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jklJust thought we'd bring to your attention two of the latest places Columbia has made the news:

A new film waxing indignant about censorship and anti-semitism, conveniently collapsing all of Columbia into the MEALAC department...

And former Sen. Mike Gravel's excellent adventure, via cab, to his former stomping grounts.

Thank you, Google alerts.

See also: Haters, Mike Gravel

Posted by Yes, thanks : #1 · reply · track
August 5, 2007 at 12:44 AM
Google Alerts. You've given Bwog its new peak of wittiness.
Posted by Citizen : #2 · reply · track
August 5, 2007 at 6:17 AM
Welcome to private property, dumbasses. I'm pretty sure Columbia could sue to have the video taken down too, if this were significant enough to warrant the trouble.
Posted by oh jeez... : #3 · reply · track
August 5, 2007 at 9:49 AM


homeboy appears to fancy himself as a conservative michael moore...

[external link to brain-terminal.com]

i bet his movie is pretty entertaining, and also deeply meaningful if you assume that the average college is comprised of nonthinking sheep...

Posted by the dabashi quote : #4 · reply · track
August 5, 2007 at 10:20 AM
is also wrong (surprise).
Posted by I like : #5 · reply · track
August 5, 2007 at 12:25 PM
to think that most of the liberal arts junkies will end up as nutty as Gravel in the years to come.
Posted by damn! : #6 · reply · track
August 5, 2007 at 1:11 PM
all this stifling of free speech! i went to the physics department and told them that gravity was a liberal, leftist construct and they told me to leave! INDOCTRINATION! THEY ONLY WANT YOU TO HEAR ONE POINT OF VIEW
Posted by from the website : #7 · reply · track
August 5, 2007 at 1:51 PM
"Far from functioning as bastions of serious thought and reasoned debate, Maloney found, campuses today operate as mental processing plants, doing more to tell students what to say and think than to teach them to think for themselves."

UMM, if you can't lay the foundation to prepare yourself to teach yourself how to think yourself by the time you get to college, you've got bigger problems to worry about
Posted by hang on : #8 · reply · track
August 5, 2007 at 3:19 PM
Surely by showing that some people didn't know that the quote was from a CU professor, they prove that indoctrination does not take place at Columbia, that Dabashi's opinions (if they are as quoted) have not reached students. The ones who did attribute it to a professor seemed to disagree with the sentiment in the quote, which would prove that students are not swayed by the opinions of professors. So what the film really shows is that when a CU professor has an extreme opinion about something, some don't hear about it, and others don't agree with it, which is the opposite of indoctrination.
Posted by nooo... : #9 (in reply to #8) · reply · track
August 5, 2007 at 3:26 PM
that makes.... sense! how dare you utter such things!

Dabashi is a roly-poly dude with a hot wife and a baby. And somehow not reminiscent of Hitler and Bin Laden. *eye roll*
Posted by while : #10 · reply · track
August 5, 2007 at 4:43 PM
columbia is private property, bollinger makes a number of claims about promoting free speech. this whole regulation of content is truly upsetting. bollinger should be ashamed of himself for such actions.

granted the movie is rather stupid, but if this was a student project, what would be the response?
Posted by uhh : #11 (in reply to #10) · reply · track
August 5, 2007 at 5:09 PM
nothing, because students are allowed to film on campus? just a thought.
Posted by there was : #12 (in reply to #10) · reply · track
August 5, 2007 at 5:14 PM
a student project. The David Project's Columbia Unbecoming, to be exact, in 2002-2003. It resulted in a widescale school investigation and the temporary removal of several of the Middle Eastern studies professors implicated in the movie.

What were you trying to say, again?
Posted by Floygin : #13 (in reply to #10) · reply · track
August 5, 2007 at 5:36 PM
Yeah, you missed the David Project. I banish you back to the internets, troll. Sometimes being the Devil's Advocate is lame.
Posted by was : #14 · reply · track
August 5, 2007 at 6:07 PM
the david project done by students? i thought the point that it was outside agitators.

are students allowed to film on campus? better check your policies again.
Posted by McFister : #15 (in reply to #14) · reply · track
August 5, 2007 at 7:33 PM
It was done by students funded by outside agitators.
Posted by no, : #16 · reply · track
August 5, 2007 at 10:17 PM
i believe it was filmed by the David Project too. it just interviewed students.
Posted by CONCERNED STUDENT! : #17 · reply · track
August 5, 2007 at 11:53 PM
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Posted by Why are : #18 (in reply to #10) · reply · track
August 6, 2007 at 12:00 AM
right-wingers always bitching about free speech when a private entity like a university takes an action like this? Aren't those people supposed to understand the concept of private property?
Posted by because : #19 (in reply to #18) · reply · track
August 6, 2007 at 12:42 AM
universities such as columbia trumpet themselves as bastions of free speech. if they aren't about that, that's fine, but then, at least we know the truth.
Posted by ... : #20 (in reply to #19) · reply · track
August 6, 2007 at 10:02 AM
LOL
Posted by rjt : #21 (in reply to #8) · reply · track
August 6, 2007 at 11:38 AM
"Columbia Quiz" was cut from the movie. From the website:

"We decided to drop the scene because it didn't fit closely enough with the central argument of the film. We were concerned that it would muddle our message."

At least he realized the exact same thing you just did. I have no idea, however, why he is showing the clip anywhere.
Posted by Exactly where : #22 (in reply to #19) · reply · track
August 6, 2007 at 3:49 PM
is that trumpet being blown? It's not as though left-wing students enjoy some sort of unlimited free speech on campus--FAR from it.
Posted by bollinger : #23 · reply · track
August 6, 2007 at 5:22 PM
blows the free speech horn all the time. sure, i agree left-wing students don't enjoy unlimited free speech either. i'm not making a partisan argument. rather, columbia, and in particular bollinger says he is all about free speech, while silencing it on both the right and the left.
Posted by i think that : #24 (in reply to #23) · reply · track
August 6, 2007 at 7:15 PM
you're right. There is just more left-wing speech than right-wing speech on campus. It doesn't necessarily mean that right-wing speech is silenced per se, just that less people want to express it. By no means are our humanities professors 50-50 in the left wing-right wing divide, though, and we all know that.
Posted by FEWER : #25 (in reply to #24) · reply · track
August 7, 2007 at 1:04 AM
You are a lesser being!
Posted by haha : #26 · reply · track
August 19, 2007 at 7:15 PM
excellent work, #25!
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