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Fresh from the newly cleaned-up Spectator website:
How about just… not assigning exams in Lerner?
Morningside Heights to Rangel: Draft? Seriously?
Now where will we buy our discount movie passes?
This just in: Professors’ ideas on sexuality often out-of-date! (please read this)
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@random Does anyone else find it odd that the Spectator webpage is advertising NYU?
@also I hate to say it, but Reni Laine’s editorial was pretty insipid and sucky.
@wow they call that a redesign? why is “columbia spectator” still not the most prominent thing on the page.
@ugh we never called it a redesign, you fucking idiot.
@hegel Calm the fuck down, you numb skull.
@asians what?! no mention of the asian op-ed?!
Lian Ji would say that the Bwog hates non-asians. and I’m tempted to agree with him.
http://media.www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2007/02/19/Opinion/Columbia.Loves.A.Little.Asian.Girl-2727429-page2.shtml
@what WHAT THE FUCK? the letter to the editor was totally fucked up.
@where is the letter to the editor? i am failing to locate it.
@another asian it’s called irony and satire. god, columbia’s full of idiots.
@hey lay off nellie, people. she makes extremely good points. maybe the reason you’re so stung is because in many very significant respects, she speaks the truth.
@um, no Nellie Bowles does not speak the truth. Ignoring different identities by assuming that everyone is cut from the same cloth inevitably denies queer people, black people, etc. their unique voice in a largely white institution/country. I think that people who usually think the way Nellie does assume that queer people are completely integrated into society, and experience no form of homophobia or general feeling of otherness from straight people. If you think that is true, then I have to ask, why was “queers rape” scrawled on the column near Carman recently?
@re: nellie. if you are not a feminist, kill yourself.
-margaret cho
@huh? who the hell is nellie bowles? anyone know?? what does she teach? and why is she so freakin’ crazy?
@haha “what does she teach?”
shes a freshman
@freshmen should be banned from submitting op-ed pieces. they’re some of the worst, most ill-informed, and naive pieces in the paper.
@finally it is about time that columbia hired an lgbt advisor–our campus has the oldest queer student organization in the country but the administration has been lagging behind forever. its nice to see that they’re finally putting their money where their mouth is.
@Owain Evans The Nellie Bowles article is a superb piece of rhetoric. She may simplify matters somewhat, but the core point is an important:
“The ’80s have left us with painful reminders of a culture obsessed with division. The African American Studies and a Women’s and Gender Department are statements, nods to civil rights and feminism, whose only purpose now is to separate. How can we talk about new conceptions of gender when there’s a women’s department? How can we take power away from race, from the words black and white, and destroy their ability to divide people, when classes on race are separated from the rest of “non-racial” academic departments?”
In any case, regardless of the issue at hand, it is rare to see such skilful prose and stylish argument on the Spec Op-Ed page (or, for that matter, anywhere else).
@Coco Nellie Bowles is by far one of the most intelligent, and ballsy writers I have ever read/met.
I don’t think any of you can put down thoughts and ideas in that badass way.
And it doesn’t matter who I am so there is no need for “Who the hell are you?” emails.
@The Rock What’s your name?
IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT YOUR NAME IS!
@Tard What kind of tard would go to Columbia in a wheelchair, I mean no offense but I’d rather go to Cornell that navigate CU as a crip.
@Seriously? I’m not denying you have a point, but did you have to use that kind of language in making your point?
@Wheelchair It just makes me mad to think that they’d try and roll up the stairs of Hamilton. I mean would those stupid crips block everyone? Like a fire hazard, right? It would be crazy
@SEAS-er Is it April 1st? Did I sleep a month and half last night? With gems like “Professors are stuck in the year they wrote their theses,” I would like to hope that the article was satire.
The complete dismissal of Barnard on the whole at the end really topped it off for me.
@Dear Nellie stfu. kthnx.
@or she, rather.
@the gay advisor article is extremely misinformed and ignorant
@Agreed God, what a douche
@Whoops In reference to the writer of the article
@yeah i can’t believe he said there’s no longer any reason for feminism since we now know that gender is conditioning and habit. reminds me of this:
http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/in_college_i_marched_against
@well, it’s an op-ed piece. they often are.