Betsy Morais

Senior column: Trapped in bathroom stall, news editor reminisces
Tue, Apr 26, 2011, 9:34pm

Betsy Morais discusses journalism, writing, and Kurt Vonnegut.

Senior Columns
Tue, Apr 26, 2011, 9:25pm

Former Spectator staff share their experiences and thoughts before graduation.

Tie vote leaves community board with no voice in CU Baker project
Wed, Oct 27, 2010, 4:27am

With 13 votes in favor, 11 against, and two abstentions, the vote came to a tie, which was not sufficient for passage.

Double Discovery Center faces major transition
Fri, Sep 17, 2010, 4:53am

One assistant director left in March and the other left in May. The outreach coordinator was gone by early June. Three tutoring counselors left over the summer, as did one interim assistant director, who lasted only a week.

Court rejects eminent domain in Manhattanville
Fri, Dec 4, 2009, 3:35am

The New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division ruled Thursday that state seizure of private property in the 17-acre expansion zone is illegal, dealing a harsh blow to the University’s vision for development.

Court says no to eminent domain in Manhattanville
Thu, Dec 3, 2009, 4:10pm

The state court dealt a harsh blow to Columbia’s expansion plans by ruling eminent domain use there to be illegal, after a string of disappointing losses to the University’s challengers over the past few years.

Conrad Lung honored at Hamilton Dinner
Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 1:05am

“You have always been a pioneer,” Lee Bollinger told the 2009 recipient of the Alexander Hamilton Award.

History class tackles Manhattan on 'epic' all-night bike ride
Mon, Sep 28, 2009, 2:53am

The 35th Annual All-Night Bike Ride for the History of the City of New York class, taught by Kenneth Jackson, took students through Manhattan in a midnight tour of history.

Orienting yourself to life all over New York City
Tue, Sep 1, 2009, 12:19am

This is the town of everybody who’s somebody and anybody who’s a nobody. Frank Sinatra said if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. But it would also be fair to say that New York is a place for people who wouldn’t make it anywhere else (cue Woody Allen reference here).

Shots fired in Morningside Heights
Wed, Jul 29, 2009, 2:54pm

Gunshots were fired in Morningside Heights on Tuesday evening.

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