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Columbia Suspends Wrestling Season Over Lewd and Racist Text Messages – NYTimes.com. Source: Columbia Suspends Wrestling Season Over Lewd and Racist Text Messages – NYTimes.com
Last Tuesday, The Harvard Crimson exposed a document created by the 2012 Harvard men’s soccer team called a “scouting report,” which assessed and scored the incoming recruits for the women’s soccer team based on their perceived attractiveness. The women who are still playing for the team from that year decided to respond in an open…
The Rotunda at the University of Virginia. (Photo by Norm Shafer/ For The Washington Post). CHARLOTTESVILLE — In the weeks before Rolling Stone magazine published a sensational article about sexual assault at the University of Virginia in November 2014, Dean of Students Allen Groves wrote a message to high-ranking administrators questioning the magazine’s bias. “In…
close story-meta Photo Credit Karyn Lee/Pratt Institute Cambridge, Mass. — I’ve been at Harvard University for 17 years, but I’ve never been in a classroom here. I’m a cook in the dining halls. I work in the cafeteria at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where every day I serve amazing students studying medicine,…
On Friday morning, Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall tweeted, “When your friends abandon you and you become a felon, you apparently get bitter like this.” It was a link to a now deleted tweet, but journalist Zachary Davies Boren posted a screen grab of D’Souza’s alleged message. It was a photo of Barack Obama with…
When Sally Haslanger, a prominent feminist philosophy professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, returned to her Cambridge office in August after a summer abroad, she found a padded envelope with no return address waiting for her. She opened the package while sorting through her other junk mail and stuck her hand inside to feel what…
In the next fifty years the entirety of our inherited archive of cultural works will have to be re-edited within a network of digital storage, access, and dissemination (Jerome McGann, 2001) You have to put the corn where the hogs can get at it (Bill Clinton) Only the paranoid survive (Andrew Grove) Introduction At the…
This piece from the Orientation issue of the Blue and White, written by Emma Bogler CC ’17, explains and explores the disappearance of the Columbia Daily Spectator’s City News Section and what this means for the paper and the student body as a whole in relation to the greater city. There’s this old joke about American journalism and its…
JJ’s also has a new ping pong table – and according to one person we talked to, it isn’t regulation In case you’re a first-year, a transfer, or someone with no friends at Barnard: it was announced last spring that Barnard students are now able to swipe into JJ’s as part of their meal plans….
As the dialogue surrounding the usage of trigger warnings and safe spaces continues on college campuses nationwide, one website has for years been enforcing an editorial policy that may further the conversation: EverydayFeminism.com, a self-proclaimed “educational platform for personal and social liberation,” does not use the term “trigger warning” in front of its articles, not because…