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Barnard jokes

2012-04-05T01:34:36Z

Mangaratiba: /* List of common Barnard jokes */

'''Barnard Jokes''' are an institution at Columbia. It's just part of Columbia life.

== Common venues ==

===Bwog comments and other online fora===

The high degree of anonymity on [[Bwog]] and other online discussion fora, such as [[Bored@Butler]], contribute to a high frequency of Barnard jokes. The same individuals who contribute such jokes online would likely not risk offending Barnard students in person (especially if such Barnard students are highly attractive).

===Wikipedia===

Repeated attempts to add a "Barnard jokes" section to wikipedia's Columbia article have been thwarted by a--curiously--few number of overzealous administrators

==Humorless attempts to explain away the joking==

Some people who can't deal with Barnard jokes resort to [[w:structuralism|structuralist]] justifications as to why the phenomenon takes place and is so widespread. Some of these include the notions that:
*Jokes are also kept alive by freshmen who feel the need to revel in feelings of superiority over someone. They usually just need to get over themselves.
*Barnard women are actually considered prettier than Columbia women, and that many of the jokes such as those mentioned above are perpetuated by freshmen who want to feel included, and Columbia girls who resent Columbia men's preference for Barnard women.

== List of common Barnard jokes ==
*By and large, Barnard girls are Bi and Large.
*Barnard: Where the odds are good but the goods are odd.
*Why did the Columbia student cross the street? To get a blow job.
*Why did the Barnard student cross the street? To get an education.
*Barnard to Bed, Columbia to Wed
*Why is Barnard on the West side of Broadway? So if the Hudson floods, all of the dykes will protect Columbia.
*A Barnard girl goes down quicker than the vodka it took to make her look pretty.
*Barnard girls are lesbians that steal Columbia girls' boyfriends.
*''Alternative version:'' Not ''all'' Barnard girls were rejected by CC... Some were rejected by GS.
*We'll stop bashing Barnard when Barnard stops sucking.
*What's the smartest thing to come out of a Barnard girl's mouth... a Columbia guy's...
*What do Barnard girls and Columbia girls have in common? They both got in to Barnard.
*How many Barnard girls does it take to screw in a lightbulb? That's Barnard ''women'' and it's ''not'' funny.
[[Category:Barnard College]]
[[Category:Humor]]

University of Chicago

2012-03-31T20:17:00Z

Mangaratiba: /* Academics */

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The '''University of Chicago''' better known as the '''Place Where Fun Goes to Die'''<ref>Its students actually wear T-shirts proclaiming this sad fact</ref>, is located, counterintuitively enough, in [[Chicago]]. Although it is academically on par with (and even surpasses) some [[Ivy League]] schools that presume themselves Columbia's peer, the university has such a frightening reputation that few apply, and thus almost half get in. Students take pride in the university's so-called "Uncommon Application," since there is little else about which to be proud.

[[Image:Uchicagostudent.jpg|thumb|A relatively cheerful snapshot of typical, day to day student life at Chicago]]

==Student Characteristics==
*Nerdy
*Emotional insecurity issues nearly on the same order as [[Cornell]]<ref>Data provided by U of C WikiCU propagandists</ref>
*Pretentions to constant study, but really spending free time attempting, futilely, to undermine superior schools by launching edit-wars against their student wikis<ref>http://www.wikicu.com/index.php?title=University_of_Chicago&oldid=36667</ref>

==Urban Campus==
U of C is located in Hyde Park of the South Side of Chicago, surrounded by the most bomobed-out, ghetto part of the entire city (anyone who asserts that Columbia is in the same situation seriously needs to visit Chicago and see for him/herself). Students usually do not travel after dark for fear of getting jacked. Furthermore, the fact that University of Chicago's Police is second in size to the Chicago Police Department hardly quells these fears.

==Academics==
Chicago claims to have either an older or more rigorous [[Core Curriculum]] than Columbia. According to a WikiCU contributor whose IP we tracked to the city of Chicago<ref>http://extremetracking.com/open;vis.detailed?login=lctrealt&visitor=1207107187,12.41.55.3</ref> (we wonder which university he/she went to), "the University of Chicago's Core Cirriculum is generally recognized as superior to Columbia's in both depth and difficulty". Such assertions are dubious. In fact, Chicago's <i> so-called </i>Core was inspired by Columbia's; it was founded on the teachings of lifelong Columbian and Core advocate [[Mortimer Adler]]. We can agree, though, that our schools are superior to [[Harvard|those]] [[Yale|institutions]] which [[Brown|don't believe ''any'' such rigor is required]].

