<p>Sigh...every time I think I'm out, they pull me back in. <em>cracks neck</em> Let's do this.</p>
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This conflict arises every year. In Spring in my house I can count on carpenter ants, crocuses, and ugly comments about Barnard College.
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<p>Get some Terro, alternate with some Daffodils for a lovelier palette, and redefining your meaning of "ugly". </p>
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The history of Barnard is directly related to Columbia University. President Barnard of Columbia University founded Barnard College because the Columbia Board of Trustees refused the admission of women.</p>
<p>So, affiliate status in this case means that Barnard has always been part of Columbia University.
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<p>The history of Oxford and Cambridge are directly related. All the ivies are related by being well, ivies. French and Spanish both come from Latin. Toothpaste was developed from adhesive resin....You see the point here, right? Having connections does not make two distinct things the same.</p>
<p>If someone were to list all the differences between CU and Barnard, it would take pages. From taxes, tenure packages, to alumni contributions and 100% distinct endowment declarations(and these are only those I know about off the top of my head).</p>
<p>Ultimately none of these matter because the distinction is much, MUCH broader than that and it can be voiced in 4 words: THEY ARE DIFFERENT SCHOOLS. </p>
<p>Do you apply to Columbia to get into Barnard? NO.
Do you apply to Columbia to get into CC/GS/SEAS? YES.</p>
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So, affiliate status in this case means that Barnard has always been part of Columbia University.
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<p>Not even a little, no.</p>
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Barnard provides Columbia College with a dance department, a theater department, an urban planning department and an architecture department. Columbia College students wishing to major in these subjects major at Barnard College.
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<p>No, they take a bulk of courses at the Barnard facilities yes, but their major is not a Barnard major (like Economics is a CC major or engineering is a SEAS major). Huge difference. At the graduate level of the film school, many students take courses at NYU. Lots of courses as they have the best film facilities in Manhattan and the two schools have an arrangement. They're still not getting their degrees from NYU!</p>
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The number of students crossing east to west on Broadway roughly equals those crossing west to east.
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<p>Well, I'm convinced. Bypassing the obvious argument of restaurants, subway mouths, housing facilities that require to cross Broadway to your intent for this statement, all this states is an overlap in facilities, which is not being argued here.</p>
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At the Barnard graduation Barnard students are presented for graduation, just as the students from the other schools at their individual graduations. She officially gets her diploma at the Columbia University graduation from President Bollinger.</p>
<p>She did not imagine, invent or create this arrangement. In reality her diploma is conferred by Columbia University.
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<p>A shared tent does not an institution make.</p>
<p>I'm really, really curious to see CC and Barnard diploma side by side. Because as it stands the correspondence, headings, and financial documents from both schools are different. I'm having a really hard time believing that the the DIPLOMAS would be the same. </p>
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Perhaps those Columbia College students who don't like this should either take it up with the Columbia University administration or not attend Columbia.
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<p>Perhaps the students so desperate for the Columbia name on their diploma - which I am aware is not the bulk of the Barnard student body - should apply and attend Columbia? Hmm?</p>
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Why pick on Barnard students?
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<p>I normally find this smilie obnoxious beyond reason but seeing as I literally did this when I read that line, I feel that it is warranted: :rolleyes:</p>
<p>* Sir, we've reviewed your resume and found no record of you at Goldman& Sachs.
Oh, hum, well technically I worked for Cosette Advertising b-but we shared the same building. Same cafeteria and everything!
Sir, that does not make you an G&S employ...
YOU'RE PICKING ON ME! *</p>
<p>For all the posts that start with "X prefers Barnard over Columbia" they all inevitably seem to go on to argue for the fact that the two schools are the same. Don't you find that odd? "I love B so much that it's A". </p>
<p>Love your school, embrace it as the wonderful and unique space it is with a variety of programs and professors which Barnard very much is. DON'T try to pass it off as the girl next door. </p>
<p>Im in a class at Barnard right now, I have Barnard friends, I dont hiss when I see a Barnard ID (Ha! Different IDs!), but I'm not gonna pretend they're the same school to please you either. Just like you allegedly love your school, I love mine. Harvard could be next door that I would still acknowledge that I'm a damn Lion (though I'd suck their resources dry). </p>
<p>Call me an elitist, call me an anti-feminist, call me a pampered ivier, or just call me a guy the uncanny ability to tell between the two different institutions on either side of the street.</p>
<p>Thanks for playing,</p>