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October 2008 THE UNDERGRADUATE MAGAZINE OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY , EST . 1890 THE BLUE AND WHITE Vol. XV No. II October 2008 SUPERNATURAL SPECIAL About The Author, Final Fantasy, We See Dead People, Verily Veritas, and Love Potion No 116 BOOM AND BUST How the financial crisis has liquidated the dreams of would-be bankers. By James Downie PLAYING FOR KEEPS: The philosophers of St. Nicholas Park A LSO : ALAN BRINKLEY , REPUBLICANS , AND MUSIC ON CAMPUS Editor-in-Chief ANNA PHILLIPS Publisher MARYAM PARHIZKAR Managing Editor KATIE REEDY Bwog Editor JULI N. WEINER Features Editor LYDIA DEPILLIS Literary Editor Senior Editor ANNA LOUISE CORKE ALEXANDRA MUHLER Layout Editor Copy Chief HANS E HYTTINEN ALEXANDER STATMAN Graphics Editor Web Master ALLISON A. HALFF THOMAS CHAU Staff Writers SUMAIYA AHMED, ANISH BRAMHANDKAR, COOGAN BRENNAN, JAMES DOWNIE, TONY GONG, CHRISTOPHER MORRIS-LENT, MARIELA QUINTANA, ELIZA SHAPIRO, PIERCE STANLEY, ROB TRUMP, J. JOSEPH VLASITS, SARA VOGEL, SASHA DE VOGEL Artists STEPHEN DAVAN, CHLOE EICHLER, JENNY LAM, WENDAN LI, RACHEL LINDSAY, SHAINA RUBIN, IGOR SIMIC, CASSIE SPODAK, SONIA TYCKO, LORRAINE WHITE Contributors EMILY CHEESMAN, BILLY GOLDSTEIN, JON HILL, ROBERT KOHEN, HANNAH LEPOW, AMANDA PICKERING, MELISSA SIMKOVIC, LIZZY STRAUS, BARRY WEINBERG, GLOVER WRIGHT THE BLUE AND WHITE Vol. XV FAMAM EXTENDIMUS FACTIS No. II COLUMNS 4 BLUEBOOK 8 CAMPUS CHARACTERS 24 DIGITALIA COLUMBIANA 33 VERILY VERITAS 36 MEASURE FOR MEASURE 39 CAMPUS GOSSIP THE SUPERNA T URAL Alexandra Muhler 10 ABOUT THE AUTHOR The Blue and White crashes the Butler Marxist’s salon. Alexander Statman 12 FINAL FANTASY Foul is fair and fair is foul at Fort Tryon’s Medieval Festival. THE BLUE AND WHI T E 13 WE SEE DEAD PEOPLE A casting call for Morningside Heights ghost stories. Alexander Statman 14 LOVE POTION NO 116 Help for the lovelorn wizard. FEA T URES James Downie 15 BOOM AND BUST How the financial crisis has liquidated the dreams of would-be bankers. Katie Reedy 18 THE NE W DEALER A conversation with University Provost Alan Brinkley. Coogan Brennan 22 PLAYING FOR KEEPS The smack-talking, check-mating philosophers of St. Nicholas Park. Lydia DePillis 26 A RETURN TO NORMALCY The College Republicans scale down their ground offense. Juli N. Weiner 34 A LOUNGE OF THEIR OW N Columbia’s amateur pianists explain themselves. CRI T I C ISM Sumaiya Ahmed 29 LE VOYAGE DE BABAR A review of the Morgan Library & Museum exhibition. Sasha de Vogel 30 IS THIS THING ON? Columbia turns down the volume on the campus music scene. theblueandwhite.org f COVER : “Butler Ghouls” by Allison A. Halff REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST, PRESENT A PUBLIC AND BRIEF RESURGENCE Then: The College Libertarians Now: Ferris Reel THE LONGEST GOODBYE Then: Owen Gutfreund Now: David Kastan CRUEL FICTION Then: Signs of life on the sixth floor of Lerner A fine line may separate the supernatural from the deeply Now: Barnard-Columbia swipe access creepy, but for most of the year the denizens of Morningside Heights and Columbia fall squarely into the latter category. Take, STUBBORN ANACHRONISM for example, the recent experience of a B&W staffer as she walked Then: Columbia College website through Riverside Park. Spying two women pushing strollers, Now: David Sidorsky she overtook them and peered into the prams, expecting to see a couple of chubby babies. Instead she met with the cold, wet noses and bared teeth of two elderly, unwashed Pekingese. The scene LITERATURE HUMANITIES, was unnatural, but not unusual in a neighborhood whose primary BY THE NUMBERS landowner used to be the Bloomingdale insane asylum. Thus, in the spirit of All Hallows Eve, we devote The Blue and Average Lifespan of a Literature Humani- White’s October issue to the search for Columbia’s supernatural ties Text: 24 years on the syllabus ghouls and ghosts, none of which can be found on the accursed walls of Ricky’s. Average Age of a Literature Humanities We begin where all mythology is made: Butler Library, where Text: 842 years Alexandra Muhler crashes the Butler Marxist’s salon, learns that he is not in fact a Marxist, and provides for your edification his theory Number of Literature Humanities Authors: of the Cool and the Uncool (p.10). Next, Alexander Statman takes 59 you to the Fort Tryon Medieval Festival (p.12), where proponents of the medieval surrendered to the forces of the fantastical years Percent- ago. The result is a heady mix of Goths, fantasy buffs, and medi- age of All evalists gathering on the same ground, drinking mead. Literature True to our reputation for rigorous research, the editors of this Humanities publication also went ghost hunting. We may not have scoured Authors Who Are the land, but we worked the phones. Our respondents were unani- Female: 7 mous. “Columbia