Any time spent in the company of this charismatic couple — whether as spectator or student — is said to be exhilarating.
According to a report in The Spectator, the student newspaper at Stuyvesant, one teacher suggested at a regular teachers' meeting with the principal on May 21 that they respond to the criticism by refusing to write college recommendations for anyone in the junior class.
He has contested all three strikes, saying that the rules on the use of Student Union resources were unclear; that anyone could have overloaded the bulletin board, and that in any case, it was not he; and that his comment on his opponent was made in private messages and was essentially what had already been published in the Spectator, the student newspaper, when it endorsed Mr. Cahn.
It is easy to see here the tight link between Dewey's epistemology and his views on education—his anti-spectator epistemology morphs directly into advocacy for anti-spectator learning by students in school students learn by being active inquirers.
One woman he once targeted remembers how he invaded her "personal space … and then, with those slightly popping blue eyes of his, said: 'You really must come and write for me at the Spectator.'" Female students have asked him to sign their bare chests and it appears that he more than willingly obliged.
Taking inspiration from the fabulous Spectator newspaper run by students at Stuyvesant High School in New York, we launched a competition to design the paper, come up with a name and to set the initial editorial tone; now we have established a process that sustains a regular publication of high quality that has no teacher input of any kind.
Yesterday, a commemorative magazine issue of the student newspaper, The Spectator, with articles chronicling the emotional reactions of students, was distributed throughout the New York metropolitan region with The New York Times.
In a letter to The Spectator, Fatima Bhutto, a Barnard College student, said she was surprised at "how little freedom of expression seems to matter on this campus".
On a recent afternoon, perhaps 60 of the missionaries and students were spectators in the prayer room while a team of musicians and speakers at the front kept the chain of worship unbroken.
The resignation, which was reported over the weekend by a student news blog, Bwog.com, and Columbia's student newspaper, The Spectator, is the second in three months by a prominent African-American administrator at the university.
As the matter percolated in The Spectator, however, other professors and students defended Mr. Said's right to political free expression.
