Wed, Nov 5, 2008, 11:23pm
The claims have been made and disputed a thousand times before—Carman and McBain are the social dorms, Furnald, the tame but beautiful sanctuary, and Wien, the dilapidated prison.
Wed, Nov 5, 2008, 6:54am
Many have already celebrated yesterday's presidential election as a turning point in American history.
Wed, Nov 5, 2008, 5:06am
Two years after a failed attempt to capture a majority in the New York State Senate, Democrats made strong efforts Tuesday, culminating in their success in regaining control over the bicameral legislature.
Wed, Nov 5, 2008, 4:54am
Decked head-to-toe in any Barack Obama apparel they could lay their hands on, hundreds of Harlem locals crowded into the Harlem State Office Building Plaza Tuesday night in the hope of celebrating the election of the United States’ first black president.
Wed, Nov 5, 2008, 4:39am
While visitors to the Broadway Sky Lounge munched on 300 cheeseburgers Tuesday evening at the Columbia Programming Assistants’ event, other Columbians met in the basement of River residence hall for an election results-watching party, where the atmosphere was expectant yet low-key.
Wed, Nov 5, 2008, 4:32am
From 6 p.m. when the first polls closed to the moment U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) became the projected winner of the 2008 presidential election, the crowd at the CNN Election Night watch party—which included students from Barnard and other schools—went wild.
Wed, Nov 5, 2008, 4:25am
As economic troubles shrink job prospects for bright-eyed college grads, Columbia students are subscribing to a growing national tendency to delay their entry into the workforce—they’re applying to graduate school, and specifically ones at their alma mater.
Wed, Nov 5, 2008, 4:12am
CHICAGO, Nov. 4—Barack Obama, CC ’83, was elected President of the United States on Tuesday—the first Columbia College graduate and black person in history to win the office.
Wed, Nov 5, 2008, 3:56am
As political activism, expected voter turnout, and media hype reached their zenith in the presidential race, so did tensions in signature swing states.
Wed, Nov 5, 2008, 1:27am
Those looking for a belated Halloween spook could do far worse than Rosemary’s Baby, screening at Film Forum for the next two days. Roman Polanski’s 1968 film details the horrors befalling a nice New York girl during her pregnancy.
