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As a Columbia grad I'm not surprised at all... the Columbia Administration is insanely conservative. I have never experienced as entrenched of a bureaucracy as

As a Columbia grad I'm not surprised at all... the Columbia Administration is insanely conservative. I have never experienced as entrenched of a bureaucracy as I did at Columbia!

tricolon 7y ago
The War on Fun rages on as ever.
- ISL 7y ago
  And yet Fun will never die.
vo2maxer 7y ago
I attended Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons in the late seventies and early eighties, and two groups who stood out were the Bard Hall Players and Columbia University Marching Band. They were made up of talented, creative and hilariously irreverent students. Come on, has the administration lost the ability to laugh? Who wrote Plato’s Republic? is pure gold just as Who’s buried in Grant’s tomb?
- citywide-fondue 7y ago
  What are the two pieces you reference?
  - vo2maxer 7y ago
    To Columbia alumni, these two are well known and special: 1. Bard Hall Players: https://www.ps.columbia.edu/education/academic-programs/md-program/md-student-resources/office-student-affairs/p-s-club/clubs-12 https://www.ps.columbia.edu/education/academic-programs/md-p... 2. Columbia University Marching Band: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University_Marching_Band?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University_Marching_B... Edit: After replying, I realized you may have meant the last sentence with the questions. The “Who wrote Plato’s Republic?” is at the end of the New York Times piece. As to the other one, Who’s buried in Grant’s Tomb?, here: https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/07/grants-tomb/492647/ https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/07/grants-tomb/492647...
DoofusOfDeath 7y ago
Can you help me understand your comment? I can't tell if your making a connection between conservative and entrenched.
- daseiner1 7y ago
  Conservative as in resistant to change, traditional. Not Conservative as in politics. You’d expect a conservative group to be entrenched.
  - chrisseaton 7y ago
    > Conservative as in resistant to change ...but this article is about them making a change to their marching band rather than leaving it be as it has been for years?
    - raldi 7y ago
      Changing something to make it more traditional is a conservative action.

As a Columbia grad I'm not surprised at all... the Columbia Administration is insanely conservative. I have never experienced as entrenched of a bureaucracy as I did at Columbia!

tricolon 7y ago

The War on Fun rages on as ever.

ISL 7y ago
And yet Fun will never die.

vo2maxer 7y ago

I attended Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons in the late seventies and early eighties, and two groups who stood out were the Bard Hall Players and Columbia University Marching Band. They were made up of talented, creative and hilariously irreverent students. Come on, has the administration lost the ability to laugh? Who wrote Plato’s Republic? is pure gold just as Who’s buried in Grant’s tomb?

citywide-fondue 7y ago
What are the two pieces you reference?
- vo2maxer 7y ago
  To Columbia alumni, these two are well known and special: 1. Bard Hall Players: https://www.ps.columbia.edu/education/academic-programs/md-program/md-student-resources/office-student-affairs/p-s-club/clubs-12 https://www.ps.columbia.edu/education/academic-programs/md-p... 2. Columbia University Marching Band: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University_Marching_Band?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University_Marching_B... Edit: After replying, I realized you may have meant the last sentence with the questions. The “Who wrote Plato’s Republic?” is at the end of the New York Times piece. As to the other one, Who’s buried in Grant’s Tomb?, here: https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/07/grants-tomb/492647/ https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/07/grants-tomb/492647...

DoofusOfDeath 7y ago

Can you help me understand your comment? I can't tell if your making a connection between conservative and entrenched.

daseiner1 7y ago
Conservative as in resistant to change, traditional. Not Conservative as in politics. You’d expect a conservative group to be entrenched.
- chrisseaton 7y ago
  > Conservative as in resistant to change ...but this article is about them making a change to their marching band rather than leaving it be as it has been for years?
  - raldi 7y ago
    Changing something to make it more traditional is a conservative action.