Fri, Jan 19, 2007, 12:00am
Expansion projects at Columbia and City College of New York and a new zoning plan for 125th Street dominated discussion at Thursday night's Community Board 9 meeting, with the board also filling an executive board post and debating a proposed Harlem residential development.
Fri, Jan 19, 2007, 12:00am
CCSC Studies Local Flex Use
By: Lien Hoang
Fri, Jan 19, 2007, 12:00am
Mayors and government officials from Dusseldorf to Beijing gathered Thursday morning at Low Library to kick off a two-day-long summit on the challenges of urban diversity with Mayor Michael Bloomberg as key-note speaker.
Fri, Jan 19, 2007, 12:00am
Nearly a quarter of all General Studies students participated in a letter-writing campaign directed at University President Lee Bollinger and the central administration last semester in hopes of changing GS financial aid standards.
Fri, Jan 19, 2007, 12:00am
The Columbia men's basketball team was given two chances to pull off some last-minute heroics against Cornell on Saturday. But in front of a sellout crowd at Levien Gymnasium, the Lions struck out on both occasions, falling 49-45 to the Big Red and dropping to 1-2 in Ivy League play.
Fri, Jan 19, 2007, 12:00am
The Oct. 4 protest at Columbia University against Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist revealed a dangerous reality in American politics.
Fri, Jan 19, 2007, 12:00am
How many of us really know what happened on Aug. 29, 2005, when Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana and Mississippi? More importantly, how many of us know what New Orleans looks like now, almost a year and a half later?
Fri, Jan 19, 2007, 12:00am
Jeffrey Sachs is curing poverty in Africa, Upmanu Lall is removing arsenic from groundwater in Bangladesh-everywhere Columbia professors are stepping up to the challenge of creating a sustainable world. But what about Columbia itself?
Fri, Jan 19, 2007, 12:00am
A wise man once told me that what is right is not always popular, and what is popular is not always right. Actually, it was less a wise man than a poster in my seventh-grade pre-algebra class.
Fri, Jan 19, 2007, 12:00am
Following the announcement of David Beckham's move to MLS to play for the Los Angeles Galaxy, much of the press focused on the huge contract and the significance of his celebrity.