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.

[RegulatorCountry]

That’s more like a vulva on a stick.

[cripplecreek]

Hillsdale college Grewcock Student union.



But its debatable

[cripplecreek]

The Hillsdale county courthouse in Michigan jutting skyward in its copper covered glory.

[BenLurkin]

BTTT

[BenLurkin]

It needs to ... grow.

[BenLurkin]

Just imagine being stuck on an elevator with her........ during the next NYC blackout...

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

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

Cannot be a coincidence. Seminal clearly isn't the right word.

[Pharmboy]

Interesting.

[Tanniker Smith]

erected in the 1930s.

Heh heh, heh heh. "Erected".

The clock tower at Brooklyn College is reminiscent of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, so I can see why it would be offensive to the liberals there.

At least back in the 80s, the liberals there still had some pride. Sure, they were still commie pinkos, but they had some sense of pride.

They should've just gone back to using La Guardia Hall as the logo, or use the clock tower but not as a silhouette.

[tanknetter]

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

It's the NY Post. Pretty tame, actually, by their standards.

[Tanniker Smith]

Did you notice that the URL for the article contains the words "prexy pulls boner"?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/prexy_pulls_boner_XH7WB6m1OptVL7Yep6JzYI

[tumblindice]

Is that in Dildo, Newfoundland? On Woody Point, Whippet harbor?
Man, those Canucks! All they ever think about is hockey.

[madison10]

That just looks like a tower. Hillsdale is keeping it clean. ;)

[BushCountry]

I would have created this logo for $60,000 and saved then $47,000 if they asked.

[MHGinTN]

Only to a very diseased mind ...

[RIghtwardHo]

Some people are idiots.

[ErnBatavia]

Walking around Sydney, Australia years ago, we passed two guys wearing their scaffolding company logo shirts....the great part is that in Oz, "scaffolding" is called "erections".

I wanted to buy 'em right off their backs, but wifey shooed me away.

[cookcounty]

Goes to show you once again, the dumbest people in America are the presidents of colleges. I’ll bet she brags about how hard she’s been “working to keep tuition low.”

[EQAndyBuzz]

ROTFL......my son just looked at her picture and said out of all the pictures, she most looks like a d**k.

[latina4dubya]

So will she have the clock tower redesigned too? Btw, why not show the new logo in this article?