Tue, Apr 10, 2007, 12:00am
Who would have thought that inside the Zen essence of bamboo lay the potential to help a poverty-stricken continent create bicycles?
Tue, Apr 10, 2007, 12:00am
Student Steals, Burns School Paper
Tue, Apr 10, 2007, 12:00am
Barnard College President Judith Shapiro will step down in 2008, she announced Monday.
Tue, Apr 10, 2007, 12:00am
Over the years, history professor Rosalind Rosenberg has gotten used to opening up her inbox in the morning to find a personal message from President Judith Shapiro waiting.
Tue, Apr 10, 2007, 12:00am
The Wall Street Journal has reported that the University is expected to receive between $400 and $600 million from John W. Kluge, CC '37, in a donation to be announced tomorrow.
The Journal also reported that the donation is expected to be earmarked for financial aid.
Tue, Apr 10, 2007, 12:00am
University President Lee Bollinger confirmed that Columbia will announce a $400 million gift from the estate of John Kluge in an interview tonight.
Tue, Apr 10, 2007, 12:00am
In the previous episode, I discussed a theoretical approach for dealing with some of the collateral damage-social, economic, political, and ecological-of all the fantastic productivity we've been enjoying since the Industrial Revolution. To recap: account for everything. Externalize nothing.
Tue, Apr 10, 2007, 12:00am
There's an urban legend that circulates among foodies about Per Se, Thomas Keller's $250-a-head prix fixe midtown restaurant. Apparently, a group of diners were discussing their favorite breakfasts when one of them mentioned scrambled eggs with white truffle shavings.
Tue, Apr 10, 2007, 12:00am
In the chaos of the housing lottery, most students probably don't stop to think twice about who their residential advisers will be when they move into their new housing next September. But RAs can have a large impact on students' living experiences once their housing is set.
Tue, Apr 10, 2007, 12:00am
"Ghetto" may not be Spanish for "poverty," but in America "bilingual education" is English for "failure." Most agree that knowledge is power; the problem with the current public school bilingual-education programs is that instead of learning two tongues, students learn to speak one language poor
