Sun, Sep 21, 2008, 10:18pm
“When a people’s freedom disappears, it goes not with a bang, but in silence amid the comfort of being cared for.”
—Richard Weaver, 1962
Sun, Sep 21, 2008, 10:14pm
As much as the rhetoric of a new America and a new American era resounds in politics, the years of American unipolarity are coming to a close. America is no longer the world leader in everything. China’s economy is rapidly growing, as is Russia’s military.
Sun, Sep 21, 2008, 10:08pm
Paintings, sculptures, photographs, prints, illustrated books—these are all forms of art that are typically on display in an exhibition. But silverware? The choice of subject may seem peculiar, but it is precisely what’s being shown at the Miriam & Ira D.
Sun, Sep 21, 2008, 10:07pm
In her outstanding book, Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters, Courtney Martin, BC ’02, writes that “We are the daughters of feminists who said ‘You can be anything,’ and we heard ‘You have to be everything.’” Men hear it too—we all do—from our elders, from the media, from ourselves and from each o
Sun, Sep 21, 2008, 10:03pm
Having spent my summer visiting castles in England, I could think of no better way to increase my knowledge of such historical places than by watching a movie about the people who once lived in these marble-and-brick mansions.
Sun, Sep 21, 2008, 9:57pm
Typically, a gallery show with no explicit unifying theme would feel haphazard and incohesive. But this was not so at the opening of the annual Summer Photography Show at Postcrypt, Columbia’s undergraduate art gallery.
Sun, Sep 21, 2008, 9:52pm
It seems like more people than ever are paying attention to this election, and that’s a good thing. But still, too many people are left out or opt out of the democratic process for the wrong reasons.
Sun, Sep 21, 2008, 9:49pm
Have you ever wondered how to get your hands on the green prop baby from Wicked, or that playbill you lost from the first Broadway show you saw?
Fri, Sep 19, 2008, 6:41pm
In a surprise move, Columbia Undergraduate Financial Aid Director Nanette DiLauro was hired as Barnard’s new director of financial aid, according to an e-mail President Debora Spar and Dean Dorothy Denburg sent to Barnard students on Friday.
