Thu, Mar 10, 2005, 12:00am
The first March student council election was held on Monday night as the Engineering Student Council elected Christopher Cheng, SEAS ’06, Cindy Gao, SEAS ’06, Tom Fazzio, SEAS ’06, Nick Sharma, SEAS ’07, and Renee Stroebel, SEAS ’08, as their leaders for the 2005-2006 school year.
Thu, Mar 10, 2005, 12:00am
The Double Discovery Center, a program of community involvement and service for underprivileged youth that has been at Columbia and in New York City for nearly 40 years, may soon be forced to close due to government budget cuts.
Thu, Mar 10, 2005, 12:00am
As part of their efforts to support open dialogue on the ongoing controversy over Columbia’s MEALAC department, the student groups Columbians for Academic Freedom and the Columbia Antiwar Coalition sponsored and participated in a debate entitled “Academic Freedom and Censorship at Columbia—What’
Thu, Mar 10, 2005, 12:00am
While her peers fell asleep over their textbooks in Butler, Caitlin Ahern, BC ’07, participated in the first ever city-wide homeless count Monday evening, documenting nearly 30 homeless individuals residing in the empty marble halls of the Penn Station Amtrak terminal.
Thu, Mar 10, 2005, 12:00am
In conjunction with its efforts to facilitate a campus dialogue about the ongoing concerns over academic freedom, the office of the University Chaplain sponsored a two-hour Common Meal forum Tuesday evening in Earl Hall.
Thu, Mar 10, 2005, 12:00am
A Consolidated Edison power failure caused rolling power outages in East Campus and the International Affairs Building between 1 and 7 a.m. on Tuesday morning.
Thu, Mar 10, 2005, 12:00am
In 2001, the faculty of Columbia’s department of English and Comparative Literature agreed to revise the number of Shakespeare classes that its undergraduate majors could take to fulfill their pre-1800 distribution requirement.
Thu, Mar 10, 2005, 12:00am
By John Davisson
Spectator Staff Writer
As a pro-choice, pro-gun control, pro-gay marriage, anti-death penalty politician, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg doesn’t fit the GOP stereotype; nor, it seems, does his campus constituency.
Thu, Mar 10, 2005, 12:00am
Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots and one of Columbia College’s most involved alumni, will be the keynote speaker at the College’s Class Day this spring.
Thu, Mar 10, 2005, 12:00am
The U.S. Department of Justice is reportedly launching preliminary investigations into the New York Times Company’s plans to take a 49 percent stake in the publication Metro Boston.
