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preppyBut we had to take a double take when we read the release about a robbery just sent out by Public Safety chief Jim McShane, which contained the following description:

Male/white/30's/6'/medium build/clean shaven,
wearing a dark sweater with horizontal stripes, khaki
pants.

Kind of a preppy robber, no? He must have been carrying a gun; otherwise she would have just punched him in the face.

See also: Crime, Preppiness

December 20, 2007 @ 9:06 PM | Comments 41 comments | Add comment Post a comment | Link to this article | | | Share on Facebook

Posted by evidently: #1 · reply · track
December 20, 2007 at 9:25 PM
it is exceedingly unusual when a criminal is not a person of color.

it's ok, bwog. you've done this before.
Posted by Wrong: #2 · reply · track
December 20, 2007 at 9:28 PM
Bwog is pointing out that he's wearing a dark sweater with horizontal STRIPES and KHAKI PANTS.
Posted by blue: #3 · reply · track
December 20, 2007 at 9:29 PM
I think they tried to make it abundantly clear that it was because he was PREPPY - the picture, tags, and final paragraph would all suggest so.

Or dost bwog protest too much?
Posted by omgz: #4 · reply · track
December 20, 2007 at 9:46 PM
what about eric lukas?
Posted by AAAAAAHHH!!!!!: #5 · reply · track
December 20, 2007 at 10:20 PM
White people are committing crimes!!! what is the world coming to? Ohhh sweet humanity.
Posted by Jon: #6 · reply · track
December 20, 2007 at 11:30 PM
What an unbelievably racist post.
Posted by pay attention: #7 · reply · track
December 20, 2007 at 11:32 PM
the picture is of a black guy. obviously we're emphasizing his khakis and not his color...

people of color dress preppily too, by the by
Posted by Hm.: #8 · reply · track
December 20, 2007 at 11:53 PM
Striped sweater? The hamburgler must have been wearing his formal wear.
Posted by the picture: #9 (in reply to #7) · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 12:23 AM
is most definitely not of a black guy. slightly tan white guy, yes, but definitely not black.
Posted by Oh come on: #10 (in reply to #6) · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 12:28 AM
Of all the muggings in this neighborhood Columbia has sent notifications to its students about in the past year and a half, this is most definitely the first one committed by a white guy.

So is this post racist...or just pointing out the obvious?
Posted by 12312: #11 · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 12:46 AM
Assholes might argue that white people steal everyday. In fact, we just stole a piece of Manhattan yesterday.
Posted by huh: #12 · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 1:07 AM
Did they change the photo? Bc the photo on my computer is definitely a white guy...
Posted by The King of Spain : #13 (in reply to #11) · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 1:13 AM
I believe that you have forgotten that it is now part of the Holy Land of Atlah. Manhattan and Harlem are colonial words.
Posted by Carlton Banks: #14 · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 1:19 AM
I am most offended that some of you assume that one must be white if he wears striped sweaters and pops his collar. You are all as bad as my cousin Will.

Posted by Hmmm: #15 · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 3:24 AM
So as racist as it might sound, statistically speaking, it is unusual that a crime would be committed by a preppy looking white person in this neighborhood. That's reality - deal with it.
Posted by 80s: #16 (in reply to #7) · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 6:18 AM
"people of color"

What the fuck is wrong with you? I thought we'd gone beyond lumping all minorities together as "colored people"?

Or are you trying to lump them all together to distinguish them from those evil racist imperialist whites?

Fucking racist.
Posted by 80s: #17 · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 9:12 AM
Also, Bwog, you seriously need to write a post about the new P/D/F page on SSOL.

Not only can you see your original grade from P/D/F courses taken THIS SEMESTER, you can also see your original grades from P/F courses in all previous semesters!

Excellent.
Posted by Voice of Reason: #18 (in reply to #16) · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 10:49 AM
80s = psycho

there's a difference between racism and reality. saying that the majority of violent crimes in new york city are committed by minorities is a REALITY. to say that they commit said crimes BECAUSE they are black or inferior is RACIST. The former is true, the latter false.

recognize the difference you politically correct twats
Posted by Patrick Bateman: #19 · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 12:45 PM
Did he drop a business card at the scene?
Posted by Was: #20 (in reply to #19) · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 12:59 PM
the victim a homeless guy named Al? Did they have anything in common?
Posted by CC 07: #21 (in reply to #17) · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 1:21 PM
Wow. It's rather random being able to find out now how I would have done in a class I p/fed in Spring 04.
Posted by well, : #22 (in reply to #14) · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 1:58 PM
the description says the assailant was white.
Posted by alexw: #23 · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 2:41 PM
Dear Internet:

I am seriously curious as to what it means to "superman that ho." Please help.
Posted by .....: #24 · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 2:42 PM
urbandictionary that ho
Posted by El de.: #25 · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 2:44 PM
Good thing I took Calc II before pass/D/fail-- also, good thing I changed majors and p/f'ed that class.

