Kate Redburn

Youth voices on lockdown
Thu, Apr 9, 2009, 10:38pm

Here’s the whole hype: while we love our historical survey courses and Music Humanities, until this semester we had never seen a Columbia class break out of the comfortable campus environment; most classes focus instead on students’ acquisition of multiple majors and the entire Western philosophical canon.

Put your money where your mouth is
Thu, Mar 26, 2009, 7:30pm

Americans’ power in this free-market orgy of profitable abuses lies in using our knowledge of business practices to make different consumer choices. We’d rather vote with our vote than our pocketbooks, but hey, we’ve come to terms with capitalist democracy. Do I buy the child-labor Gap jeans or the more expensive pair from American Apparel?

It’s Not STUPIT
Thu, Mar 5, 2009, 7:33pm

The ferment over university silence—at Columbia, universities nationwide, and a fair number of institutions across the pond—on issues of Palestinian academic freedom is worth your attention.

Poll Dancing
Fri, Feb 6, 2009, 12:43am

Last semester’s NROTC activism may not have been the most elegant affair on campus, but it certainly got us thinking over at Shock and Awe headquarters. Even though the vote carried no real weight, the mere fact of polling the student body had demonstrable benefits.

It’s a Hard Rain’s A-gonna Fa-a-all
Mon, Dec 8, 2008, 3:24am

Come gather round students wherever you roam
And admit that the budget has shrunk, it ain’t grown
And accept it that soon your TA will have flown
For the endowment is a-shriii-i-iinkin’

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