Letter to the editor

To the Editor:

I just wanted to thank Spectator for starting out the new school year on such a positive note. Spectator has a crucial role in the morale and dialogue of our University, and I really appreciated the honest, optimistic take on the Core and on student life at Columbia that you included in the first issue after NSOP. This is exactly the sort of language that contributes to creating safe spaces for discussion and continuing discourse. I much prefer the recent issues’ tone to the offensive, abrasive commentary of past issues that complains more than it informs or gives advice for solutions to the problems we experience.

I also completely agree with the staff editorial about creating some semblance of a post-NSOP survey. As a former NSOP employee, I know that there is a tremendous amount of work that goes into putting NSOP together. Though each new NSOP committee truly does its best to make NSOP as fun, informative, and accessible as they can, there is still an incredible amount of progress that the program can stand to make for coming generations of CU students, and that change begins and ends with the students.

Rock on, Spec, thanks for such a great, open-minded start to my senior year!

Laura Taylor, CC ’10
Sept. 14, 2009