Cosmo Guzzardi

Sprint to the finish

As the academic marathon of the year comes to a close, four students share their thoughts on how to stay in—and win—the race.

By Joe Villarin, Ryan Gallagher, Cosmo Guzzardi, and Nathan Chang | Apr 12 02:30 am ET

A tale of two semesters

At the very least, we have to divide our guide for finishing the semester into two tracks: one for the grade-grubber and one for the grade-indifferent. To maintain the children’s literature theme, we’ll call our theoretical tracks the “Goofus track” and the “Gallant track.”

By Cosmo Guzzardi | Apr 11 06:53 pm ET

These are the breaks

Here’s an idea: rather than leaving Columbia’s campus a ghost town on Labor Day, with everybody gone (or everybody here), why not give the actual employees the day off while the students and faculty hold classes without them for one day?

By Cosmo Guzzardi | Apr 6 06:26 pm ET

In defense of peaceful anger

Students have a whole lot more to be angry about than a hefty increase in student fees, and they know it. They’re not stupid—they know that, in the world they are inheriting, their extremely expensive diplomas might be even more devalued than the Federal Reserve notes in their wallets.

By Cosmo Guzzardi | Mar 29 08:26 pm ET

Bonus!

We’re used to it because American markets are no longer really free. “Freedom” as a concept inherently includes the freedom to fail. Frankly, I would love to see a return to the time—if such an era ever actually existed—when fortunes could be made and lost in the blink of an eye. That’s the sort of thing that keeps a society from stratifying into entrenched classes, right?

By Cosmo Guzzardi | Feb 16 08:59 pm ET

The kids are watching

Since President Obama’s election, we’ve watched the issue of health care reform rise to the top of our list of national priorities.

By Cosmo Guzzardi | Nov 19 06:48 pm ET

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