Dispatches

As one contestant of Project Runway, Ricky Lizalde described of the current season, it was like a “rollercoaster.” The season was full of its characteristic ups and downs, like most reality television shows. What set this show and its season apart was the actual element of reality. As always, there was the eccentric selection of […]

It literally took little more than three hours after Heath Ledger’s death for the surprising news to catch on. Being a recent fixture in New York, Ledger’s death seemed to be on students’ minds the following day. Albeit it was not a concern on everybody’s mind, it affected people around him, fans and admirers, and […]

A female resident at the Riverside Residence hall was mugged outside of the dorm at 1 AM on December 13th while walking back from a night class. The female resident was knocked to the ground during the mugging, and her bag was stolen. Several residents at the Riverside reported hearing the sounds from […]

That was President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran (caricatured above), addressing students at Columbia University, with probably one of the more unexpected statements about Iran you’re likely to hear. He was evasive on most questions, and those that he wasn’t he couched his answers to his audience — speaking about academic inquiry when asked about the […]

Somewhat of a tempest in a teapot by protest standards— the protesters were mostly confined to B’way and 116th, and I’d be surprised if there were more than a thousand or two. But though they lacked in number, they did not in diversity as they ran the gamut from anti-war (usually in orange), anti-Iran, anti-Zionist (including […]