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December 2007 THE UNDERGRADUATE MAGAZINE OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY , EST . 1890 Vol. XIV No. IV December 2007 THE WAR ON FUN Prohibition Returns to Morningside Heights By Joseph Meyers FAVORITE SON A Conversation With Playwright Tony Kushner By Lydia DePillis THINKING OUTSIDE THE GODBOX: riverside’s INTERCHURCH CENTER KEEPS THE FAITH ALSO : MAC GENII , KEROUAC , MARGOT AT THE WEDDING Lorum ipsum bla bla bla Editor-in-Chief TAYLOR WALSH Publisher JESSICA COHEN Managing Editor LYDIA DEPILLIS (Bwog) Culture Editor PAUL BARNDT Features Editor ANDREW MCKAY FLYNN Literary Editor HANNAH GOLDFIELD Senior Editors ANNA PHILLIPS KATIE REEDY JULI N. WEINER Layout Editor Editor-at-Large DANIEL D’ADDARIO JAMES R. WILLIAMS Deputy Layout Editor Graphics Editor J. JOSEPH VLASITS ALLISON A. HALFF Web Master Copy Chief ZACHARY VAN SCHOUWEN ALEXANDER STATMAN Staff Writers SUMAIYA AHMED, HILLARY BUSIS, SASHA DE VOGEL, MERRELL HAMBLETON, DAVID ISCOE, KAREN LEUNG, JOSEPH MEYERS, ALEXANDRA MUHLER, MARYAM PARHIZKAR, ARMIN ROSEN, CAROLINE ELIZABETH ROBERTSON, LUCY TANG, SARA VOGEL Artists JULIA BUTAREVA, MAXINE KEYES, JENNY LAM, SHAINA RUBIN, ZOË SLUTZKY, DIANA ZHENG Contributors MAXWELL LEE COHEN, CHRISTOPHER MORRIS-LENT, JUSTIN GONÇALVES, KURT KANAZAWA, KATE LINTHICUM, YELENA SHUSTER, PIERCE STANLEY, LUCY SUN, ALEXANDRIA SYMONDS 2 THE BLUE AND WHITE THE BLUETOPCAP AND TK WHITE Vol. XIV FAMAM EXTENDIMUS FACTIS No. IV COLUMNS 4 BLUEBOOK 8 CAMPUS CHARACTERS 11 VERILY VERITAS 14 DIGITALIA COLUMBIANA 33 MEASURE FOR MEASURE 35 CAMPUS GOSSIP COVER STORY Joseph Meyers 16 THE WAR ON FUN Prohibition returns to Morningside Heights. FEATURES Andrew Flynn 12 THINKING OUTSIDE THE GODBOX Riverside’s Interchurch Center keeps the faith. Juli N. Weiner 20 CULT OF THE GENIUS High noon at the Fifth Avenue Apple Store. Lydia DePillis 22 FAVORITE SON A conversation with playwright Tony Kushner. Karen Leung 26 ANNALS OF FANDOM Shouts and murmurs from the desktops of New Yorker devotees. Sumaiya Ahmed 34 LETTER FROM LYON Our far-flung correspondent. CRITI C ISM Daniel D’Addario 29 BAUMBACH ON BARNARD Margot at the Wedding provides a glimpse of our futures. Sasha de Vogel 30 THE DEAD BEAT SCROLL Jack Kerouac retrospective at the New York Public Library. Merrell Hambleton 32 CONTEMPORAY CIVILIZATION Tara Donovan at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. WWW .theblueandwhite.org f COVER : “Club Columbia” by Shaina Rubin DECEMBER 2007 3 TRANSACTIONS ARRIVALS $50 million for Major Cultures seminars The Writers’ Guild strike Gmail group chats and animated emoti- cons ;-) Rhodes, Marshalls, other academic bric- a-brac An “International Emmy” for Prof. Si- Some issues of the THE BLUE AND WHITE are deliberately themed, but this one wasn’t. The thread that weaves these ar- mon Schama ticles together was only identified after the fact, in a telling mo- ment of editorial serendipity. Blame it on finals-inspired bursts Revulsion, in the form of Commentariat of renewed academicism, or the bitter weather that keeps us close to our computers, but this month, our collective uncon- Mixed messages, in the form of Colum- scious has clearly been funneled toward all manners of geekery. bia researchers declaring virgins over Our December issue showcases the many faces and facets 21-years-old psychologically scarred of lameness—revelations of repressed awkwardness, whole- hearted embraces of dork mores, and further oppressions of Burger King hot fries in Lerner vending the already downtrodden. machine Sasha de Vogel knocks Jack Kerouac’s cool factor down a notch, reviewing an exhibition that reveals the degree of self- fashioning that went into his beatnik rebel persona—he was, DEPARTURES after all, once a Columbia student: a mediocre athlete doing Michael Seidel tells students in his final drugs to fit in. Juli Weiner brings us a meditation on the epi- class he’s “wrapping up his life now.” center of urban nerddom—the Fifth Avenue Apple Store—and the generally civil war between the guys who sell you your The public housing-eating papier mâché computer and the guys who fix it. octopus Lydia DePillis sits down with dramatic demigod Tony Kushner, a geek success story and the hero of writerly nerds Broadway Stage- everywhere. Reclaiming his decidedly pedestrian roots, hand’s strike Kushner recalls coming out, getting laid (in Furnald!), and striking on behalf of that consortium of misfits, the Writers Getting C’s Guild. And Joseph Meyers’s cover story on the “War on Fun” (Thanks, P/D/F) shows that social outcasts who choose to party in their dorms are having a tougher time than ever drinking Sparks while Hot Jazz’s ship watching their Family Guy DVDs. has sailed But geek taxonomy extends beyond our subjects. It runs rampant from Milstein to McBain, and THE BLUE AND WHITE is Injustice, in the no exception: we marvel over all new Gmail features, compul- form of another sively track bylines, and argue over the proper Latinate plural Columbia soap of words like “genius.” And you, gentle reader, most likely opera fall into this category too. So take a break from “studying” (living on Facebook); be- THE BLUE AND cause who doesn’t like reading about themselves? WHITE ’s ban on emoticons —Taylor Walsh Editor-in-Chief 44 T HE B TLUEHE BANDLUE W ANDHITE WHITE GOD REST YE MERRY GENTLEMEN Let nothing you dismay. ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANY GARLAND IBRAHIM JASPER JUDAH NOROUZ UJIMA UMOJA YULE S F K A U J A S P E R U U P H M N L F J Y Y G Z P E O G N T B L P U Y V T J O A M R I K K N I Z A C Y R J I O O A Z N C N H U L U R H H C O V H S Q L A W J P A R H A J C E E N I I I O R D U Y N I U D P Y U M U B T S A L P E W Z X J A H I L F C N N P Y H T N R B J N M U F K H Y T M J M J BY THE NUMBERS COME AGAIN...? Using publicly available census data, we Beginning in the fall of 2008, the Cen- determined that Columbia University em- ter for Comparative Literature and So- ployees commute from their primary resi- ciety will offer a study abroad program dences in the following locales: at the University of Ghana in Legon. Buried deep in the Center’s email to 1727 Morningside Heights interested students was the following 322 Upper West Side statement: “Applicants should be aware 313 Harlem that, regrettably, homosexuality is ille- 180 Bergen County, New Jersey gal in Ghana.” 99 Kingsbridge, Bronx 80 East Village Study abroad administrators were re- 35 Williamsburg, Brooklyn luctant to discuss the statement, and 26 Staten Island State Department travel information for 14 Baltimore, Maryland Ghana did not include warnings based 8 Litchfield County, Connecticut on sexual orientation, focusing instead 1 Albemarle County, Virginia on crime and special $1.75 taxes on 1 Bluffton, South Carolina incoming electronics. Other advisories 1 Chicago for Tunisia and Cameroon, however, 1 San Diego, California noted that homosexuality “can be pun- ished by imprisonment.” Bluebook compiled by Katie Reedy; Illustrations by Allison Halff DECEMBERNOVEMBER 2007 2007 5 5 BLUEBOOK our copy of The Iliad is the first free thing you’ll Christmas list, but is closer to what Heller initially set Yget out of Columbia—and most likely the last. But out to create—a talisman that need never leave the body if a cheap, practical paperback is an assault on your of its owner. classical tastes, one bibliophile is offering a deluxe ver- Despite the book’s lavish construction, Heller has sion for students with a penchant for the finer things. opted to use Alexander Pope’s translation, which is in Ben Heller, CC ‘09, is embarking on a business the public domain and therefore free for republica- venture with some wealthy backers to create a series tion. The book will not feature Richmond Lattimore’s of fifteen mini-Iliads that will have hand-set type on Iliad, the Core’s standard issue translation, but Hel- hand-set pages. These modern-day relics will cost up ler’s judgment seems sound. In contrast to the brawny to $1000 a pop. line-by-line literalism of the Lattimore, the Pope is Heller’s original vision was more modest: inspired very much the aspiring 18th-century dandy’s Iliad. by people reading pocket Bibles in the subway, he And who better to carry a handcrafted, leatherbound thought he’d like to have Homer’s epic in his breast Greek classic tucked behind his cravat, close to his pocket. But his work as a bibliographer for Robin heart? Raybould, a real estate developer and avid collector of Renaissance symbolist literature, drew him into the —J. Joseph Vlasits New York rare book scene, and drew his mini-Iliad project into strata of greater exorbitance. The project e will actually be more financially viable as a no-holds- barred, spare-no-expense limited run—Columbia’s any people outgrow the desire to don masks and Rare Books Library and a handful of private collec- Msave the world, but GS student Chaim Lazaros, tors have already committed to purchasing the pricey has amassed an adult Justice League of his own. An mini-books, which will probably be completed in aspiring filmmaker, Lazaros is the co-founder of Su- spring 2008. perheroes Anonymous, an organization that brings to- But there are only so many classicists with the re- gether and then chronicles real-life superheroes—cos- quired amount of disposable income, so Heller and tumed, alter-egoed do-gooders with names like Red his backers are also devising a $100 version that looks Justice and Direction Man, who roam the highways similar but uses computer-set type and mechanized and byways helping lost tourists and offering subway binding.
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