has no ghosts,” they said, no banshees or pol- tergeists. This is a real pity, and we dutifully offer our suggestions Percentage of Last Year’s Published Ameri- for individuals who should be haunting this campus (p.13). can Authors Who Are Female: 42 But for all these circuses, the October issue has some bread. James Downie investigates how the Masters of the Universe in- Least Stable Author: Shakespeare, who has training are reacting to the financial crisis (p.15). Sasha de Vo- hopped off and on the syllabus 14 times gel’s account of the reasons why Columbia’s music scene is on its last legs (p.33), and who put it there, will make you rethink paying Number of Literature Humanities Texts those Student Life Fees. in 1937: 33 Friends, times of upheaval call for desperate measures…to be taken by other people. Plant your Victory Garden and make your Number of Literature Humanities Texts Halloween costume out of John Jay napkins, if you must. But the in 2008: 27 real issue is in your hands. Most Turbulent Decade for the Syllabus: Anna Phillips The 1960s, which witnessed 154 changes Editor-in-Chief to the syllabus “FLEX”-ING YOUR VOCABULARY MUSCLES The Blue and White’s Guide to Learning the Lexicon Dear first-years who have been at Columbia for nearly two months: test your knowledge of the local dialect by using the Columbia lexicon Word Bank words to fill in the sentences below. Not all words are used. Word Bank: problematize, Flex, Harlem, Deluxe, fetishize, postmodernism, Derrida, construct, dialectic, Orien- talism, Hegel, one half of Chromeo, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” 1. My favorite quote on Facebook? It’s from _______. Eliot’s the only American poet I can stand, and he’s es- sentially British. 2. No, _______ is not scary at all. I go to Kitchenette all the time. 3. I already explained this to you at the Pastry Shop, but self-abstraction is the only way to _______ the self, and, therefore, the text. 4. Professor Vandenberg doesn’t actually like _______, better to take the modernism class first semester instead. 5. I was sort of done with my _______ phase by the time 12th grade ended. Now, I just find it all so funny, you know? 6. Gender is a _______. 7. Is there a Columbia-centric _______ between River and East Campus? I don’t know, but I do know the question has all the makings of an intellectually rigorous University Writing piece. 8. I see James Franco and _______ in Butler all the time. Answers: 1. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”; 2. Harlem; 3. Problematize; 4. postmodernism; 5. Derrida; 6. Construct; 7. Orientalism; 8. one half of Chromeo Chromeo of half one 8. Orientalism; 7. Construct; 6. Derrida; 5. postmodernism; 4. Problematize; 3. Harlem; 2. Prufrock”; Alfred J. of Song Love “The 1. Answers: ALL HALLOWS SLEAZE Match the actual, honest-to-God Ricky’s costume to the professor most likely to dress the part on Halloween! Correct answers will reveal themselves on October 31st, but our predictions are below. COSTUME PROFESSOR 1. Two-Piece Black/Red Ultimate Bachelor A. Jill Shapiro, Biological anthropology lecturer 2. Cain the Vampire Tyrant B. Jill Muller, Lecturer of Victorian literature and culture 3. Count Bloodthirst C. Anders Stephanson, the James P. Shenton Professor of the Core Cur- riculum 4. Navy Shipmate Cutie D. Suzanne Saïd, Professor of Greek Tragedy and Comedy 5. B.C. Babe Leopard E. Robert McCaughey, the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of History and 6. Sexy Josephine Barnard First Year English Professor of “The Beautiful Sea” seminar 7. South Sea Siren F. Cristen Scully Kromm, Assistant Dean of Community Development/ Director of Residential Programs 8. Tales of Old London: Victorian Harlot G. Jack McGourty, Associate Dean of SEAS, lead instructor in Gateway Lab course H. Deborah Valenze, Professor of Modern European History A; 6. H; 7. D; 8. B 8. D; 7. H; 6. A; Answers: 1. C; 2. F; 3. G; 4. E; 5. 5. E; 4. G; 3. F; 2. C; 1. Answers: Compiled by Jon Hill and Juli N. Weiner Illustrations by Allison A. Halff BLUEBOOK sk the average student bolting to Art Hum to di- schedules to accommodate the researchers. The frog Arect you to the nearest zebra finches and she might room—demarcated by a door sign that says, simply, suggest the Bronx Zoo. But she would be wrong—the “Frogs”—is similarly arranged. halls of one humanities building hold more than drowsy Proceeding into the rat room, the smell improved. students—wee beasties sit behind many doors. Dr. Swaney commented that these residents were Far from the uptown Medical Center, where chimp- much smarter. “See how they noticed that we came in costumed PETA demonstrators target high-profile the room?” Indeed, many of the rats scurried along animal testing labs, several small pop- the cages, sniffing at their visitors.
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