Fri, Jan 23, 2004, 12:00am
If The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King wins Best Picture this year, will anybody care? At least when Titanic took the gold there was a palpable sense of injustice--the Academy had rewarded a movie with the line "I jump, you jump.
Fri, Jan 23, 2004, 12:00am
While most students headed home for the winter holidays, for the second year in a row Charles Shen, a citizen of China studying in the United States, decided not to leave the country.
Fri, Jan 23, 2004, 12:00am
After heated discussions involving developers, a landlord, local residents, and a 110th St. Building Approved By CB9The controversial structure faces another City Government hearing.
Fri, Jan 23, 2004, 12:00am
Mary Robinson, the first female president of Ireland and the former United Nations high commissioner for human rights, will join Columbia's faculty this spring as a professor of practice in the School of International and Public Affairs.
Fri, Jan 23, 2004, 12:00am
While Columbia's campus lay empty over winter break, the Metropolitan Transit Authority and the Columbia Department of Government and Community Affairs were busy renovating the 116th Street subway station.
Fri, Jan 23, 2004, 12:00am
Visitors to Columbia's homepage a little over a month ago found the familiar light-blue buttons and crowded news announcements replaced by a sophisticated new site, complete with a rotating set of campus and New York City photographs.
Fri, Jan 23, 2004, 12:00am
Over the next three years, Roger Bagnall, a professor of classics and history, will receive $1.5 million to further his research in ancient Egypt and the Mediterranean.
Fri, Jan 23, 2004, 12:00am
If you attend tomorrow afternoon's men's basketball game, you might be surprised at what you see: an energetic starting lineup, a fist-pumping coach, and a crowd-pleasing fast-break offense that is the antithesis of the team's former plodding style.
Fri, Jan 23, 2004, 12:00am
I was ecstatic to get back to campus this semester, but not because I missed the bright lights, big city and Butler Library. No, I was looking forward to the end of break for one reason: I was moving into a 160 square foot single, the so-called Plimpton "big room."
Fri, Jan 23, 2004, 12:00am
Last semester, I was among the approximately 300 first-years attending Columbia College and the School of General Studies randomly selected to participate in Frontiers of Science, a pilot course under consideration for inclusion in the Core Curriculum.
