2010-04-12

Old stadium will remain forever
Sun, Apr 11, 2010, 8:47pm
The old Cowboys stadium was demolished today, but its memories will always stay.
Global Core for our "global community"
Sun, Apr 11, 2010, 8:35pm
One of the ways they imagine the Global Core moving forward is to have team-taught, interdisciplinary courses focused on primary texts, which would be more like Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization. But, of course, like everything at Columbia, the recent economic crisis has “put a...
Absurdities on 40
Sun, Apr 11, 2010, 8:27pm
What happened on Thursday was a shameless display of hypocrisy and paternalism on the part of the administration and Public Safety, and it speaks to the effectiveness with which a bloated Columbia bureaucracy has managed to materially degrade the quality of life of its undergraduate students.
Thoughts on buildings and beauty as the new science center nears completion
Sun, Apr 11, 2010, 7:43pm
Step out the gates and down to Broadway and 120th, however, and you will behold a bona fide architectural tort. Immense steel girders and corrugated plates clash with the modest turn-of-the-nineteenth-century buildings that cower under their gaze.
A spring manifesto
Sun, Apr 11, 2010, 7:05pm
There is a time for everything, and this includes time for yourself. Regardless of how introverted or extroverted you are, find time to spend alone and with others. I don’t have a job lined up after I graduate. I don’t even have an idea of where I really want to start applying. I’m okay with that...
A tale of two semesters
Sun, Apr 11, 2010, 6:53pm
At the very least, we have to divide our guide for finishing the semester into two tracks: one for the grade-grubber and one for the grade-indifferent. To maintain the children’s literature theme, we’ll call our theoretical tracks the “Goofus track” and the “Gallant track.”
Rx for premeds: 5 rules for being happy, healthy, and human
Sun, Apr 11, 2010, 6:34pm
I can personally attest to the fact that this administrator’s hyperbole should not dent your confidence or derail your hopes for the future. Soon to graduate from Columbia College, medical school acceptances in hand, I am, nevertheless, no superman. If I have made it this far, you can, too—and I...
Student dancers pirouette like professionals in CBC show
Sun, Apr 11, 2010, 6:33pm
Over the weekend, the Columbia Ballet Collaborative presented a program of six new works at Miller Theatre, with a cast of dancers from all four undergraduate schools.
Exhibit coats St. Paul’s basement with ‘Graffiti’
Sun, Apr 11, 2010, 6:32pm
Postcrypt Art Gallery's latest exhibit, "Human Graffiti," is the product of a collaboration with the Columbia student group Artist Society
The big picture
Sun, Apr 11, 2010, 6:32pm
Thoughtful photography project 99 Columbians represents the diversity of the student body.

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