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Greek life restructures, grows

By Alexa Davis
Apr 23 09:37 pm ET

Over the past two years, Columbia’s Greek system has undergone unprecedented growth, with over 80 percent more students now members of fraternities and sororities than in the fall of 2006.

Adolescence tough for LGBTQ

By Jennifer Mayer
Apr 23 09:42 pm ET

While psychologists have progressed past viewing certain sexual orientations as disordered, students grappling with sexual identity often encounter unique mental health issues.

Students suffer with eating disorders, often in silence

By Liza Weingarten
Apr 23 09:44 pm ET

Eating Disorders Awareness Week activities “got very little action and attention” this semester, according to Mary Commerford, director of Furman Counseling Center at Barnard.

New housing rises in Park West Village

By Katherine Meduski
Apr 23 09:51 pm ET

“I wake up every morning to this,” said Marion Billings, a resident of newly constructed properties comprising the Columbus Village development, which began in the fall of 2006.

Faculty push for Bollinger to support academic freedom Palestinian

By Scott Levi
Apr 23 09:52 pm ET

About 50 faculty members shuffled into 428 Pupin Thursday for a meeting open exclusively to faculty in the Arts and Sciences to probe Columbia’s role in the debate on academic freedom in Palestine, and to do what academics do best: talk about talking.

SEAS project promotes sustainability

By Tabitha Peyton Wood
Apr 23 10:04 pm ET

A group of SEAS professors and deans have spent two years planning the Center for Sustainable Engineering. Now, nearly two months after its official opening in March, the center is hosting a number of student projects, all geared toward providing practical solutions to various world-development problems through engineering.

City services feel economic pinch

By Aaron Kiersh
Apr 24 12:03 am ET

City services—from transit to parks, schools to police—have all felt the pinch of economic downturn. Under Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposed budget—which will be subject to City Council approval in June—each city agency will lose about $1 billion. Local officials and advocates find it difficult to predict the extent of the potential impact on Morningside Heights and the surrounding areas.

OPINION »

The case for Coulter

By Will Prasifka
Apr 23 08:47 pm ET

Who should tell us what we are responsible enough to hear? And herein lies the fallacy of those who silenced the Minuteman Project and would attempt to censor Coulter. They have taken it upon themselves to tell us what we can and can’t hear.

Break out, take over

By Kate Redburn and Sarah Leonard
Apr 23 08:50 pm ET

At the beginning of this school year, we wrote that Columbia activists ought to unite. This ideal hasn’t been fully realized, but we have seen a remarkable reorientation towards needs outside of our marble fortress.

Jody's Drawings!

By Jody Zellman
Apr 23 09:12 pm ET

Jody's Drawings! The artist is a student in the School of General Studies.

Considering Coulter

By Editorial Board
Apr 24 12:16 am ET

Despite the controversy surrounding Ann Coulter's appearance at Columbia next month, students should remain respectful when she comes to speak.

Desperation

By Joey Shemuel
Apr 24 02:18 am ET

The photographer is a Columbia College sophomore majoring in human rights. he is a Spectator photo training editor.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT »

Film festival Tri-beckons to wide audiences

By Rachel Allen
Apr 23 09:42 pm ET

The Tribeca Film Festival has a challenge for New Yorkers. “Think you’ve seen it all in New York?” reads this year’s motto. Unless you’ve already invested in festival tickets, there’s only one answer to that question: not a chance.

One For The Books: Filling out collegiate summer reading lists

By Rebecca Evans
Apr 23 09:44 pm ET

As the weather begrudgingly becomes balmy and the radiators, tired after a long winter, begin to sputter to a halt, even the most term-paper-laden Columbia students know that summer is nigh.

An off the record take on the city’s best vinyl stores

By Devin Briski
Apr 23 09:45 pm ET

As hipsters stake permanent residence in New York City, technology of the past is experiencing a revival in the form of an LP boom. With artistic covers, clever line notes, and that eternally appealing scratchy sound, students are spending money saved in LimeWire downloads on classic albums.

Barnard Project dancers dazzle in coda performance

By Dominique Nieves
Apr 23 09:46 pm ET

An exciting presentation of experimental, fresh choreography will be on display this weekend during The Barnard Project. A collaboration between new age choreographers and Barnard/Columbia dancers, the show will premiere at Dance Theater Workshop in Chelsea.

Live audiences make a fierce face on the set of The Tyra Banks Show

By Vanessa DeJesús
Apr 23 09:48 pm ET

In the made for TV movie Life-Size, Tyra Banks plays a glamorous doll who transforms from toy to human. Much like her character, Banks comes to life on the set of her daytime talk show, somehow managing to be even more beautiful, entertaining, and likable in person than on TV.

