Reader E. B. writes:

I took an Alaskan cruise with my family last Summer, and the last full day of the cruise was spent in College Fjord, which was spectacular. College Fjord has more than a dozen large glaciers in it. Two of the glaciers – named Harvard and Yale — are adjacent to each other at the head of the fjord and the cruise director informed us that one of those two glaciers was advancing while the other was retreating – and they terminate in the fjord within a few yards of each other. A fun bit of glacier trivia I thought you would enjoy.

I’ll let the Harvard and Yale graduates determine which glacier is the “stupid” one. And from now on we’ll call glaciers that aren’t growing or receding — in other words, glaciers that are voting present on global warming and refuse to take a position on the issue — as “Columbia” glaciers in honor of President Obama.