Wednesday, March 11, 2009

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Scholars Present Awards to CC Alums at John Jay Dinner

By Joy Resmovits
Mar 10 09:12 pm ET

A 17-year-old first year once snuck into Columbia College Dean Austin Quigley’s senior seminar. On Tuesday evening over 10 years later, that student, actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, CC ’99, returned to her alma mater to join four other alumni in receiving the John Jay Award for “distinguished professional achievement.”

Holder Selected as Class Day Speaker

By Joy Resmovits
Mar 10 09:14 pm ET

Eric Holder, U.S. Attorney General, CC ’73, Law ’76, and a Columbia University trustee, will be Columbia College’s 2009 Class Day Speaker, the senior class council announced on Low Library steps Tuesday afternoon. Holder—the first black man to head the Justice Department—will address graduating seniors on May 19 on South Lawn.

Burmese Monks Depict Plight, Protest

By Madina Toure
Mar 10 09:17 pm ET

In 2007, a group of Burmese monks led the Saffron Revolution, a series of anti-government protests in response to military oppression. On Tuesday evening, four rally participants addressed students in Earl Hall about the plight of Burmese citizens—from human rights abuses to a lack of freedom of speech to the dearth of international awareness.

SEAS Seniors Draft Own SIPA Design

By Claire Stern
Mar 10 09:22 pm ET

As the School of International and Public Affairs awaits a move to Manhattanville, School of Engineering and Applied Science seniors are lending hands in the design.

Housing Amendment Would Allow Ownership

By Katherine Meduski
Mar 10 09:23 pm ET

Fluctuations in the New York housing market may have some renters worried about losing their city-subsidized homes. But proposed changes in affordable housing law may soon give them hope.

SLIDESHOW: John Jay Awards

By Joey Shemuel | Mar 11 02:28 am ET

Uncontested CCSC Party Releases Statement Emphasizing Voter Outreach

By Alix Pianin
Mar 11 02:37 pm ET

WEB EXCLUSIVE.Students should expect a different kind of campaign in this year's Columbia College Student Council elections, the uncontested executive board ticket Action Potential said in a statement released early Wednesday morning.

BC Town Hall Mulls Over Student Advising

By Carly Silver
Mar 11 03:04 pm ET

WEB EXCLUSIVE Barnard’s Student Government Association sponsored a Town Hall meeting on Monday evening on academic support, where students and faculty discussed the effectiveness of College assistance and advising.

OPINION »

Inching Toward Alchemy

By Adrian Haimovich and Vedant Misra
Mar 10 08:10 pm ET

A relatively recent breakthrough in molecular biology has captured the interest of the pharmaceutical industry and researchers alike and promises to lead pharmacology into the next several decades.

Crisis, Class and Inequality

By Rudi Batzell
Mar 10 08:46 pm ET

The inability of a middle-class family to sustain a middle-class lifestyle without piling up credit card debt and mortgages is a critical distributional component of this economic crisis.

SEAS Just Wants to Have Fun

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Mar 11 02:23 am ET

Administrators and advisers should more explicitly inform students of the SEAS pass/D/fail policy and encourage the use of the option to explore fields outside their major field of study.

SPORTS »

Tennis Heads for Warmer Weather

By Kunal Gupta
Mar 11 12:19 am ET

The men’s and women’s tennis teams will hit the road next week for their annual spring break training trips, which will be both teams’ final tune-ups before Ivy play begins the following weekend.

Message From A Graduating PixBox Legend

By Max Puro
Mar 11 12:21 am ET

As the seconds ran off the clock on ESPN.com, CNNSI.com and CBSSportsline, showing the Cornell and Princeton game eeking toward the end, I, for once in my PixBox tenure, became nervous.

Baseball Takes On Golden State Rivals

By Jacob Levenfeld
Mar 11 12:25 am ET

Most Columbia students use spring break to eat some home-cooked food, catch a few rays, or just relax after midterms. Not the baseball team.

Lacrosse Defeats American in Final Test Before Break

By Bart Lopez
Mar 11 12:56 am ET

The Columbia lacrosse team fought back in the second half of its match to defeat American by a final score of 9-6 on Tuesday. The home win improves the Lions’ record to a perfect 5-0 good enough for the team’s best start in school history.

Softball Visits Florida For Rebel Spring Games

By Michele Cleary
Mar 11 12:57 am ET

After losing all five games during the FAU Miken Classic in Boca Raton, Fla., the Columbia softball team will have a lot to work on over spring break.

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