Wed, Mar 26, 2008, 11:30pm
Joel Klein, CC '67 and chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, will speak at this year's Columbia College Class Day, scheduled for May 19.
Wed, Mar 26, 2008, 4:26am
In what could be a landmark case for the prosecution of domestic human rights violations, Columbia Law School affiliates are working with the American Civil Liberties Union to bring what Jessica Lenahan calls “justice for my children’s deaths,” after eight years of waiting.
Wed, Mar 26, 2008, 4:17am
In the wake of her resignation as an adviser to Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign earlier this month, activist Samantha Power spoke Tuesday night to an eager crowd on the subject of her recently published book and her former boss’s presidential ambitions.
Wed, Mar 26, 2008, 4:07am
Nussbaum and Wu became the first vendor officially to allow students to use their CUIDs to make purchases with Flex points around 10 a.m. on Tuesday.
Wed, Mar 26, 2008, 3:09am
Odds are good that, amongst the flurry of first-round NCAA tournament games last weekend, you missed Stanford’s dismantling of Ivy League champion and designated tournament representative Cornell, with the Big Red losing by 24 points in a game that was never particularly close.
Wed, Mar 26, 2008, 3:04am
Columbia’s wrestling team saw its season come to an end on Friday, March 21 after freshman Ryan Flores lost his consolation match to Matt Spaid from Bloomsburg University 12-2 in the heavyweight class of the NCAA championships.
Wed, Mar 26, 2008, 2:51am
In its final nonconference game before the Ivy League season opens this weekend, the Columbia baseball team coughed up an early lead and fell to St. John’s 10-5.
Wed, Mar 26, 2008, 2:41am
When junior midfielder Rachael Ryan tore her ACL early in the 2008 season, it was a huge blow to the Columbia lacrosse team. Ryan was the Lions’ leading scorer last year with 35 goals and was going to be a key piece of the Light Blue’s offense this season.
Wed, Mar 26, 2008, 12:28am
In recent decades, the Columbia Athletic Department has not been a strong force in student life. Rather than serving as a source of pride and spirit, Columbia’s athletic teams are commonly ignored or derided.
Tue, Mar 25, 2008, 10:57pm
We sit in a small apartment in Cambridge, Mass., an old friend and I, talking about politics, as usual. A film is on television: The Bad Sleep Well by Akira Kurosawa, which retells the story of Hamlet in the corporate halls of postwar Tokyo. We are exchanging thoughts on the campaign.