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Updated: 1:18pm May 11, 2009

Perhaps we should remember this year not as a string of events but rather as a collection of continually recurring thoughts and trends.

Updated: 7:27pm May 9, 2009

All we do is talk past one another, trying to lay the blame on the other side without bothering to understand one another’s positions.

Updated: 1:56pm May 4, 2009

The lessons I learned at Spectator are, of course, different from the ones I learned in the classroom, but they’re just as important to me.

And because Copy gets no love, I’d like even more so to note my appreciation for it, especially since it was through the section that I met some of my best friends.

I will offer some words of thanks and praise to the institution that is Columbia University, and clarify some of the arguments I have sustained in this column in light of these words of praise.

The fact is that right now, no one knows anything about Columbia’s specific plans to receive stimulus funds, except that they exist.

Updated: 10:40am May 4, 2009

I came to Spectator’s open house on a whim during my sophomore year. I didn’t really care about the paper itself, but just tagged along with my roommate of now four years. I’d had enough of writing from class, so I decided to join the photo department as a novice photographer.

Since January, the editorial board has supported policies that it deemed constructive to the University and has served as an advocate for students on issues ranging from academics to student life.

The 2008 Presidential election got all of the nation buzzing, and Columbia was no exception.

Next semester, deans Moody-Adams and Peña-Mora will face the challenge of balancing Columbia’s bureaucratic structure and fiscal constraints with the University’s reputation for academic excellence and a high quality of student life.

I’ll miss this sleepless love affair with an art that boasts the world as its muse.

If the administration wishes to seek student opinion, we encourage them to reach out to the student councils and to the Student Affairs Caucus of the University Senate.

Columbia University Information Technology should work with Columbia College Student Council to make evaluations available to the general student body, and students should support the initiative by signing CCSC’s online petition.

We saw another Kingsmen flyer, taped on 114th Street and in John Jay Hall, that read, “consent is not sexy … but it might help you stay out of jail.” We were unsettled by the content because of the implications that can be drawn from it.

I don’t know that I’ve found anything to worship here, but I’ve found enough to admire, and I’ve certainly found my place.

The author is a Columbia College sophomore majoring in political science. He is a senior associate photo editor for the Spectator.

Updated: 10:41am May 4, 2009

To the tenured, highly esteemed anthropology professor who failed me last spring: “Why are you even here?”