Mon, May 9, 2005, 12:00am
In a controversy that never seemed to stop snowballing, what began as a series of student complaints in a 20-minute, low-budget documentary grew into a tumultuous campus crisis that shook every part of Columbia this year.
Mon, May 9, 2005, 12:00am
The MEALAC controversy quickly grew to encompass more than the student allegations which spurred it.
Mon, May 9, 2005, 12:00am
Last spring, students and faculty alike called on the administration to address issues of diversity at Columbia. As part of the University's response, professor Jean Howard was appointed to the newly created post of Vice Provost for Diversity Initiatives last September.
Mon, May 9, 2005, 12:00am
Columbia's glass ceiling is beginning to sport a few cracks.
Mon, May 9, 2005, 12:00am
By now, campus Democrats may be too busy planning Hillary '08 and Barack '16 meet-ups to lament the outcome of last fall's election. And though many of the left-leaning students who spent months campaigning for John Kerry may never understand why they lost, the fact--and President George W.
Mon, May 9, 2005, 12:00am
After a semester of town hall meetings, open forums, and discussions by a special University Senate task force, the latest round in the ROTC debate came to a close last Friday when the Senate rejected once and for all a proposal to return the program to campus.
Mon, May 9, 2005, 12:00am
Though most Columbia students will never meet him, Mark Zuckerberg was the most influential man on campus this year. His creation, thefacebook.
Mon, May 9, 2005, 12:00am
For the second time in as many years, graduate student preceptors, instructors, teaching assistants, and research assistants took to the picket lines this spring in an ongoing movement to earn collective bargaining rights with the University.
Mon, May 9, 2005, 12:00am
Affordable housing in Morningside Heights has been hit hard this year. Longtime residents have had to endure the continuing trend of gentrification, neglect by building owners and managers, and large cuts in funding by the federal government. Their cause, however, has not been abandoned.
Mon, May 9, 2005, 12:00am
Six Upper Manhattan residents will be wearing out plenty of shoe leather this summer.
