https://www.wikicu.com/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Gfackelmann&feedformat=atomWikiCU - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T11:08:12ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.31.8https://www.wikicu.com/index.php?title=Thomas_Anawalt&diff=37517Thomas Anawalt2011-05-15T22:03:44Z<p>Gfackelmann: </p>
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<div>'''Thomas Anawalt''' [[Columbia College|CC]] '[[2009|09]] was active in Columbia's theater community. He was best known on campus as the guy who broke the window in [[Will Snider]]'s ''Everything Different'' and as Gramps, the [[Manhattanville]] refugee, from [[Insufficient Funds (113th Annual Varsity Show)]]. Gramps was based on Thomas's own grandfather, Bernard "Buz" Anawalt, a man who spent two weeks with a thumbtack in his foot, feeling no pain. His other grandfather, Dick Cunningham, is a painter who studied with Edwin Dickinson. Cunningham's nudes, landscapes and Premier Coup can be seen at [http://www.franciscunningham.com franciscunningham.com]. Besides shouting out to his grandfathers on wikicu, Thomas enjoys acting like his grandfathers, and spending time with artists and women.<br />
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[[Category:Columbia College alumni|Anawalt]]</div>Gfackelmannhttps://www.wikicu.com/index.php?title=Anna_Phillips&diff=37516Anna Phillips2011-05-15T22:02:25Z<p>Gfackelmann: update</p>
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<div>'''Anna Phillips''' [[Columbia College|CC]]'[[2009|09]] was an editor in chief of ''[[The Blue and White]]''. A consummate writer and urban reporter, she hails from the environs of Philadelphia.<br />
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[[Category:Class of 2009|Phillips]]</div>Gfackelmannhttps://www.wikicu.com/index.php?title=User:Pacman&diff=37515User:Pacman2011-05-15T21:58:09Z<p>Gfackelmann: </p>
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<div>'''Pacman''' was in the [[Columbia College]] [[CC Class of 2007|Class of 2007]] and is, in the words of someone who wrote on this page, "snooty, resentful, and fiercely defensive of [his] alma mater". <br />
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This is all true, mostly because he left Columbia to attend another institution for grad school, so when comparing Columbia to some inferior institution of higher learning, he knows whereof he speaks.<br />
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He is also the recipient of the following glorious PrezBo Award:<br />
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{{prezbo|I hereby award you this very first PrezBo Award<br/>for your tireless contributions and noble Columbia spirit.<br/>[[User:Admin|Admin]] 04:33, 2 April 2007 (EDT)}}</div>Gfackelmannhttps://www.wikicu.com/index.php?title=Speccie&diff=37514Speccie2011-05-15T21:54:17Z<p>Gfackelmann: /* How to identify a Speccie */</p>
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<div>A '''Speccie''' is a student who works extensively for the editorial section of, or is otherwise primarily associated with, the ''[[Spectator]]''.<br />
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Speccies form an idiosyncratic campus clique defined primarily by how their work for the Spectator affects the rest of their college experience. Among other things, Speccies commonly sacrifice part or all of their social lives, as well as a substantial amount of their sleep and class schedule, to furthering their work at Spectator.<br />
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== How to identify a Speccie ==<br />
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While Speccies are a very well-adapted student species, able to coexist with and mimic almost any other feature found in a "normal" college student, there are a few telltale signs of a Speccie:<br />
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At a distance, any student walking down [[College Walk]] at 7 a.m. on a Wednesday with a Red Bull in one hand and a cigarette in the other WITHOUT TRYING TO BE IRONIC ABOUT IT is likely to be a Speccie. Speccies can also commonly be seen walking into their primordial den on 112th Street ("the Spec office"), walking quickly behind prominent University administrators while furiously scribbling down a notebook, or sitting in the back of a lecture unsuccessfully trying to hide their displeasure/boredom while writing on what their editor told them would be "a really interesting, controversial debate."<br />
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Certain subspecies of Speccies can be very easily and accurately identified in conversation. Depending on their genus, a Speccie may immediately become aroused and lurch into excited speech at the mention of either:<br />
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a) [[Bollinger]]'s [[Global University]] Initiative<br/><br />
b) the 197-a Alternative Zoning Proposal<br/><br />
c) Next year's [[Cornell]] baseball lineup<br/><br />
d) Romanesko's blog post that day<br />
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== Main Speccie Features ==<br />
