Fri, May 10, 2002, 12:00am
A sixth floor room of Barnard's 616 116th St residence hall caught fire Monday at approximately 4 p.m. The building was promptly evacuated and no students were injured.
Wed, May 8, 2002, 12:00am
If being a Marxist Cubist means being very, very didactic, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo were exemplars of the form.
Tue, May 7, 2002, 12:00am
For its financially strapped students, Barnard offers the Barnard Babysitting Agency. At the orientation for interested students, we are told that we might (said with some serious eyebrow hinting) meet the "right" person who will hook us up with a fine job somewhere important.
Tue, May 7, 2002, 12:00am
The vibrant colors of a New York City sunset have often been used as backdrop for beautiful artistic photos, but what made these photos stand out was not only their wonderful, vibrant, colors, but how they implemented color to help communicate the theme of the photo.
Tue, May 7, 2002, 12:00am
The "I Love New York" Photography Competition is a joint effort by Lerner Hall and the Columbia Daily Spectator to provide an artistic showcase for Columbia's best photographers. The photos are on display on the fifth floor ramp of Lerner Hall.
Tue, May 7, 2002, 12:00am
At the axis of Columbia's campus, under the providence of Alma Mater's gaze, where once stood the literal timekeeper of Columbia's modern history now lies a relic--the base of our sundial.
Tue, May 7, 2002, 12:00am
The Italian poet Eugenio Montale once said, "Literature has two lives: The first life is the process of production, the trial of actual writing. The second life, completely distinct life from the world of the first, is public, the art now detached from its origins and lost in libraries."
Tue, May 7, 2002, 12:00am
Bluestockings Women's Bookstore is an eavesdropper's heaven. On one particular Saturday afternoon, wedged between the lesbian erotica and imprisoned women shelves, a self-proclaimed novelist could be heard telling another woman about her young son's dilemma in ballet class.
Tue, May 7, 2002, 12:00am
If you're looking for the most laughs per dollar, you'll find it seven nights a week at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (UCBT). This is improv and sketch comedy as the theater gods intended it: hilarious and cheap. Most shows are a mere $7, and the weekly 9:30 p.m.
Tue, May 7, 2002, 12:00am
Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York" is still my favorite New York song.
