Joohyun Lee is an Associate Editorial Page Editor. She spoke with Samuel E. Roth about his column running alternate Thursdays. Check out today's paper for his first column, Through the Night.
JL: The title of your column is We Are Not Alone. Tell me about that.
SER: So Raphael Pope-Sussman, who was Editorial Page Editor in 2010, refused to allow the words "Columbia community" to appear on the editorial page because he argued that there wasn't one—we were too disjointed and fragmented as a group of people to really constitute a community. As a part of this column, I'd like to disprove that idea, and suggest that we really are part of something greater together. Hence the title, We Are Not Alone.
JL: Wow.
I get why Pope-Sussman might have thought that, though. Columbia isn't as gung-ho about community as other schools "seem" to be.
SER: Yeah, I definitely see where he was coming from. I think we resemble the city in the sense that most of us are pretty insular in who we know and interact with—there's a small group of people we see and talk to a lot, and most other people we barely know.
