Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 12:00am
Thomas James will take over as provost of Teachers College on July 1 2007, school officials announced Monday. James is the outgoing dean of the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 12:00am
U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-Manhattan, is willing to make some concessions in pork-barrel spending to stop a fight. "If the price of ending the war is giving an undeserved subsidy to peanut farms, or peanut museums even, so be it," he said.
Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 12:00am
A student loan company with connections to suspended Executive Director of Undergraduate Financial Aid David Charlow has been removed from Columbia's list of preferred lenders.
Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 12:00am
Caption: Seniors congregated on Low Steps yesterday to celebrate the beginning of the countdown to graduation. Instead of the unofficial celebrations that senior classes have held in the past, administrators worked with the class councils to plan this year's event.
Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 12:00am
Columbia has contracted with a medical and security assistance company in order to better protect students and faculty traveling internationally.
The company, International SOS, will provide aid and support to all Columbia affiliates in the event of an emergency abroad.
Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 12:00am
A new program from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is offering post-doctoral students a chance to get their foot in the door of the highly competitive academic world.
Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 12:00am
Getting out of bed should be the easiest part of the day. Maybe not with a hangover or after an all-nighter, but at the very least, it shouldn't be impossible to wake up before noon, or after fourteen hours of sleep. Clearly, there is something wrong with me.
Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 12:00am
This past February, my French class talked about the death of Ana Carolina Reston, the Brazilian model who died of anorexia nervosa.
Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 12:00am
Dating back to the time of Socrates, the connection between madness and genius has been a subject of great interest. This topic has sparked much research and is still the subject of great debate in the modern scientific world.
Fri, Apr 6, 2007, 12:00am
dward Said and his four-decade-long association with our University should be familiar to every Columbian. So, did Yale professor Paul Bracken, SEAS '71, suffer a bout of temporary amnesia on March 29 at Thursday night's panel discussion on the implications of Iran's developing nuclear program?
