Mon, Feb 11, 2008, 12:56am
Ringo Starr may be the least remembered Beatle, but he has done the most to stick to his roots. The only other living band member, Paul McCartney, seems keen on staying in the tabloids and producing a forgettable album every year.
Mon, Feb 11, 2008, 12:44am
An Egyptian band touring Israel gets lost in a remote desert town, with no help coming and no idea where to go. Does this sound like a comedy? The Band’s Visit is wholly atypical, yet it is a comedy—delightful and unassuming with no political agenda.
Mon, Feb 11, 2008, 12:39am
“The sitcom is dead!”
Mon, Feb 11, 2008, 12:32am
This Monday, Spectator Opinion presents four perspectives on feminism and its role in society today.
Mon, Feb 11, 2008, 12:19am
Feminism is surely a misnomer. There are feminisms: diverse systems of thought that revolve around questions of sex and gender, oppression, and inequity.
Mon, Feb 11, 2008, 12:15am
To be fair, the numbers have never looked better. There are more women graduating from law school, business school, and medical school than there have ever been, and the numbers are on a decisive upward trend.
Mon, Feb 11, 2008, 12:05am
The Jan. 23 inspection of John Jay Dining Hall carried out by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene resulted in 32 negative points—a score that seems disturbingly high when compared with a city average of 14.
Sun, Feb 10, 2008, 10:31pm
From what I can tell, most undergraduates at Columbia associate feminism with the political movement that began roughly in their parents’ generation and that demanded equal opportunity for women.
Sun, Feb 10, 2008, 10:27pm
What is it about student theater? The energy, the excitement, the intensity—it has to be more than those raging adolescent hormones. At its third annual performance, Egg and Peacock answered this question.
Sun, Feb 10, 2008, 10:21pm
We need some community ’round here, I reckon. The undergraduate population at Columbia doesn’t have as rich an on-campus life as students at some other schools do—and this is lamentable. Some impute this truth to our location in New York, which they say sucks away students on the weekends.
