Sat, Dec 22, 2001, 12:00am
Sat, Dec 22, 2001, 12:00am
At its inception in 1877, the Columbia
Daily Spectator—like the university it covered—had little
interest in issues of diversity.
Sat, Dec 22, 2001, 12:00am
Advertisements for Spectator, or
"house" ads as the staff calls them, are generally used to fill space
when the staff discovers an article is too short mere minutes
before the deadline.
Sat, Dec 22, 2001, 12:00am
Barnard College's Best Posture Contest
was a front-page headline on Jan. 15, 1951. Its newsworthiness
was rivaled only by the Spectator's announcement on Jan.
16 that there would be a Columbia men's posture contest.
Fri, Dec 14, 2001, 12:00am
Historically, Spectator has always been said to mimicThe New York Times. But we have reason to suggest the
opposite is true.
On July 1, 1877, when the first Columbia Spectatorappeared, it pledged to avoid the pitfalls of "class politics."
Fri, Dec 7, 2001, 12:00am
Legend has it that while J.R.R. Tolkien was reading from a rough copy of The
Lord of the Rings at a meeting of the Literary Inklings Club, C.S. Lewis
exclaimed, ìOh no! Not another fucking elf!î This bit of apocryphaóLewis was in
Fri, Dec 7, 2001, 12:00am
An outsider arrives in a venal and corrupt society. Denigrated and excluded, he
rises up in righteous anger to proclaim his own humane values, and by dint of
an eloquent tongue, a stout heart, and a bounty of strong-jawed masculinity, he
Fri, Dec 7, 2001, 12:00am
"I don't like to think about people in terms of ethnic issues," Bosnian director
Danis Tanovic says. ìI think you can tell more about someone from the kind of
music he listens to.î Thatís not a new notion. Itís not even new to the movies, as
Fri, Dec 7, 2001, 12:00am
As genres go, the British comedy of manners is about as tired as they come.
Nonetheless, that has not stopped Robert Altman, the iconoclastic director of
such varied films as M*A*S*H and The Player, from attempting to
Fri, Dec 7, 2001, 12:00am
The New York City of Wes Andersonís new film, The Royal Tenenbaums,
remains unnamed, and it features a 375th Street Y and a 22nd Avenue subway
line, not to mention taxis operated by a certain ìGypsy Cab Company.î The
