Sun, Apr 27, 2008, 3:40pm
Amid chants protesting Columbia’s approach to Manhattanville expansion, activists recall the infamous rally cries of 1968, as well as surface tensions over University and neighborhood identity.
Sat, Apr 26, 2008, 4:05pm
When most think about Columbia in 1968, they think about those days when the frustration of over 700 students boiled over into visceral retaliation.
I think about basketball, a guy named Jim McMillian, and what could have been.
Fri, Apr 25, 2008, 2:52am
After several unsuccessful attempts to silence a room packed with Columbia alumni commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 1968 protests, Robert Friedman, CC ’68 and former editor-in-chief of Spectator, tapped on the microphone and sighed.
“This is an unruly crowd,” Friedman said.
Fri, Apr 25, 2008, 2:34am
A flash of hope has appeared for Park West Village residents among the shadows of steel beams and construction cranes that mark a community threatened by fragmentation.
Fri, Apr 25, 2008, 2:34am
The Columbia track team kicked off the first day of the 2008 Penn Relays with a few successes on the women’s side.
Fri, Apr 25, 2008, 2:28am
The men’s heavyweight rowing team, coming off a historic weekend in which it won the Blackwell Cup for the first time in 67 years and the Maxwell Stevenson Cup for the first time since 1963, will lead all three of Columbia’s rowing teams into action this weekend.
Fri, Apr 25, 2008, 2:25am
After dropping nine of its last 10 contests, the Columbia softball team snapped out of its rut with a pair of convincing nonconference wins against Iona College on Thursday.
Fri, Apr 25, 2008, 2:20am
Andy Coakley Field, named after the professional baseball player and former Columbia coach, will be renamed Robertson Field in a ceremony between the Columbia baseball team’s two games on Saturday.
Fri, Apr 25, 2008, 2:16am
This past fall, a Columbia club team finished its season with only one blemish on its record: that club was the Columbia University Rugby Football Club.
Fri, Apr 25, 2008, 2:15am
High school newspapers have a reputation for attracting top-notch students, or so says Erick Gordon, director of the Student Press Initiative at Teachers College.
