Fri, Sep 15, 2006, 12:00am
In early June, Juan Cole, a historian from the University of Michigan, was denied appointment as a contemporary Middle Eastern scholar by an appointments committee at Yale University.
Fri, Sep 15, 2006, 12:00am
Columbia University has temporarily suspended the operation of its Institute for African Studies, after the program went two years without a permanent director.
Fri, Sep 15, 2006, 12:00am
Klaus Lackner, Columbia professor of geophysics, spoke to a packed meeting of the Broadway Democrats last night in the basement of Bank Street College on 112th Street. He presented a vision of alternative energy that he said would reduce the world's emission of carbon dioxide to almost zero.
Fri, Sep 15, 2006, 12:00am
Correction Appended.
Professor J. W. Smit, a Renaissance historian and the only person to teach all four Core Curriculum classes, died of heart failure in July. He was 75.
Fri, Sep 15, 2006, 12:00am
Correction Appended.
Prompted by concerns over U.S. human rights policies, the Mission and Social Justice Ministry of Riverside Church, in conjunction with the human rights organization Breakthrough, conducted a forum on Wednesday night titled "Why Can't America Have Human Rights?"
Fri, Sep 15, 2006, 12:00am
What is the purpose of life?
This was the question at hand at last night's Veritas Forum, in which Sensei T.K. Nakagaki, a Buddhist, and Erwin McManus, a Christian, spoke to a crowd in Roone Arledge Auditorium.
Fri, Sep 15, 2006, 12:00am
It reeks of beer and sweat, the latest rap hits blare from the stereos, and under-age bodies attempt to dance (read: dry hump).
Fri, Sep 15, 2006, 12:00am
Every fall, millions of high school seniors begin the increasingly complicated process of filling out college applications. For those students, stress and confusion are all too commonplace, as colleges and universities across the country become even more selective and particular.
Fri, Sep 15, 2006, 12:00am
ROTC not Such a Victory:
Progressives Should Welcome Change
To the Editor:
Fri, Sep 15, 2006, 12:00am
A unity government in the Palestinian Authority, emergency state visits in Syria and Lebanon, and calls for resignation in Israel this week demonstrated how this summer's war is still shaking the Middle East.
