Mon, Dec 3, 2007, 2:26am
When Lisa Hogarty, who begins as chief operating officer at the Columbia University Medical Center today, was hired out of the health care industry as a Columbia administrator in 2001, she thought that she was leaving hospitals behind for good.
Mon, Dec 3, 2007, 2:19am
Led by Sunday-school students carrying brightly-colored banners, approximately 30 people marched from St. Mary’s Church to the Manhattanville Health Center to protest it being closed for the last four years.
Mon, Dec 3, 2007, 2:16am
A construction worker was trapped in a trench hole at the Morningside Park playground reconstruction site Friday, local newspapers reported.
Mon, Dec 3, 2007, 2:09am
Columbia students rallied for HIV/AIDS awareness and government action this past weekend as a part of Saturday’s World AIDS Day movement.
Mon, Dec 3, 2007, 2:05am
One man was killed and another injured in a shooting outside Amsterdam Avenue restaurant Radio Perfecto early Sunday morning. The perpetrators are still at large.
Mon, Dec 3, 2007, 1:59am
The seeds of intellectual racism have found fertile ground on 36 acres in Morningside Heights these past few years.
Mon, Dec 3, 2007, 1:59am
“Did you ever really think that there was going to be just one tooth fairy?” Gregory Maguire, author of the novel Wicked, asked a group of about 30 fans at the Bank Street Family Center Auditorium on Saturday. “Think of the workload!”
Mon, Dec 3, 2007, 1:58am
City Councilwoman Inez Dickens, D-Morningside Heights and Harlem, has introduced a bill to ban smoking within 25 feet of city hospital entrances.
Mon, Dec 3, 2007, 1:56am
Without senior co-captain Brandon Kinney, the Columbia wrestling team would be coming back from Las Vegas empty-handed. Kinney placed eighth at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational over the weekend, while Columbia earned a 27th-place finish in the field of 50 teams.
Mon, Dec 3, 2007, 1:55am
This Columbia women’s swim team held its own but could not take down the top teams at this weekend’s Big Al Invitational held at Princeton University, finishing sixth out of 11 teams in the three-day meet.
