Tuesday, September 2, 2008

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Alone in Your Dorm Room With a Mini Fridge

By Shane Ferro
Sep 2 02:52 am ET

The first day of classes is upon us, and it's time to get back into real life at Columbia.

Court Favors M’Ville Owner in Lawsuit

By Daniel Amzallag
Sep 2 02:39 am ET

A state appellate court ruled in July that the Empire State Development Corporation must turn over documents regarding a firm’s potential conflict of interest in carrying out a study of the Manhatt

Landlords, Residents Debate Loophole for Rent-Controlled Evictions

By Lydia Wileden
Sep 2 02:37 am ET

In the latest skirmish of the battle between residents of rent-controlled housing and their landlords, city officials and locals voiced concerns over the recent spate of potentially phony demolitio

Higher Rent, Netflix Force Kim’s to Close its Doors

By Scott Levi
Sep 2 02:33 am ET

In the face of rising rents and a string of commercially crippling summer lulls, Kim’s Mediapolis, the video and music store long considered a staple of Morningside Height’s cinephile culture, will

Year Begins With Admin Vacancies at CC, SEAS, BC

By Joy Resmovits
Sep 2 02:23 am ET

The Columbia and Barnard undergraduate administrations received facelifts this summer with several comings and goings reshaping undergraduate life.

New Barnard President Discusses Nexus, Nine Ways of Knowing in Q&A

By Joy Resmovits
Sep 2 02:20 am ET

While students adjusted to internships this summer, new Barnard President Debora Spar settled into a new vocation, city, and lifestyle.

J-School Student’s Attacker Sentenced to Life in Prison

By Daniel Amzallag
Sep 2 02:16 am ET

Following a lengthy trial, the attacker of a 24-year-old student of the Graduate School of Journalism was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in July.

ESDC Calls M’ville Blighted, Approves Eminent Domain

By Daniel Amzallag
Sep 2 02:09 am ET

The Empire State Development Corporation, a state agency that regulates economic and urban growth, declared the Manhattanville expansion site “blighted” on July 17.

OPINION »

Lost in Transition

By Editorial Board
Sep 2 02:19 am ET

With a number of administrative resignations in the last year, the University has many desks to fill.

Happiness and the Adaptation-Level Phenomenon

By Betsy Smith
Sep 1 09:53 pm ET

My first semester at Barnard College was not easy. Actually, it was downright hellish. New to New York, homesick, and left alone to cope by my thoroughly unavailable RA, it was baptism by fire.

You Have Nothing to Lose but Your Funding

By Sarah Leonard and Kate Redburn
Sep 1 07:45 pm ET

As we have all been reminded ad nauseaum, Columbia today lives in the shadow of over forty years of leftist political activism.

SPORTS »

Secondary Coach Assumes Coordinator Job

By Holly MacDonald
Sep 2 12:07 am ET

Earlier this summer, head football coach Norries Wilson promoted secondary coach Aaron Kelton to defensive coordinator after Lou Ferrari left the team for personal reasons.

Baseball Team Falls to Carolina Schools in NCAAs

By Jacob Shapiro
Sep 2 12:02 am ET

By the conclusion of the 2007-08 Ivy League baseball season, when Columbians prepared to move out for the summer, the Columbia baseball team was making history.

Two Songs to Usher in a New Athletic Year

By Matt Velazquez
Sep 1 11:59 pm ET

I’m on my computer a lot, maybe too much sometimes, and like many other people, I listen to music while I surf the web. Generally, I just open my music player and let it shuffle songs for me, which usually creates some pretty weird concoctions of music. It’s jumped everywhere from the Beatles, to the Bloodhound Gang, to Lupe Fiasco, and even Mozart.

Tampa Bay Rays Promote CC Baseball Alum to Major Leagues

By Lucas Shaw
Sep 1 11:52 pm ET

Just a few months after winning its first Ivy League baseball championship in more than 30 years, Columbia will send its first player to the Major Leagues in more than a decade.

Four Columbians Compete in Beijing, Fencers Medal

By Matt Velazquez
Sep 1 11:47 pm ET

The fencing program at Columbia is perennially one of the best in the country, but during the Olympics, two former Columbia fencers—James Williams, CC ’07, and Erinn Smart, BC ’01—proved that they

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