Wed, Feb 11, 2009, 12:30am
For the second weekend in a row, women’s basketball teams from around the Ivy League played two conference matches as league play intensified. Dartmouth built off its fast start in another weekend sweep, prevailing over Brown and Yale to push its league record to 5-0.
Tue, Feb 10, 2009, 11:47pm
“Sixteen Tons” was a surprise hit for Tennessee Ernie Ford in 1955.
Tue, Feb 10, 2009, 11:40pm
With Valentine’s Day on the horizon, the Postcrypt Art Gallery provided a timely opportunity for artistic Columbia students to showcase their widely divergent interpretations of that ubiquitous word—love.
Tue, Feb 10, 2009, 11:32pm
Whether as antidote to the gloom of work and winter weather or a classic Valentine’s Day gift, chocolate is an important staple of the collegiate diet. But where should a hungry Columbian go to buy it?
Tue, Feb 10, 2009, 11:28pm
Overbearing mothers, children out of wedlock, cheating boyfriends, and sexual frustration. Although this may sound like the predominant themes of the latest Gossip Girl episode, it is in fact a description of one of my favorite musicals of all time: Once Upon A Mattress.
Tue, Feb 10, 2009, 10:34pm
For the past year, I’ve served as one of the directors of Nightline, Columbia and Barnard’s peer counseling hot line, concluding my three-year involvement with the organization. Nightline is an anonymous and confidential peer counseling service which serves the University community.
Tue, Feb 10, 2009, 10:19pm
The Cher song “Half-Breed” used to strike me as truly foolish. This was partially the fault of the music video, which features the songstress on a pony in some sort of Native American garb. What irked me more, however, was the song itself.
Tue, Feb 10, 2009, 10:14pm
Bulletin boards on campus are covered with papers that announce upcoming events. Often, the same flyers appear more than once on a single board. Because the boards are limited in size, some flyers cover others for different events. More poorly taped ones fall off the boards.
Tue, Feb 10, 2009, 10:05pm
In my last column, I suggested that the election has forced activists to shift their strategy on campus. Lucha, a group usually associated with the struggle for immigrant rights, has decided to focus on health care this semester.
Tue, Feb 10, 2009, 9:39pm
Unless our species acts quickly to ameliorate the damage it’s done to the planet by pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere for hundreds of years, we’re done for.
