Tue, Apr 4, 2006, 12:00am
Saturday was the last day of Aristides Demetrious' 80-year career as a barber. It was maybe his busiest.
Tue, Apr 4, 2006, 12:00am
A Spectator poll released on Friday showed that 53 percent of the student body intended not to vote in next Monday's Columbia College Student Council elections. Ten days before last year's election, 70 percent of students anticipated voting. Why the 17-point drop?
Three reasons.
Tue, Apr 4, 2006, 12:00am
The New York State legislature passed a $112.4 billion budget plan last week which, if approved by the governor, would make it only the second time that an on-time state budget was passed in the last 22 years.
Tue, Apr 4, 2006, 12:00am
Buried in the state budget passed last week, alongside the billions for education, Medicaid, and transportation, was a $14,000 allocation for "NYS Onion Research."
The item was listed in a group of unusually specific allocations for agricultural programs.
Tue, Apr 4, 2006, 12:00am
Columbia chemist Dalibor Sames has retracted two scientific papers and part of a third that he wrote for the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The retractions were based on evidence that showed the scientific data and procedures they contained were not reproducible.
Tue, Apr 4, 2006, 12:00am
Campus activists hope Columbia will soon join a growing number of universities that have chosen divestment as a formal showing of protest against the ongoing genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan.
Tue, Apr 4, 2006, 12:00am
Despite an unexpectedly dramatic ending, organizers and audience members alike were pleased with a panel and discussion on Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy last night in Roone Arledge Cinema. The event coincided with the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, which is today.
Tue, Apr 4, 2006, 12:00am
Over 150 people packed into Davis Auditorium at the Schapiro Center Monday night, with another 50 lingering at the doors to hear University Professor Joseph Stiglitz give a speech on "The True Costs of the Iraq War."
Tue, Apr 4, 2006, 12:00am
A Spectator poll released on Friday showed that 53 percent of the student body intended not to vote in next Monday's Columbia College Student Council elections. Ten days before last year's election, 70 percent of students anticipated voting. Why the 17-point drop?
Three reasons.
Tue, Apr 4, 2006, 12:00am
Four months after the creation of Stop Hate on Columbia's Campus, a student group which formed after a vandalism incident in Ruggles Hall, the group's leaders decided they needed to change their strategy.
