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Directed by Chuan Lu Columbia Pictures 5 stars Stillness and grit pervade Kekexili, the “last virgin wilderness in China,” a freezing, barren wasteland where comradeships are tested and the human spirit dies. “Mountain Patrol: Kekexili” discusses in disturbing yet beautiful terms the human heart’s simultaneous capacities for selfless kindness and selfish evil. In “Kekexili,” no one is innocent, and no one is guilty. Everyone bears responsibility for the destruction of man and nature. Director Chuan Lu’s touching...
...avoid the trade-off as much as possible.” Polonsky says that James Schamus is more or less his role model. He is the president of Focus Features, a film company where Polonsky has interned. Schamus not only has a PhD, teaches at Columbia, and publishes, but he has also collaborated with Ang Lee to co-write and executively produce “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” and, more recently, to produce last year’s “Brokeback Mountain.” Schamus’ success is probably the status...
...according to Hughes. “I really don’t know how often book deals get cancelled for any other reason than failure to deliver, but you can bet it’s very rare,” Todd Gitlin, a professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University, wrote in an e-mail yesterday. According to legal experts, it is possible to plagiarize a work without infringing on its copyright. “If I use a sentence from another work and pass it off as my own without citing it or quoting it, that might...
...Harvard track and field coach Frank Haggerty ’68, Director of Athletics Bob Scalise announced the hiring of Jason Saretsky as Haggerty’s replacement, effective July 1. Saretsky, the associate director of the track and field program at Iona College, is a 1999 graduate of Columbia University. In college, he starred as a two-time All-Ivy runner and Ivy League Heptagonal champion in the 3200-meter relay. In five years at Iona, Saretsky led the Gaels to four straight top-10 finishes at the NCAAs. —THE CRIMSON STAFF
...tenure system does not include review by an ad hoc committee.“If we believed that it dramatically enhanced the quality of the appointments, we would probably adopt such a process, but I don’t know that it obviously does,” Saller says.Although Columbia University does put tenure cases through an ad hoc scrutiny, Provost Alan Brinkley agrees that the existence of an ad hoc committee does not seem to significantly affect the quality of the tenure process.Brinkley says rigorous tenure review at the departmental level is the most important part of the tenure...