Tue, Apr 24, 2007, 12:00am
It was just after five in the morning as I walked from Spectator's office at 111th and Broadway back to my dorm after a night of editing. I lived in Wien at the time, and I had just finished one of my very last papers as an associate news editor. It had gone well. Really well.
Tue, Apr 24, 2007, 12:00am
This is the first thing I've written for Spectator. Well, at least the first thing I've written with my name on it.
I like to fix things. I'm better at perfecting than creating-I fine-tune rather than invent. And that's why I was a copy editor instead of a writer.
Tue, Apr 24, 2007, 12:00am
When students decide to go to college in the city, they expect to encounter yellow cabs, skyscrapers, and bright lights-not wild fungus growing in their dorms. But for Barnard students living in the college's residential buildings, fungus and damp conditions are all-too-common occurrences.
Tue, Apr 24, 2007, 12:00am
It's surprising just how much of an effect one small adjustment can make in the sport of baseball.
Tue, Apr 24, 2007, 12:00am
It's not often that a .500 record and a second-place finish can be worth as much as a league championship. But for Columbia athletics, that might just be true.
Tue, Apr 24, 2007, 12:00am
The old adage for baseball has been that defense and pitching win championships. After committing just one error in four Ivy League games on April 21 and 22 against Cornell, the Lions proved the proverb right.
Tue, Apr 24, 2007, 12:00am
Harvard (14-15, 9-5 Ivy) and Brown (14-17, 9-5 Ivy) split their weekend doubleheader, with the Bears winning the first game 5-2 and the Crimson taking the nightcap 9-4. The teams remain tied for the Rolfe Division title.
Tue, Apr 24, 2007, 12:00am
Princeton has hired former player Sydney Johnson to be the new head coach of the men's basketball team. The move comes five days after a report in the Daily Princetonian that the Tigers had offered the position to Johnson, and fills the last open coaching spot in the Ivy League.
Mon, Apr 23, 2007, 12:00am
Now that it seems we have finally tasted the warmest weather that this spring semester will offer, the urge to crawl out of Butler and bask in the sun should be heeded.
Mon, Apr 23, 2007, 12:00am
Even at University College London, you can tell it's the end of the term because students flood out onto the steps of the Low-like library, revision forgotten about in favor of the novelty of sunbathing in London.
