Have a comment? A story idea? Let us know.

Friday, May 1, 2009

By Kat Balkoski
Apr 30 10:20 pm ET

With issues like post-traumatic stress disorder rising in numbers, Columbia’s own large population of military veterans are sounding off on their mental health needs.

Cultural perceptions of mental health affect treatment

By Zeynep Memecan
Apr 30 10:21 pm ET

When Bilal’s Somali relatives came to his home last year, they brought Kamal, his 7-year-old cousin with them for the first time.

NYC universities expand campuses

By Maggie Astor
Apr 30 10:22 pm ET

Columbia is not the only school expanding around New York City. As the Manhattanville expansion moves forward, other universities are changing the dynamics of neighborhoods from Harlem down to Greenwich Village.

Engineers rake it in

By Tabitha Peyton Wood
Apr 30 10:44 pm ET

Columbia University’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders was rewarded in a big way last week after months of working to engineer sustainable development solutions for communities in Uganda, Ghana, and India.

Local stimulus funding in the works

By James Fleming
Apr 30 10:55 pm ET

Uncertainty, the banner for recession, looms in Harlem as plans formed seven weeks ago at the Upper Manhattan Economic Summit have yet to come to fruition.

First Community Education Council vote open to parents

By Jessica Hills
Apr 30 11:01 pm ET

More than 25,000 parents turned out to the online polls from April 6 to 29 to cast votes for their Community Education Council members.

Julius Caesar

By Mira John
May 1 02:08 am ET

“Et tu, Bruté? Then fall, Caesar!” In the King’s Crown Shakespeare Troupe’s annual outdoor production, the title character cries as Brutus stabs him to death.

OPINION »

‘If I could make sense of it all’

By Daniel D'Addario
Apr 30 08:30 pm ET

Endings always sneak up on me without much warning, or maybe it’s just that I miss the warnings.

Jody's Drawings!

By Jody Zellman
Apr 30 08:31 pm ET

The illustrator is a student in the Columbia School of General Studies.

Partner for peace

By Eric J. Schorr
Apr 30 08:32 pm ET

The Columbia Palestine Forum had the unique opportunity to promote an environment for open discussion on how best to assist the Palestinian people. Yet they have instead made their events a stage for anti-Israel rhetoric and even more aggressive calls for divestment from Israel.

Bittersweet memories at graduation

By Chen Fu
Apr 30 08:34 pm ET

I started practicing the meditation exercises of Falun Gong in 1995 with my parents in mainland China. Those were happier days.

Seeing Columbia through a lens

By Linda Carrion
Apr 30 08:35 pm ET

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.

Columbia, I got your crazy

By Sadia Latifi
Apr 30 08:38 pm ET

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

Calling for Manhattanville transparency

By Ben Totushek
Apr 30 08:40 pm ET

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

The value of evaluations

By Editorial Board
May 1 01:10 am ET

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.

Finding Nectar

By Colin Sullivan
May 1 02:27 am ET

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

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT »

PEN Voices are out of this world

By Kassy Lee
Apr 30 11:24 pm ET

Spring is the season for festivals. People emerge from their winter hibernation to rejoice in film, song, dance, and—thanks to the PEN World Voices Festival—literature.

A look at the social scenery of the Varsity Show

By Maddy Kloss
Apr 30 11:24 pm ET

Believe it or not, one of Columbia’s most beloved and glorified traditions, the annual Varsity Show, could be termed a cult. The word “cult” tends to connote obsession and zealotry, and the social atmosphere of the Varsity Show, as evidenced by observation of this year’s group, is not terribly lacking in either.

Feast for the Eyes: Molecular gastronomy puts chemistry to work in the kitchen

By Elyssa Goldberg
Apr 30 11:28 pm ET

Scientists all over the world are leaving their laboratories for kitchens. These scientists are chefs, and their science is molecular gastronomy.

Summer box office goes Up and Beyond with new releases

By Victoria Fox and Jacklyn Katz
Apr 30 11:29 pm ET

This summer, pointy ears make a comeback as the highly anticipated Star Trek aims to bring out the Trekkie in all of us.

