Tue, Feb 6, 2007, 12:00am
Let us be clear: the question of civilizational sustainability is a question of infrastructure. Suppose you happened to pass by a civilization, and you wanted to know whether it was a sustainable one. How would you know? What would you ask it?
Tue, Feb 6, 2007, 12:00am
"In the past, students predominantly traveled to developed nations and experienced a standard of living relatively similar to that of the United States.
Tue, Feb 6, 2007, 12:00am
To really create environmental change on a large scale, there is need for "guilt." Students need to feel guilty about placing a plastic bottle in the trash, to feel guilty about leaving the lights on in the bathroom, to feel guilty about leaving half of their John Jay trays full of food.
Tue, Feb 6, 2007, 12:00am
Usually, showing up five minutes late to class just means you have to sit in the back corner, but if you are late to Intro to Symbolic Logic with professor Achille Varzi at 1:10 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays, you might be stuck peering through the door.
Tue, Feb 6, 2007, 12:00am
The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race offers students at Columbia the opportunity to grapple with issues of gender, sexuality, race, and class. However, since its inception, the center has been limited by insufficient support that has frustrated students in its programs.
Tue, Feb 6, 2007, 12:00am
This past weekend against Harvard and Dartmouth, the men's basketball team righted the wrongs of three consecutive Ivy games in which they lacked offensive consistency and displayed poor ball movement and an unbalanced scoring attack.
Tue, Feb 6, 2007, 12:00am
Two weeks ago, the wrestling team had just returned from a first-place finish at the New York State Championships in Buffalo.
Tue, Feb 6, 2007, 12:00am
The Columbia fencing team renews its long-standing rivalry with downtown neighbor NYU tonight, in addition to facing some upstate competition from Sacred Heart and Vassar.
Tue, Feb 6, 2007, 12:00am
I used to be an athlete.
Tue, Feb 6, 2007, 12:00am
Yale Claims Sole Possession of First in Ivy League
Yale had its biggest weekend of the season with two home games against Penn and Princeton. Yale followed up a Feb. 2 win against the Tigers with a matchup against Penn on Feb. 3.