Wed, Apr 3, 2002, 12:00am
The men’s golf team went into this past weekend’s Towson Invitational in Westover, MD expecting to shoot well. The site of the tournament, Great Hope Golf Course, is known as being very fair and more forgiving than most of the courses Columbia plays.
Wed, Apr 3, 2002, 12:00am
Every year, college athletes generate millions of dollars for their school by throwing a football or hitting a free throw.
Wed, Apr 3, 2002, 12:00am
The sound of chatter is the sound of a good defense. When Columbia’s defense is playing well, voices from the field bounce off the unoccupied benches, filling the largely empty Wien Stadium with sound. The noise was deafening last night.
Tue, Apr 2, 2002, 12:00am
There is a great moment towards the end of Nick Broomfield's hilarious (if painfully bitter) documentary Kurt & Courtney in which Courtney Love is being honored (along with Milos Forman) at an ACLU awards dinner on freedom of the press.
Tue, Apr 2, 2002, 12:00am
The stringy hair of Glen Danzig, the suggestive sneer of Gene Simmons, the denim flash of David Lee Roth's high-leg kick: Like G.I. Joe's freakish nemesis, Serpentor, Andrew W.K. seems a carefully engineered genetic amalgamation of a number of his baddest-assed forebears.
Tue, Apr 2, 2002, 12:00am
The reason why rap music has made such an impact on today's popular music is because its prospects for originality seemed limitless, and, for the most part, this ideal has continually been realized.
Tue, Apr 2, 2002, 12:00am
Jack Kerouac was just one in a line of Columbia celebrities. Now quickly, name another alumni celeb who graduated within a decade of your first year. Can't do it? Unsurprising: Columbia is due for a new alumni connection with serious fame.
Tue, Apr 2, 2002, 12:00am
Dwight Professor of Law Harvey Goldschmid is expected to be named commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the government agency which monitors companies' financial dealings in late April.
Tue, Apr 2, 2002, 12:00am
When Gloria Steinem's Ms. magazine ran a cover featuring female Russian astronauts, advertisers refused to touch the magazine. The reason: the astronauts weren't wearing makeup.
Tue, Apr 2, 2002, 12:00am
"Summertime and the living is easy," goes the idyllic tune, and with a variety of summer housing options from Columbia University Residence Housing and Barnard College Summer Housing, students who will be in New York this summer will have ample opportunity to prove George Gershwin correct.
