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OPINION
[title of show] Wills Itself to Broadway
By Laura Hedli
| Aug 5
It’s like a gift within a gift that just keeps on giving, the matryoshka doll of the theater if you will. [title of show], or [tos] for short, is a musical about two average Joes writing a musical.
Small Doses of The Office, Heroes Now Available to Casual Fans, Addicts
By Frank Nestor
| Aug 5
Fans of The Office currently experiencing post-season withdrawal should not turn to other similar shows. Instead they should check out the new 2-minute webisodes available on NBC.com every Thursday, involving some characters from the beloved Scranton Branch.
Reflections of a First Year
By Sean Udell
| May 13
I think it would be worthwhile to discover other ways to sustain this schoolwide unification, so that we can still be happy and unified during the parts of the year where we don’t have random elements like the sun to bring us all together. To do this, though, we need to find something that we can all coalesce around. Finding that “something” should be one of our goals for the coming academic year.
The 'Ad Hoc' Stuff of Publishing
By John Mascari
| May 5
Admittedly, I joined Spectator freshman year for the opportunity to help manage an autonomous company, rather than because of an interest in newspapers. The publisher at the time ran me through her long list of day-to-day responsibilities and concluded, “That’s what I can think of off of the top of my head, but the most exciting stuff is ad hoc.” I was impressed.
Less of a Profession, More a Way of Being
| May 5As journalists, we figured, we should try and see as much as we could firsthand.
Working at the paper wasn’t always easy. I would sometimes come home from 2875 Broadway frustrated and exhausted. There were moments that broke my heart and mistakes that I ache to go back and fix, coffee dates I shouldn’t have forgotten about and friends I should have called back. In the end though, I can’t imagine college any other way, and I don’t want to.
Puppies, Live Music, and Flying Toilet Paper Unite at McCarren Park Pool
By Lucy Tang
| Aug 5
One of the final JellyNYC McCarren Park Pool shows, last Sunday was an exciting day with a four band line-up:Tall Firs, King Khan & the Shrines, Deerhunter, and the Black Lips.
Protesting Nichiren Shoshu’s Use of Miller Theatre
By Lisa Kawai
| Mar 17
On Sunday, May 18, the fundamentalist “Nichiren Shoshu”—or The True Sect of Nichiren—Buddhist Temple will be holding a 1 p.m. meeting at Miller Theatre. As a member of Columbia’s Buddhism for Global Peace club, I am concerned about this event and will be in front of Miller Theatre in protest.
Measuring Our Emotional Quotient
| May 13No faculty can complain about such evidence of superlative student IQ. But what about our EQ—emotional quotient? Certainly there have been few attempts to measure emotional intelligence because it lacks the precision of a grade point average or SAT score.
The Last True Broadsheet In New York
| May 5This is a strange time—and Columbia, a strange place—to be practicing print journalism. “Consolidation” and “do more with less” have become grudging newsroom mantras, while papers have struggled mightily to establish a robust presence on the Web. Student newspapers may be better insulated against this sort of flux than their professional counterparts, but not entirely, and not forever.
The Beauty of Physics
| May 5There is beauty in learning how to look at the world in a different way, which is what we are told will happen to us in college. Unlike some of the seniors graduating in a few weeks, I did not have a political awakening, undergo a religious conversion, or reinvent myself at Barnard—but I started “seeing” particles and waves in every beam of light, and even dark matter and dark energy. Once I learned about them, there was no going back.
