Mon, Dec 3, 2007, 1:51am
After easily defeating Fordham more than two weeks ago, the Columbia men's swimming and diving team got a taste of higher competition in a meet in which each event featured 50 or more swimmers. The Lions returned home last night after three days at the Princeton Big Al Invitational.
Mon, Dec 3, 2007, 1:48am
The women's basketball team (2-6, 0-0 Ivy) did not have a chance to relax during its weekend in Boca Raton, Fla., as it faced Florida Atlantic (2-5, 0-0 Sun Belt) Saturday and West Virginia (7-1, 0-0 Big East) Sunday at the Florida Atlantic Invitational.
Mon, Dec 3, 2007, 1:45am
The men's basketball team continued its struggles on Friday night when it fell to previously winless Sacred Heart, 75-59, in Fairfield, Conn. The loss was Columbia's fourth in five games.
Mon, Dec 3, 2007, 1:29am
Last Monday, with only a handful of modifications, the City Planning Commission approved Columbia’s plan for expansion into Manhattanville. With this decision, Columbia has overcome one of the last major hurdle in the process.
Mon, Dec 3, 2007, 1:23am
As I See It appears Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Mon, Dec 3, 2007, 1:07am
Gaming’s newest tradition is indeed a sad one—every year, all the top game publishers in the industry trip over themselves in a mad rush to acquire the biggest blockbuster TV and movie licenses with which they hope to produce the next game industry sales blockbuster.
Mon, Dec 3, 2007, 12:53am
After exploring Oz, Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author of more than 25 books including the wildly popular Wicked, from which the hit musical was adapted, has turned his creative eye to the culture of tooth fairies.
Mon, Dec 3, 2007, 12:42am
In 1965, before Eric Clapton even began playing in Cream, an unknown Londoner scrawled “Clapton is God” on the wall of an underground station. It’s unclear how long it took after Cream’s demise, but eventually someone came up with a response: “What do Clapton and coffee have in common?
Mon, Dec 3, 2007, 12:40am
When Sean Taylor, a rising star with the Washington Redskins, was fatally shot in his own home while his fiancée and daughter cowered in the next room, media coverage was quick to point out his troubled past. He was killed by one of four young men who were also black.
Mon, Dec 3, 2007, 12:36am
When Georges LeMaitre first proposed the Big Bang theory in 1927, everyone thought he was crazy. Few other scientists at the time conceived of the universe as changing at all, let alone beginning as a single point in space-time.