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As mentioned, Speccies blend well in the campus environment. They generally speak and approach critical issues with a tinge of irony and self-deprecation, though some longtime Speccie scholars have suggested this demeanor is actually a bluff mechanism to cover their enthusiasm about Columbia and healthy ego.<br />
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Speccies reject being thought of as cool, but also don't consider themselves dorks. In reality, some Speccies are cool, and many are dorks.<br />
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Speccies have a love-hate affair with authority. They generally don't form cordial relationships with professors or administrators. When they do achieve a level of intimacy with any professor/administrator, they generally undo any closeness by writing something bad about said professor/administrator.<br />
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Most Speccies perform under their academic potential at Columbia, and sleep very little. While these conditions would cause most students to be depressed, Speccies see their lack of high [[GPA]]'s and constant sleep deprivation as some type of merit badge. A common Speccie saying explaining this phenomenon goes: "School, Sleep, Spec. Pick two."<br />
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== Speccest ==<br />
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Speccies are generally social with other student species, but abhor mating outside their own kind. An old saying concisely describes this behavior: Speccies are friends with everybody, but only date each other.<br />
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Speccest, as Speccie dating is called, is in theory discouraged by the powers that be within the Spectator organization. In practice, it is so widespread that the last six Spec editors-in-chief, including the current one, dated other Speccies.<br />
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Speccest is particularly notable after a semimonthly gathering at which Speccies drink away the awkwardness until they black out, then make out and/or go home with people they didn't mean to, ensuring there will be enough awkwardness to go around during the next gathering. Such "Spectails," as the events are called, are commonly broken up before midnight, by which time several freshman Speccies have normally already been [[Columbia Area Volunteer Ambulance|CAVA'd]].<br />
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[[Category:Definitions]]</div>Gfackelmannhttps://www.wikicu.com/index.php?title=Caroline_Bynum&diff=37513Caroline Bynum2011-05-15T21:49:43Z<p>Gfackelmann: copyedit</p>
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'''Caroline W. Bynum''' is a scholar of medieval cultural and religious history. She is an emerita [[University Professor]] and was the first woman in the history of Columbia to hold that title. She was also briefly Dean of the [[School of General Studies]] and was also the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a [[Mark Van Doren Award]], and a [[Lionel Trilling Book Award]]. She is now at the Institute for Advanced Study, but still teaches at Columbia on occasion.<br />
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[[Category:Trilling Award recipients|Bynum]]</div>Gfackelmannhttps://www.wikicu.com/index.php?title=Music_Department&diff=26451Music Department2008-07-31T19:46:48Z<p>Gfackelmann: </p>
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<div>Located in [[Dodge Hall]], and presently chaired by Aaron Fox. Past chairs include Joseph Dubiel, Elaine Sisman, George Edwards, and [[Walter Frisch]]. <br />
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[[Category:Music Department|*]]</div>Gfackelmannhttps://www.wikicu.com/index.php?title=Barack_Obama&diff=25661Barack Obama2008-05-02T02:19:24Z<p>Gfackelmann: </p>
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'''Barack Obama''' [[Columbia College|CC]] '[[1983|83]] is a US Senator from [[w:Illinois|Illinois]] and a Democratic party candidate for the 2008 presidential election. <br />
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Many Columbia students are [[w:The Audacity of Hope|audaciously hoping]] he'll win his primary and the national election. If he does, he will not only be the first partially black president, but the first attendee of [[Columbia College]], and the first graduate of any Columbia school<ref>[[Theodore Roosevelt]] and [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] both attended [[Columbia Law School]], but neither graduated, as you only needed to pass the bar after 2 years of school to practice law. One Roosevelt dropped out after passing the bar, the other after being elected to the NY State Assembly. [[Dwight Eisenhower]] never attended Columbia, but rather served as a somewhat absentee President of the University while biding his time to run for the Presidency.</ref>, to occupy the Oval Office.<br />
