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User talk:Pacman

2009-08-21T18:26:19Z

Glenn Magus Harvey: /* Thanks for the welcome. */

== Chat ==

It would be great to have an (anonymous) chat with you [http://www.wikicu.com/chat.html here]. I'll be online this evening. I'll leave you another message on this page when I'm on. Thanks, [[User:Admin|Admin]] 14:21, 8 March 2007 (PST)

:I left a message for you at [[User talk:Admin#Chat with Pacman]]. [[User:Admin|Admin]] 00:11, 18 March 2007 (PDT)

== Logo voting ==

Hi. It would be great to decide on a logo. Could you please head over to '''[[Logo]]''' to place your vote or upload a new design. [[User:Admin|Admin]] 18:26, 18 March 2007 (EDT)

== Brown ==

Believe it or not, kids used to chant, "What's the color of horse shit? Brown! Brown!" at football games. [[User:Adolph Lewisohn|Adolph Lewisohn]] 06:39, 19 March 2007 (EDT)

==Thanks==
Very helpful edits! [[User:Ttan|Ttan]] 22:49, 1 April 2007 (EDT)

Nice edits on the Boston article. Fact: I suck at writing. [[User:nateoxford|nateoxford]] 00:42, 9 March 2009 (EDT)

==CC Admissions==
*I removed the part about regular decision because 8.9% is the total admission rate for CC. The RD rate is even lower.
*I removed the comparisons to Harvard and Yale because they're dishonest at best, and factually wrong at worst.
*Harvard and Yale (as well Princeton, Dartmouth, and Brown) all include their engineering students in their reported statistics. Granted, this is because engineering is a division in the university, and not a separate school. You just declare an engineering major when the time comes. You're admitted to the "college" in general when you apply.
*However, Penn and Cornell are similar to Columbia in respect to having a school of engineering with separate admissions processes. Even then, both include those statistics in their overall admissions (as well as all of their other divisions...)
*Therefore to use just CC's rate in comparison with other schools' overall rate is not a fair comparison, and amounts to dishonest self-aggrandizement (in my opinion). I hope this justifies my edits.

:*Yes, come to think of it, those are very fair points. Thanks for the clarification. [[User:Reaganaut|Reaganaut]] 21:25, 6 April 2007 (EDT)

==Columbia University Statistical Abstract==
The greatest stat source ever: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/opir/abstract/ [[User:Absentminded|Absentminded]] 11:05, 9 April 2007 (EDT)

==Random Questions==
Hey, I noticed that you when you categorize things, you'll do for example '''<nowiki>[[Category:SEAS students|Weinberg]]</nowiki>''' instead of just '''<nowiki>[[Category:SEAS students]]</nowiki>'''. What does that do? Should I do that? [[User:Nonsensical|Nonsensical]] 15:47, 24 May 2007 (EDT)
:Yes, you should (with people's names, at least). That way, they're arranged on the category page by alphabetized last name, rather than first. [[User:Pacman|Pacman]] 16:16, 24 May 2007 (EDT)
::Ooooh, interesting. Will do. Thanks for the tip! [[User:Nonsensical|Nonsensical]] 16:17, 24 May 2007 (EDT)

==weathermen article==
where are you getting your information for the claim that the weathermen were trying to bomb alma mater? wikipedia says they were bombing Fort Dix. [[User:Foobar|Foobar]] 08:09, 31 May 2007 (EDT)
:Here's one source, for starters: http://www.columbiaspectator.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticle&ustory_id=ce2f5cee-0b46-465b-ad83-e0600bca4d92 [[User:Pacman|Pacman]] 12:26, 31 May 2007 (EDT)

You're a machine! Nice work. --[[User:Nonsensical|Nonsensical]] 03:34, 16 July 2007 (EDT)

==de Bary==

"de Bary", not "De Bary" (unless starting a sentence), and certainly not "deBary".

== thanksgiving history edits ==

these historical edits (year-by-year) are great! where are you finding this stuff?

it does make me wonder though if more things could be cited w/references so people easily can find documentation/verification or followup info. do you know: is there some sort of best practices statement by wikipedia about when a reference is necessary? [[User:Foobar|Foobar]] 07:08, 23 November 2007 (EST)
: i found wikip's best practices page: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cite_sources#When_you_add_content here] [[User:Foobar|Foobar]] 07:29, 23 November 2007 (EST)

:Not sure how to cite it, since I'm getting it all from one site: http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/stand_columbia/Timeline1970-03.html [[User:Pacman|Pacman]] 10:14, 23 November 2007 (EST)

== Dubious Columbians ==

What do you think about a "Dubious Columbians" category / article for people we like to endlessly pimp when it suits us (Lorenzo da Ponte, the Roosevelts, Alan Greenspan, Amelia Earhart, Howard Dean)?

