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Saved by the Bell’s Zack and Kelly—considering how much we loved these two together, isn’t it shocking to realize that their first kiss wasn’t until the prom episode where Kelly couldn’t go, and Zack set up a romantic private prom for the two of them?

While I was excited to see Spec’s coverage of the outstanding Columbia students who won Rhodes and Marshall scholarships this year, I want to correct an error that appeared in the editorial. The system we in the Office of Fellowships Programs in Academic Affairs have put into place over the last two years, while certainly dynamic and continuing to evolve, has done exactly what the editors suggested in terms of targeting students from the earliest stages for competitive scholarships. We have also relied heavily on—and received enormous support from—many eager faculty members who have brought exceptional students to our attention and have helped spread the word about our new office as well. In the final stages of preparation, we received tremendous support from faculty members, not only those who had previously worked with applicants or had written letters of recommendation for them, but also other faculty members we called upon to participate in practice interviews with students they did not know.

Editorial Has a Narrow Perspective and Conflates Islam and Fascism

New York’s biggest annual music festival, the CMJ Music Marathon, kicked off yesterday. Now, over a thousand bands have descended on the city in hopes of a contract, an audience, a Filter review—anything to make it worth their while. Here are Spec’s picks for the shows you should catch if you’re wealthy or lucky enough to have a badge, or dedicated enough to risk a downtown trip without a ticket in hand.

Many critics are quick to point out the irony of Joni Mitchell both maintaining her protest against the music industry’s superficiality and signing onto a label managed by Starbucks.

As is surely common knowledge to everyone by now, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, will be speaking on campus this Monday, Sept. 24.

Statement of student group heads.

If Back to You had been created in 1999, back when Frasier and Everybody Loves Raymond could do no wrong, it would have seemed too good to be true.