Elizabeth Dwoskin

A Leg Up for the Man

A March 23 New York Times op-ed by Jennifer Delahunty Britz, a Kenyon College admissions officer and mother, shocked me.

By Elizabeth Dwoskin | Apr 17 12:00 am ET

Morality and our National Distraction

All last week, I was expecting Terri Schiavo to die. I was scanning the headlines every day. And I couldn’t help myself, either.

By Elizabeth Dwoskin | Apr 6 12:00 am ET

Vines Don't Grow in Paradise

Sometime in the middle of November, I was perched on a ladder and cutting a dying potato vine off a trellis.

By Elizabeth Dwoskin | Feb 2 12:00 am ET

Columbia's Systems of Silence

On one of the final days of class last semester, one of my most brilliant professors of philosophy finished one of her most brilliant lectures about fifteen minutes early.

By Elizabeth Dwoskin | Sep 10 12:00 am ET

Making the Right Indecision

At the beginning of the break, my friend KK sent me an e-mail that ended with the words, "Let's make next year a different one." It was one of those jigsaw e-mails that make sense to a multi-taskin

By Elizabeth Dwoskin | Feb 18 12:00 am ET

Being the Naked Truth: One Nude Model's Perspective

To ask why I agreed spontaneously one summer day to become a model for the Pastel Society of Grammercy Park is really to ask "why not?" At the time, I felt mostly comfortable with my body (at least

By Elizabeth Dwoskin | Apr 23 12:00 am ET

Signs of Our Times?

I do not know if anyone else has been observing the signs Community Impact has unthinkingly placed in prominent locations all over campus to advertise its upcoming open house.

By Elizabeth Dwoskin | Feb 21 12:00 am ET

A Voice from the D.C. Protest

It is not everyday that you see the Young Communist League of Pratt Institute get on the L train with 10-foot papier-mache puppets at 4:30 a.m.

By Elizabeth Dwoskin | May 3 12:00 am ET

Scholar and Feminist Conference Returns to BC

Janet Jakobsen set the tone for this Saturday's "Public Sentiments: Memory, Trauma, History, Action" conference in her opening address when she recalled the saying, "the political is personal."

By Elizabeth Dwoskin | Feb 18 12:00 am ET

Is the World Watching?

It was the morning of Sunday, Feb. 4, and for 24 hours I'd been marching in the direction of the Waldorf-Astoria.

By Elizabeth Dwoskin | Feb 11 12:00 am ET

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