Posts Tagged ‘new york post’
Sleepless in Hewitt
Today in Caffeine: Hewitt is now serving Seattle’s Best. Says one excited student, “Big improvement from the crap they served before!”
Columbia in the News: Go Ask Alice! shocks the sensitive, sheltered New York Post. [NY Post]
The End: My favorite video ever. Let yourself be hypnotized.
Escaped horse terrorizes Morningside
For a few blocks yesterday afternoon. The New York Post reports that a Federation of Black Cowboys event went a little awry yesterday when one of the horses galloped away from the procession at Broadway and 110th, making its way into the park, and was retrieved shortly after on Riverside Drive and 115th Street. [New York Post]
Ranking media coverage of the drug bust
It was without a doubt one of the most covered Columbia events since the 1968 protests – but now that the general media frenzy over the drug bust has somewhat subsided, it’s time to get critical about how it was reported. Neighborhood and national news sources alike picked up the story, and everyone seemed to have something to say about that little scheme known as “Operation Ivy League.” Check out how we ranked five different publications after the jump. More »
Post columnist has this ‘Social Experiment’ thing all figured out
Columnist Andrea Peyser knows the real reason your RAs created “The Social Experiment”:
Columbia brass looked into the future — and saw a screaming void. You see, if no one connects, no one dates. And if no one dates, then an entire cultural industry, a genre virtually created on campuses such as this — the self-flagellating memoir — disappears forever.
Uh, ok! [NY Post]
NY Post skims Columbia Spectator, overestimates importance of frats
The New York Post reads Spectator. Or skims it, at least. Over the weekend, the Post published an article that equated the Columbia social scene to that of a state school, claiming that frats and sororities make up 30 percent of Columbia social life. There were limiting typecasts (ex: DG = “The Queen Bees”), played-out Animal House references, and intellectualized puns (Columbia’s Greek ‘Rho’). While many of us here on campus were scratching our heads and thinking, “Really? Greek life is THAT big here? Hm. Guess I was wrong,” New York Magazine was investigating. Turns out the Post needs a new fact checker. More »
Nursing your relaxation hangover
It’s over. I’m sorry. Bye bye Bahamas, hello Butler. As you again begin to make yourself at home in McBain (?), newspapers report on what they generally do. Below the jump the Post ranks Columbia frats while the Times talks about the college admissions process. More »