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From the Editors: The (Potentially) Diminished Dean of Columbia College
On August 21, 2011, visitors to Bwog, a Columbia student news blog, found a shocking headline staring back at them: “BREAKING: Dean Moody-Adams Resigns.” Michele...
Editor’s Note
The mainstream acceptance of social media as a tool for breaking news has reaped massive benefits. Most people of our generation found out about the death of Osama...
From the Editors: The Spectator Needs to Raise Its Editorial Standards
Cover from an 1880 volume of the Spectator’s issues. Among the many newsworthy events that hit Columbia’s campus last fall, one incident stood out—not because...
From the Editors: Can the Liberal Arts Make Us Better American Citizens?
The notion that learning is a natural human impulse can be traced to our earliest thinkers. Aristotle, in the Metaphysics, proclaims, “All men by nature desire...
From the Editors: Lost in Manhattanville
Columbia’s Pursuit of Eminent Domain in Manhattanville Threatens More than Just Property Rights Unbelievably, at least to those who have been following the years...
From the Editor: The Makeup of the Teaching Movement
Barack and Michelle Obama visit a charter school in Washington D.C. Teach for America is not modest about its ambitions: it aims to “eliminate educational inequity.”...
From the Editor: Naming the End in Iraq
A ceremony in Majaar Al Kabir, Iraq marking the June 30 withdrawal On the last day of June, American forces made their exit from Iraqi cities, more than six years...