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Cool Hand LukeAfter six months in Glasgow, arts columnist still assumes there's bagpipes in everything.

No fair: Columbia students can love their bodies -- or have eating disorders -- just like everyone else!

As it turns out, major declaration is not as dramatic as Harry Potter would lead you to believe.

"Bullen said she thinks that the 'giant letter B' on her Barnard stationery is 'stark and ugly. What does a big B mean? The big B is the big bitch.'"

As it turns out, when a story about Columbia and Israel is reported by the Sun, and their only source is a right-wing blog, that story is often a big pile of crap.
Read more: Barnard, Israel, Quickspec

March 7, 2008 @ 9:31 AM | Comments 4 comments | Add comment Post a comment | Link to this article | | Email this post | Share on Facebook

Posted by anonymous: [#1] [reply] [track]
( posted March 7, 2008 at 10:13 AM )
As opposed to stories from left-wing blog sources, which typically have even less of a basis in reality than big piles are crap...
Posted by you missed one: [#2] [reply] [track]
( posted March 7, 2008 at 12:13 PM ) (from campus)
bwog, keep up with current and important topics. [ external link to columbiaspectator.com ] seems like a reasonable look at columbia life. Unless you really do care about the barnard mascot...

“I believe virtually everything I read, and I think that is what makes me more of a selective human than someone who doesn't believe anything.” - David St. Hubbins
Posted by Kane: [#3] [reply] [track]
( posted March 7, 2008 at 1:57 PM ) (from campus)
Excellent Cool Hand Luke reference.
Posted by sick of Bwog: [#4] [reply] [track]
( posted March 7, 2008 at 3:00 PM )
As it turns out, left-wing blogs like this tend to self-righteously throw around accusations of bias while simultaneously revealing their own lack of objectivity.
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