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Spectator staffers among winners of EPA-sponsored competition
Published: May 7, 2013
We’d like to congratulate the Columbia Aquanauts, including four Spectator staffers, on receiving an honorable mention in the EPA’s first-ever Campus RainWorks challenge, a green technology competition. The Speccies who worked on the project were Aquanauts president Melissa von Mayrhauser (former A&E and news associate), Steven Lau (multimedia editor), Yuma Shinohara (former graphic design deputy),… Read more »
Spectator Sports Media Conference
Published: Apr 29, 2013
Last week, Spectator partnered with WKCR, the Fencing Club, and Women’s Ultimate Frisbee on Sunday to co-host the Columbia Sports Media Conference, the latest installment in our Columbia Media Series. The event featured four professional sports writers, including Tom Jolly, a New York Times associate managing editor, and Megan Greenwell, a former Spectator editor in… Read more »
Congratulations
Published: Apr 10, 2013
This week, Columbia announced the names of seven honorary degree recipients for this year’s commencement exercises. We congratulate our friend Paul E. Steiger, a veteran of the journalism industry, who will be presented with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree on May 22. His accomplishments include a 16-year tenure as managing editor at… Read more »
The Spectator ARTchives
Published: Apr 9, 2013
During our campaign to make Spectator’s archives fully available online, we imagined readers, alumni, and staff members scrolling through old newspapers, reading articles on the 1968 protests or the decade-long divestment movement. But the creative team at our weekly magazine, The Eye, found an innovative use for the archives that we didn’t expect: a new… Read more »
50 Years of Spec
Published: Mar 27, 2013
In the 1927 yearbook, Samuel E. Murray III published a succinct yet comprehensive history of the first 50 years of Spectator’s existence. It’s a wonderful look at our history that we only recently discovered. From photographs and illustrations appearing in various issues in the archives (currently dating back to 1953), it’s clear that some Spec… Read more »
Spare Time: Wordcraft of a Different Sort
Published: Mar 13, 2013
In our new “Spare Time” series, we see what busy Spec staffers do —that’s right—in their spare time. This week’s featured Speccie is our managing editor, Finn Vigeland. Finn has been involved with crosswords for several years, and was interviewed on the subject last year by Spectrum’s Stephen Snowder. During the interview, we learn that Finn enjoys both solving and creating… Read more »
Upcoming Arts & Entertainment event, great for young alumni
Published: Feb 21, 2013
This Sunday, February 24, the A&E section will be hosting a talk followed by Q&A with Allan Kozinn, a culture writer for the New York Times. Mr. Kozinn is a very well-known and highly respected culture writer, and as a former Times‘ music critic, is an expert on contemporary and classical music. He has authored several books… Read more »
Spectator completes campaign for archive digitization
Published: Feb 16, 2013
As announced via Twitter earlier this week, our digitization campaign is complete! Over the past five years, Spectator and Columbia Libraries have worked together to carry out this $250,000 initiative. By next February, our existing online volume, consisting of years 1954 through 1992, will be joined by the rest of Spectator‘s and Columbia’s great history. In the… Read more »
Winter Weather Updates for the Annual Awards Dinner
Published: Feb 8, 2013
As you know, the Manhattan area is experiencing a snowstorm that is expected to subside by early tomorrow afternoon. We plan to move ahead with the Awards Dinner as scheduled (Reception at 6pm, Dinner/Lecture at 7:30pm, Post Reception around 9:30). We will be posting relevant updates today and tomorrow on this website and through our Twitter… Read more »
Open Call for Alumni Stories
Published: Feb 3, 2013
Remember the days when you were up until 4 AM trying to make deadline on the story about university contract settlements and/or get Boo Bear to work? Or maybe you were just doing your due diligence and trying to break the biggest story to ever hit Morningside Heights? Well, we want to hear about it!… Read more »