Mon, Apr 28, 2008, 9:22pm
The goal of Hillel is to create an environment in which all Jewish students can feel comfortable, a task that is certainly daunting on a campus with so large a Jewish population and with so much diversity of opinion.
Mon, Apr 28, 2008, 8:53pm
My boyfriend’s parents were taking the campus tour of Columbia when the young guide pointed to Lewisohn Hall and said it housed the “controversial” General Studies program. When I came here, I had no idea I would be controversial.
Mon, Apr 28, 2008, 8:48pm
I’ve known this column was coming for four years, but that doesn’t make it any easier to write. Only now, as I sit down to actually compose it, do I understand why some seniors simply walked away without writing one.
Mon, Apr 28, 2008, 8:25pm
Writing criticism for the Spectator is a bit of a masturbatory enterprise (I know this because I write criticism for the Spectator). But though it may be masturbatory, it’s not irrelevant.
Mon, Apr 28, 2008, 8:15pm
One of the greatest thrills for a journalist is the feeling of being in the inner circle, of knowing things that no one else does—at least not yet. Even if you don’t make it to the top of a newspaper like the Spectator, all reporters work to develop contacts who can tell you secrets.
Mon, Apr 28, 2008, 8:09pm
If you’ve got enough time this finals season to go through the Spec archives, I strongly recommend Candyce Phoenix’s 2006 op-ed, “Test-Tube Identities.” (I know that she and I are probably the only people who remember the op-ed, but hey, this is my column now, and I make no appeal to relevance.)
