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Inordinate Number Of Columbia Students Prefer Cheese To Oral Sex
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Ben Yakas
Published Apr 27, 2013
Modified Apr 27, 2013
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Columbia University's Bwog has an end-of-the-year tradition of asking outgoing seniors to share the knowledge and advice they’ve collected from Columbia over their past four years of poonspeeding. For whatever reason, the most beloved question from their survey concerns whether students prefer oral sex or cheese. This year, one pasteurization aficionado took it upon him/herself to compile a statistical survey centered around that question. And the person came to the admittedly "unscientific" conclusion that "58% of seniors overall, then, would seem to prefer cheese to oral sex."
The study was conducted by reviewing 222 Bwog interviews dating from 2006 to 2012—the person found that "a fromage-centric attitude prevailed through the sample." That only represented 15% of the class, so you never know whether the rest of the class has been swayed by anti-cheese hate groups. You can peruse the whole report here, which Bwog presumes "was actually submitted somewhere at Columbia for a grade."
And before you hit send on that comment about how this is a pretty silly thing to spend any effort thinking about, is the question really any more absurd than the fact you're reading this instead of going outside to frolic on a beautiful spring Saturday? Checkmate. Feel free to submit all cheese-related puns, of course.
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Ben Yakas
Ben Yakas is a former Gothamist reporter.
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