Mon, Mar 3, 2008, 12:38am
“The key to my success was informality,” Chilean writer and Columbia alumnus Antonio Skármeta told the undergraduate Hispanic New York class last Thursday. Judging by his immense success and the joy in his voice, this strategy still seems to be working.
Mon, Mar 3, 2008, 12:19am
We do it because we’re too tired, too busy, or too incompetent. We also do it to spend time with friends or to try something new.
Mon, Mar 3, 2008, 12:03am
Open the door, step through the heavy, black drapery, and you will enter a world of the unknown. A set of eyes projected on a canvas hanging from the ceiling stare back at you in awe. Five seconds later, these eyes morph into another pair, this time bearing a look of desperation.
Sun, Mar 2, 2008, 11:52pm
At the Duke on 42nd Street, Oroonoko sets the stage for a collision of continents, ethics, and ideologies through its exploration of race relations and slavery in the 17th century.
Sun, Mar 2, 2008, 10:19pm
This Monday, Spectator Opinion considers what defines a truly “global university.” Nick Klagge wonders why Columbia is lagging behind the global efforts of other American universities, Rahel Aima argues that we can’t hope to go global until we connect to our community at home, and Professor Sask
Sun, Mar 2, 2008, 10:15pm
During my sophomore year at Barnard, I decided to look into minoring in physics. I already felt behind, since I didn’t come to college with a particularly good science background and hadn’t taken math since high school.
Sun, Mar 2, 2008, 10:06pm
Although Columbia University Information Technology takes pains to back up and secure all student data that resides on CUIT servers—including stored e-mails—it has not made its logging and data-storage policies explicit .
Sun, Mar 2, 2008, 9:59pm
There is nothing new about universities supporting international collaborative efforts—research projects, exchanges of students and faculty, specific short-term partnerships around urgent issues, etc.
Sun, Mar 2, 2008, 9:51pm
In its first scene, Semi-Pro offers a tantalizing glimpse of a movie that never materializes. As the owner, coach, and power forward for the Flint Tropics, Jackie Moon (Will Ferrell) is an egoist of the highest order.
Sun, Mar 2, 2008, 9:44pm
Growing up as an expat brat in the United Arab Emirates really doesn’t do much for your sense of self identity. Instead of reinforcing my parents’ Indian heritage, I instead came to occupy the nebulous space of a third-culture kid.
