Fri, Feb 20, 2004, 12:00am
U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards (D-N.C.) told a crowd of 1,200 in Lerner Hall yesterday that he will be the next president of the United States.
The 35-minute speech, broadcast live by Fox News, was Edwards' first stop in a five day tour of New York.
Fri, Feb 20, 2004, 12:00am
In some ways Alexandra Kerry, Cate Edwards, and Rebecca Lieberman are just like other women their age: they're intelligent, well-dressed, and technologically savvy. But in one way, they're part of a very small, select group: they vote.
Fri, Feb 20, 2004, 12:00am
A man was charged with criminal trespassing Wednesday night in
Butler Library, and further charges may be forthcoming.
Fri, Feb 20, 2004, 12:00am
As New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's ban on smoking in restaurants and bars marches toward its one-year anniversary, local bars continue to suffer from dwindling sales and vacant barstools.
Fri, Feb 20, 2004, 12:00am
As thousands across the country visited their congressional representatives yesterday, a group paid a visit to Senator Hillary Clinton's New York office, asking Congress to "censure" President Bush for "misleading the country about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction."
Fri, Feb 20, 2004, 12:00am
Community Board 9 discussed a range of issues last night, including renovating traffic medians, the possibility of a newsstand in front of Barnard College, and the removal of a board member. A brief summary of the meeting:
Fri, Feb 20, 2004, 12:00am
Audience members were moved to tears when they heard David Gewirtzman, a 75-year-old Holocaust survivor, and Jacqueline Murekatete, a 19-year-old survivor of the Rwandan genocide, speak about their experiences.
Fri, Feb 20, 2004, 12:00am
"We will not be able to project an image of John Ashcroft to watch over us, as we had hoped to," DeWitt Clinton Professor of History Eric Foner said at the start of Tuesday's "Civil Liberties at Home and Abroad" symposium.
Fri, Feb 20, 2004, 12:00am
Students representing AIDS awareness campus groups made a national splash today, interrupting Senator John Edwards' (D-N.C.) campaign speech and demanding that the presidential candidate propose policies to deal with the worldwide disease.
Fri, Feb 20, 2004, 12:00am
The search is on--for a second time--for a new vice president for arts and sciences. After a process that has now taken more than eight months longer than originally expected, administrators say the University can expect a replacement by the end of the semester.