I'd imagine this to be a great source. http://www.columbiaspectator.com/search/node/greatest+columbia+alumni

[[User:Ttan|Ttan]] 04:20, 23 January 2008 (EST)

:Don't you mean "tenuous Columbians"? I mean, we ''know'' all those people had ''some'' connection (wait...Howard Dean?) [[User:Pacman|Pacman]] 13:02, 23 January 2008 (EST)
::Yeah. Post-bacc pre-med for a semester or two. One of those creepy GS people destroying the curve in Chem 1403 because they have to take 2 classes per semester instead of like, 6. [[User:Ttan|Ttan]] 13:49, 23 January 2008 (EST)

:You mean like [[Tao Tan]]? That guy was never on campus :) [[User:Jiabao|Jiabao]] 15:01, 23 January 2008 (EST)

==FYI==
[[WikiCU:Community_Portal#Crime_policy]] {{User:Reaganaut/sig}} 17:24, 20 February 2008 (EST)

==Nostalgia==
Check out the picture of [[Harry Carman]] playing baseball on south field. Reading and writing about Columbia in the 50s and early 60s makes me a little jealous. [[User:Absentminded|Absentminded]] 23:14, 24 February 2008 (EST)
:I'm not sure I'd want to be at Columbia when everyone had to wear a tie and there were no girls (I had enough of that in Catholic high school) [[User:Pacman|Pacman]] 23:17, 24 February 2008 (EST)
::Point taken! But on the other hand, [[David Truman]] cut the legs out from under the college's parietal rules, so you could've spent some private time with a Barnard lass if you so pleased.

==Hi!==
*Apologies for editing articles at the same time as you! I hope I didn't get in your way... {{User:Reaganaut/sig}} 01:57, 12 April 2008 (EDT)

== Talk page etiquette? ==

I'm not exactly sure how these discussion pages work. You wrote on mine and I replied, but I don't know if you got an email notification saying so.

[[User_talk:Rab2148]]

(I just typed this to let you know that I replied, but you can delete this once you've read it.) --[[User:Rab2148|Rab2148]] 14:48, 22 April 2008 (EDT)

==Stratford Canning==
The cited Harper's Weekly article is for sale on [http://cgi.ebay.com/1884-Kings-College-Columbia-College-New-York-City_W0QQitemZ120242100907QQihZ002QQcategoryZ29223QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638Q2em118Q2el1247 eBay]. I read the relevant text from the slightly blurry JPGs included by the seller, and cited accordingly! Naturally, I have finals to be preparing for. I found it during a "I have nothing better to do" searches. [[User:Absentminded|Absentminded]] 18:16, 29 April 2008 (EDT)
*I purchased that exact item my freshman year and donated it to the U Archives. [[User:Ttan|Ttan]] 18:55, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

== Chichilnisky ==

Good article, but I don't think she's a stat professor. There's definitely a lot of overlap in the domains of "Mathematics and Economics" and Statistics, but she doesn't have any affiliation with the stat department and I'm pretty sure they wouldn't claim her. [[User:Jiabao|Jiabao]] 08:10, 27 October 2008 (EDT)
:Hm, her website lists her as "Professor of Statistics" and her office in Math was part of the Stats dept. [[User:Pacman|Pacman]] 10:39, 27 October 2008 (EDT)
::I see where she claims that on her site, but maybe there's been some bureaucratic reshuffling. Stat dept offices are now in SSW. Eh, no big deal I guess. [[User:Jiabao|Jiabao]] 10:44, 27 October 2008 (EDT)

==Sha Na Na==

You seem to know a lot about [[Sha Na Na]]. Would you like to create an article about them? That way we would just link to it rather than explaining who they were on every page they're mentioned. Plus, it's an essential piece of Columbia history that's missing from here so far. [[User:Pacman|Pacman]] 00:48, 28 May 2009 (EDT)

Sorry to take so long to reply. (If this is how one reaches you.) I will try, now that it's summer and I've got a moment for something beside work. I've never created an article from scratch, though, so may be some glitches. [[User:Sixth Floor Jay|Sixth Floor Jay]] 19:15, 18 July 2009 (EDT)

Okay, I tried. BTW, I think a closer relationship between WikiCU and CCT-- which just skipped a print edition and put it online-- is a definite possibility and I can talk to the editor, if you folks at WikiCu are interested? But only if you say so, I'm just a newbie here. Seems like a win-win situation to me. CCT contains a treasure trove of material which WikiCU would interlink and organize into a more coherent form than CCT can. If CCT, with its epic mailing list, did an article alerting the alumni to how much fun WikiCu is, it would encourage alumni to contribute their memories (about the notorious Lion's Den in John Jay Hall, for instance. For thirty years the Law School ran a mixer there every Friday night.) That kind of alumni participation, which leads to contributions to the endowment, is what CCT is all about. [[User:Sixth Floor Jay|Sixth Floor Jay]] 21:01, 18 July 2009 (EDT)

