Mon, Feb 11, 2002, 12:00am
Last week's conference Ethnic Studies Now!, sponsored by Students Promoting Empowerment and Knowledge (SPEaK) was the latest attempt by ethnic studies activists to balkanize the Columbia community and politicize the academy.
Mon, Feb 11, 2002, 12:00am
Growing up in New York City, the difference between left and right was always clear to me. I was used to being leftist, with my pro-choice, anti-censorship, anti-drug war, pro-environment, pro-universal health care sentiments.
Mon, Feb 11, 2002, 12:00am
Mon, Feb 11, 2002, 12:00am
With six of its final eight Ivy games on the road, the Columbia women’s basketball team split its first road weekend, falling to Harvard 79-57 on Friday and prevailing in Hanover 67-66 behind the buzzer-beating put back from junior co-captain guard Patricia Kern.
Mon, Feb 11, 2002, 12:00am
For the members of the graduating class—Jeff “KJ” Klein, Jing Yu, diver Josh Mason, and co-captains Hamish Greenaway, Jason Adelstein, Colin Shannahan, and Adam Reynolds—this weekend, in which the Lions were to face three teams in a span of less than a day, was to provide one last chance at a du
Mon, Feb 11, 2002, 12:00am
For half of the Columbia women’s swim team, last Saturday’s meet would be the last of the season. For the other half, it served as nothing more than a tune-up for the upcoming Ivy League Championships.
Mon, Feb 11, 2002, 12:00am
The dubious tradition of losing, which defines Columbia athletics, once again reared its ugly head this weekend.
Fri, Feb 8, 2002, 12:00am
The first couple we are introduced to in acclaimed documentarian Frederick Wiseman's Domestic Violence are what we New York sophisticates would call "white trash." Drunk, sunburned, and mullet-haired, an abusive boyfriend snarls at the police who are arresting him, "Why do you always take the wo
Fri, Feb 8, 2002, 12:00am
Scotland, PA is a self-proclaimed homage to Macbeth in which nearly every reference to the play is handled as a joke. The film is set in a Pennsylvania town called Scotland in 1975. Instead of a kingdom, Duncan (James Rebhorn) controls a fast-food joint.
Fri, Feb 8, 2002, 12:00am
Nearly everything about Birthday Girl, a black comedy from British director Jez Butterworth, is depressingly mediocre, but it's generating big buzz because of Nicole Kidman's star turn as a Russian mail-order bride (no joke) named Nadia.
