In Other '80s Comics News: Babes of Barnard Swoon for Chevy Chase

At Barnard College’s spring gala, held at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers on Monday, June 16, the Transom found alumna and former Seventeen editor, Atoosa Rubenstein, eight months pregnant with a daughter she plans on naming Angelika, wearing a pink dress, a beaded belt and steep, strappy sandals. “For my first day, I got my nails especially air-brushed with blue lightning blots,” she said, of arriving freshman year from Malverne, Long Island. “I wore torn bicycle shorts and had a huge Jon Bon Jovi poster on my wall. I was not one of the many cosmopolitan women that went to Barnard”—or did she mean Cosmopolitan women?—“but I learned how to be amongst them.”

The event was emceed by comedian Chevy Chase, whose youngest of three daughters, Emily, 19, is a rising sophomore at the college, majoring in political science and interning at Rolling Stone. “I have a really out-there personality, like my dad,” she told the Transom. “I’m sometimes discouraged from being loud and funny like he is, but he always just tells me to do what I want and if people don’t like me, they don’t like me.” That’s feminism, baby!

“She told Jann [Wenner] that she refuses to work for Us Weekly,” Mr. Chase said. “We’re very proud. She happens to be a great writer and just so damn smart!”

He added that he relocated his family to Bedford, N.Y., from Hollywood so that he could be near his daughters, who preferred East Coast colleges (Caley, 23, is at N.Y.U., and Cydney, 25, is at Columbia). A nearby neighbor is domestic diva Martha Stewart, who recently posted pictures of Mr. Chase on her blog after her second annual Peony Party on her farm. “Martha is fine. She’s got a lot of money and a great piece of land,” said Mr. Chase, rolling his eyes. “I wanted to run through all those peonies but a small army stopped me.”

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