Thu, Dec 5, 2002, 12:00am
After seeing a performance of the International Wow Company's Orphan on God's Highway at La MaMa's Annex Theatre a few weeks ago, I tried to describe it to a friend.
Thu, Dec 5, 2002, 12:00am
Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Florez is one of the new darlings of the opera world, a bel canto specialist possessing a voice that easily leaps and ripples through even the most challenging of roles.
Thu, Dec 5, 2002, 12:00am
Less than a year after the program's inception, Columbia has decided to relocate its Masters in Public Administration in Earth Systems Science, Policy, and Management from the Biosphere 2 campus in Arizona to New York.
Thu, Dec 5, 2002, 12:00am
Columbia representatives met with the Environmental Protection Agency last week to challenge allegations that the University improperly handles hazardous waste.
Thu, Dec 5, 2002, 12:00am
Four teachers. Fifteen students. One new course.
Next semester Columbia College will offer Nobility and Civility, a small team-taught course, which will examine the ideas of leadership and citizenship in classical periods in the East and West.
Thu, Dec 5, 2002, 12:00am
This being the last Spectator of the semester, this is also the last Etc. column. We should be back next semester, we hope, though probably under new management.
Thu, Dec 5, 2002, 12:00am
As the United States government steamrolls toward war with Iraq, the growing movement against Bush's war has come under attack--not just from the right, but also from many people who consider themselves left of center.
Thu, Dec 5, 2002, 12:00am
Last summer my next-door neighbor and I both interned at big corporations. Every once in a while, we had a free evening to play pool in our East Campus lounge, drink beer, and talk about the sane, pastoral lives we wanted to live outside Manhattan.
Thu, Dec 5, 2002, 12:00am
There are certain types of laws that should not exist in our equality-oriented society. Foremost among those types are discriminatory laws that target specific groups. Thus, it is appropriate that the United States Supreme Court has decided to accept a case challenging a Texas sodomy law.
Thu, Dec 5, 2002, 12:00am
Am I the last one to find out that soul music was just trying to get into my pants? R&B is, so is most hip hop; and rock and roll is just a euphemism for sex. But soul was supposed to be old-fashioned, I-actually-do-care-about-you-as-a-person music. I trusted soul.
