Whether you want to remember it as the Harbaugh Bowl, the Harbowl, or Ray Lewis’ last game, Super Bowl 47 was certainly a game for the ages. Two weeks prior to the big game both the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens faced stiff competition in their respective conference championship games. The Niners seized […]
CUNYAC Cross-Country Championships: A Season in Review
The City University of New York Athletic Conference (CUNYAC) hosts Macaulay’s participating schools and the dominance that has been displayed by Baruch College over the last three years has led them to three consecutive CUNYAC Commissioner’s Cups. Baruch remains in the lead for this coveted athletic prize with 50 points thus far during the 2012-2013 […]
What’s Happening at CCNY This Spring
Celebrating History This month, City College is hosting events in honor of Black History Month. In the past few weeks of February, events have included a performance of “James Baldwin: Down from the Mountaintop,” lectures on the lives of Malcolm X and Bob Marley, and showings of Good Hair, Glory Road and To Sir With […]
Kofi Annan Visits City College
As Winter Storm Nemo began its descent on New York, City College students and faculty gathered welcome Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations. The event, which included a discussion and Q&A, marked the publication of Annan’s papers from his years (1997 to 2006) as Secretary-General. The Collected Papers of Kofi Annan, a five-volume […]
A Vaccine Against War
If there is such a thing as a vaccine against war, then shouldn’t humans as a species do their best to administer it to everyone? Through her lecture ‘Dead Butchers and Fiendlike Queens’: Why Macbeth Matters More Than Ever, Professor Catharine Stimpson argues that the study of liberal arts is a “vaccine” against war. The […]
Obama Delivers Hefty State of the Union Address
President Obama laid out a heavy agenda of policy initiatives during his politically charged State of the Union address. The speech covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the economy, as well as climate change, immigration, gun reform, poverty, and voting accessibility. He stressed the necessity of economic reforms that promote “a rising, thriving […]
Spotlight: Tyler Alterman
Can a glowing, brain-topped recycled bread truck revolutionize science education? Yes — if Tyler Alterman (Hunter ’13) has his way. Alterman has launched a campaign to fund The Think Tank, a cognitive science lab-on-wheels, in order to transform public perception of the sciences. He thought of the idea after reading a New York Times article […]
Brooklyn College Holds Controversial BDS Panel
“The new McCarthyism is rising,” warned Omar Barghouti as the faint voices of protestors outside filtered into the buzzing room, where over 250 students and members of the public gathered at Brooklyn College on February 7 to attend a panel on the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement. The Brooklyn College Students for Justice in […]
North Korea’s “Soft Landing”
Reports that North Korea has been conducting successful nuclear tests have recently rattled the Western world. Of course, this is an international security issue, and one that the United States should remain on alert. However, North Korea’s nuclear capability is simply a deterrent, used to ensure the Kim regime of its survival in a world, […]
The Hate on “Fake Geek Girls”
There seems to be a lot of hatred running around the Internet regarding “fake gamer girls,” and admittedly, I joined in on this fun quite gladly for a long time. I am sure that by now most of you have seen quite a few people weigh in on this issue; it is in certain respects […]
