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You Will Have to Read This to Believe This
The New Criterion ^
| Dec. 4, 2002
| Staff Writer
Posted on 12/29/2002 5:30:02 AM PST by Davis
Meanwhile, at Cornell . . .
While Saint Xavier busies itself with damage control over a history professor who cannot distinguish between protest and pedagogy, Cornell Universitys health service is debating the important question of whether to sell vibrators in its dispensary. Many students, a college newspaper reports, feel it would be helpful for Gannett [health center] to have vibrators available because Cornell is located in Ithaca, not a major city. Somjen Frazer, Cornell 03, explained the problem: At this point, you either go online or go downtown to the sort of scary and not very woman-affirming place sex-shop. Paraphrasing Ms. Frazer, the paper noted that, as with anything else they sell, the dispensary will give out educational materials explaining how to properly clean a vibrator that two women are going to share and what exactly vibrators can be used for. Yes, we can see how important that would be. Most, though not all, of the students quoted about the proposed innovation were enthusiastic. Sara Jacobs, Cornell 05, confided that I think one of the most important things is for women to be able to get themselves off. Its better than going to the sketchy shop downtown where they have to check the batteries for you. Perhaps Cornell will offer an elective on changing batteries. It seems the least they can do forlets see, at last count it was $38,254 all in.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cornell; ithacais; publicmoney; thecityofevil; vibrators
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posted on
12/29/2002 5:30:02 AM PST
by
Davis
To: Davis
Ok, that's it! No more donations to Cornell University...
2
posted on
12/29/2002 5:37:32 AM PST
by
Davis
To: Davis
Not a Joke?
Calling all Cornell alumni to stop sending checks until Ms. Frazer, who has made a joke of your University, is fired..........
3
posted on
12/29/2002 5:38:34 AM PST
by
yoe
To: Davis
What about Amazon.com?
To: SamAdams76
What about Amazon.com?
5
posted on
12/29/2002 5:42:35 AM PST
by
Davis
To: Davis
Hello...can't a Cornell student use the internet and buy her vibrator on-line?
6
posted on
12/29/2002 5:43:42 AM PST
by
Drango
Comment #7 Removed by Moderator
To: Davis
"Woman-affirming" has to be the most fatuous neologism I have encountered this year.
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posted on
12/29/2002 5:45:17 AM PST
by
gaspar
To: Davis; Slyfox; PhilDragoo
Only veddy high class vibrators will do for Cornell, a veddy exclusive university, elite, don't you know, a member of the Ivy League.
9
posted on
12/29/2002 5:45:51 AM PST
by
hrhdave
To: gaspar
Yeah, I noted that phrase. So just what IS a "woman-affirming place?" If you find one, you might want to avoid it...
10
posted on
12/29/2002 5:47:36 AM PST
by
Davis
To: Davis
I just had to try the url. I thought this was an
Onion piece.
And what the heck does "woman-affirming' mean? Sheesh.
5.56mm
11
posted on
12/29/2002 5:51:22 AM PST
by
M Kehoe
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Ithaca: City of Evil alert.
12
posted on
12/29/2002 5:51:40 AM PST
by
csvset
To: gaspar
Beat me to it. What exactly does that mean?
Today's college students scare me.
13
posted on
12/29/2002 5:55:36 AM PST
by
Skooz
To: Davis
Many students, a college newspaper reports, feel it would be helpful for Gannett [health center] to have vibrators available because Cornell is located in Ithaca, not a major city"
Tain't fair all them big city folks git all them fancy toys !
14
posted on
12/29/2002 5:57:01 AM PST
by
placebo
To: M Kehoe
>>I just had to try the url. I thought this was an Onion piece.<<
The New Criterion magazine, from which this item comes, is a high quality intellectual magazine--and it's conservative. There's lots of good stuff on the site.
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posted on
12/29/2002 5:57:27 AM PST
by
hrhdave
To: Davis
"...one of the most important things is for women to be able to get themselves off."
Agreed. Use a man. Less vibration, better penetration.
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posted on
12/29/2002 5:59:42 AM PST
by
ricpic
To: GWELO
Use the washing machine sweetie. What happens if you run out of quarters?
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posted on
12/29/2002 6:02:23 AM PST
by
Drango
To: Davis
They need therapy!
18
posted on
12/29/2002 6:03:30 AM PST
by
lonestar
To: Davis
19
posted on
12/29/2002 6:10:48 AM PST
by
Gorons
To: Skooz
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