionel McIntyre of Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation gave a female colleague a black eye at a bar on Sunday. According to theNew York Post:
The professor, who is black, had been engaged in a fiery discussion about "white privilege" with Davis, who is white, and another male regular, who is also white, Friday night at 10:30 when fists started flying, patrons said...
"The punch was so loud, the kitchen workers in the back heard it over all the noise," bar back Richie Velez, 28, told The Post. "I was on my way over when he punched Camille and she fell on top of me."
Just when Morningside Heights was starting to look moderately safe, the Columbia faculty is gonna start race wars?
(ASIDE: Smarties who clicked through the link above now know that there were shots fired in Morningside Heights in July. But it's fine. Our Ivy undergrads weren't present to catch the bullets. That's for international summer school students.)
Details of McIntyre's regrets and the victim's black eye after the jump.
Last week, Georgetown sophomore Charley Cooper made national news with a job listing for a personal assistant. He's 20-years old and apparently the whole college affair all too much for him to handle on his own.
According to Vox Populi, the Georgetown Voice's blog, the original as went something like this:
As my PA you will receive an email once a day by 9:00 am with a task list for that day and a time estimate for each task. Important tasks will be bolded on the list and must be done that day (even though everything on the list should theoretically be finished on a daily basis) …
PA example tasks -Organize closet -make bed -Drop off / pick up dry cleaning -Drop me off / pick me up from work -Do laundry -Fill up gas tank -bring car for servicing -schedule appointment for haircut -Pay parking tickets -manage electronic accounts -shopping and running errands -other random tasks.
Needless to say, Georgetown is not in the Ivy League. (And neither is Mr. Cooper.) But when a student does something so god-awful douchey that the Washington Post reports on it, something must be done.
Everyone's favorite Yale student, Aleksey "So Sexy" Veyner, might've done something like this. And Mike Kopko definitely started DormAid, a service that offered maid services to Harvard dorm rooms and pissed off pretty much the entire school. But Georgetown should know better, right?
Brown is the douchiest school in the country, according to GQ. Princeton is number three. Harvard is number four. Does this seem wrong? Keep reading, Deep Springs grads. It gets worse.
Just before the station wagon left the IvyGate garage, GQ published a "heavily researched, possibly stereotyped, but still accurate guide" to the nation's 25 Douchiest Colleges. In their own words, the GQ editors observe the inherent paradox of the douche:
The question isn't whether you're a douche bag when you go to college. We were all kind of douche bags when we went to college, if we're going to be honest about it. No, the question for America's youth is: What kind of douche bag do you aspire to be?
Gottseidank Yalies, Dartmutts, and Columbians, you're off the hook. Harvardians, Princetonians, and Brunonians are not so lucky. Cornell, Penn: honorable mentions don't always need mentioning.
After the jump, what's wrong with the list, and what you can do about it.
Remember a time when all you had to do to get a job was be a white male Ivy League graduate and show up? Not since 2004 have such impressive qualifications given you a shot at even the presidency, let alone any other job. In today's tough climate for the white male it's up to the AMC show Mad Men to remind us of how good things used to be. And man, do caucasians love this show.
The third season of the award-winning show premiered last Sunday, and every week for the next three months we will be transported back to the 1960s. It was a time when everyone smoked, "diversity" meant hiring Italians, getting drunk at 10 a.m. was a good day, and cheating on your wife and mistress with a prostitute was the rule. In honor of the third season of this ode to status and excess, we've put together a list to help readers put a face to an alma mater. Hopefully, it'll reinforce some stereotypes as well. Go to red spoiler alert! Read the rest of this entry »
On Wednesday night, Jon Stewart lampooned the MBA Oath established by a group of second-year students at Harvard Business School. Earlier, the Harvard Crimson reported that as a result of the financial apocalypse, Maxwell Anderson, now an HBA graduate, had drafted a Boy Scout-esque pledge, which was then signed by hundreds of fellow graduates. A few lines:
I will act with utmost integrity and pursue my work in an ethical manner.
I will safeguard the interests of my shareholders, co-workers, customers and the society in which we operate.
I will take responsibility for my actions, and I will represent the performance and risks of my enterprise accurately and honestly.
But this little tree-house word of honor didn't fly with many other future Kenneth Lays. In an interview with the Daily Show's John Oliver, Bruce Kogut, a business professor at Columbia, admitted that "not a very high percentage" of his students considered taking the oath. Oliver then spoke with a group of Harvard and MIT MBA students who found the oath contradictory to what they've been taught to "be responsible to shareholders." One guy commented, "I feel that ethics is a really fuzzy subject." When asked if she feared going to jail in the future for possibly using illegal profiting tactics, one Harvard student piped up with no reservations:
It's important to be a little bit of an asshole sometimes.
Scout's honor, indeed. See the video after the jump.
Yesterday, Gawker posted a YouTube clip of professional insane person Glenn Beck promoting one of his books. What makes the clip noteworthy is that Beck tries to encourage people outside his usual audience to purchase his book. The way in which he attempts to pitch to liberals is mesmerizing. He says that Harry Potter changed his daughter's life and that he feels like a fraud compared to other authors. And this is a man who thinks that Americans will be using toenail clippings as currency by 2014 at the latest. The most important of the liberal-enticing snippets Beck throws out comes near the end of the video (around 2:20).
I invite you to read the book. And mainly because my middle daughter, she wants to go to Columbia. Do you have any idea of the price of Columbia? Please buy the book. Buy two. Buy three.
