Thu, Jan 31, 2002, 12:00am
In the 1970s, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that graduate students are not employees, but rather students in the apprenticeship model, and that they do not have the right to organize. A recent NYU ruling now classifies graduate student teaching assistants as university employees.
Thu, Jan 31, 2002, 12:00am
To the Editor:
Thu, Jan 31, 2002, 12:00am
Columbia President George Rupp and Barnard President Judith Shapiro have joined the debate over the merits of early decision, but they fail to address the underlying problems with the process.
Thu, Jan 31, 2002, 12:00am
Every basketball fan on this campus should be asking him or herself a series of questions this weekend:
1) Do I recognize how important this weekend's men's games against Princeton and Penn are?
Thu, Jan 31, 2002, 12:00am
With only one match remaining last night in Trenton, N.J., Columbia (4-3, 1-0) and Princeton (2-10, 0-1) were right back where they began: tied. After nine matches, the score was even at 19 points apiece.
Thu, Jan 31, 2002, 12:00am
For many Americans, luge is a sport that exists only once every four years. And that was how it began for Brian Goldberg, Olmypic luge qualifier, who will receive his MA in East Asian Studies from Columbia this spring.
Wed, Jan 30, 2002, 12:00am
Thomas Kinkade, "painter of light," is the most popular painter in history. Period. Since 1989, more than ten million people have bought a genuine Thomas Kinkade.
Wed, Jan 30, 2002, 12:00am
"Let us pause to consider the English/ Who when they pause to consider themselves they get all reticently thrilled and tinglish,/ Because every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz:/ That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is"
Wed, Jan 30, 2002, 12:00am
By R. S. F. Smee
Spectator Staff Writer
Wed, Jan 30, 2002, 12:00am
This essay was originally published in December, 1985, in Acta Columbiana, one of Columbia's oldest student publications that was briefly revived in the mid-1980s.
