Mon, Oct 2, 2006, 12:00am
The University publicly launched its capital campaign Friday by asking for $4 billion from its alumni-the largest fund-raising goal in American university history.
Mon, Oct 2, 2006, 12:00am
What's in it for you?
Administrators say that all of the money raised for the capital campaign will fund projects and programs that will make Columbia better for students, and they stressed that no goal is more immediate and relevant than financial aid.
Mon, Oct 2, 2006, 12:00am
Columbia's administration, it seems, is finally taking undergraduate financial aid seriously. Their decision to replace loans with grants for lower-income families is a positive step, and will help these students manage Columbia's enormous tuition costs.
Mon, Oct 2, 2006, 12:00am
College students are notorious for planning their menus around waking up late and cramming for exams, embracing Red Bull and JJ's chicken strips as two major food groups.
Mon, Oct 2, 2006, 12:00am
In the decidedly non-intellectual canon of MTV prime time programming, one show stands out as not only the absolute nadir of human intellectual development, but as the possible nadir of human development in general.
Mon, Oct 2, 2006, 12:00am
"They are not migrant workers, but guest workers," noted Sheikha Lubna al Qasimi, the minister of economy for the United Arab Emirates when Hadi Ghaemi, a researcher at Human Rights Watch, queried on the UAE government's role in protecting the precarious situation of foreign migrant workers.
Mon, Oct 2, 2006, 12:00am
The girl peered at Karina over her red glasses. "You should quit smoking," she said.
Karina braced herself against the doorjamb as she caught her breath. "How do you know I smoke?"
Mon, Oct 2, 2006, 12:00am
As the winds change and apple picking season approaches, so does Queer Awareness Month, a monthlong celebration of queer pride and history in October sponsored by Columbia's undergraduate queer student organizations. The month isn't a Columbia construct, though.
Mon, Oct 2, 2006, 12:00am
As critical students, we often focus our attention on how Columbia influences the surrounding world in a negative way, from the Manhattanville expansion to failed attempts at a graduate student union.
Mon, Oct 2, 2006, 12:00am
Every now and then I envy the man-slut. The boy who keeps handfuls of (potential) lovers on hand. Who convinces himself, true or not, that all these beautiful people want the same damn thing: him. Occasionally I envy the female slut, but less so, because I find her less believable.
