Wed, Feb 27, 2008, 2:03am
Ordained minister and Yale academic Serene Jones will serve as Union Theological Seminary’s 16th president, becoming the first woman to lead the 172-year-old Columbia affiliate.
Wed, Feb 27, 2008, 12:49am
With the end of the season a short two weeks away, this weekend’s games further established the Cornell Big Red women’s basketball team (9-1 Ivy) as the dominant leader of the conference.
Wed, Feb 27, 2008, 12:46am
Over the past few months, the National Basketball Association has been busy forming its subsidiary NBA China.
Tue, Feb 26, 2008, 11:26pm
Dean of Student Affairs Chris Colombo recently created a committee to evaluate the Dean's Discipline Process. Although such a review has been long overdue, the committee is a welcome step towards revamping the opaque procedures currently in place.
Tue, Feb 26, 2008, 11:22pm
Barbara Kingsolver, of The Poisonwood Bible fame, wrote The Bean Trees about finding salvation in an ostensibly barren situation—appropriately, this low-key debut novel is set in Arizona.
Tue, Feb 26, 2008, 11:16pm
After years of speculation, the Student Governing Board released the budgets for all political, activist, and religious organizations. The findings, while shocking, come as no surprise. Those familiar with Columbia’s bureaucracy know that left-leaning groups receive preferential treatment.
Tue, Feb 26, 2008, 11:12pm
Middle school was a time of intentional nonconformity for me—the more people my age who liked any given cultural phenomenon, the more I rejected it. This applied to nothing more than the then-hugely popular Dawson’s Creek, which I spent much of my pre-adolescence ridiculing.
Tue, Feb 26, 2008, 11:02pm
Black Students from ’68 Work to Erase Media “White Out” With New Film
To the Editor:
Tue, Feb 26, 2008, 11:00pm
With a mix of veteran leaders and young talent, the Columbia lacrosse team hopes to improve upon last year’s 5-10-0 record (0-7-0 Ivy) with a strong 2008 campaign.
Tue, Feb 26, 2008, 11:00pm
Can memory ever be truth? In Elias Khoury’s new novel Yalo, translated from Arabic by Peter Theroux, this question torments the principal character as he attempts and ultimately fails to differentiate between reality and the precarious accusations made against him.
