pop culture

Let’s be serious. “Free speech” has been done. Columbians are above discussing such a soft-ball issue. Instead, a school like Columbia should be lending its energies to addressing the issues that no other school will touch.

“I’ve got something really annoying to say,” I said. “It reminded me of the Iliad.” We were lined up at the urinals in the men’s bathroom, just after we walked out of the movie theater. Without waiting to hear my rationale, the guys met my confession with groans and much eye rolling, which can only be described as good judgment on their part.

There’s college, and there’s college. Both are decidedly American concepts.