Monthly Archives: March 2018

Events Hosted by the Office of University Life

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Dear Students,

The Office of University Life has some exciting events coming up. Take a look below:

CU Live: Talent Showcase

Wednesday, April 4th at 7 pm

Miller Theatre (2960 Broadway)

Join the University Life Events Council for the first-ever, CU Live: Talent Showcase. The night will be filled with performances, comedy, visual art, and more – preview here. Don’t miss an amazing night of great talent with giveaways (free Passion Planners for the first 200 students, raffles of movie passes, Amazon gift cards and Bose speakers throughout the event)!

Like and share our Facebook event here and RSVP here.

** We had to reschedule the Talent Showcase (because of the snow storm) and would really appreciate any extra support in promoting within your school. 

CU Dance: Sunset Silent Disco

Thursday, April 12th from 6-8pm

Ancell Plaza (Between East Campus and Jerome Greene Hall)


Stop by, grab a pair of headphones and join us for just one song or go all in and dance the night away! The event will be filled with tons of giveaways, food and more. Look out for more updates in the weeks to come on University Life Events Council webpage and the University Life Facebook page. No RSVP will be required for this event.

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Lastly, the Office of University Life is hosting a Sunset Yoga Series each Wednesday (April 11 – May 9) and still have one Campus Conversation Facilitator Training this Friday from 12-3pm if you know of any students interested in participating in either of these initatives.

Event: EPIC News with Victor Navasky

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Tuesday, March 6: EPIC Conversation with Victor Navasky
Please join us for the first in a series of conversations with distinguished colleagues from the Emeritus Professors in Columbia community. This EPIC Conversation is co-sponsored by the Columbia Journalism School.
Victor Navasky chairs the Columbia Journalism Review. He was the George Delacorte Professor of Magazine Journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he directed the Delacorte Center for Magazine Study. He has served as editor, publisher and now publisher emeritus of The Nation, which he joined in 1978.
In the 1970’s Navasky served as an editor on The New York Times Magazine. In the 1960’s he was founding editor and publisher of Monocle, a “leisurely quarterly of political satire” (that meant it came out twice a year). His books include Kennedy Justice and Naming Names, which won a National Book Award, and (with Christopher Cerf) The Experts Speak: The Definitive Guide to Authoritative Misinformation, and also Mission Accomplished! Or How We Won the War In Iraq, A Matter of Opinion, which won the 2005 George Polk Book Award and the 2006 Ann M. Sperber Prize, and of which The New York Times wrote, “Anybody who has ever dreamed of starting a magazine, or worried that the country is losing the ability to speak seriously to itself, should read A Matter of Opinion.”
Navasky is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Most recently he has published The Art of Making Magazines: On Being an Editor and Other Views from the Industry, edited by Victor S. Navasky and Evan Cornog, and The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and Their Enduring Power (Knopf, 2013).
Navasky will be in conversation with Michael Rosenthal, Roberta and William Campbell Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, another distinguished Columbia author and scholar, and an EPIC steering committee member.
12:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Joseph Pulitzer World Room
Pulitzer Hall
Columbia University
Lunch provided.
Seating is limited. RSVP Required.