Fri, Sep 16, 2005, 12:00am
It would be difficult for anyone to fill the shoes of Columbia's leading rusher last season, Rashad Biggers. But for now, head coach Bob Shoop will not ask any one man to do so.
Fri, Sep 16, 2005, 12:00am
Head coach Bob Shoop took the podium after being hired away from Boston College to take over a football program that has been on life support for the past three decades.
Fri, Sep 16, 2005, 12:00am
After letting a couple of games slip through the team's fingers in part due to placekicking miscues, coupled with the graduation of 2003 all-Ivy punter Nick Rudd, the coaching staff decided that the best way to improve its lackluster kicking game was increased numbers.
Fri, Sep 16, 2005, 12:00am
He could play any position on the football field. At 6'5" and 240 pounds, he's bigger than most linebackers, as big as many ends, and has the frame for the offensive line.
Fri, Sep 16, 2005, 12:00am
Most college football teams are excited by the arrival of superstar players, not by their departure. But Columbia is not most college football teams. Here in Morningside, where mainstream superstars are few and far between, it is the lack of name players that has the 2005 Lions buzzing.
Fri, Sep 16, 2005, 12:00am
Making the most out of limited personnel is perhaps a football coach's most important job, and with Columbia's defense in mind, head coach Bob Shoop will have to make due with limited size across the depth chart.
Thu, Sep 15, 2005, 12:00am
If opera is an acquired taste, then a Gilbert-and-Sullivan operetta is a fruitcake-passed around by many, beloved by a select few.
Thu, Sep 15, 2005, 12:00am
For the second consecutive year, New York City Opera opens its season with a Strauss opera. Last fall, City presented the composer's rarity Daphne-a less-than-transcendent work-in a distinctive production perfectly suited to the somewhat constrained dimensions of the New York State Theater.
Thu, Sep 15, 2005, 12:00am
In a three-week-long celebration of new work commercial and independent, producers come together to create the theater of the future. Tickets to most events are in the $15 range and can be ordered online at www.nymf.org.
Thu, Sep 15, 2005, 12:00am
Correction appended.
Tom Fazzio, SEAS '06, and Nathalie Torres, SEAS '07, were elected president and secretary of the Engineering Student Council in an internal election last night, creating new vacancies on the Council.
