Fri, Sep 22, 2006, 12:00am
Off-color language used in recruiting fliers for the men's ice hockey team has triggered a concerned response from student government representatives and Athletic Department officials.
Fri, Sep 22, 2006, 12:00am
A day after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accepted Columbia's invitation to speak on campus Friday, University officials called off the event, announcing late Thursday morning that the school could not coordinate the necessary logistics in time for his speech.
Fri, Sep 22, 2006, 12:00am
Coming during one of Columbia's most active news cycles in recent memory, Friday's University Senate plenary meeting-the first of the year-is likely to elicit ample discussion from the body's faculty, student, and administrative senators.
Fri, Sep 22, 2006, 12:00am
For many members of Community Board 9, Columbia is the villain by default. But it was the City College of New York that bore the hostility at Thursday night's general board meeting.
Fri, Sep 22, 2006, 12:00am
Franz Boas, founder of American anthropology at Columbia, was censured in 1919 by the American Anthropological Association for condemning anthropological involvement in wartime intelligence-a rebuke that was only lifted in 2005.
Times changed in the interim.
Fri, Sep 22, 2006, 12:00am
In another 10 or 20 years, scientists from Columbia University and the City College of New York will be researching five blocks apart-but they might not be talking to each other.
Fri, Sep 22, 2006, 12:00am
Correction appended.
About 250 family, friends, students, and colleagues of Jayma Ann Abdoo, former Barnard College Dean of Studies, gathered in Barnard Hall on Thursday to celebrate a life of political activeness, social involvement, and moral courage.
Fri, Sep 22, 2006, 12:00am
Previously the "mom and pop" operation of the world's economic stage, Southeast Asia has become a major economic force, according to the Secretary-General of a prominent trading bloc who spoke at the World Leaders' Forum on Thursday.
Fri, Sep 22, 2006, 12:00am
The president of Bolivia was greeted by a standing ovation in Miller Theatre yesterday before addressing a packed crowd about racial inequality in his country.
Fri, Sep 22, 2006, 12:00am
Appearing at Columbia for a third time, Sir Michael Somare, the prime minister of Papua New Guinea, spoke of economic growth and conservation in his homeland at the World Leaders Forum on Thursday morning.
