Fri, Oct 1, 2004, 12:00am
Turn anywhere in this city, and you're likely to find lists. Real estate, restaurants, bestsellers, A-lists, Letterman's Top Ten--the list, so to speak, goes on. What you won't find this year, however, is a list of students denied a space on Columbia's campus.
Fri, Oct 1, 2004, 12:00am
After a yearlong celebration, Columbia's 250th anniversary celebration will conclude this weekend with a poetry reading, a pep rally, and--this time--a real cake.
Fri, Oct 1, 2004, 12:00am
When engineering senior Brandon Basso realized the English course he was in had been cancelled, he scrambled to register for a section of Structure and Style I to complete his English minor before he graduates this May.
Fri, Oct 1, 2004, 12:00am
As Alice Yip, CC '96, exchanged wedding vows on campus last week, she demonstrated that some people are willing to go to truly great lengths for love.
Fri, Oct 1, 2004, 12:00am
As humans gain more knowledge of and control over the natural world, the intersection between the environment and societies rises to crucial importance.
Fri, Oct 1, 2004, 12:00am
Robert Kraft, CC '63, businessman and philanthropist, will be the next recipient of the Alexander Hamilton Award.
Thu, Sep 30, 2004, 12:00am
As the audience waits for The Bald Soprano to begin, the
clock on stage begins to strike. At the 17th strike of the clock,
it’s clear that The Bald Soprano is no ordinary play.
Eugene Ionesco is, of course, no ordinary playwright.
Thu, Sep 30, 2004, 12:00am
Like many artists of the Modernist era, composer Richard Strauss
(1864-1949) drew heavily on antiquity, setting his distinctive and
inventive music to libretti based on Greek myths. The emphasis he
placed on classical source material was in part a reaction to
Thu, Sep 30, 2004, 12:00am
The New York Theatre Workshop’s production of Henrik
Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler is like a kindergarten class
show-and-tell—except it’s all show and no tell. Nothing
is left to the imagination in this new production by Flemish
director Ivo van Hove..
Thu, Sep 30, 2004, 12:00am
A stroll down College Walk provides visible evidence to support Columbia's oft-repeated claim that it is the most diverse Ivy League university. Now, a new report offers statistical confirmation.