If we had to guess which college Glenn Beck's daughter wanted to attend--knowing nothing about her other than the fact that she's Glenn Beck's daughter--we'd have guessed something like Oral Roberts or Liberty. Columbia would be about 316th on our list. Hell, if she likes Harry Potter so much, why doesn't she want to go to Yale?
What's interesting about this video clip is that while it was only put up on YouTube by Simon and Schuster this week, it was made two years ago. Hence why the video sees Beck hawking An Inconvenient Book, which was released in the Fall of 2007. Today, he would have a more difficult time using a video to promote a book of his to liberals, as saying that President Obama hates white people doesn't really endear one to the left. Or sanity. (And by the way, when Brian Kilmeade is the sane one in a conversation, you know that something epically ludicrous was uttered.)
A few months after the video clip was made, Glenn Beck's daughter still desired to attend Columbia. In fact, Beck took his daughter to visit the campus and go on a tour in April of 2008. Beck wrote a long blog post (of course Glenn Beck has a blog!) about the visit and his impression of the school. And yes, his opinion of Columbia is exactly what you imagine it to be: that he thinks it's full of Communists and the French. Some sic-filled highlights after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Here's the important bit from Emma Watson's interview in Paste Magazine.
Paste: You are off to University in the autumn.
Watson: I am—to Brown, which is an Ivy League establishment in the U.S.A. I’ve got a place there to read literature.
Nailedit! Take that Daily Mailand NY Daily News! We laugh at your claims of her attending Columbia. She'll attend Columbia when we get tired of writing about her: Never!
Welcome to the second installment of our guide to Ivy pizza (we've already done this with sandwiches and drinks). In our first installment, we reviewed the pizza at Harvard. I know, I'm also skeptical Boston has good food. But let's table that for a moment and focus on today's post: The Slice at Columbia. Reviewing Columbia's pizza is complicated by the university's location. In New York, good pizza, great pizza, abounds. But it's not to be found in Morningside Heights (try Nino's in Bay Ridge, or Grimaldis in DUMBO, or anywhere in Bensonhurst). Regardless, there is a pizza hierarchy at the school Law and Order keeps calling Hudson University.
1. Koronets: You may know Koronets as the place with the gigantic slices of pizza. For around $3.00, you get a slice the size of two normal slices. It's freaking huge. It's also gooey, greasy, and wonderfully moist. Koronets is great when you're drunk but it's a decadent delight when you're sober. The next time you're walking on Broadway and wanna grab lunch? Fuck Chipotle. Go to the place with the large pizza slices.
2. Famiglia's: Decent but overpriced (average one-topping slice will run you $3.25), Famiglia's offers a wide variety of slices and toppings. If you want a slice of Hawaiian, this is where you go. Famiglia's is also the option most like a real pizzeria: the decor is closely modeled after that of an authentic pizzeria and the kitchen dishes up hearty favorites like lasagna and baked ziti. In short, Famiglia's is a good but pricey fake.
In the Op-ed section of yesterday's Times, Mark Taylor - chair of Columbia's Religion Department - broke from the rank-and-file optimism of Ivy League academics on academia by asserting that "Graduate education is the Detroit of higher learning." (For those who have been living under a rock for the past fifty years, in 2008, Forbes gave Detroit - a city saddled with crime and unemployment - the dubious distinction of being America's most miserable city).
We're guessing that this Benedict Arnold of a professor has tenure because his ideas, which include retrenching both doctoral-level education and academia as a whole, are unlikely to popular to many colleagues and administrators at Columbia, a place dredged in the virtues of a classical education. (Columbia College, as one example, continues to yoke its students to a stringent core curriculum).
The problem, Taylor explains, stretches back to Kant, who wrote in the late 18th century that to "handle the entire content of learning" professors should teach different subjects. This, he argues,
has led to separation where there ought to be collaboration and to ever-increasing specialization. In my own religion department, for example, we have 10 faculty members, working in eight subfields, with little overlap. And as departments fragment, research and publication become more and more about less and less. Each academic becomes the trustee not of a branch of the sciences, but of limited knowledge that all too often is irrelevant for genuinely important problems. A colleague recently boasted to me that his best student was doing his dissertation on how the medieval theologian Duns Scotus used citations.
This specific quiz application, now over 51,000 users strong, exists alongside those soothsaying exercises like "Which Disney princess are u?" and "ARE YOU GOOD IN BED?" but we're sure this is the real deal. Written by a graduate of both Harvard and Columbia (and NYU), the questions might as well ask what your favorite brand of socks is or which Golden Girls character have you thought about during sex.
But really. What are the criteria? One wall poster from India also wants to know "How reliable is it?" So being the mad scientists we are, we devised a rigorous experiment, put on lab coats, and got out our electric orb that makes your hair stand up.
After tooling around with this for about 5 minutes, we think we've got it solved. Answer "Money" to question 8, "Clubbing" to question 5, and "I'm flawless" to number 10. You'll be a Harvardian every time.
Check out a few screen shots after the jump. And to answer those hanging questions: Thorlo and Blanche.
Associate professor Lionel McIntyre of Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation gave a female colleague a black eye at a bar on Sunday. According to the New York Post:
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Last week, Georgetown sophomore Charley Cooper made national news with a job listing for a personal assistant. He's 20-years old and apparently the whole college affair all too much for him to handle on his own.
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