Thu, Feb 17, 2005, 12:00am
Last year was the strike. The year before was the ballot box. The campaign for unionization at Columbia University has been going on for five years, but the motives behind the graduate student unionization are still unclear.
Thu, Feb 17, 2005, 12:00am
The spring season of the Rabi-Warner Concert Series opened yesterday afternoon with a Rachmaninoff sonata performed for several dozen in the Faculty House. The music was beautiful, but the program just isn’t what it used to be.
Thu, Feb 17, 2005, 12:00am
As the season of tank tops and bikinis approaches, the pressure is on for those who resolved to lose weight for the new year. But many at the John Jay cafeteria don’t seem to care or want to notice.
Thu, Feb 17, 2005, 12:00am
Calling for students to hold their school accountable in considering the needs of the community, panelists outspoken against Columbia's plans for expansion into Manhattanville tried to educate SIPA students about human rights issues in their own backyard.
Thu, Feb 17, 2005, 12:00am
Forty-seven years ago today, Pope Pious XII declared Saint Clare of Assisi the patron saint of television. In the Catholic tradition, Saint Clare, who died in 1253 and was beatified in 1958, stands for feminine self-sacrifice, piety, and bravery in the face of masculine adversity.
Thu, Feb 17, 2005, 12:00am
Asked why she didn’t want to have pre-marital sex, Jasmine, a teenager from the Bronx, told The New York Times, “If I do ... then the honeymoon won’t be all exciting like you see on TV, so romantic and like a big deal.” Jasmine is only in high school.
Thu, Feb 17, 2005, 12:00am
One of the first things taught in our introductory writing course is the danger of false metaphor.
Thu, Feb 17, 2005, 12:00am
Ask any undergraduate about Columbia’s mandatory first-year meal plan, and you will likely get the same indignant response: it is a rip-off. Their frustration is justified.
Thu, Feb 17, 2005, 12:00am
They were supposed to be weak defensively, mediocre offensively, and struggling to stay out of the Ivy cellar. Coming into the season without their top player from last year, they were supposed to be looking up at Princeton and Penn from the bottom of the league.
Thu, Feb 17, 2005, 12:00am
Toward the end of the season in any sport, but especially wrestling, competition turns into a numbers game more than anything else.