New York summer dessert specialties to beat the heat

By Shin Young Hwang
Apr 30 11:30 pm ET

While it may be true that downtown eats are better and cheaper than many uptown offerings, some of the most coveted summer desserts are available within 30 minutes from campus for a short, sweet escape from Butler Library.

Directors retire their cameras to Brooklyn backdrop

By Peter Labuza
Apr 30 11:30 pm ET

When it comes to movies, cinephiles often avoid Brooklyn to escape an onslaught of independent hipster films. But while Film Forum, Lincoln Center, and the Museum of Modern Art dominate Manhattan, the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s BAMcinématek program challenges the island’s dominance in both quality theaters and quality movies.

Book lovers of a feather flock to this Park Slope outpost

By Emily Tamkin
Apr 30 11:35 pm ET

Yes, there are wall-to-wall books on sleek black shelves. Yes, there is hidden but available seating. Yes, hip, colored lamps and Christmas tree lights illuminate the rooms. But the most telling feature of Park Slope’s Community Bookstore & Café is this: It is decorated with peacock feathers.

Gossip Girl’s Brooklynites bring edge to primetime

By Joe Daly
Apr 30 11:37 pm ET

Brooklyn introduces a Montague/Capulet-sized divide between the characters of Gossip Girl, and the show’s treatment of the borough is having a similar effect on its viewers.

Weekend Romp: The six W’s for any weekend adventure

By Shane Ferro
Apr 30 11:39 pm ET

I am a big faker. I’ve been writing this column all semester about great weekends in New York. The truth is, I haven’t explored the city on the weekend since February. Instead, every weekend, I pack a bag, grab my bike, and get the hell out of Dodge (literally).

Craig Lucas’ The Singing Forest brings convolution to the light

By Laura Hedli
Apr 30 11:42 pm ET

“If only everyone could afford therapy, the whole world would be healed,” announces Jonathan Groff, who plays an actor-caterer soon-to-be-father, and also plays a closeted homosexual in Craig Lucas’ The Singing Forest. The befuddling three-hour epic transports us from Y2K New York to Nazi-occupied Vienna and back again, but we’re going to need a little more than psychobabble and subtext to support grandiose claims and switches in time.

Finding unique theater in a foreign borough

By Louisa Levy
Apr 30 11:44 pm ET

Good news: if Columbians are willing to venture outside the borough of Manhattan, they just might discover Brooklyn’s rich theater scene at an inexpensive price.

SPORTS »

Track travels to Princeton for last nonconference meet

By Sabine Schulz
Apr 30 11:20 pm ET

This weekend, the Columbia track and field team will travel to its last meet of the outdoor season before the Ivy League Heptagonal, ECAC/IC4A, and NCAA outdoor track and field championships.

Final tune-up for rowing before Ivy championship

By Michele Cleary
Apr 30 11:23 pm ET

The heavyweight and women’s rowing teams will each compete in one final race before vying for the Ivy championship at the Eastern Sprints.

Four years of improvement for CU Athletics

By Max Puro
Apr 30 11:27 pm ET

My first article for Spectator was a football Around the League article in September 2005. Four years, three PixBox victories, and exactly 130 articles later, it is now time—this is my last-ever article for Spectator, and most likely, the last article I will ever write.

Unique approach guides men's tennis

By Kunal Gupta
May 1 12:10 am ET

When it comes to men’s tennis in the Ivy League, there is no shortage of talent.

« Thursday, April 30, 2009

Monday, May 4, 2009 »

view issue in pdf form

Got a news tip? Tell us!

RECENT MULTIMEDIA

Postcrypt Art Gallery: Scarlet Fever March 9 2010	Photos of the Week March 9 2010	Double the Oscar hosts, double the fun? March 9 2010
Local preservationists seek landmark status for West End Avenue March 2 2010	The Week in Photos: February 22 to March 1, 2010 March 2 2010	Behind the Scenes of Shutter Island February 28 2010
Week in Photos: February 15 to 22, 2010 February 22 2010	Dirty oil on the Upper West Side February 19 2010	Week in Photos: February 8 to 12, 2010 February 15 2010