<p>I just don’t think the article is accurate. Yes, there are jokes cracked about Barnard students, but there are just jokes, not something that anyone takes seriously or makes a big deal about. The flip side is that there is a meme that the Barnard girls are gorgeous, while the Columbia girls are nerdy. Of course that is also an untrue generalization. It’s probably more of a “grass is greener” type mentality – if you are a guy living in a co-ed dorm at Columbia, the women in the all girls’ dorm across the street just somehow seem more attractive than the girls living down the hall.</p>