Chicago advocates also often claim that economist [[Milton Friedman]] belongs to their own "Chicago School of Economics". This claim is also flawed, since, as ''everyone'' at Columbia knows, Friedman was both a student and professor at our great institution. Nevertheless, we're happy to let UChicago have its "school" and all the financial and economic calamities it's wrought.

==Athletics==

The University of Chicago's official color (and team name) is Maroon. Need we comment further? It's a lame color (a sort of dull [[Harvard|Crimson]], appropriately enough) that the university chose because it was incapable of choosing a real animal. Unofficially, the university uses the Phoenix which is present on its shield. The University of Chicago chose this mythical creature to represent the rebirth of the city of Chicago and the original university that burnt down with it during the Great Chicago Fire. But that's what you get when you build a city mostly out of wood. Shouldn't kids who study too hard to have any fun know that?

== References ==
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[[Category:Universities]]

Global University

2012-03-30T23:40:01Z

Mangaratiba:

The term '''global university''' has been popularized as the centerpiece of [[University President]] [[Lee Bollinger]]'s agenda to extend Columbia's reputation as an international institution and brand. Although vague and fuzzy in concept, the notion has spun out several concrete initiatives. As such, the "global university" concept has developed in a piecemeal fashion, with little central coordination or planning other than the direction in which Bollinger would like to take the institution.

=="Global" projects undertaken under Bollinger==

===Major university-wide projects===

*The initiation of the [[World Leaders Forum]], bringing global heads of state to campus during the UN General Assembly and other parts of the year
*The establishment of [[Columbia Global Centers]] in Amman, Beijing, Istanbul, Paris ([[Reid Hall]]), and Mumbai in order to coordinate research and (to a lesser degree) teaching in their respective regions
*The creation of the [[Committee on Global Thought]], a sort of high council of scholars with a vague but definitively global purpose
*The creation of the position of Vice Provost of International Relations

===Graduate and professional school-oriented===

*[[GSAPP]]'s parallel establishment of Studio-X spaces for student designers in Amman, Beijing, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, and New York, with a forthcoming site in Moscow
*Bilateral agreements with [[LSE]] and [[Sciences Po]] to create exchange and joint degree programs

===Undergraduate-oriented===

*Revamping Columbia's [[study abroad]] programs under a newly-created Office of Global Programs
*[[CCE]]'s creation of the [[Columbia Experience Overseas]] to give students work experience abroad

===Primarily research-oriented===

*The creation of the [[Earth Institute]], which is, in effect, a powerful think thank focusing on both environmental and economic issues, and headed by the conspicuous [[Jeffrey Sachs]]
*Revamping the [[Institute of African Studies]] and giving African Studies a permanent home in the [[MEALAC]] department
*Founding the [[Global Health Research Center of Central Asia]]

===Other===
*The "Arts Global" branch of the [[Arts Initiative]]

==Global resources and programs unrelated to the initiative==

Several preexisting Columbia international assets or programs have not been folded into the above programs. These include:
*[[Casa Murano]] in Venice, which is being fitted out as a study center (donated to Columbia)
*The [[Oxford]]/[[Cambridge]] exchange program (preexisting)
*Columbia's Medieval France study program (preexisting)
*The Columbia archaeological dig at Amheida, Egypt (preexisting)

==Issues and problems==

===Competition===

Columbia is hardly alone in its global ambitions. Other universities have moved in with specific programs (like [[Princeton]] in Africa), partnerships (like [[Yale]]'s deepening bond with China) or even satellite campuses (being built by [[NYU]] in the UAE to supplement already sumptuous study abroad facilities worldwide). The Columbia approach, however, appears to be more comprehensive. The Global Centers maximize focus in a minimum number of locations without being too costly, and the creation of so many new programs at the university level itself is a clearly distinct phenomenon.

===Other potential drawbacks===

*If anything, Columbia's "global university" initiative may suffer from more shine than substance. It's still unclear what the pedagogical payoff of many of the initiatives are, particularly seeming PR stunts like the Committee on Global Thought.
*Other initiatives seem to represent little more than a reshuffling or rationalization of preexisting programs or commitments, which may even be negatively impacted - some programs at Columbia's Paris campus, Reid Hall, have had to close down in the wake of its conversion into a "Global Center," for example, and the [[University Archives]] were forced to merge with the [[Rare Book and Manuscript Library]] to make space for the Committee's meetings.
*Getting deeply involved in the rest of the world is not without its risks, as Bollinger found out during the [[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]] controversy, which led to questions about who was allowed to speak at the World Leaders Forum, and perhaps with withdrawal of more than a few donations.
*And, of course, it's questionable whether it's a good idea to divert resources into expensive international programs that could be more efficiently deployed in New York - on, say, the space needs that should be addressed by Bollinger's other major initiative, the [[Manhattanville campus]].

