Mon, Sep 24, 2007, 2:04am
As Columbia prepares to host one of the most controversial individuals on Earth at today’s World Leader’s Forum, University President Lee Bollinger meets both criticism and approval from students, alumni, and outside protesters—who are likely to flood the streets of Broadway today by the thousan
Mon, Sep 24, 2007, 1:19am
Ever since Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accepted the invitation to speak on campus, students and observers have been searching everywhere for information regarding our latest lightning rod, so Spectator has provided you with a guide to this infamous world leader.
Mon, Sep 24, 2007, 12:44am
Today, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, will be addressing students and faculty at Columbia University. As would be expected, this has revived debate on academic freedom and the boundaries of acceptable discourse.
Mon, Sep 24, 2007, 12:38am
As an expert in free speech rights, President Lee Bollinger should know that Ahmadinejad’s visit is no such matter. First of all, no American owes Ahmadinejad the “right” to free speech since he is not a U.S. citizen.
Mon, Sep 24, 2007, 12:26am
While Columbia entertains one Iranian from Tehran today, the plight of another has come to a close in the past week.
Mon, Sep 24, 2007, 12:14am
When U.S.—and former Columbia—President Dwight D. Eisenhower arrived at the Buchenwald concentration camp in April 1945, the American army came to a hault. According to the Eisenhower Memorial Commission, he demanded that every American soldier in the area visit Buchenwald.
Mon, Sep 24, 2007, 12:09am
An aging life insurance salesman, a widow dressed in electric green, an elusive pet fish: curious characters collide in Big Dance Theater’s The Other Here, and under curious circumstances too.
Mon, Sep 24, 2007, 12:03am
The voice of evil is coming to Columbia—that’s what you’ve heard if you read a newspaper or turned on the television in the last five days. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a fanatic whose extreme beliefs and quest for a nuclear arsenal are the main threat to world peace today.
Sun, Sep 23, 2007, 11:52pm
Mahmoud Asgari, 16, and Ayaz Marhoni, 18, were two teenagers from the province of Khuzestan, charged with rape and sodomy in a nation where both concepts are frequently conflated by a specious justice system. They were hanged in a public execution in the city of Mashhad on July 19, 2005.
Sun, Sep 23, 2007, 11:50pm
For most of us, post-graduate life looks like a nine-to-five job and an apartment north of 145th street—ideally, with good plumbing.
