Fri, Nov 16, 2007, 6:54pm
The hunger strike that has waged on for more than a week ended Friday night following a request made by the Coalition to Preserve Community for the strikers to pull their final demands off of the table.
Fri, Nov 16, 2007, 6:40am
Four students continue their hunger strike to demand changes to the University’s proposed Manhattanville expansion plan, after administrators agreed Wednesday to meet several of the strikers’ academic and administrative goals.
Fri, Nov 16, 2007, 4:06am
Community Board 9 tackled local controversies and nominated officers for next year at its Thursday evening meeting.
Fri, Nov 16, 2007, 4:03am
The Kraft Center roared with laughter for three hours Thursday night as students tried to prove their poetic worth—or lack thereof—at the 22nd Annual Joyce Kilmer Memorial Poetry Festival.
Fri, Nov 16, 2007, 4:01am
In an unusually short meeting Thursday afternoon, the University Senate touched on Columbia’s proposed expansion, the Core Curriculum, and the hunger strikes.
Fri, Nov 16, 2007, 4:00am
Barnard students and administrators gathered Thursday evening to address the discussion of race and ethnicity in the classroom one day after student government representatives issued a statement calling for a diversification of the college’s general education requirements.
Fri, Nov 16, 2007, 3:58am
Just as the hunger strike has divided student opinion and sparked a debate over institutional priorities, Columbia professors have also been weighing in on all sides of the discussion over the strikers’ demands and methods.
Fri, Nov 16, 2007, 3:57am
The sight of two people with their arms bent and their fists clenched together over an open table, testing their strength against each other amid shouts of “take him down!” is no doubt more common to an elementary school playground than a bus station.
Fri, Nov 16, 2007, 3:43am
After turning in possibly its best performance in Joe Jones’ tenure against Ohio State, the Columbia men’s basketball team (1-2) travels to the capital of New York to take on the University of Albany (1-1) on Saturday.
Fri, Nov 16, 2007, 3:42am
Four years into Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s New Housing Marketplace Plan, considerable progress has been made toward creating affordable housing that will allow many New Yorkers to remain city residents, according to a new report by the Independent Budget Office.
