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“Unsafe space”: Ivy League college kills 41-year-old comedy tradition
By Toni Airaksinen | December 15, 2016 | Comments

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Columbia University and social justice warriors are at war with the school's marching band. Their crime? They make fun of everything. (Photo via Bwog, Columbia Student News)

Columbia University and social justice warriors are at war with the school’s marching band. Their crime? They make fun of everything. (Photo via Bwog, Columbia Student News)

Every semester since 1975, on the first midnight of final exams, the Columbia University Marching Band has played music and a comedy skit in the school library at an event called “Orgo Night.”

At midnight on “Orgo Night,” the night of the organic chemistry (a.k.a. “Orgo” for short) final exam, the band marches into the main room of the library to distract students from studying.

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