[[Category:Definitions]]

World Leaders Forum

2012-03-30T23:38:36Z

Mangaratiba:

[[File:Low rotunda.jpg|thumb|A World Leaders Forum event in [[Low Library]]'s rotunda]]

The '''World Leaders Forum''' was initiated by President [[Bollinger]] in [[2003]] as part of his plan to [[global university|make Columbia more "global"]]. During the UN General Assembly meeting each fall, Columbia invites a number of major world figures onto campus to deliver speeches and take part in conferences. Forum events are held throughout the year as opportunities present themselves.

You know the forum's in town when there are snipers on the roofs of Columbia buildings.

==Visiting leaders==

===[[2003]]===
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*Mircea Dan Geoana, Foreign Minister of Romania
*Enrique Bolaños Geyer, President of Nicaragua
*Tassos Giannitsis, Foreign Minister of Greece
*Mladen Ivanic, Foreign Minister of Bosnia-Herzegovina
*Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan
*Kamal Kharrazi, Foreign Minister of Iran
{{Col-2}}
*John Agyekum Kufuor, President of Ghana
*Vladimir Putin, President of Russia
*Dimitrij Rupel, Foreign Minister of Slovenia
*Goran Svilanovic, Foreign Minister of Serbia-Montenegro
*Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister of India
{{Col-end}}

===[[2004]]===
{{Col-begin}}
{{Col-2}}
*[[Madeleine Albright]], former Secretary of State
*Ilham Heydar oglu Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan
*Charles Gyude Bryant, Chairman of the Transitional Government of Liberia
*Joaquim Alberto Chissano, President of Mozambique
*Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Foreign Minister of Poland
*Carlos Diego Mesa Gisbert, President of Bolivia
*Ion Iliescu, President of Romania
{{Col-2}}
*Carolina Barco Isakson, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia
*Dodo Aichatou Mindaoudou, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Niger
*Ilinka Mitreva, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Macedonia
*Kristina Ojuland, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia
*Surakiart Sathiarathai, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand
*Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President of Latvia
{{Col-end}}

===[[2005]]===
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{{Col-2}}
*Shaukat Aziz, Prime Minister of Pakistan
*The Dalai Lama
*Tarja Halonen, President of Finland
*Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, President of Sierra Leone
*Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda
{{Col-2}}
*Aleksander Kwaśniewski, President of Poland
*Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan
*[[Mikheil Saakashvili]], President of Georgia
*Jalal Talabani, President of Iraq
*Susilo Yudhoyono, President of Indonesia
{{Col-end}}

===[[2006]]===
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{{Col-2}}
*[[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]], President of Iran (CANCELLED)
*Kim Campbell, former Prime Minister and former Minister of Defense, Canada
*David Choquehuanca, Minister of Foreign Relations of Bolivia
*Yegor Gaidar, former Prime Minister of Russia
*Evo Morales, President of Bolivia
*Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Minister of Finance, Nigeria; former Vice President of the World Bank
{{Col-2}}
*Sheikha Lubna al Qasimi, Minister of Economy, United Arab Emirates
*Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Ireland
*Dr. Ivo Sanader, Prime Minister of Croatia
*Sir Michael Somare, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea
*Ong Keng Yong, Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
{{Col-end}}

===[[2007]]===
{{Col-begin}}
{{Col-2}}
*[[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]], President of Iran
*Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed, Chief Advisor of the Caretaker Government of Bangladesh
*Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile
*Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, President of Turkmenistan
*[[Toomas Hendrik Ilves]], President of Estonia
{{Col-2}}
*Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, President of Tanzania (CANCELLED)
*Željko Komšić, Presidency Chairman of Bosnia and Herzegovina
*Dr. Bingu wa Mutharika, President of Malawi
*[[Mikheil Saakashvili]], President of Georgia
{{Col-end}}

===[[2008]]===
{{Col-begin}}
{{Col-2}}
*Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland
*Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark
*Danilo Türk, President of Slovenia
*Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of Turkey
{{Col-end}}

===[[2009]]===
{{Col-begin}}
{{Col-2}}
*Martti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland
*Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the UN
*Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, President of Argentina
*Bharrat Jagdeo, President of Guyana
{{Col-2}}
*Boris Johnson, Mayor of London
*Madhav Kumar Nepal, Prime Minister of Nepal
*Boris Tadic, President of Serbia
*Abhisit Vejjajiva, Prime Minister of Thailand
{{Col-end}}

===[[2010]]===
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*Abdullah Gül, President of Turkey

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==External links==

* http://www.worldleaders.columbia.edu/

[[Category:Annual events]]
[[Category:Lectures and panels]]

World Leaders Forum

2012-03-30T23:35:48Z

Mangaratiba:

[[File:Low rotunda.jpg|thumb|A World Leaders Forum event in [[Low Library]]'s rotunda]]

The '''World Leaders Forum''' was initiated by President [[Bollinger]] in [[2003]] as part of his plan to [[global university|make Columbia more "global"]]. During the UN General Assembly meeting each fall, Columbia invites a number of major world figures onto campus to deliver speeches and take part in conferences. Forum events are held throughout the year as opportunities present themselves.

