Thu, Oct 24, 2002, 12:00am
Last year, the City of New York faced an operating deficit totaling $5 billion. In response, Mayor Michael Bloomberg slashed funding for almost all services and departments. When that proved inadequate, he dipped deep into his bag of budgetary tricks to stave off financial disaster.
Thu, Oct 24, 2002, 12:00am
Over the summer I received an e-mail from a friend who had spent her summer visiting a foreign country and had made an interesting observation about college students: "In the States we go to college, and many of us come out just as childlike as when we started."
Thu, Oct 24, 2002, 12:00am
Columnist Insulted Other Colleges and Promoted Elitism
To the Editor:
Thu, Oct 24, 2002, 12:00am
Over the years, many political candidates have made New York a campaign stop. As Election Day approaches, Spectator takes a look at would-be elected officials who have visited the Big Apple.
Thu, Oct 24, 2002, 12:00am
The Columbia sailing team shook off a slow start to their season by winning the Mosbacher-Knapp Ivy League Championship Regatta, Oct. 12-13, for the first time in the club's 60-year history.
Thu, Oct 24, 2002, 12:00am
On Oct. 10 Amy Noble was announced to be Columbia's assistant lacrosse coach under the guidance of new Head Coach Kerri Whitaker.
Thu, Oct 24, 2002, 12:00am
On Tuesday, Spectator reported on a Columbia College Student Council proposal recently sent to Athletics Director John Reeves asking him to change departmental policy to allow all students into varsity sporting events free of charge.
Wed, Oct 23, 2002, 12:00am
The featured exhibit at the Frick, “Poussin, Claude, and Their World: Seventeenth-Century French Drawings from Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris” displays 71 drawings of the French masters, namely those of Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain, as well as lesser known artists.
Wed, Oct 23, 2002, 12:00am
"The most popular use of the photograph is as a momento of the absent."
--John Berger, The Look of Things
Wed, Oct 23, 2002, 12:00am
After a semester-long effort, the General Studies Student Council officially became a full member of the funding board of the Activities Board at Columbia on Monday.
