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After several application deadline postponements, our dead-tree friends at the Spec have finally chosen their new set of opinion columnists. Some old Bwog favorites have returned, some fresh faces have been added, and it’s not known who gets the Friday death slots.
- Anthony Kelley, CC ’09, who wrote what IvyGate called “The Batshittiest Spectator Column You Will Ever Read.”
- Jonathan Hollander, CC ’10, whose most recent Spec piece called out Kelley.
- Adil Ahmed, CC ’09, CCSC VP for Policy and former MSA president.
- Andrew Lyubarsky, CC ’09, one of the hunger strike negotiators, whom Bwog interviewed in Novermber.
- Lauren Salz, BC ’11, CUGOP
PresidentExecutive Director and CPU Communications Coordinator. - Kate Redburn, CC ’10, and Sarah Leonard, CC ’10, former Dems board members writing a joint column.
- Marissa Mazek, BC ’10, one of the organizers of “Love Your Body Week.”
- Jonathon Grant, GS ’08, actor and dancer.
- Catherine Madeo, GS ’10, a yoga instructor (and the oldest columnist at 33).
- Becky Davies, CC ’10, leader of the Columbia University Food Sustainability Project.
- Dan Blank, CC ’09, who directed KCST’s King Lear, and who hasn’t written for the Spec since Saddam was executed.
- Alexios Shaw, CC ’09, former Managing Editor of The Birch, and water-polo enthusiast.
UPDATE 9:27 PM: Ask for a schedule, and ye shall receive. All mysteries will be solved after the jump.
Week 1
M Becky Davies
M Dan Blank
T Sarah Leonard and Kate Redburn
W Jon Hollander
Th Catherine Madeo
F Alexi Shaw
Week 2
M Marissa Mazek
M Adil Ahmed
T Anthony Kelley
W Lauren Salz
Th Andrew Lyubarsky
F Jon Grant
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@how the fuck is anthony kelley writing a another spec column? they were abominable
@...... Hollander is a rational conservative…
His article against Kelley was an intellectual smackdown… I loved the final reference to Obama
I foresee some sparring this year between Kelley and Hollander… Bwog, you should encourage it!
@... i think everyone loves alexi. if his writing is any bit as amusing as his speech, it’ll be a good column.
@hmm what’s wrong with fridays?
@CML Hahah, I’ve never read it.
But do you think if I whine and play the martyr any more, I might weasel my way into a column? Worked for Kelley, after all.
@EAL Overall great columnists, but why the hell is Anthony Kelley still allowed to write for Spec? Are the editors of the opinion section that brain-dead that they recognize Kelley to be stimulating intellectual discourse?
@obvious clearly, spec is keeping Kelley because his “batshit insane” pieces get attention (and ad clicks) from ivygate and the like. servers cost money and shit you know.
i’m just waiting for another spec piece to top “the dalai lama gave mad dudes AIDS” one.
@CML To clarify: I quit of my own volition – as you can see by who the editor is, Spec Opinion isn’t really in the position to kick any of its staff. And yes, I did apply and I am bitter, I am bemused, and I am still right.
@haha cml is bitter Haha I bet CML is just bitter because he didn’t get a column (does anyone know if he applied?) Didn’t he work for Spec and the get kicked off or something?
@... did anyone from seas bother to apply?
can anyone from seas even write?
@hey bwog, do you know what days each of their columns will appear?
@CML Krule wouldn’t know good writing if someone hit her over the head with a copy of ‘Ulysses.’
@Ulysses? there’s your problem, CML…..you think Ulysses is well-written.
@puro lover PUROVERTIME IS PURGENIUS
@Yay! Yay! Good writing comes back to the Spec – Sarah had a few really good op-ed’s in Spec already and Kate is just really wonderful – I can’t wait to see this column.
@Hollander is a conservative freak
@hmm He is but at least he bases it on logic sometimes.
@the poster More embarrassing than the worst-writing-ever Spec is the much better Blue and White being so utterly obsessed with it. What is wrong with your staff? Relax about the Spec already.
@Hollander is awesome. We need more of that kind of discourse.
@Yes! Kate and Sarah together? That’s almost too much awesome-ness to handle! Love them!
@mistake alexios is cc’09
@mistake alexois is cc’09
@... looking at that linked John Hollander column, i think he was a good choice
@anonymous no more jelani johnson sportswriting?
@this list is not completely accurate…
@you're missing one you’re missing a columnist
@Jim Yes, we unintentionally left out Adil Ahmed at first. Sorry, Adil.
@Lauren Salz The spawn of Chris Kulawik? Or will there be a legitimate discourse between the Right and Left this semester without any sensationalist speakers?
@well hopefully there will be legitimate discourse generally and not sensationalists camping on the lawns.
what i want to know is why anthony kelley and his crazyness is back on spec
@really after all of last year you’re going to complain about kulawik from the previous op ed writers?
maybe you should just get back to hunger striking already.
@Up yours I was in the counter-Hunger Strike protest. I am just dismayed that Kulawik tarnished the right. There are far more intelligent right-wing speakers he could have brought to campus than Jim Gilchrist, John Ashcroft, John Bolton & the LionPac guy.
@then you’ll love who the cugop has lined up next.
@zoidberg bill o’!??! please say it’s our favorite falafel-loving guy.
@no..then you’re a divisive partisan who doesn’t actually care about the reputation of the ‘right’ as opposed to what you think they should represent
regardless of how much i agree with them John Ashcroft was the former Attorney General of the US, John Bolton was the former US ambassador to the UN and Jim Gilchrist was the head of one of the biggest and most prominent citizen watchdog groups in the highly debated area of immigration…’intelligence’ is obviously something that only you have access to in your own myopic and ridiculous view of the world–kulawik didn’t tarnish (he’s a meaningless snot nosed college kid) the reputation of the right except in your demented mind
@alum Yay Lauren Salz!
Actually she is the CUGOP Executive Director (VP). Joe Charalel is the President.
@spec http://www.wikicu.com/Spec