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Spec Putting In New Columns

After several application deadline postponements, our dead-tree friends at the Spec have finally chosen their new set of opinion columnists. Some old Bwog favorites have returned, some fresh faces have been added, and it's not known who gets the Friday death slots.

  • Anthony Kelley, CC '09, who wrote what IvyGate called "The Batshittiest Spectator Column You Will Ever Read."
  • Jonathan Hollander, CC '10, whose most recent Spec piece called out Kelley.
  • Adil Ahmed, CC '09, CCSC VP for Policy and former MSA president.
  • Andrew Lyubarsky, CC '09, one of the hunger strike negotiators, whom Bwog interviewed in Novermber.
  • Lauren Salz, BC '11, CUGOP President Executive Director and CPU Communications Coordinator.
  • Kate Redburn, CC '10, and Sarah Leonard, CC '10, former Dems board members writing a joint column.
  • Marissa Mazek, BC '10, one of the organizers of "Love Your Body Week."
  • Jonathon Grant, GS '08, actor and dancer.
  • Catherine Madeo, GS '10, a yoga instructor (and the oldest columnist at 33).
  • Becky Davies, CC '10, leader of the Columbia University Food Sustainability Project.
  • Dan Blank, CC '09, who directed KCST's King Lear, and who hasn't written for the Spec since Saddam was executed.
  • Alexios Shaw, CC '09, former Managing Editor of The Birch, and water-polo enthusiast.

UPDATE 9:27 PM: Ask for a schedule, and ye shall receive. All mysteries will be solved after the jump.

Week 1

M Becky Davies
M Dan Blank
T Sarah Leonard and Kate Redburn
W Jon Hollander
Th Catherine Madeo
F Alexi Shaw

Week 2

M Marissa Mazek
M Adil Ahmed
T Anthony Kelley
W Lauren Salz
Th Andrew Lyubarsky
F Jon Grant

Posted by spec: #1 · reply · track
August 21, 2008 at 11:27 AM
[external link to www.wikicu.com]
Posted by alum: #2 · reply · track
August 21, 2008 at 11:32 AM
Yay Lauren Salz!

Actually she is the CUGOP Executive Director (VP). Joe Charalel is the President.
Posted by Lauren Salz: #3 · reply · track
August 21, 2008 at 11:42 AM
The spawn of Chris Kulawik? Or will there be a legitimate discourse between the Right and Left this semester without any sensationalist speakers?
Posted by well: #4 (in reply to #3) · reply · track
August 21, 2008 at 11:49 AM
hopefully there will be legitimate discourse generally and not sensationalists camping on the lawns.

what i want to know is why anthony kelley and his crazyness is back on spec
Posted by you're missing one: #5 · reply · track
August 21, 2008 at 12:16 PM
you're missing a columnist
Posted by this list: #6 · reply · track
August 21, 2008 at 12:31 PM
is not completely accurate...
Posted by Jim (Site staff): #7 (in reply to #5) · reply · track
August 21, 2008 at 12:35 PM
Yes, we unintentionally left out Adil Ahmed at first. Sorry, Adil.
Posted by anonymous: #8 · reply · track
August 21, 2008 at 12:38 PM
no more jelani johnson sportswriting?
Posted by really: #9 (in reply to #3) · reply · track
August 21, 2008 at 1:38 PM
after all of last year you're going to complain about kulawik from the previous op ed writers?

maybe you should just get back to hunger striking already.
Posted by Up yours: #10 (in reply to #9) · reply · track
August 21, 2008 at 1:49 PM
I was in the counter-Hunger Strike protest. I am just dismayed that Kulawik tarnished the right. There are far more intelligent right-wing speakers he could have brought to campus than Jim Gilchrist, John Ashcroft, John Bolton & the LionPac guy.
Posted by ...: #11 · reply · track
August 21, 2008 at 1:54 PM
looking at that linked John Hollander column, i think he was a good choice
Posted by then: #12 (in reply to #10) · reply · track
August 21, 2008 at 1:59 PM
you'll love who the cugop has lined up next.
Posted by mistake: #13 · reply · track
August 21, 2008 at 2:03 PM
alexois is cc'09
Posted by mistake: #14 · reply · track
August 21, 2008 at 2:04 PM
alexios is cc'09
Posted by no..then : #15 (in reply to #10) · reply · track
August 21, 2008 at 2:06 PM
you're a divisive partisan who doesn't actually care about the reputation of the 'right' as opposed to what you think they should represent

