2008 Woodie Awards
Minus the City
Colgate's Top 10 Sexiest Moments
Elisa Benson
Issue date: 4/22/05 Section: Commentary
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It's been a good year for sex.
On a national level, the blue/red battleground of early November pushed issues of abortion rights, sex education and gay marriage to the political foreground. On a campus level, our little uni is in a different place than the days when rubber bracelets only came in yellow. Colgate has both endured and embraced a year of controversial campus politics, fiery letters to the editor and events that surround, celebrate, and scrutinize sex. Because sex exists as a constant side dish to American culture, reaching main course status when the recipe gets spicy enough, I'd argue that one way to measure 525,600 minutes is through the sexy moments that occur. So grab a bottle of the bubbly and let's review the good, the bad, and the downright sexy: Presenting Colgate's second annual Top Ten Sexiest Moments.
10. Young visiting celebrities are a hookup waiting to happen, especially when they're hot and hilarious. With their Colgate-centric standup, interactive improv, and show-starting proclamation that "everyone's hooking up tonight," SNL's Seth Meyers and MadTV's Ike Barinholtz left many an audience member wondering if they're as pleasing in bed as they are on stage.
9. A mid-semester campus-wide "sexual issues" survey sought to unveil the truth behind student perceptions of the sexual climate at Colgate. Regardless of the pending results, the study cements sexual behaviors as something worthy of scientific study.
8. Resolutions to clean up Derby Days prompted a wave of female support for the fraternity brothers, coupled by broader complaints that women should shoulder the responsibility for their own sexual behavior.
7. The classics department's production of Lysistrata may have lacked an understandable plot, but any cast that dons meter-length stuffed phalluses, throws around the term "cock" like it's a new preposition and features leading lady Nzinga Job in high heels and a bra deserves a mention.
6. The WeFunk fashion show proved sexiness can come clothed, especially with the help of flirtatious models, barely-there skirts and guys (almost) too sexy for their shirts. Not since Carrie Bradshaw has fashion seemed so synonymous with sex.
On a national level, the blue/red battleground of early November pushed issues of abortion rights, sex education and gay marriage to the political foreground. On a campus level, our little uni is in a different place than the days when rubber bracelets only came in yellow. Colgate has both endured and embraced a year of controversial campus politics, fiery letters to the editor and events that surround, celebrate, and scrutinize sex. Because sex exists as a constant side dish to American culture, reaching main course status when the recipe gets spicy enough, I'd argue that one way to measure 525,600 minutes is through the sexy moments that occur. So grab a bottle of the bubbly and let's review the good, the bad, and the downright sexy: Presenting Colgate's second annual Top Ten Sexiest Moments.
10. Young visiting celebrities are a hookup waiting to happen, especially when they're hot and hilarious. With their Colgate-centric standup, interactive improv, and show-starting proclamation that "everyone's hooking up tonight," SNL's Seth Meyers and MadTV's Ike Barinholtz left many an audience member wondering if they're as pleasing in bed as they are on stage.
9. A mid-semester campus-wide "sexual issues" survey sought to unveil the truth behind student perceptions of the sexual climate at Colgate. Regardless of the pending results, the study cements sexual behaviors as something worthy of scientific study.
8. Resolutions to clean up Derby Days prompted a wave of female support for the fraternity brothers, coupled by broader complaints that women should shoulder the responsibility for their own sexual behavior.
7. The classics department's production of Lysistrata may have lacked an understandable plot, but any cast that dons meter-length stuffed phalluses, throws around the term "cock" like it's a new preposition and features leading lady Nzinga Job in high heels and a bra deserves a mention.
6. The WeFunk fashion show proved sexiness can come clothed, especially with the help of flirtatious models, barely-there skirts and guys (almost) too sexy for their shirts. Not since Carrie Bradshaw has fashion seemed so synonymous with sex.