2009-04-22

Tue, Apr 21, 2009, 11:38pm
Her parents said they knew she was intellectually gifted when she taught herself to read at age three. Now Emily Clader, CC ’09, recently chosen as class valedictorian, is preparing to bring her luminosity in mathematics and music to Michigan.
Tue, Apr 21, 2009, 11:36pm
As subway lines and local buses drive ahead with fare hikes and service cuts, one Columbia alumnus is trying to map the city’s transit future.
Tue, Apr 21, 2009, 11:24pm
I started my online journal to make up for all the silences and missed connections, to say everything I did not say in school.
Tue, Apr 21, 2009, 8:11pm
I anticipated that my interactions with poverty would make me more progressive in terms of my economic views. In turns out that the exact opposite happened.
Tue, Apr 21, 2009, 8:07pm
Imagine a bustling metropolis that is environmentally responsible. Then build it.
Tue, Apr 21, 2009, 8:05pm
I know now that I was far from the only kid sitting unfeelingly on a middle school gym floor during a school-wide memorial service that invariably involves the lighting of candles, reading of war-time poetry, and pictures of survivors. Have I "remembered" myself into numbness?
Tue, Apr 21, 2009, 8:04pm
As much as I complain about needing to study, I find it much easier to do that than to pry myself away from my books and laptop and head out to one of the many events held each night
Tue, Apr 21, 2009, 7:31pm
Richard Hollander's solo show, "Articulated Movement," at the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies is full of moving sculptures, seemingly with minds of their own.
Tue, Apr 21, 2009, 7:29pm
So Yong Kim's second movie, Treeless Mountain, tells the tale of two sisters struggling with the absence of their mother and the challenges of growing up.
Tue, Apr 21, 2009, 7:27pm
Physicist Michio Kaku, who will speak on Thursday about his new book, hopes to make science interesting to the general public by exploring topics such as time travel and robots, formerly limited to the realm of science fiction.

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