The Core

The lecture, “Dethroning the Son of Man: Daniel and the Antiquity of Christianity,” was given by Daniel Boyarin, a Columbia alum and celebrated professor of Talmud at UC Berkeley. While this was a required event for all students enrolled in CC, by the end of the lecture less than 100 people remained in the auditorium, a majority of whom were CC professors.

In middle school, I stumbled into the fourth dimension and never found my way out. Two people pushed me over the hyper-edge: Madeleine L’Engle, the author of A Wrinkle in Time, and Mr. Orchid, my seventh grade English teacher.