It’s unfortunate that the Daily Colonial site is gathering cobwebs. I enjoy some of their features, especially those about cupcakes. They have long been the Occasional Colonial, but they haven’t updated since May 22nd.
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Posts Tagged ‘ Daily Colonial ’
Is the Daily Colonial Dead?
Did The Hatchet Copy The Daily Colonial’s ‘Cupcake Wars’ Story?
Tip of the hat to Dan Keylin for noticing this story. It may not be full-blown plagiarism, but the Hatchet decided to run a review of DC cupcake shops a month after the Daily Colonial did so. They also chose practically the same headline as the Daily Colonial. Oh, and watch for the use...
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The Daily Colonial becomes the Occasional Colonial.
At the end/beginning of every year there’s a rumor that the Daily Colonial (the “daily” web-based student newspaper) has finally kicked the bucket. Well, it seems they are once again trying to crawl back into the light, Though it seems that they are no longer “daily” but instead subscribe to what we do here...
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And the award goes to…
Commenter “Kristina” wins the Flanigen Cup for best quote of the day (re: Danny Kampf and the flame war surrounding Pat’s recent post on said Daily Colonial writer): “A baboon can right click for synonyms.” I won’t lie–it tickled my gelastic muscles. Especially after I read some of Kampf’s columns.
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Daily Ignorance
I was perusing the old opinion articles at the Daily Colonial and came across this dandy by Danny Kampf. For those of you who don’t know, Danny boy is the DC’s local ignoramus, to be forever remembered amongst the rational and reasonable as the baffoon who compared those who believed in a religion to...
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Betting on the Spread
I’m going to be the pessimist here and wager that, despite our wonderful, last-minute publicity drive and the nigh-on-irrelevant support of the Daily Colonial, the levy will pass by a big margin–possibly greater than twenty points. Not that I’m averse to being proven (very) wrong. (On an S.A. Presidential campaign side-note, Kozlowski is not...
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The Daily Colonial and The Fee Increase
Below, an anonymous commenter links to the Daily Colonial‘s editorial on the fee increase. Refreshingly, GW’s less-read newspaper voices skepticism along many of the same lines as have some of us at the GW Patriot: Until the SA does more to educate students about the financial allotment process, we cannot support the student fee...
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That’s What She Said
The Daily Colonial has an interesting new column. http://www.dailycolonial.com/go.dc?p=3&s=3763 Any ideas for questions we should submit?
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