Friday, April 10, 2009

Student groups focus on mental health

By Liza Weingarten
Apr 9 08:30 pm ET

On the evening of SEAS first-year Eric Harms’ death, a counselor came to the Engineering Student Council meeting, offering his services to any student who wanted to talk. At ESC’s next meeting, members of student groups Q and Nomads, as well as staff from Columbia Health Services, also presented themselves as allies to whomever needed a listening ear.

Lucha to host event for health screening, reform

By Angela Ruggiero-Corliss
Apr 9 08:35 pm ET

According to Columbia social justice group Lucha, health should not depend on wealth.

Low income housing at risk from rent hikes

By Katherine Meduski
Apr 9 08:37 pm ET

On the densely packed island of Manhattan, it can be difficult for housing to remain affordable. Some buildings, like Morningside Apartments on 109th Street, have to fight to avoid selling out to market prices.

Barnard’s admit rate rises for 2013

By Alix Pianin
Apr 9 08:39 pm ET

A log-rolling champion, a first-place pie baker, and a finalist in the South Korean version of “American Idol” were all accepted to Barnard’s class of 2013, under a slightly increased admissions rate.

Reported rumors suggest Massad will be tenured

By Betsy Morais
Apr 9 08:42 pm ET

Reported rumors have spread that Middle East and Asian languages and cultures professor Joseph Massad will be granted tenure.

Low income housing at risk from rent hikes

By Katherine Meduski
Apr 10 04:20 am ET

On the densely packed island of Manhattan, it can be difficult for housing to remain affordable. Some buildings, like Morningside Apartments on 109th Street, have to fight to avoid selling out to market prices.

Spec Feed

By Laura Schreiber
Apr 10 06:00 am ET

Beyond the face of APAAM

By Nhu-Y Ngo
Apr 9 10:34 pm ET

sian Pacific American Awareness Month (APAAM) is an annual celebration at Columbia University dedicated to promoting awareness of Asian Pacific American (APA) issues and history among the Columbia student body.

Youth voices on lockdown

By Sarah Leonard and Kate Redburn
Apr 9 10:38 pm ET

Here’s the whole hype: while we love our historical survey courses and Music Humanities, until this semester we had never seen a Columbia class break out of the comfortable campus environment; most classes focus instead on students’ acquisition of multiple majors and the entire Western philosophical canon.

Information invasion

By Editorial Board
Apr 10 02:11 am ET

CubMail is a necessary component of daily life at Columbia and serves as the main e-mail service of student academic use. Yet organizations outside the University take advantage of the server’s ubiquity on campus.

Auto Repair

By Mira John
Apr 10 02:39 am ET

The photographer is a sophomore in the School of Engineering and Applied Science majoring in chemical engineering. She is a deputy photo training editor for Spectator.

Columbia students hunt for the golden ticket

By Christine Jordan
Apr 9 10:35 pm ET

Live from New York, it’s Saturday morning. At least, it is for the huddled masses lined up for standby tickets to NBC’s iconic Saturday Night Live.

Extending National Poetry Month

By Rebecca Evans
Apr 9 10:37 pm ET

If April is the cruelest month, April 15 is certainly the year’s lowest point: it’s the last day to mail tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service.

Newest Rogen film Observes comedy through a darker lens

By Jeremy Pfau
Apr 9 10:38 pm ET

Students may have noticed posters around the city that depict a chubby face in a security guard uniform. Thankfully, they are not forgotten advertisements for the January film Paul Blart: Mall Cop but for the new film Observe and Report, starring Seth Rogen and Anna Faris, which will be released nationwide this Friday. In a conference call with Spectator earlier this week, Rogen, Faris, and director Jody Hill discussed the new release.

Playing it cool in New York City’s little-known arcades

By Kevin Ciok
Apr 9 10:40 pm ET

Even within a bustling city known for having anything that anyone could possibly want, the video game arcade is a rare artifact.

Impressionist exhibit breathes life into classic style

By Kimberly Rubin
Apr 9 10:44 pm ET

Some art is everywhere. In a society where Monet’s “Water Lilies” can be found in dorm rooms and Art Humanities extols the virtues of impressionism, some may ask if it’s really necessary to see another impressionist exhibit.

Stroke for bloody stroke is paid to Haberle’s wicked Clytemnestra

By Matt Herzfeld
Apr 9 10:46 pm ET

They just don’t write epic tales of lust and murder like they used to.

Carson’s translation: This isn’t your parents’ Aeschylus

By Kat Balkoski
Apr 9 10:48 pm ET

Anne Carson’s An Oresteia (Faber & Faber, March 2009, $27) updates Greek tragedy for a generation raised on Hollywood and Ritalin. The language is clear and contemporary, and the pagination is easy on the eye. Yet the accessibility of her style does not detract from the emotional power of her poetry.

A Fabio to grace covers of Italian cookbooks

By Valeriya Safronova
Apr 9 10:49 pm ET

It wasn’t the delicious, comforting food that reminded me of late nights in Rome, nor was it the Limoncello of which I’d had a few too many sips. What really won me over at Fabio Piccolo Fiore, an Italian restaurant in Midtown, was the owner’s entrance into the dining room.

Affordable sustainability found down South

By Devin Briski
Apr 9 10:50 pm ET

Think maintaining a healthy lifestyle at a low cost in New York City is an impossible challenge? South Bronx Food Cooperative Executive Director Zena Nelson thinks differently.

Grand Concourse reaches centennial, stands tall

By Andrew Wailes
Apr 9 10:51 pm ET

At four miles long and 180 feet wide, the Bronx’s Grand Concourse is larger and more modern than its European model and counterpart, Paris’s Champs-Élysées. This year marks the Concourse’s centennial, and to honor it, the Bronx Museum of the Arts has established a year-long exhibit that looks at the Concourse’s significance in relation to the Bronx.

Salsa dips its way back into dancers’ hearts

By Arielle Concilio
Apr 9 10:53 pm ET

The sizzling sounds of salsa music that once blasted through the streets of the South Bronx during the 1960s and 1970s are making a comeback.

CU opens divisional play against Tigers

By Jacob Shapiro
Apr 10 12:57 am ET

After a 9-1 rout of Rutgers on Tuesday, the Columbia baseball team (7-21, 4-4 Ivy) will head to Princeton (9-13, 2-6 Ivy) this weekend for a four-game set against the Tigers.

A historical perspective on CU fencing

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Apr 10 01:10 am ET

There’s a picture hanging near the coaches’ offices in Dodge that shows the Columbia athletics staff in 1991. You won’t see M. Dianne Murphy in that one, nor the coaches Wilson, Nixon, and Jones. I’d guess that around half of the coaching staff here did not hold head-coaching positions in 1991, let alone ones at Columbia.

M. Tennis returns home to host Brown, Yale

By Kunal Gupta
Apr 10 01:55 am ET

Ranked No. 57, the men’s tennis team will return home to the Dick Savitt Tennis Center to host Brown and No. 60 Yale in two Ivy matches this weekend. Columbia (13-4, 3-0 Ivy) is undefeated at home this season: 5-0 in nonconference play and 1-0 in Ivy play, with a 4-3 win against Cornell. Columbia is coming off a dramatic 4-3 win against rival Harvard on Friday, in which three freshmen in the bottom half of the lineup got crucial wins in singles play.