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Obama, however, tends to forget/ignore his Columbia affiliation, preferring to mention that he attended [[Harvard]] Law School. He has repeatedly turned down requests to be the [[Class Day]] speaker in recent years, as well as general requests to appear from the [[College Democrats]]. <br />
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==Columbia years==<br />
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[[Image:Obamany.jpg|thumb|right|Obama the Columbia undergrad, visiting Central Park]]<br />
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Obama [[transfer student|transferred]] to CC from [[w:Occidental College|Occidental College]] which (poor place) is also rarely mentioned by the young senator. At Occidental, Obama had been into partying and drugs. He hoped the move to New York, and Columbia, would put him on a more serious track. <br />
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While at Columbia, he lived off campus. He claims to have spent his first night sleeping in an alley near the corner of 109th and [[Amsterdam Avenue]] and washing with the homeless next to an open fire hydrant. He eventually moved into a walkup on E. 94th St., in [[East Harlem]], where he would "chat with his Puerto Rican neighbors about...the sound of gunfire at night".<br />
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When he was on campus, he concentrated on academic work, spending most of his time in [[Butler Library]] "like a monk", and made few friends. He also took up jogging and "stopped getting high". The racist and anti-Semitic graffiti he sometimes encountered on bathroom walls on campus helped him form his ideas about race and class. He wrote of "the almost mathematical precision with which America’s race and class problems joined; the depth, the ferocity, of resulting tribal wars; the bile that flowed freely not just out on the streets but in the stalls of Columbia’s bathrooms as well". <br />
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Obama claims to have participated to some extent in anti-apartheid activities with the [[Black Students Organization]], but no one is quite sure. <br />
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He majored in [[Political Science Department|PoliSci]], and claims to have concentrated in "International Relations," a designation which does not exist at Columbia. Sources differ on whether he wrote his senior thesis on Soviet nuclear disarmament<ref>http://www.columbiaspectator.com/?q=node/28631</ref> or the North-South debate on trade and the "new international economic order"<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/magazine/04obama-t.html</ref>. Obama's professors and classmates, including former international politics professor [[Michael L. Baron]] and current MTV president [[Michael Wolf]], confirm that he was a brilliant, standout student and that he was an active participant in seminars. Despite this, he continually declines requests to release his transcript.<br />
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After graduating, Obama hoped to become a community organizer, but could not find work as one, and joined a small consulting firm instead. In his memoir, he portrays this as a big corporate job, and claims it prompted fears he was becoming a sellout.<br />
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==Later Columbia coincidences==<br />
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In his primary fight to become the Democratic nominee, Obama has faced, among others, [[GS]] alum [[Mike Gravel]]. In the general election, he would face [[Wayne Allen Root]], also CC'83, the presumptive Libertarian Party nominee. His Republican opponent would be [[John McCain]], a former [[Class Day]] speaker whose daughter, [[Meghan McCain]], was CC'07.<br />
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*[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/us/politics/30obama.html NYT article on Obama's years at Columbia and subsequent time in New York]<br />
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[[Category:Presidential candidates|Obama, Barack]]</div>Gfackelmannhttps://www.wikicu.com/index.php?title=The_Blue_and_White&diff=25653The Blue and White2008-05-01T01:49:43Z<p>Gfackelmann: </p>
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'''''The Blue and White''''' is an undergraduate magazine. The magazine is an outlet for intellectual and political discussion, literary publication, and general parody. It has recently begun to foray into in-depth pieces on campus life and politics.<br />
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Among its popular features are designations of [[Campus Character]]s, snippets of campus gossip, and "Digitalia Columbiana", pieces of writing culled from campus computers.<br />
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The current editor in chief is [[Taylor Walsh]], who succeeded [[Avi Zvi Zenilman]]. <br />
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== History ==<br />
