Fri, Apr 14, 2006, 12:00am
On Wednesday in Washington, the New York Mets smashed the Nationals in a 13-4 afternoon ball game. Four players on the New York team hit the ball out of the park, and every single starter but the pitcher had at least one hit.
Fri, Apr 14, 2006, 12:00am
Stop Hate on Columbia's Campus, an ad hoc student group which formed in December, continued demonstrations and discussions with administrators this week, seeing the partial success of several of its demands.
Fri, Apr 14, 2006, 12:00am
Sometimes your vote actually counts.
According to numbers released Wednesday, the margins between the winners and losers of Barnard's student government elections, which took place from Monday to Tuesday this week, were extremely slim.
Fri, Apr 14, 2006, 12:00am
A small but dedicated crowd of students gathered at the sundial on Low Plaza on Monday and even more students joined the marches downtown. They were part of a nationwide movement that came out of nowhere, with no single, identifiable leader, not to propose changes but to protest them.
Fri, Apr 14, 2006, 12:00am
One reads in American newspapers about checkpoints set up by the Israeli Occupation Forces in the West Bank. They are presented as a means of preventing the killing of innocent Israeli civilians by crazed suicide bombers intent on massacring Jews.
Fri, Apr 14, 2006, 12:00am
We're in the home stretch. In less than one month some of us will officially be seniors, others will no longer be Columbia students, and everyone will feel as if they have lost ten pounds-of course, the theoretical ten pounds we all gain due to the heavy stress of wrapping up spring semester.
Fri, Apr 14, 2006, 12:00am
Open Columbia may finally be the answer to complaints that the Columbia College Student Council never seems to get enough done. With an executive board of bright, hardworking individuals, Seth Flaxman's ticket invites high hopes for next year.
Fri, Apr 14, 2006, 12:00am
With the Ivy League season more than halfway done for Columbia, the Lions baseball team looks to extend their tentative lead in the Lou Gehrig division as they take on rival Princeton in a home set of double-headers, Saturday and Sunday at Andy Coakley field.
Fri, Apr 14, 2006, 12:00am
Like many things in the Ivy League, Ancient Eight baseball doesn't make any sense. It's more counterintuitive than having a Quaker as a mascot, more ridiculous than naming a college after a color, and more irrational than founding a school in Ithaca.
Fri, Apr 14, 2006, 12:00am
Just when things were looking up for the Columbia softball team, things came to a crashing halt. After winning six consecutive games last week, the Lions have dropped five straight, including three of their first four Ivy contests.