You know the forum's in town when there are snipers on the roofs of Columbia buildings.

==Visiting leaders==

===[[2003]]===
{{Col-begin}}
{{Col-2}}
*Mircea Dan Geoana, Foreign Minister of Romania
*Enrique Bolaños Geyer, President of Nicaragua
*Tassos Giannitsis, Foreign Minister of Greece
*Mladen Ivanic, Foreign Minister of Bosnia-Herzegovina
*Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan
*Kamal Kharrazi, Foreign Minister of Iran
{{Col-2}}
*John Agyekum Kufuor, President of Ghana
*Vladimir Putin, President of Russia
*Dimitrij Rupel, Foreign Minister of Slovenia
*Goran Svilanovic, Foreign Minister of Serbia-Montenegro
*Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister of India
{{Col-end}}

===[[2004]]===
{{Col-begin}}
{{Col-2}}
*[[Madeleine Albright]], former Secretary of State
*Ilham Heydar oglu Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan
*Charles Gyude Bryant, Chairman of the Transitional Government of Liberia
*Joaquim Alberto Chissano, President of Mozambique
*Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Foreign Minister of Poland
*Carlos Diego Mesa Gisbert, President of Bolivia
*Ion Iliescu, President of Romania
{{Col-2}}
*Carolina Barco Isakson, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Colombia
*Dodo Aichatou Mindaoudou, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Niger
*Ilinka Mitreva, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Macedonia
*Kristina Ojuland, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia
*Surakiart Sathiarathai, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand
*Vaira Vike-Freiberga, President of Latvia
{{Col-end}}

===[[2005]]===
{{Col-begin}}
{{Col-2}}
*Shaukat Aziz, Prime Minister of Pakistan
*The Dalai Lama
*Tarja Halonen, President of Finland
*Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, President of Sierra Leone
*Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda
{{Col-2}}
*Aleksander Kwaśniewski, President of Poland
*Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan
*[[Mikheil Saakashvili]], President of Georgia
*Jalal Talabani, President of Iraq
*Susilo Yudhoyono, President of Indonesia
{{Col-end}}

===[[2006]]===
{{Col-begin}}
{{Col-2}}
*[[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]], President of Iran (CANCELLED)
*Kim Campbell, former Prime Minister and former Minister of Defense, Canada
*David Choquehuanca, Minister of Foreign Relations of Bolivia
*Yegor Gaidar, former Prime Minister of Russia
*Evo Morales, President of Bolivia
*Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Minister of Finance, Nigeria; former Vice President of the World Bank
{{Col-2}}
*Sheikha Lubna al Qasimi, Minister of Economy, United Arab Emirates
*Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Ireland
*Dr. Ivo Sanader, Prime Minister of Croatia
*Sir Michael Somare, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea
*Ong Keng Yong, Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
{{Col-end}}

===[[2007]]===
{{Col-begin}}
{{Col-2}}
*[[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]], President of Iran
*Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed, Chief Advisor of the Caretaker Government of Bangladesh
*Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile
*Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, President of Turkmenistan
*[[Toomas Hendrik Ilves]], President of Estonia
{{Col-2}}
*Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, President of Tanzania (CANCELLED)
*Željko Komšić, Presidency Chairman of Bosnia and Herzegovina
*Dr. Bingu wa Mutharika, President of Malawi
*[[Mikheil Saakashvili]], President of Georgia
{{Col-end}}

===[[2008]]===
{{Col-begin}}
{{Col-2}}
*Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland
*Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark
*Danilo Türk, President of Slovenia
*Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of Turkey

===[[2009]]===
{{Col-begin}}
{{Col-2}}
*Martti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland
*Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the UN
*Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, President of Argentina
*Bharrat Jagdeo, President of Guyana
{{Col-2}}
*Boris Johnson, Mayor of London
*Madhav Kumar Nepal, Prime Minister of Nepal
*Boris Tadic, President of Serbia
*Abhisit Vejjajiva, Prime Minister of Thailand

===[[2010]]===
{{Col-begin}}
{{Col-2}}
*Abdullah Gül, President of Turkey

{{Col-end}}

==External links==

* http://www.worldleaders.columbia.edu/

[[Category:Annual events]]
[[Category:Lectures and panels]]