Fri, May 7, 2004, 12:00am
To Our Readers:
Spectator has finished publishing for the spring semester. We will resume publication on Sept. 6. Until then, check this space regularly for breaking news updates.
Wed, May 5, 2004, 12:00am
Cornell forward Gabe Stephenson has asked for his letter of release to pursue basketball opportunities on the West Coast. The 6'8" junior power forward averaged 6.6 points per game and 6.6 rebounds per game, while starting in 23 games for the Big Red last season.
Tue, May 4, 2004, 12:00am
Justin Armstrong, a 6'4", 190 pound swingman from El Camino High School in Oceanside, Calif. is the seventh member of Columbia's 2004 recruiting class, the San Diego Union Tribune is reporting. He is expected to be the last recruit Head Coach Joe Jones brings in this season.
Mon, May 3, 2004, 12:00am
As part of the ongoing restructuring of Columbia College's science requirement, the two-semester sequence will be eliminated for all current students after this week's Committee on Instruction meeting. Frontiers of Science will begin its five-year pilot with all incoming first-years.
Mon, May 3, 2004, 12:00am
Since the beginning of the strike, the University has stressed its efforts to minimize the disruption for students and faculty. But some students feel that those efforts have not adequately addressed the missed classes, and are calling for incompletes.
Mon, May 3, 2004, 12:00am
Logic and Rhetoric, a program almost as old as the group of first-years who took it last year, slid out of the course bulletin at the beginning of this year with little attention afforded to its passing.
Mon, May 3, 2004, 12:00am
In late 1973, a 46-year-old New York Times reporter cleared off his desk, walked out of his office building, and abandoned a 21-year journalism career.
Mon, May 3, 2004, 12:00am
The University Senate closed its year on Friday with a heated debate over the merits of the Reserve Officer Training Corp and University President Lee Bollinger's first public comments on the ongoing graduate student strike.
Mon, May 3, 2004, 12:00am
Jimmy Dahroug, GS '03, knows that he is facing an uphill battle. His opponent is over three times his age, and has been serving as the New York state senator from District 3 in southern Suffolk County since before Dahroug was born.
Mon, May 3, 2004, 12:00am
The issue of academic freedom and First Amendment rights came dramatically to the fore at last March's teach-in on the Iraq war when Nicholas de Genova, assistant professor of anthropology, remarked that he wished for "a million Mogadishus." In the aftermath of that event, President Lee Bollinge