Cause I got a D.
Posted by alexw: #26 (in reply to #24) · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 3:01 PM
Have you ever read urbandictionary before? I don't need 35 contradictory and incomprehensibly written explanations.

Perhaps since I am looking for the definition of "Superman that ho," a single cogent sentence might be too much to ask.
Posted by anyone: #27 · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 3:05 PM
know about the student involved in an "accident" near EC?
Posted by ec dweller: #28 · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 3:23 PM
All I know is that there were more than 5 NYPD officers hanging around the 8-line of Townhouses this morning. They apparently were taking pictures with a digital camera. I saw them at 7am when I left for work, and my suitemate saw them still there at 11 am.
Posted by CC 08: #29 (in reply to #21) · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 3:24 PM
Yeah I look back on some of the classes I pass failed and see that I actually got pretty good grades in them. I wish I could take the grade now instead of the pass.
Posted by urbandictionary: #30 (in reply to #26) · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 4:17 PM
from urbandictionary:

"superman that ho"

when you cum on a girls back and then stick the sheets to her, so when she wakes up in the morning she has a cape

comprehensible, succinct. next time look shit up for yourself.
Posted by well: #31 · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 4:18 PM
i got b minuses in two of my p/f classes. good work on my part. also, can you see all the p/f grades or just the ones from the past year?
Posted by i often: #32 (in reply to #30) · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 4:41 PM
superman myself.
Posted by face it: #33 · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 4:49 PM
Horizontal stripes and khaki pants are not that uncommon, or that preppy. Check out, for example, the villain from Spiderman 3. You're just racist.
Posted by jeez: #34 · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 6:08 PM
this is ridiculous

and arbitrary

that "tan" white guy is darker than some black people

and yet everybody explodes over the apparent significance of race when you claim that it doesn't matter.

great. awesome. base a system of tolerance on someone's melanin. perfect.
Posted by i often: #35 (in reply to #32) · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 6:29 PM
blue myself
Posted by hello, bwog??: #36 · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 7:33 PM
can anyone post something on what happened in EC this morning? i heard that someone fell from the high rise into the courtyard, but i'd like to be sure before i keep spreading this rumor...
Posted by Well: #37 · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 7:35 PM
An engineer fell (or jumped) out of his window and broke his leg. Here's the email about it from public safety:

From: "McShane, James"

Date: December 21, 2007 8:15:29 AM EST

To: many recipients:;

Cc: "Deans of Students"

Subject: Student Hurt in East Campus Fall

Dear Team,

At about 5:30 A.M., SEAS student at EC was found lying in the grass in the back of the bldg. He apparently jumped or fell out of his window. Broken left leg appears to be only injury. Taken to St. Luke’s Hospital where he is in stable condition. Details to follow.

James F. McShane

Associate Vice President for

Public Safety

Columbia University
Posted by Lee: #38 · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 10:29 PM
LOL, you were correct to portray the perpetrator in your photo as wearing a *pink* sweater. We all know those homosexual gangs that Matt Drudge is so concerned about must have been involved.
Posted by alexw: #39 (in reply to #30) · reply · track
December 21, 2007 at 11:22 PM
I looked it up for myself, I just didn't want to believe it.
Posted by wHaT: #40 · reply · track
December 23, 2007 at 7:46 PM
i think the racism has more to do with the assumption that a 6' [stated to be] white guy is somehow inherently not dangerous, with the implication being that a mugger of another race would be more dangerous
Posted by NO!: #41 · reply · track
December 24, 2007 at 11:54 PM
NO. PEOPLE. it is not the "white" or the height that matters. it is the "clean-shaven, striped sweater & khakis" part.

it'd be just as bemusing if it said "black." you know, all carlton banks-ish, like he himself noted a few posts ago...
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