The Core Junction

[As published in the Columbia Daily Spectator on Tuesday, February 2, 2010].
Of the many factors that bring sports fans to the arena, the opposing team is certainly a major motivation.
If your team is good, watching an intense matchup against a top contender is highly enticing. And if your team is bad, heading to the stadium [...]

[As was published in the Columbia Daily Spectator on October 28, 2009]
What’s in a name?
In sports, a team’s nickname rarely merits a second thought. If you’re from the Bay Area, you might root for the Raiders and your best friend may support the 49ers. More than likely, you have an amiable rivalry.
But what if your [...]

It appears that people are starting to come down from their Obama high.

Jonathan Hollander is a senior at Columbia University majoring in economics.
When right wing nutjobs scream about Obama’s Hitleresque plans to institute death panels and kill grandma, it makes me angry. It’s not because I actually think Obama will be remembered more like Neville Chamberlain than Adolf Hitler, but because these ignoramouses are drawing attention away [...]

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia that features approximately 2,606,409 articles in English and somewhere around 10 million total. The ‘Wiki’ phenomenon that has swept the world over the past several years is one of the more highly controversial topics among students, teachers, and everyday people alike.

The main argument against the Internet’s most popular information [...]

Clearly over here at The Core we are huge baseball fans, and I, being a Met fan always wondered about the origins of CitiField, the new home of the New York Mets. Citifield—named due to its funding by Citibank—was built over the last year to be the new home to the Mets following Shea Stadium. [...]

The 2009 U.S. Open-skies is finally complete as of a few hours ago and like all major golf tournaments, the final round was the definition of exciting. But while players and fans will quickly turn their attention to the British Open and the PGA Championship (in July and August respectively), the U.S. Open raised some [...]