Brooklyn College spends $107,000 on outside design firm to ax supposedly phallic logo

New York Post ^ | August 11, 2013 | ISABEL VINCENT and MELISSA KLEIN

[ConservativeStatement]

She gave it the shaft.

One of Karen Gould’s first acts as president of Brooklyn College was to thrust $107,000 into creating a new school logo — because the old clock-tower silhouette was supposedly too phallic looking, insiders said.

Just months after Gould took the helm of the institution in 2009 as its first woman president, the college hired Baltimore-based Neustadt Creative Marketing to draft a new logo and redo the Web site.

The company soon cut all visual references to the seminal symbol of the La Guardia Hall tower, erected in the 1930s.

The new logo was all words: “Brooklyn College” in large type, with “The City University of New York” in smaller letters.

The design firm, which was hired without a bidding process or request for proposals, claims its work was cutting-edge.

[ConservativeStatement]

"when she allowed a pro-Palestinian student group to hold a campus forum on a boycott of Israel...." Does she consider herself to be an open-minded liberal?

[keving]

She’ll be buying a fake one for home use

[Pharmboy]

Looks more like a minaret to me...

[Steve_Seattle]

Looks like the dome of a Russian Orthodox Church. A phallic symbol? Only of a very diseased phallus.

[skeeter]

Yet more evidence all progressives are nucking futs.

[Pharmboy]

"The company soon cut all visual references to the seminal symbol of the La Guardia Hall tower, erected in the 1930s."

"Heh heh...she said 'erected.'"

[cripplecreek]

Or the dome of nearly every capitol building in the country.

[Talisker]

She gave it the shaft. One of Karen Gould’s first acts as president of Brooklyn College was to thrust $107,000 into creating a new school logo... The company soon cut all visual references to the seminal symbol of the La Guardia Hall tower, erected in the 1930s.

The media is run by stupid teenage girls, for stupid teenage girls - of every age level.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

” the seminal symbol”

Bwaa! Which definition was the author thinking of?

[rawhide]

College spokeswoman Keisha-Gaye Anderson would not say where the $107,000 came from, but claimed not from taxpayers or tuition. She would not say why the Baltimore firm was chosen over less costly college staff.

Maybe from her personal piggy bank?

[ConservativeStatement]

However, they completed the sentence without using “like” multiple times.

[madison10]

That’s nothin’. Eastern Michigan University/Ypsilanti has it’s own *ahem* water tower that looks like that and WE are proud of it.

Legend had/has it that if a virgin graduates from Eastern Michigan University the tower would crumble. The rumor is false.

[Cicero]

Brooklyn College campus with clock tower.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Minaret they reserved for the top of the Freedom tower on Ground zero...liberals tribute to the Islamos to show that the Freedom tower is just a giant trophy to Al-Qaeda which is pretty much how I thought it would turn out.

[cripplecreek]

I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours.

Here is My state capitol (Lansing Mi)



BBBBOOIINNNGGGGG

[madison10]

Ypsilanti's water tower

[ConservativeStatement]

When Mizzz Gould becomes President of the USA, that will be removed. :-)

[a fool in paradise]

Can anyone be a member? Here's the Chase Tower in Dallas.

[Morgana]

huh huh they said phallic!

[Old Sarge]

Ribbed for her comfort...