2009-03-30

Discussing discourse
Sun, Mar 29, 2009, 11:40pm
Columbia and its students are famously opinionated about contentious topics, and they feel as passionate about the ways they express their views.
Politics On Stilts
Sun, Mar 29, 2009, 10:49pm
Shain Rubin is a Columbia College junior majoring in English. Politics on Stilts runs on Mondays.
Pressure on the press
Sun, Mar 29, 2009, 9:44pm
The Columbia Daily Spectator, like every newspaper in America, now finds itself under serious financial pressure. This semester, with the bleak financial picture in mind, Spec ceased printing the arts and entertainment Weekend section as a supplementary insert.
Are Ivy League writers cheerful?
Sun, Mar 29, 2009, 9:39pm
Back in 2002, Jonathan Safran Foer published Everything is Illuminated, a novel that immediately aroused the attention of America’s book-reviewing cabal. Foer’s novel also provoked an extraordinary amount of resentment, and The Guardian had to invent a new word—“Schadenfoer”—to describe the...
An engagement proposal
Sun, Mar 29, 2009, 9:33pm
The Columbia Political Union holds events such as Political Bagel Brunches, Pub Nights, and debates between the College Democrats and College Republicans. At Political Bagel Brunch, student leaders of political student groups have a chance to meet with each other and discuss their upcoming plans.
Rallying for rallies
Sun, Mar 29, 2009, 9:30pm
Radical students on campus, so the narrative seems to go, are a somewhat sizable minority which, through its shrill and persistent activity, captures the headlines of campus news—to the irritation and dismay of the majority of students.

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