Tue, Nov 25, 2003, 12:00am
By all accounts, as my colleague Theodore Orsher argued yesterday in Spectator, this was a fine football season for Columbia.
Tue, Nov 25, 2003, 12:00am
Do you often find that when you make an amusing comment, acquaintances laugh so hard that they risk splitting the seams of their overly tight DKNY pants? Have people ever told you, "Hey, you're pretty funny," or asked, "Did you come up with that joke on your own?"
Mon, Nov 24, 2003, 12:00am
Toni Morrison's new novel Love is lighter in length and story than her more well-known books, including Song of Solomon and Beloved, but it is a solid effort from an author whom some thought incapable of reaching the heights of her earlier works.
Mon, Nov 24, 2003, 12:00am
It turns out that races condemned to one hundred years of solitude do indeed have a second opportunity on earth--if someone relevant gets an autobiography published, anyway.
Mon, Nov 24, 2003, 12:00am
With less than a month remaining in the semester, and hundreds of pre-paid meals doomed to go to waste, several dejected first-years stormed angrily out of John Jay on Thursday night after being denied access to the dining hall. The reason? They had failed to RSVP.
Mon, Nov 24, 2003, 12:00am
In Plato's Symposium, Aristophanes argues that every person on the planet is half of a true being. When we find our "other half," we fall in love and complete the unified and perfect whole. In the culinary world, there is a similar relationship between food and wine.
Mon, Nov 24, 2003, 12:00am
Forty Columbia Sabbath observers walked five miles from the Kraft Center on 115th Street to Baker Field on 218th Street to watch Brown's football team trounce Columbia, 42-10.
Mon, Nov 24, 2003, 12:00am
After being introduced by one of the world's foremost advocates of free trade, the Secretary-General of the United Nations called for lower national barriers to global labor migration in a speech at the Law School on Friday.
Mon, Nov 24, 2003, 12:00am
At the northeast corner of Columbia's campus, Deepti Kilkara, BC '03, is setting an entrepreneurial example. Kilkara has set up a business out of the Aris Hair Salon on 120th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, offering the unique service of eyebrow threading.
Mon, Nov 24, 2003, 12:00am
Under student pressure to respond to allegations of sweatshop labor, corporate cover-ups, and unauthorized merchandise, Columbia has decided to terminate its contract with clothing company Land's End.
