2009-02-27

Fri, Feb 27, 2009, 3:42am
Third in the league standings, the Columbia women’s basketball team will get its best chance of the season to break into the top two this weekend.
Fri, Feb 27, 2009, 3:40am
As some of you may have noticed, there was no sports column in the Feb. 25 issue of Spectator. I would like to inform you as to why this was, in fact, the case.
Fri, Feb 27, 2009, 3:16am
With only two weekends left in the season, the Lions’ Ivy title chances are slipping. The team needs consecutive weekend sweeps, and the prospect for the first championship since 1968 looks bleak.
Fri, Feb 27, 2009, 3:09am
Columbia recently finalized the purchase of two buildings near campus, according to city records published on Thursday. One is a residential building at 619-623 W. 113th St., sold Feb. 19, and the other is an industrial building at 2305 12th Ave., sold Jan. 30.
Fri, Feb 27, 2009, 3:08am
Matisyahu—everyone’s favorite one-named Hasidic reggae star—played a sold-out show at Columbia’s Miller Theater Thursday night. But while many audience members came to see him beat box and sing about Zion, they left with a new commitment to social justice.
Fri, Feb 27, 2009, 3:03am
This weekend, a small group of Columbia students—comprised mostly of members of the Columbia University College Republicans—will head down to Washington, D.C., for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference.
Fri, Feb 27, 2009, 3:00am
As complex as it is devastating, epilepsy has always been a puzzling disease, rebuffing scientists’ attempts to find a single causative factor.
Fri, Feb 27, 2009, 2:46am
Although Scott Halvorson has recently been appointed as the School of General Studies’ acting dean of students, he still considers himself a teacher through and through.
Fri, Feb 27, 2009, 2:38am
Yesterday, Michele Moody-Adams was appointed as the next dean of Columbia College and vice president of undergraduate education. Just over two decades since the college went co-educational, its administration is now taking steps toward emulating its diverse student body.
Fri, Feb 27, 2009, 2:31am
They say revolutions come in cycles—and perhaps cult films do, too. Italian director Marco Ferreri’s controversial masterpiece Dillinger is Dead has resurfaced yet again, this time at BAMcinématek.

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