Thu, Sep 11, 2008, 3:24am
After a summer of maintenance ferreting around empty rooms, tearing up stained carpeting, and slathering on paint, residence halls were made ready for students’ return this fall.
Thu, Sep 11, 2008, 3:24am
As a civil rights adviser to President John F. Kennedy, former Senator Harris Wofford (D-Penn.) helped co-found the Peace Corps with political activist Sargent Shriver, but he won’t take all the credit.
Thu, Sep 11, 2008, 3:23am
A young man with a red backpack often lingered outside the International Affairs Building. He was a commuter student, so he typically arrived early, but the door to his Modern Political Movements class was always locked until the last minute.
Thu, Sep 11, 2008, 3:22am
Columbia’s Double Discovery Center has found its new director in Dr. Muriel Grimmett, a multicultural education and African-American studies specialist who previously held positions at Rutgers University and the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. Grimmett began her tenure at Columbia on Sept.
Thu, Sep 11, 2008, 3:21am
Students trickled into Lerner Hall’s East Ramp Lounge throughout Tuesday afternoon, Columbia University ID cards in hand, to claim the coveted blue slips of paper that several referred to as “golden tickets.”
Thu, Sep 11, 2008, 3:18am
The scheduled hearing for the land use dispute brought by the Westsiders for Public Participation was postponed Wednesday after the judge scheduled to hear it did not appear in court, Paul Bunten, the group’s founder, told Spectator.
Thu, Sep 11, 2008, 3:14am
Stretching up into the sky, its glass walls reflecting the sun, Avalon Morningside Park is hard to miss.
Thu, Sep 11, 2008, 3:09am
Months after Columbia announced efforts to ease the burden on its students’ wallets through widespread financial aid reform, the federal government has enacted legislation to clean up the bureaucratic process of actually applying for aid funds.
Thu, Sep 11, 2008, 2:31am
Seven years, 10 hours, and 14 minutes after the first of two hijacked planes crashed into a skyscraper seven miles to the south, Senators Barack Obama, CC ’83, and John McCain will take the stage in Lerner Hall. Unlike some memorials that turn to the past, Columbia is commemorating Sept.
Thu, Sep 11, 2008, 1:48am
Following in the footsteps of thinkers ranging from Plato to Hitler, Ultimate frisbee players have begun attempting to create perfect players by controlling procreation. Some male and female
