<3 The U-StoreYeah, midterms have come and gone, and they hit some of us hard (I currently am watching a passed out underclassman drool on a table littered with sheets of math in Frist). Can you imagine what it’s like in the real world, though? More specifically, in the political world?
Take note all you Woody Woo majors: it gets worse!
...then CA was like, 'meh'
- First up, our very own billionaire dorm donor Meg Whitman ‘71 has spent $162 million (and counting) of her own money in the race for bankrupt California’s governorship, breaking the self-financing record set by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. So that’s fun. Not so fun? Turns out all the money’s going to waste — rival Jerry Brown leads in polls. Coulda bought another college.
- As if Meg wasn’t having a bad enough week, her son Griff Harsh ‘09 has been accused by gossip blog Gawker of covering up a rape allegation during his sophomore year at Princeton. It’s been blowing up online this past week. Not the best PR — for Whitman, or, well, Princeton, I guess.
- The cherry on top of Meg’s campaign? At least she’s kind of like, the female “Governator,” or at least according to this attack ad running now.
Hey Columbia! Congrats on the $100 million donation! 100,000,000 is a rather large number and you can probably build a lot of stuff, maybe even a 450,000 square feet expansion to your business school (to be precise). But not everyone’s happy. In fact, some think this is all downright “loathsome.” Gawker took this opportunity 