Memories tagged “Spectator”

Anybody Wanna Work in Europe? I was sitting in the Daily Spectator office when a student I didn’t know stuck his head in and asked,”Anybody here wanna work in Europe next summer?” The idea hadn’t occurred to me – no...

Columbia College 1961

Envious Regrets I went through the college as a young 16 year old, still living at home in Washington Heights, focused on a pre-med education and adolescent socialization. I helped out on the Columbia Review, wrote humerous poems for the...

College of Physicians and Surgeons 1953, Columbia College 1949

James Farmer and the Cable Guy In senior year I arranged for James Farmer, head of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), to speak at Columbia. I reserved a large corner room in Hamilton Hall, infomed “Spectator” and WKCR, and...

Columbia College 1963

Owl Hunting I have the fondest memory of orientation week, thanks to the Columbia Spectator. Some of my new friends (who after a week of pre-orientation in the Catskill Mountains felt like old friends) were enjoying a warm early autumn...

Columbia College 1999

Serendipity “Perhaps this is old news but I heard the West End was at last closed down. V&T’s is still around, I hope? And what of the Hungarian Pastry shop next to it?” I received this question through an alumni...

Columbia College 2004

The Invisible Student You don’t know me. I was an invisible student, one of many who worked their way through Columbia. As the lights came on in the dorms, I left for my job as usher at Radio City Music...

Columbia College 1947, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 1948

Water in the Dorm At the beginning of February 1958, the start of my second semester at Columbia, a bed became available in a 3-bed attic room on the 10th floor of Hartley and I bid adieu to my hour...

Columbia College 1961