Tue, Aug 26, 2008, 4:46am
Maybe you’re a varsity athlete. Maybe you’re the president of a club. Maybe you spend more time at the Heights than you do in your dorm. Or maybe you’re just lazy. In any case, ending up on academic probation doesn’t exactly mesh with any of those pursuits.
Tue, Aug 26, 2008, 12:19am
They say it takes seven years to become a New Yorker, but as students with only four years here, we need to expedite the process. Here are a few tips on how to quickly disguise your inner tourist and show off your city savvy.
1. Walk like your Park Avenue apartment is on fire.
Tue, Aug 26, 2008, 12:06am
You don’t have to view the “cornerstone of a Columbia education” as a burden, an annoying hurdle to leap over. Taking a certain section for the sake of expediency and a rumored easy grader is exactly the wrong approach.
Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 11:54pm
Tuesday, Aug. 26
Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 11:44pm
As students return to campus this fall, they can expect to find College Walk even more politically charged than usual.
Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 11:39pm
While the commonalities between Philip Glass, Calvin Johnson, Steve Reich, and Daniel Johnston may be obvious to a lover of the avant-garde, a more superficial similarity is that they have all played live on Columbia University radio, either on WBAR or WKCR.
Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 11:38pm
You may be spending much of your time during Orientation on Columbia’s steady diet of icebreakers, team builders, and community events, but sometimes, everybody just wants to relax a little and hang out on the floor.
Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 11:38pm
125th Street
Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 11:32pm
The most important thing to know about Morningside Heights’ cuisine is that by and large, restaurants on Amsterdam Avenue, while generally less flashy and farther away from Columbia, are much better than those on Broadway. Don’t believe me?
Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 11:29pm
Let the tourists and the independently wealthy dole out their Benjamin Franklins to get premium seats at Equus this fall. With your newly minted CUID, you too can have your Broadway orchestra tickets, but for a fraction of the cost.
