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Gather round Columbia, it's time to re-welcome IvyGate into our browsers and into our hearts. Naturally, it has returned dressed to the nines, with a new WordPress redesign and fresh-faced summer editors. Bwogger Justin Vlasits favors the mouse over chalk-underlines in the new masthead (see above), while a Yalie friend of Bwog noticed that clicking on the chalky names re-directs readers to posts about that school.

Now let's meet the man and woman behind the summer incarnation of IvyGate 2.0. Why look, it's hometown favorite Nina Shield (BC '07), and some rising sophomore from Harvard. After introducing herself, Shield puts together a nice little wrap-up of all Vag-related happenings. She is the first Columbian to helm the good ship IvyGate since the legendary days of Chris Beam and Nick Summers. (Oh, and Andrew Nusca, a former summer editor, was a J-Schooler.) Go Lions.

Read more: Chris Beam, Harvard, Ivygate, Summer, The Ivy League, The Vag

June 24, 2008 @ 2:35 PM | Comments 25 comments | Add comment Post a comment | Link to this article | | | Share on Facebook

Posted by Hmm: [#1] [reply] [track]
( posted June 24, 2008 at 2:58 PM )
Nina Shield as a Columbian? I think you mean Barnardian, or whatever you call a Barnard girl.

Otherwise, yay Barnard for co-editing a site at which your school is not included in the coverage!
Posted by net: [#2] [reply] [track]
( posted June 24, 2008 at 3:35 PM )
[ external link to www.wikicu.com ]
Posted by what is going on: [#3] [reply] [track]
( posted June 24, 2008 at 3:52 PM ) (from campus)
the site design looks the same, and neither of these links work.

CONSPIRACY?
Posted by Alvin Noteworthy: [#4] [reply] [track]
( posted June 24, 2008 at 5:30 PM )
What? A bwog post without a Dustin Hoffman picture? This is a first.
Posted by wait: [#5] [reply] [track]
( posted June 24, 2008 at 6:38 PM )
since when are barnard girls ivy leaguers? and don't give me some technical bullshit about how they can play in the athletic league.
Posted by Barnard pwns IvyGate: [#6] [reply] [track]
( posted June 24, 2008 at 6:58 PM )
Go Nina! Barnard is seriously representing on the summer editor front at IvyGate. I'm another Barnard girl who will be taking over at IvyGate in a few weeks. :)
Posted by hey you: [#7] [reply] [track] (in reply to #6)
( posted June 24, 2008 at 7:36 PM )
stfu Barnard.
Posted by annoyed: [#8] [reply] [track]
( posted June 24, 2008 at 8:21 PM )
bwog has the right spirit of congratulating fellow columbia UNIVERSITY students, and of course every commenter fires back with anti-barnard slander. it doesn't make you look good, and it's completely unnecessary. the comments undermine every bwog post.
Posted by but: [#9] [reply] [track] (in reply to #8)
( posted June 24, 2008 at 9:15 PM )
since when is congratulating affiliates necessary?
Posted by shall: [#10] [reply] [track]
( posted June 24, 2008 at 9:28 PM )
i heap on the praises when some uts grad speaks with God?
Posted by i don't get it: [#11] [reply] [track]
( posted June 24, 2008 at 9:52 PM ) (from campus)
of course we have to claim barnard grads as fellow columbia grads! how else are we to deal with lauren graham?
Posted by bc'08: [#12] [reply] [track]
( posted June 24, 2008 at 10:38 PM )
Hmmm.... My diploma seems to have been granted by the Trustees of Columbia University and signed by Lee C. Bollinger as well as Judith Shapiro.
Posted by sorry: [#13] [reply] [track] (in reply to #12)
( posted June 24, 2008 at 11:12 PM )
you still graduated from barnard. embrace it.
Posted by bc'08: [#14] [reply] [track] (in reply to #13)
( posted June 25, 2008 at 9:11 AM )
I do. Stop making it sound like Barnard is a 4th tier school.
Posted by no no: [#15] [reply] [track] (in reply to #14)
( posted June 25, 2008 at 9:55 AM )
Not at all. Just a second tier school, that's all we're saying.
Posted by ...: [#16] [reply] [track] (in reply to #5)
( posted June 25, 2008 at 10:44 AM ) (from campus)
i dunno... i think that girls from barnard are uniquely qualified to be throwing stones at the ivy league house of glass.
Posted by columbia girl: [#17] [reply] [track]
( posted June 25, 2008 at 12:47 PM )
i don't understand why barnard graduates would have their diploma's granted by the trustees of CU and be signed by PrezBo if barnard has their own trustees...does anyone know how the sister school relationship works at other ivys?

I don't think its a matter of which school is better but as a female at columbia, I feel that there were different qualifications for my acceptance into columbia then barnard so i don't understand why barnard students would get their diploma granted by the trustees of columbia...
Posted by this debate: [#18] [reply] [track]
( posted June 25, 2008 at 1:28 PM )
is so old, so stupid, so not-going-to-change.

columbia students look petty when they diss barnard. that alone should be enough reason to quit the condescending comments.
Posted by we may look petty: [#19] [reply] [track] (in reply to #18)
( posted June 25, 2008 at 1:49 PM )
but barnard students look far worse when they claim to go to columbia.
Posted by True: [#20] [reply] [track] (in reply to #16)
( posted June 25, 2008 at 2:12 PM )
This is the only comment in this whole thread that doesn't sound like it was posted by a self-conscious Barnard student or a bitter Columbia girl. Can we please get past freshman year?
Posted by cc student: [#21] [reply] [track] (in reply to #16)
( posted June 25, 2008 at 2:40 PM ) (from campus)
cheers to that
Posted by seriously: [#22] [reply] [track]
( posted June 26, 2008 at 12:07 AM )
the only people who engage in this debate are the incoming freshman and those who post on boredatbutler.
Posted by more: [#23] [reply] [track]
( posted June 26, 2008 at 3:31 AM )
we want more bwog posts!
Posted by can i just say: [#24] [reply] [track]
( posted June 28, 2008 at 10:31 PM )
our diplomas are so fuckin heinous that my mom thought that we were going to get the real one later.

ps. sorry for ruining any anticipation in underclassmen for graduation.

pps. i still don't have a job... yay
Posted by barnard what?: [#25] [reply] [track]
( posted June 30, 2008 at 12:53 PM ) (from campus)
Bwog, please check your facts. Last time I checked, Barnard is not part of the Ivy League AT ALL.

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