Over at Gawker, which time and time again has displayed a curious fascination with the Good Ship Spectator, it seems there's been a tiff between Speccie Alexandria Symonds and star of MTV's delightfully realistic The Paper/soon-to-be NYU student Amanda Lorber.

Lorber apparently took issue with Symonds' review of The Paper published nearly two months ago in the Spec, which characterized Lorber as "a fundamentally lonely girl. Sure, she's overbearing and annoying, but it's obvious that it all stems from crippling self-consciousness and a terminally unfulfilled desire to be liked." Retaliated Lorber to Symonds in a most unkind (and what should be noted as formerly private) email:

"I'm not saying I don't have enemies, obviously I do. You seem to be one of them, but as I write now, I'm starting to see where it's coming from. It's a different kind of jealousy. The type spewed from young women who resent teenage girls that get their names out there. You, Ms. Symonds, are obviously a fundamentally bitter woman. You degrade the work ethic and academic values of a 17-year-old in order to cure your self-consciousness and upset at perhaps never being recognized for your work when you're through with "The Specator." In fact, if my staff hadn't been excitedly 'googling' every article written about our (national television) show, I would never had come across your disgusting piece."

Is this finally the NYU-Columbia rivalry we can all get behind? Perchance!

We like to think Columbia can scoff at such things as superfluous interinstitutional rivalries. Not only are there enough warring factions between 120th and 114th to feed our hunger for conflict for ages, but in truth, we're too sophisticated and busy for that.

But we may be at a crucial junction in Columbia history. The sexually frustrated lurkers on Bored at Butler (the site is at this moment broken) have proposed a rivalry with Penn:

"click on newsworthy on your Official Vote so that it gets displayed on the side and doesn't just disappear. And write a DP article on it. And click share to post it on your facebooks. And find a good offensive phrase. Cuck Folumbia kind of sounds dumb. And the Chinatown bus from Philly to NYC is really cheap, take it up here for the games and we'll return the favor. Looking Forward to RIVALRY!"

Penn accepted on their B@B franchise Bored at VanPelt:

HEY COLUMBIA - ITS ON.

Pro: Maybe a fun football game once a year.
Con: We'd have to go to Philadelphia. Lame.

-Thanks to Layla for the tip

Another reason why a rivalry with Penn would be grossly unmatched, in the form of a "have some fries" Ivy League joke after the jump...