Mon, Mar 20, 2006, 12:00am
In the 1950s Harvard administrators rejoiced as grades began to rise, treating the climb as a sign that the student body was taking school more seriously, according to Harvard computer science professor Harry R. Lewis.
Mon, Mar 20, 2006, 12:00am
In a fiery addition to an already hectic commute, subway tie-ups caused by blazes increased by almost 40 percent last year, affecting 4,300 trains in 2005.
Mon, Mar 20, 2006, 12:00am
On the morning of March 8, as most Columbia undergraduates rushed through midterms, two indicted students were put through a test of a different kind.
Mon, Mar 20, 2006, 12:00am
Community Board 9's general board meeting on March 16 ran three hours long as board members, city council representatives, and a lineup of the miscellaneous and impassioned took their turns at the microphone.
Mon, Mar 20, 2006, 12:00am
After eight years of running Chabad Columbia out of his apartment, Rabbi Yonah Blum is moving the organization into a five-story brownstone on 113th Street.
Mon, Mar 20, 2006, 12:00am
A recent study by the Tax Foundation, a Washington-based research organization, ranks New York last in the country in terms of business-friendly tax climates.
Mon, Mar 20, 2006, 12:00am
NEW ORLEANS, March 16-The kitchen cabinets were stocked with unopened bottles of ketchup and Tabasco sauce and a full spice rack. In the baby's room, the Winnie the Pooh clock still kept the time. But the clothes in the closet were stuck together with mold, and shoes crumbled when touched.
Mon, Mar 20, 2006, 12:00am
The streetcar system may be kaput and campus groups shuffled around, but many New Orleans students who spent the fall at Columbia say they're back in the groove down in the Big Easy.
Mon, Mar 20, 2006, 12:00am
Stanford
University to Pay Full Tuition for Low-Income Students
Stanford University has announced that it will no longer require families earning under $45,000 per year to contribute to their children's tuition.
Mon, Mar 20, 2006, 12:00am
Dawn Greene, the wife of the late Jerome Greene, CC '26 and Law '28, has donated $200 million to Columbia University for the creation of the Jerome L. Greene Science Center as part of Columbia's continuing Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative.
