Sun, Oct 19, 2008, 7:27pm
The only theme more operatic than the atomic bomb’s effect on the lives of millions of people is the tragedy the atomic bomb caused in the lives of a few people.
Sun, Oct 19, 2008, 7:27pm
“It is the blight man was born for/ It is Margaret you mourn for.” So ends Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Spring and Fall: To a Young Child, a poem about a little girl crying over falling leaves and the loss of her innocence.
Sun, Oct 19, 2008, 7:24pm
Jon Fasanelli-Cawelti, Richie Lasansky, and Brian Lynch—the three printmakers currently on display at the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies gallery—take lines very seriously.
Sun, Oct 19, 2008, 7:17pm
October is Queer Awareness Month and students are celebrating throughout campus. This Monday, Spectator Opinion asked three members of the LGBT community to advise, reflect, and inform.
Sun, Oct 19, 2008, 7:10pm
As students begin to settle in a routine at Columbia—finding their place in campus activities, learning the bureaucracy of the system, and slowly becoming caffeine addicts—a small group of students begins to question where it belongs.
Sun, Oct 19, 2008, 7:10pm
So you’re an LGBT-identified Columbia student, and if you haven’t already realized, queer life here in the big city is much more than rainbows and house music like it was in your parents’ town. It is, at times, an overwhelming carnival of different options.
Sun, Oct 19, 2008, 7:09pm
I feel like a traitor these days. Dr. Karla Jay—a lesbian activist who graduated from Barnard in 1968—recently came to speak at Columbia. She mentioned Stephen Donaldson, who graduated Columbia College in 1970 after founding the nation’s first group for gay college students.
Sun, Oct 19, 2008, 7:04pm
It’s a funny thing that happens here at Columbia.
Sun, Oct 19, 2008, 7:03pm
When I was 8 years old, I wrote a speech called “Women are Strong.” My words were at least partially inspired by Hillary Clinton (D-NY).