regardless of how much i agree with them John Ashcroft was the former Attorney General of the US, John Bolton was the former US ambassador to the UN and Jim Gilchrist was the head of one of the biggest and most prominent citizen watchdog groups in the highly debated area of immigration...'intelligence' is obviously something that only you have access to in your own myopic and ridiculous view of the world--kulawik didn't tarnish (he's a meaningless snot nosed college kid) the reputation of the right except in your demented mind
Posted by Yes!: #16 · reply · track
August 21, 2008 at 2:14 PM (from campus)
Kate and Sarah together? That's almost too much awesome-ness to handle! Love them!
Posted by Hollander : #17 · reply · track
August 21, 2008 at 2:52 PM
is awesome. We need more of that kind of discourse.
Posted by zoidberg: #18 (in reply to #12) · reply · track
August 21, 2008 at 3:00 PM
bill o'!??! please say it's our favorite falafel-loving guy.
Posted by the poster: #19 · reply · track
August 21, 2008 at 3:24 PM
More embarrassing than the worst-writing-ever Spec is the much better Blue and White being so utterly obsessed with it. What is wrong with your staff? Relax about the Spec already.
Posted by Hollander: #20 · reply · track
August 21, 2008 at 3:43 PM
is a conservative freak
Posted by Yay!: #21 · reply · track
August 21, 2008 at 3:54 PM
Yay! Good writing comes back to the Spec - Sarah had a few really good op-ed's in Spec already and Kate is just really wonderful - I can't wait to see this column.

Posted by puro lover : #22 · reply · track
August 21, 2008 at 4:29 PM
PUROVERTIME IS PURGENIUS
Posted by CML: #23 · reply · track
August 21, 2008 at 4:58 PM
Krule wouldn't know good writing if someone hit her over the head with a copy of 'Ulysses.'
Posted by hey bwog,: #24 · reply · track
August 21, 2008 at 5:36 PM
do you know what days each of their columns will appear?
Posted by ...: #25 · reply · track
August 21, 2008 at 5:50 PM
did anyone from seas bother to apply?

can anyone from seas even write?
Posted by haha cml is bitter: #26 · reply · track
August 21, 2008 at 6:30 PM
Haha I bet CML is just bitter because he didn't get a column (does anyone know if he applied?) Didn't he work for Spec and the get kicked off or something?
Posted by CML: #27 · reply · track
August 21, 2008 at 6:52 PM
To clarify: I quit of my own volition - as you can see by who the editor is, Spec Opinion isn't really in the position to kick any of its staff. And yes, I did apply and I am bitter, I am bemused, and I am still right.
Posted by Ulysses?: #28 (in reply to #23) · reply · track
August 21, 2008 at 7:05 PM
there's your problem, CML.....you think Ulysses is well-written.
Posted by CML: #29 · reply · track
August 21, 2008 at 7:47 PM
Hahah, I've never read it.

But do you think if I whine and play the martyr any more, I might weasel my way into a column? Worked for Kelley, after all.
Posted by EAL: #30 (in reply to #29) · reply · track
August 21, 2008 at 7:59 PM (from campus)
Overall great columnists, but why the hell is Anthony Kelley still allowed to write for Spec? Are the editors of the opinion section that brain-dead that they recognize Kelley to be stimulating intellectual discourse?
Posted by hmm: #31 · reply · track
August 22, 2008 at 12:03 AM (from campus)
what's wrong with fridays?
Posted by obvious: #32 (in reply to #29) · reply · track
August 22, 2008 at 7:52 AM
clearly, spec is keeping Kelley because his "batshit insane" pieces get attention (and ad clicks) from ivygate and the like. servers cost money and shit you know.

i'm just waiting for another spec piece to top "the dalai lama gave mad dudes AIDS" one.
Posted by ...: #33 · reply · track
August 22, 2008 at 4:41 PM
i think everyone loves alexi. if his writing is any bit as amusing as his speech, it'll be a good column.
Posted by hmm: #34 (in reply to #20) · reply · track
August 22, 2008 at 8:14 PM
He is but at least he bases it on logic sometimes.
Posted by ......: #35 · reply · track
August 23, 2008 at 11:51 PM
Hollander is a rational conservative...

His article against Kelley was an intellectual smackdown... I loved the final reference to Obama

I foresee some sparring this year between Kelley and Hollander... Bwog, you should encourage it!
Posted by how: #36 · reply · track
August 26, 2008 at 12:31 PM (from campus)
the fuck is anthony kelley writing a another spec column? they were abominable
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