Mon, Mar 8, 2004, 12:00am
Internships are killer.
Mon, Mar 8, 2004, 12:00am
Not long ago, I heard a former editor-in-chief of Playgirl speak at Barnard about her tenure at the magazine. After a few minutes of blush-inducing professional secrets, she explained that she had decided to leave the position after only a few years.
Mon, Mar 8, 2004, 12:00am
Reading Brian Greene is a bit like being told a highly involved story about your ancestral line by your grandfather--except that Greene may well be one of the smartest men on Earth.
Mon, Mar 8, 2004, 12:00am
This week, a few Barnard students are stressing over a paper that will be graded by a Booker Prize-winner. Roddy Doyle, whose next novel, Oh Play That Thing, will be out in November, is spending this semester as a visiting professor at Barnard College.
Mon, Mar 8, 2004, 12:00am
I've just spent a semester and a half in the front lines of pre-med, and have, with an eye to objectivity and falsifiability, observed the following: alcohol tolerance and social savvy are inversely proportional to scientific know-how.
Mon, Mar 8, 2004, 12:00am
Some say she's simply past her prime, that she's outgrown her britches, or perhaps more appropriately, her yellow polka-dotted bikini. In the minds of too many people, lackluster images of denture glue and Yahtzee tournaments have replaced raucous scenes of tanning oil and kamikaze shots.
Mon, Mar 8, 2004, 12:00am
Columbia administrators have postponed a presentation on the
University's plan for its proposed Manhattanville expansion. With
the cancellation of the presentation--which was originally planned
for this Wednesday--two meetings are currently scheduled to take
Mon, Mar 8, 2004, 12:00am
Barnard College graduate Martha Stewart was convicted by a
United States district court on Friday of all four charges she
faced.
Mon, Mar 8, 2004, 12:00am
Six years ago, Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials
promised to convert a Manhattanville diesel bus depot into a
natural gas station. Now, the same officials are seeking board
approval to end the bus depot's involvement in the New York City
Mon, Mar 8, 2004, 12:00am
Any student who has ever craved chicken fingers at 3 a.m. will
appreciate the new schedule at JJ's Place. Starting March 21, JJ's
will be open two hours later Sunday through Thursday--until 4
a.m.--but will be closed on Saturdays to compensate for the new
schedule.
