<p>I had trouble reaching the site so I googled: CULPA closed. I got an article in The New York Observer that said that the originator hadn’t found anyone to pass on to. I always enjoyed reading the remarks. It was interesting how professors would get a mix of strongly worded negative and positive ratings. None could be taken seriously, but they were fun to read.</p>
<p>couldn’t be taken seriously? honestly, that site saved my gpa many times over.</p>
<p>That SUX!! culpa was a life savers, it was my guide against the monotonous, (and my gpa saver :'()</p>
<p>interesting. i wonder what the site cost to run, and what it would generate in ad revenue.</p>
<p>i’m surprised that someone at CUIT didn’t manage to make it work out. I think the same thing may still happen to WikiCU or whatever.</p>
<p>if cuit took it over, it would become something like clpa. then the ccsc/esc opportunists would demand the site censored leading to nothing more than selected listings from end of semester courseworks evaluations that very few students bother to fill out. in fact, since practically somewhere between 1 and 2 percent of all students bothered this term, to date, a&s actually extended the deadline to the 12th.</p>
<p>also, wikicu is very much independent and will remain so. from time to time, i’ve been highly involved with it.</p>
<p>My son would agree that CULPA was majorly instrumental in deciding which classes he took/didn’t take. It was a wonderful resource. What a shame.</p>
<p>That is a real shame. I know my d used it extensively when deciding what courses to take as well…</p>
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<p>Zvi was very vigilant about having seas kids fill out their evals. They’d send out tons of emails, and I think they got 60-70% participation. There was something like a raffle for an ipod if you completed your evals.</p>
<p>That article is from 2002…
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<p>unless you’re referring to another one.</p>
<p>If CULPA was in fact finished, that would be very sad, but I don’t think it is.</p>
<p>That is comforting, but why can’t I get on the site. Did they change the address?</p>
<p>my girlfriend belives you can only access CULPA from inside the Columbia LAN. Can any current student confirm that it’s accessible?</p>
<p>denz where!? how? i’m trying from my room, i’ll try from a comp lab in a few hours, I’m dying to read up on a few profs for next sem.</p>
<p>there’s no way the site was shut down. culpa becomes unavailable occasionally and sometimes weeks where it can’t be accessed. it’ll come back up in a couple of weeks and they’ll apologize once again for the downtime</p>
<p>Message posted on Culpa:
"Dear Students, </p>
<p>We apologize for the current Culpa downtime. We are moving Culpa to a new server, which is taking a little longer than expected. Don’t fret - Culpa will be back in no time. </p>
<p>Good luck on finals, "</p>
<p>apparently they went down for some very weird and unknown reasons…bwog offered to host them on their servers but they turned them down in favor of doing it themselves</p>
<p>From BWOG
CULPA: Lost, Found (Kind of)</p>
<p>A few commenters and tipsters have been asking about the whereabouts of CULPA, which has seemingly vanished from the internet. Bwog emailed CULPA man-in-charge Seth Berliner who explained that “CULPA is down while we move the site to a new (and more reliable) server, which will allow us to make some upgrades over the summer. We apologize to our loyal readers for the inconvenience; hopefully the new server and the summer improvements will prevent this sort of thing in the future.”</p>
<p>So there you have it.</p>
<p>much appreciated. whew. CULPA is a huge resource - there would be panic in the streets.</p>
<p>Would anyone care to speculate on when CULPA will be back up? I’m an incoming Barnard student and I need to register for my classes by June 27th, and I’d love to use CULPA to help me figure out what to take.</p>
<p>My guess (please recognize that I am not prejudiced by knowledge or experience when it comes to servers) is about one week.
As to using CULPA, I would predict that the most useful references are the ones where several students have contributed. In those cases you might get a feel as to whether this or that class would appeal to you. “One man’s meat is another man’s poison.” You will see divided opinions on several professors and the nature of the responses might give you a hint as to which student shares your likes and dislikes. Of course there are some whom everyone likes, but even they draw an occasional negative.</p>
<p>back again…</p>