West Side Flavors: Re-interpreting “You are what you eat”

By Valeriya Safronova
Apr 23 09:50 pm ET

I never really bought into the phrase “you are what you eat.” My 12-year-old self always thought it was pretty clear that I was not human compost.

Eraserhead midnight showings will send audiences on a mind trip

By Peter Labuza
Apr 23 09:52 pm ET

By the time Harry stabs a deformed alien baby in the lung in director David Lynch’s Eraserhead, viewers will probably have already given up trying to understand the plot. Maybe that’s why the IFC Center has chosen Lynch’s 1977 cult classic for their midnight movie this Friday and Saturday. Before Fight Club and Memento, Eraserhead was the original “mind-fuck” movie.

Historic sculptures shape uptown landscape

By Hannah Yudkin
Apr 23 09:54 pm ET

Zabar’s, H&H Bagels, The American Museum of Natural History, and Lincoln Center are just a few things that automatically come to mind when thinking of the Upper West Side. Yet within the intellectual, baby-stroller-filled streets of this neighborhood, inhabitants can find exciting and surprising works of art—easily accessible and absolutely free.

Get your prix-fixe of eating on the town

By Devin Briski
Apr 23 09:56 pm ET

Manhattan is an island of choices, and the daily decisions inherent to living here are often followed by regret. Eating out means $50 no longer in the bank. Seeing a new borough or neighborhood means 45 wasted minutes on the subway.

Play with the best at UWS Tournaments

By Kevin Ciok
Apr 23 09:57 pm ET

If you’ve been following my surveys of various New York neighborhoods and their gaming scenes over the past few weeks, you know that the best places in the city for constant gaming competition are downtown. But if you’re stuck uptown in Morningside Heights and the Upper West Side, you’ve still got a shot to get in on some competition.

Primping for a new season at the New York City Ballet

By Catherine Rice
Apr 23 09:59 pm ET

Lincoln Center, located on 66th Street and Broadway and just off the 1 train, is one of the most famous performing arts centers in the world, and the New York City Ballet is its crown jewel. With the spring season starting on April 28th, the full-length classics Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer’s Night Dream, and Coppelia are returning to the stage, as well as 40 other works and two world premieres.

SPORTS »

What would an athlete's "senior column" be?

By Lisa Lewis
Apr 23 11:28 pm ET

As you may have surmised from the past week’s columns, the sports section’s seniors are really, really anxious to write their senior columns.

Heavyweights and women's rowing in action

By Michele Cleary
Apr 23 11:28 pm ET

Columbia’s heavyweight rowing squad will race for the sixth consecutive weekend when it travels to Boston to pursue the Doc Lusins Trophy. The women’s team, on the other hand, will return to action after a weekend off to compete for the Dunn Bowl in Providence.

Softball splits with Rider, returns home to finish season against Penn

By Michele Cleary
Apr 23 11:28 pm ET

The Columbia softball team split its second consecutive nonconference doubleheader when it took on Rider on Thursday. The Light Blue (14-30, 3-13 Ivy) won the first game 5-1 and the Broncs took the second 3-1.

Lacrosse aims to extend winning streak to four

By Kunal Gupta
Apr 23 11:31 pm ET

The women’s lacrosse team will look to add to its three-game winning streak this weekend when it hosts No. 16 Dartmouth in its final home contest and last Ivy game of the year. The Big Green, on the other hand, was most recently defeated 15-8 at the hands of No. 12 Boston University on Wednesday. Dartmouth is hoping to secure at least a third-place finish in the Ivy League, while the Lions will be looking for their second consecutive Ivy win after beating Harvard on April 18.

Ivy title on the line for men’s and women’s golf

By Kunal Gupta
Apr 23 11:37 pm ET

The men’s and women’s golf team will head to the Atlantic City Country Club this weekend for the Ivy League Championships. The men will be aiming to defend their title, while the women look to improve upon their second-place finish last season in the Ancient Eight.

Lions close regular season against Penn

By Michael Shapiro
Apr 23 11:43 pm ET

This time last year, Columbia baseball entered its final series of the season against Penn. The Lions swept the four-game set and proceeded to defeat Dartmouth in a three-game series to capture the Ivy League title. This season has unfolded differently for the defending champs. The Lions currently find themselves with their back against the wall and in need of another four-game sweep over Penn this weekend in order to keep their Ivy hopes alive.

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