Mon, Feb 20, 2006, 12:00am
I wonder how you are going to feel/ when you find out/ that I wrote this instead of you," asks Billy Collins, with his characteristically calm and ironic tone, in the opening stanza of his newly published collection, The Trouble with Poetry.
Mon, Feb 20, 2006, 12:00am
Mon, Feb 20, 2006, 12:00am
Over the course of 16 days in spring 2003, Private First Class Garth Stewart and the 26 other men in his platoon killed more than 500 people. No one knows the exact number.
Mon, Feb 20, 2006, 12:00am
Financial Aid Reform, a Columbia student coalition, has written a list of demands to improve financial aid at Columbia. The coalition intends to have students sign the demands as a petition and then present them to the administration.
Mon, Feb 20, 2006, 12:00am
Six weeks after Dieter Ficken's departure, the men's soccer coaching search is over. Leo Chappel, a highly regarded assistant from the University of California at Santa Barbara, has been hired as the Lions' new head coach, Athletic Director M. Dianne Murphy announced Friday.
Mon, Feb 20, 2006, 12:00am
Students in Butler probably don't think bunnies can help them study. But Jenny Kane, CC '07, begs to differ and says that rabbits are a "calming distraction and a temporary relief from reading and studying."
Mon, Feb 20, 2006, 12:00am
Correction Appended.
Lerner Hall hosted two fashion shows last weekend, one for Black Heritage Month and one as part of the Chinese Students Club's Lunar Gala.
Mon, Feb 20, 2006, 12:00am
Two weeks after Spectator launched its own blog, its staff got some guidance from a pro.
Mon, Feb 20, 2006, 12:00am
NYU
John Sexton Rejects Tuition Reform Petition
In an e-mail sent Jan. 31, NYU President John Sexton rejected a petition requesting tuition reform that had garnered the signatures of 1,800 undergraduates and 20 student groups.
Mon, Feb 20, 2006, 12:00am
Student reaction to the news that Columbia was combining its technology service groups, AcIS and AIS, was exactly as quiet and underwhelming as expected.
