Fri, Sep 22, 2006, 12:00am
It was 8 p.m Thursday night, and Peter Gallotta, CC '09, was wasting a golden opportunity to relax.
"My parents think I don't go out enough," he said. "My dad told me, 'You have to have fun in college.'"
Fri, Sep 22, 2006, 12:00am
University President Lee Bollinger took center stage on Friday at the University Senate's first plenary meeting of the year, held in Jerome L. Greene Hall.
Fri, Sep 22, 2006, 12:00am
Some students can't wait to finish college, and others, like Van Wilder, can't get enough. At Columbia, however, students don't have much of an option. Columbia College's policy on taking extra semesters to finish a bachelor's degree is unnecessarily rigid.
Fri, Sep 22, 2006, 12:00am
When the University announced that it had invited Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak at the World Leaders Forum this Friday, campus all but erupted.
Fri, Sep 22, 2006, 12:00am
About a week ago I noticed that Harlem doesn't like me. Wandering around the 132nd Street area with a friend, I couldn't help but notice a sign because it was about twenty feet tall. "Stop Columbia!" it said, "We won't be pushed out!" and then repeated the message in Spanish.
Fri, Sep 22, 2006, 12:00am
I grew up in Iowa. Although I moved to the big city early enough to learn that talking about cow-tipping and county fairs was not entirely socially acceptable, my Lula Mae core is still sometimes exposed from underneath my Holly Golightly polish, especially when I open my mouth.
Fri, Sep 22, 2006, 12:00am
On December 9, 2005, two Columbia students defaced a Ruggles suite with swastikas, racial epithets, and homophobic graffiti. Agitated by a critical mass of student activists, the administration responded unequivocally: hate had no place on Columbia's campus.
Fri, Sep 22, 2006, 12:00am
I was just as shocked as everyone else to find posters claiming that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had been invited to speak at Columbia.
Fri, Sep 22, 2006, 12:00am
Equitable Treatment for Employees:
Columbia Should Respect Its Workers
Fri, Sep 22, 2006, 12:00am
After being named a co-captain of the Hoyas, as well as being selected as a preseason all-American honorable mention, the past month has been eventful for Georgetown defensive end Alex Buzbee. Now a chance at making school history is in his reach.
