CV and The Daily News: The Beginning

Published on February 11, 2007 at 4:06 PM by tyler | Filed under CV in the Media | 7 Comments

Not that I want talk of this article to begin again, or to increase the spin that The Daily News has already had on this unfortunate article, but here it is, for posterity. This is the article that began the media run that included Ann Coulter’s rambling commentary on Fox News that week, in addition to cultivating the love and spawning the hatred of dozens of bloggers. Here are some choice selections. Follow the link to read the full article, if you insist. Feel free to link to other interesting articles surrounding this incident or to discuss your own responses in the comments section.

Wild sex 101
BY DOUGLAS FEIDEN
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Sunday, November 26th, 2006

“Others volunteer for the bullwhip at Conversio Virium, the university-sanctioned S&M club that means “exchange of power” in Latin. It calls itself a “discussion group” that provides “education and peer support” and promotes “safe, sane and consensual play.” But the club doesn’t just talk.Late on the night of Nov. 13, a Daily News reporter sat in room 303 of Hamilton Hall, a venerable classroom building where Columbia students have studied Poe, Plato and Plutarch for nearly 100 years.

As a female student volunteer stood facing the blackboard, and two dozen Columbians watched, a lecturer who identified himself only as Dov flogged her repeatedly with leather whips, rubber hoses – and a cat-o’-nine-tails.

“I’m Dov, and these are my toys,” he said, and for the next 14 minutes he demonstrated lashing techniques. The activity was consensual, but the squeals of delight mingled with the occasional yelps of pain.”

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  1. Hmm. While I can certainly appreciate the desire for keeping things for posterity, I’m not sure how I feel about reposting an article that is so deliberately a smear campaign against CV on CV’s own web site. Additionally, though I have no legal understanding of the matter, are article reposts in their entirety legal? I’m sure that block quotations are okay, I just remember feeling hesitant about directly copy-and=pasteing things like this.

    Why not quote a section of the article, and instead just link to the rest of it elsewhere? This is one of those things that is simply never going to go away, regardless of which organization stores a copy of the content. Y’know…?

    Comment by maymay — March 8, 2007 #

  2. This is an article in The Eye that responds to this:
    http://eye.columbiaspectator.com/index.php/site/article/the-no-win-zone/

    This is a wonderfully glowing Op-Ed by a dear relative of a faithful CV member:
    http://eugenelang-inprint.blogspot.com/2006/12/op-ed-coulter-pundit-in-need-of-good.html

    Comment by tyler — March 8, 2007 #

  3. I hear ya, Hannah. Part of what makes an article a “big deal” is how we react to it. That said, while I do think it is not a bad thing for CV to get press of pretty much any variety, I would rather be cautious about publishing the stories other people write elsewhere again over here. Ultimately, however, it’s not my call. :)

    Comment by maymay — March 8, 2007 #

  4. To be honest, I sort of liked this article and wouldn’t mind keeping a large block quotation for posterity. My main complaint was that it named presenters and didn’t keep its facts straight (for example: cat-o’-nine-tails? WTF.) It goes without saying that Feiden is biased and unprofessional but he made us look pretty good. I’d love to attend a club where “the squeals of delight mingled with the occasional yelps of pain” (as long as they follow some variant of the SSC). Feiden’s quote from Princess Wendy was especially nice: “I like to hurt people, I don’t like to send them to the hospital.” Throughout the article, we’re presented as kinda fun and kinda sketchy but ultimately conscientious.

    Comment by Hannah — March 8, 2007 #

  5. No I agree with you May, linking is sufficient. I made some all around changes. Just stretching my legs here and seeing what works and what doesn’t. Your comments are all helpful.

    And of course, if people want to air their grievances about articles like this among friends, this is a good place to do it.

    Comment by tyler — March 8, 2007 #

  6. Actually Hannah I did have a cat o nine tails and used it! The rubber hose on the other hand was quite made up by the author of the piece

    Comment by Dov — September 2, 2007 #

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