Coverage on yesterday’s madness, if you need anymore of it
Given the last few weeks, the call for safe space is probably in order
PrezBo’s been doing quite a bit of talking lately
On slanderous graffiti: “…we could have noted that the person who wrote it has a small penis.”
Ah, lovely and nifty multimedia: a bias timeline
Tags: quickspec
12 October 2007 @ 7:57 AM · 6 comments
on Senior Wisdom: Emeka Ekwelum
Name: Emily Selinger, lost 5/10 somewhere at Senior Ball, gaslight, or 1020. ess2168@columbia.edu
Found in one of the couches in the Wallach Sky Lounge. Returned to Hartley Hospitality Desk.
Dark blue-green plaid Old Navy jacket and green scarf. Misplaced in EC on April 30. If found, please email abc2160@columbia.edu. Thank you!
PointMobl Black Retractable Micro USB AC Phone Charger. Lost it in Hartley lounge. E-mail: nnamdi.nwaezeapu@gmail.com
Lost a Black High Sierra backpack containing a white binder and a red pencil bag in Ferris Booth Dining Hall on Wednesday, April 25th, around 7:30 to 8pm. It was left on a chair in the second floor in a table around the middle of the room close to the staircase. If spotted someone taking it or found, please call immediately at 208-964-6780 or email rm2999@columbia.edu
Light blue, hardcover. Beginning Level. Lost last Tuesday in the Barnard 2nd floor women’s bathroom.
If found, please contact jac2295@columbia.edu
Lost a Blackberry Bold from Verizon Wireless at ADP on Saturday night. If found please email rsf2121@columbia.edu or call 601-994-3697. There will be a $$ reward!!
These were lost potentially on philosophy lawn on the evening of April 17th. The earrings are large silver flower cutouts and the mood ring is a blue band with small flowers inset. Both are old with a lot of sentimental value attached. Would greatly appreciate their return if found. Please contact on2139@columbia.edu/
646-496-3613, will reward with home baked goods and eternal gratitude.
Droid II Phone without any particular markings. Possibly left at the street fair or in Math. Contact cw2453.
I left my grey, cylindrical hamper in the Hartley laundry room and when I returned it was gone. I left it on the washing machine farthest from when you first walk in. If you have it, please return it, no questions asked. Email cgs2133@columbia.edu
another noose was found downtown:
http://gothamist.com/2007/10/12/noose.php
And Mychal Bell of Jena 6 fame is back in jail:
http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071011/NEWS01/71011059
“…everything I know about India and China, I learned in classes about Latin American literature and Caribbean music. ”
If you learn about China and India in a class about Latin American literature, then what class do you take to learn about Latin American literature???
that was joke. and one that made his point.
It was a joke that didn’t make any goddamn sense, because Columbia DOES offer courses in Asian studies (and other cultures. In the Core). So point not taken.
I understand why people are upset that the Core doesn’t emphasize other cultures as much it does the western ones, but come on. The actual name of Lit Hum is “European Literature and Philosophy Masterpieces,” meaning that the course is specific to Euro-centric literature. It’s not like you’re being tricked into thinking that this is a class of all the literary masterpieces in the world and then find out that they only considered European classics to be masterpieces. Eastern, African, and Latin American-centered courses are offered separately, and no one seems to have a problem that only Latin American civiliztion is taught in a Major Cultures course called “Latin American Civilization.”
Yes, it would be interesting to have a course in the Core where different lit. from different parts of the world were studied together compared, and when that happens, I will support it. But if you don’t go into a Biology class expecting to learn about Physics, or a Middle Eastern Studies class expecting to study Homer, then why would you enter a European Lit class expecting to learn about anything other than dead white men?
don’t yell at me; i’ve been arguing for (and reminding people of the actual names of) lit hum, cc, etc. as long as i’ve been here. but i don’t think he was saying that we should cram every culture/person ever into the existing classes, either. instead, his joke was conveying that the university makes CC kids take “major cultures” at least in part to counter the “dead white guys” arguments about other core classes, but the very nature of the requirement is that you just learn about a couple of different specific topics (and get away with learning nothing about everything else). like you (and the author of the article, as far as i can tell), i’d support another class added to the core as a way to address the issue.