Sun, Feb 1, 2009, 11:35pm
What is it like being a Catholic student at Columbia? What are the challenges faced by the typical Catholic college student? Well, have you seen The Exorcist? The Boondock Saints? It’s exactly like that. Just kidding.
Sun, Feb 1, 2009, 11:29pm
The word “atheist” is a negative one. It means a person who does not believe in any god. So are the rest of the common words used to describe people with similar views: nontheists, nonbelievers, nonreligious, even agnostics.
Sun, Feb 1, 2009, 11:22pm
Thirty-five years after I first set foot on Columbia’s campus as a Barnard freshman, my daughter began her classes at Columbia College, and her brother joined her a year later.
Sun, Feb 1, 2009, 11:16pm
What do you think when you hear the word “Jew”? Do you think of a group of bearded men wearing black suits and black hats in a classroom studying Torah, set off from the world? Or do you think of a kid you grew up with who happens to be Jewish, yet seems to eschew anything related to religion?
Sun, Feb 1, 2009, 11:14pm
American poet Gary Snyder ascended the podium of the New York Public Library’s South Court Auditorium on Saturday slowly—a sign of both age and accomplishment—while the eyes of everyone in the room glistened with admiration.
Sun, Feb 1, 2009, 11:11pm
“Clear water is not always clean water!” I shout through a loudspeaker in the crowded open market of Léogâne, Haiti.
Sun, Feb 1, 2009, 10:55pm
Dating dilemmas plague us all at some point in our lives. But Bobby (Al Pacino) and Helen (Kitty Winn) take bad relationships to new and macabre heights as they simultaneously antagonize and idolize each other in The Panic in Needle Park.
Sun, Feb 1, 2009, 10:52pm
What qualifies as a meaningful life? How does one distinguish one life’s worth from another? These questions have countless answers, but one particularly academic solution made its case Friday at Low Library: archiving.
Sun, Feb 1, 2009, 10:37pm
“How many of you went into theater for security?” joked Theatre Resources Unlimited’s Vice President Cheryl Davis in her opening lecture at Producer Boot Camp.
