Tue, Sep 21, 2004, 12:00am
In a special election held last night, the Engineering Student Council chose Chris Cheng, SEAS '06, to serve as its new president for the 2004-2005 academic year.
Tue, Sep 21, 2004, 12:00am
Columbia has purchased a building that houses a McDonald's store in Manhattanville, but for now the golden arches will remain at the southwest corner of West 125th Street and Broadway.
Tue, Sep 21, 2004, 12:00am
Every autocratic leader believes his cause to be righteous, his
actions just, and his ideology greater than any force that can
block his path. We assume that in a democracy there is no room for
autocrats. But as President Vladimir Putin has continually shown in
Tue, Sep 21, 2004, 12:00am
The other day I went to my basketball class for the first time,
and to my horror discovered that I could only be absent six times
over the course of the semester. This a class that, unlike
neurology, can be missed without a patient having a seizure on an
Tue, Sep 21, 2004, 12:00am
Leaders can and will take their positions of power too far, this
is not a new concept. But the range of the issues addressed in the
political platforms of our two possible presidents for the next
four years reveals an unprecedented amount of unfocused hubris.
Tue, Sep 21, 2004, 12:00am
A 1998 amendment to the Higher Education Act legally obligates
Columbia and other national universities to make a
“good-faith effort” to put a voter registration form in
every student’s hands at least 120 days before local
Tue, Sep 21, 2004, 12:00am
The men's golf team opened its 2004 season with a strong performance at the Rutgers Invitational last Friday in New Brunswick, N.J. The Lions tied for third in the eight-team field, equaling Loyola College of Maryland's 580 strokes in the rain-shortened 36-hole event.
Tue, Sep 21, 2004, 12:00am
The position of running back is arguably one of the toughest in football, combining the need for quick feet with the ability to barrel through behemoth linemen in order to gain a few yards for the team.
Tue, Sep 21, 2004, 12:00am
It was a difficult weekend for the men's soccer team at the prestigious Adidas Soccer Invitational, where the Lions found themselves in rough company, joined in the tournament by the hosts, 14th-ranked New Mexico, third-ranked UC-Santa Barbara, and top-ranked Indiana.
Tue, Sep 21, 2004, 12:00am
So, I was super pumped to go to Baker Blast Saturday until it started raining and the temperature dropped 20 degrees. So, I did what any sane Columbia student would have done: I started drinking a lot. I decided to mix Bacardi O (the drink of champions or, at least, metrosexuals) and Sprite.
