Daniel Yeow for Columbia Daily Spectator… Baseball is supposed to be a great American pastime. Well, one thing is for certain, time does seem to pass (and you really notice it!) during baseball games. A vastly inferior attempt at cricket, it is a game of ball and bat in which the players hit the...
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Daniel Yeow for Columbia Daily Spectator… Softball is an interesting sport. It is similar to baseball in many ways except that it is played with a different ball, on a smaller pitch and with a different pitching style. There are other subtle differences in the rules but I think those are the main ones....
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Every year, there’s a conference organized by the earth institute called “State of the Planet”. It has (apparently) grown every year, and is a fairly big deal these days. The question? What is the state of the planet? The answer: not great. Columbia University President Lee Bollinger (or PrezBo, as we like to call...
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Now Columbia isn’t known for its sporting prowess. There are, however, a handful of sports in which we excel. These sports are characterized by being very… “preppy”. Fencing and Golf are but two examples. If we had a polo team, I’m sure we’d be pretty good at that too. A few weekends ago, the...
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It was a very busy week at Columbia… kicked off with Jeff Sachs and John Legend teaming up for the “Show Me” poverty action tour on Monday night. Somewhat inspired by my first assignment making the front of last Friday’s paper, I took all my photographic equipment to the event and snap snap snapped...
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Occasionally, I surprise myself. Sometimes a paper that I wrote off-the-cuff ends up being published in an academic journal, maybe an offhand remark made as a joke at a board meeting spirals into a major event… today, the surprise is a little more public in nature. The Columbia Spectator is Columbia University‘s daily newspaper...
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