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* Littered the campus with [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ceremonies/commencement/docs/events/commencement/address.html havel water bottles][photo needed]
 
* Littered the campus with [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ceremonies/commencement/docs/events/commencement/address.html havel water bottles][photo needed]
 
* [[CCNMTL]] Created an entire website, http://havel.columbia.edu/, including video of
 
* [[CCNMTL]] Created an entire website, http://havel.columbia.edu/, including video of
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* Gracing even the hapless maintenance workers toiling perpetually to fix the Wien water boiler with his presence [http://www.bwog.net/publicate/index.php?page=post&article_id=2559]
 
** [http://havel.columbia.edu/core.html His 'core' speech] (be sure and read the feedback before Columbia erases it)
 
** [http://havel.columbia.edu/core.html His 'core' speech] (be sure and read the feedback before Columbia erases it)
 
** [http://havel.columbia.edu/lou_reed.html A set of interviews with Lou Reed]-- that's right, Lou fucking Reed, secretly a Havel scholar apparently, and
 
** [http://havel.columbia.edu/lou_reed.html A set of interviews with Lou Reed]-- that's right, Lou fucking Reed, secretly a Havel scholar apparently, and

Revision as of 11:16, 12 July 2007

Václav Havel, playwright and the ex-president of Czechoslovakia, spent 7 weeks in the Fall 2006 semester as Columbia's artist in residence. This primarily involved him giving mostly incomprehensible speeches in poor English, most notably a terribly garbled and underwhelming CC Coursewide Lecture.

Columbia completely milked his 7-week stay for all it was worth including:

  • Controversially, the first semester Lit Hum syllabus, which is traditionally limited to ancient Greek texts and the Bible, was altered that year to include one of Havel's plays, The Garden Party.
  • Littered the campus with havel water bottles[photo needed]
  • CCNMTL Created an entire website, http://havel.columbia.edu/, including video of
  • Gracing even the hapless maintenance workers toiling perpetually to fix the Wien water boiler with his presence [1]
    • His 'core' speech (be sure and read the feedback before Columbia erases it)
    • A set of interviews with Lou Reed-- that's right, Lou fucking Reed, secretly a Havel scholar apparently, and
    • Photos, his personal notebooks, and myriad other miscellany. Unbelievable, really.