''The Blue and White'' was founded in [[1890]]. It disbanded for unknown reasons in [[1893]]. In [[1998]], a handful of undergraduates revived the journal based on the original format. The staff has since grown to several dozen writers and contributors. In [[2005]], the magazine switched to monthly editions, affirming its presence on the campus. Recently, the magazine has focused more on pieces of "hard" journalism, in contradistinction to its former, less serious, and more literary character. <br />
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''The Blue and White'' staff meets in the crypt of [[St Paul's Chapel]]. Meetings are inaugurated with a bizarre ritual known as "pokey", in which two staffers grab each others' hands and attempt to poke one another with their index fingers.<br />
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== The Bwog ==<br />
In [[2006]], ''The Blue and White'' established [[The Bwog]], a blog counterpart to the magazine. The Bwog publishes gossip and other Columbia news around the clock.<br />
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==Current and former members==<br />
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===Editors in Chief===<br />
*[[Taylor Walsh]] CC'08<br />
*[[Avi Zvi Zenilman]] CC'07<br />
*[[Zach Bendiner]] CC'06<br />
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===Current members===<br />
*[[Brendan Ballou]] CC'09<br />
*[[Lydia DePillis]] CC'09<br />
*[[Christopher Morris-Lent]] CC'10<br />
*[[Ashley Nin]] CC'09<br />
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===Former members===<br />
*[[Addison Anderson]] CC'07<br />
*[[Chris Beam]] CC'06<br />
*[[Gideon Yago]] CC'00<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [http://www.theblueandwhite.org The Blue and White]<br />
* [http://www.bwog.net The Bwog]<br />
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[[Category:Student publications|Blue and White, The]]</div>Gfackelmannhttps://www.wikicu.com/index.php?title=George_Rupp&diff=23926George Rupp2008-04-12T05:16:30Z<p>Gfackelmann: </p>
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<div>[[Image:GeorgeRupp.jpg|thumb|George Erik Rupp]]<br />
The highlight of President Rupp's administration was his commitment to make [[Columbia College]] and [[SEAS]] the "center of the University". Under his tenure, admission rates dropped, the endowment soared, and Columbia was once again spoken of as a great undergraduate institution, instead of a school that catered almost exclusively to graduate and professional interests.<br />
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George Rupp remains the most College-friendly Columbia president since [[Charles King]].<br />
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[[Lee Bollinger]], on the other hand is a lot less interested in things like undergraduate education and a lot more interested in things like arts, public health, globalization, neuroscience, sustainable development, and diversity. He obviously hasn't heard of the [[five pillars theory]].<br />
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[[Category:University presidents|Rupp, George]]</div>Gfackelmannhttps://www.wikicu.com/index.php?title=Thomas_Anawalt&diff=23925Thomas Anawalt2008-04-12T05:07:26Z<p>Gfackelmann: </p>
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<div>'''Thomas Anawalt''' [[Columbia College|CC]] '[[2009|09]] is active in Columbia's theater community. He is best known on campus as the guy who broke the window in [[Will Snider]]'s ''Everything Different'' and as Gramps, the [[Manhattanville]] refugee, from [[Insufficient Funds (113th Annual Varsity Show)]]. Gramps is based on Thomas's own grandfather, Bernard "Buz" Anawalt, a man who spent two weeks with a thumbtack in his foot, feeling no pain. His other grandfather, Dick Cunningham, is a serious painter, a student of Edwin Dickinson. Cunningham's nudes, landscapes and Premier Coup can be seen at [http://www.franciscunningham.com franciscunningham.com]. Besides shouting out to his grandfathers on wikicu, Thomas enjoys acting like his grandfathers, spending time with artists and women.<br />
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[[Category:Columbia College students|Anawalt]]</div>Gfackelmannhttps://www.wikicu.com/index.php?title=Walter_Frisch&diff=23810Walter Frisch2008-04-09T19:50:43Z<p>Gfackelmann: </p>
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<div>[[Image:WalterFrisch.jpg|thumb|100px|Walter Frisch]]<br />
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'''Walter Frisch''' is a music professor and former [[Music Department|department]] chair. Lucky are those who score him for [[Music Hum]]. His son, [[Nicholas Frisch]], was in the [[Columbia College]] Class of [[2007]].<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [http://www.music.columbia.edu/faculty/frisch.html Walter Frisch - Departmental profile]<br />
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[[Category:Professors|Frisch, Walter]]</div>Gfackelmannhttps://www.wikicu.com/index.php?title=Music_Department&diff=23505Music Department2008-03-30T18:59:42Z<p>Gfackelmann: </p>
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<div>Located in [[Dodge Hall]], and presently chaired by Joseph Dubiel. Past chairs include [[Walter Frisch]]. <br />
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