Mon, Mar 27, 2006, 12:00am
When Columbia falls behind its peer schools, the University usually has a ready-made excuse: money. With less than half the endowment of Harvard, Princeton, or Yale, it's sometimes unreasonable to expect Columbia to keep up when money is involved.
Mon, Mar 27, 2006, 12:00am
On February 28, the Financial Aid Reform (FAiR) Coalition presented President Lee Bollinger with a platform detailing the changes that the student body deemed most important for the improvement of financial aid (platform can be viewed at www.fair.cjb.net/).
Mon, Mar 27, 2006, 12:00am
As Lawrence Summers nears his final weeks as President of Harvard, pundits and public intellectuals are predicting what the Summers debacle means for higher education.
Mon, Mar 27, 2006, 12:00am
Two weeks ago, while I gallivanted about Paris relishing spring break, an East Campus resident advisor found homophobic messages, replete with an obscene drawing, scrawled on the wall and white board of an 8th-floor suite.
Mon, Mar 27, 2006, 12:00am
As the 2006 Columbia baseball team retreats from its first weekend of Ivy League activity with a successful split against Penn, I can't help but feel a little excited.
Mon, Mar 27, 2006, 12:00am
The Collins Cup has always been an especially competitive race between the Rutgers and Columbia crew teams. In the past five years, the Lions have twice brought home the winning title: once in 2000, and again last year.
Mon, Mar 27, 2006, 12:00am
Sunday afternoon was literally a walk in the park for Columbia hitters.
Mon, Mar 27, 2006, 12:00am
After a promising spring-training trip to Florida and California, Columbia softball had momentum going into their first weekend homestand of the year.
Mon, Mar 27, 2006, 12:00am
In their final match of the regular season on Friday, Columbia men's tennis triumphed over a hapless St. Joseph's, 6-1. "We knew that we were better," said sophomore and top singles player Mark Clemente.
Mon, Mar 27, 2006, 12:00am
While on their spring road trip to Florida, the baseball team received some discouraging news: first baseman and power hitter Tighe Holden would be leaving the baseball team and Columbia University for personal reasons.