== Thanks for the welcome. ==

I'll be a grad student in the fall. My only edit so far suggests my undergrad alma mater. [[User:Glenn Magus Harvey|Glenn Magus Harvey]] 17:36, 22 July 2009 (EDT)
:Re: Swim test. I didn't think it was that big of a burden, anyway. Plus, it was an excuse to see members of the opposite sex in swimsuits. :P [[User:Glenn Magus Harvey|Glenn Magus Harvey]] 00:33, 26 July 2009 (EDT)
:By the way, are you a current student (graduate? undergraduate?) or an alum? I have some questions about student life at Columbia, but would rather ask them privately. I can give you my UNI if you want. [[User:Glenn Magus Harvey|Glenn Magus Harvey]] 13:39, 1 August 2009 (EDT)
::I'm a former undergrad (CC'07). Give me your UNI and I'll contact you. [[User:Pacman|Pacman]] 18:54, 7 August 2009 (EDT)
:::delta golf tango twenty-one zero six. [[User:Glenn Magus Harvey|Glenn Magus Harvey]] 14:26, 21 August 2009 (EDT)

User talk:Pacman

2009-08-01T17:39:27Z

Glenn Magus Harvey: /* Thanks for the welcome. */

New York Yankees

2009-07-27T03:42:12Z

Glenn Magus Harvey:

{{wp-also}}

[[Image:Arod1.jpg|right|thumb|Even moral relativists agree: the Yankees are categorically evil.]]

The '''New York Yankees''' are the most overrated major league franchise of any sport in the world. Fans of the Yankees, among the most arrogant and insufferable people you'll ever have the misfortune of encountering, will often justify their boastful pride by citing the 26 World Series Championships won by the team, despite their likely not having been alive for more than 4. Tragically, pointing out that only 7 of those titles have been won in the 47 years of the expansion era, and other less than glorious facts do little to put these cretins in place.

The Yankees can be seen as a microcosm of white-collar [[New York City]]; flagrant extravagance, unbridled arrogance, extreme self-assurance, and the drive to win at all costs define the franchise.

As of 2009, it appears that, like their fanbase and natural allies in finance, their spending has caught up to them. [[Yankee Stadium]] has not sold out a single game, including Opening Day 2009.

The Yankees' location in New York mean that they are a member of 24-7 coverage by ESPN. As a result, if we were to rank the epicness of sports rivalries by ESPN coverage, "Joba's dad vs. Health" would make the top 10 of any list.

The Yankees are believed to have a long-standing rivalry with the Red Sox. Until recently, the Yankees had been shutting them out of World Series titles, though the Sox did score an epic come-from-behind win in 2004. However, signs point to this rivalry being more of a condition generated by said insufferable fanbase.

[[Category:New York City]]
[[Category:Professional sports]]

User talk:Pacman

2009-07-26T04:33:24Z

Glenn Magus Harvey: /* Thanks for the welcome. */

CubMail

2009-07-22T23:54:50Z

Glenn Magus Harvey:

'''CubMail''' is Columbia's webmail program. A "new" and "improved" version was recently released, but it's really just the old version with slightly darker interface colors.

(Update: As of 7 July 2009, the old version is no longer available.)

The name is a reference to a baby [[Columbia Lion]], in case you couldn't figure that out.

A better alternative is to use [[Gmail]] to send and receive email from your Columbia.edu address.

== External links ==
* [https://cubmail.cc.columbia.edu/horde/imp/login.php CubMail]
* [https://cubmail.cc.columbia.edu/horde-legacy/imp/ Old version of CubMail] - well, just same as the "new" version but with different colors

[[Category:Websites]]
[[Category:IT]]

User talk:Pacman

2009-07-22T21:36:46Z

Glenn Magus Harvey: /* Thanks for the welcome. */

User talk:Pacman

2009-07-22T21:36:33Z

Glenn Magus Harvey: /* Thanks for the welcome. */ new section

Swim test

2009-07-21T06:58:21Z

Glenn Magus Harvey:

Bizarre Columbia graduation requirement. Also found at other well-known schools, such as MIT. Perhaps it's the fame getting to their heads.

== Schedule ==

The swim test is held 3 times per week:

* Friday 12pm-3pm
* Sunday 3pm-4pm
* Monday 8:30pm-9:30pm

If you are unable to take the swim test, contact [https://directory.columbia.edu/people/uni?code=kwt1 Ken Torrey].

== Theories for the Requirement ==

* Manhattan is an island.
* Justification for maintenance of a pool.
* [[SEAS|Engineers]] can build boats.
* Some rich donor's child drowned. (False)<ref>[http://www.snopes.com/college/admin/swimtest.asp "The Swim Test" - Snopes Urban Legends Reference]</ref>

== Training ==
The pool has open hours Monday through Friday 12-2pm, and 7-9:30pm, and 12-5 & 7-9 Saturday, 1-5, 7-9 Sunday. If individual instruction is needed consider joining lap swimming as a PE class, or contact a member of either the men's or women's [[Swimming and Diving (men's)|Swimming Team]] who are qualified to teach swim lessons.

==Trivia==
*[[Mortimer Adler]] refused to take the swim test, and look what happened to him: he earned a Columbia doctorate, became a noted philosopher, and was even given an honorary BA by Columbia - six decades later

== References ==
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[[Category:Core Curriculum]]
[[Category:Physical Education Department]]