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Veterans seek support in transition to college life

By Kat Balkoski
Apr 30 10:20 pm ET

With issues like post-traumatic stress disorder rising in numbers, Columbia’s own large population of military veterans are sounding off on their mental health needs.

Cultural perceptions of mental health affect treatment

By Zeynep Memecan
Apr 30 10:21 pm ET

When Bilal’s Somali relatives came to his home last year, they brought Kamal, his 7-year-old cousin with them for the first time.

NYC universities expand campuses

By Maggie Astor
Apr 30 10:22 pm ET

Columbia is not the only school expanding around New York City. As the Manhattanville expansion moves forward, other universities are changing the dynamics of neighborhoods from Harlem down to Greenwich Village.

Engineers rake it in

By Tabitha Peyton Wood
Apr 30 10:44 pm ET

Columbia University’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders was rewarded in a big way last week after months of working to engineer sustainable development solutions for communities in Uganda, Ghana, and India.

Local stimulus funding in the works

By James Fleming
Apr 30 10:55 pm ET

Uncertainty, the banner for recession, looms in Harlem as plans formed seven weeks ago at the Upper Manhattan Economic Summit have yet to come to fruition.

First Community Education Council vote open to parents

By Jessica Hills
Apr 30 11:01 pm ET

More than 25,000 parents turned out to the online polls from April 6 to 29 to cast votes for their Community Education Council members.

Julius Caesar

By Mira John
May 1 02:08 am ET

“Et tu, Bruté? Then fall, Caesar!” In the King’s Crown Shakespeare Troupe’s annual outdoor production, the title character cries as Brutus stabs him to death.

OPINION »

‘If I could make sense of it all’

By Daniel D'Addario
Apr 30 08:30 pm ET

Endings always sneak up on me without much warning, or maybe it’s just that I miss the warnings.

Jody's Drawings!

By Jody Zellman
Apr 30 08:31 pm ET

The illustrator is a student in the Columbia School of General Studies.

Partner for peace

By Eric J. Schorr
Apr 30 08:32 pm ET

The Columbia Palestine Forum had the unique opportunity to promote an environment for open discussion on how best to assist the Palestinian people. Yet they have instead made their events a stage for anti-Israel rhetoric and even more aggressive calls for divestment from Israel.

Bittersweet memories at graduation

By Chen Fu
Apr 30 08:34 pm ET

I started practicing the meditation exercises of Falun Gong in 1995 with my parents in mainland China. Those were happier days.

Seeing Columbia through a lens

By Linda Carrion
Apr 30 08:35 pm ET

I came to Spectator’s open house on a whim during my sophomore year. I didn’t really care about the paper itself, but just tagged along with my roommate of now four years. I’d had enough of writing from class, so I decided to join the photo department as a novice photographer.

Columbia, I got your crazy

By Sadia Latifi
Apr 30 08:38 pm ET

To the tenured, highly esteemed anthropology professor who failed me last spring: “Why are you even here?”

Calling for Manhattanville transparency

By Ben Totushek
Apr 30 08:40 pm ET

The fact is that right now, no one knows anything about Columbia’s specific plans to receive stimulus funds, except that they exist.

The value of evaluations

By Editorial Board
May 1 01:10 am ET

Columbia University Information Technology should work with Columbia College Student Council to make evaluations available to the general student body, and students should support the initiative by signing CCSC’s online petition.

Finding Nectar

By Colin Sullivan
May 1 02:27 am ET

The author is a Columbia College sophomore majoring in political science. He is a senior associate photo editor for the Spectator.

SPORTS »

Track travels to Princeton for last nonconference meet

By Sabine Schulz
Apr 30 11:20 pm ET

This weekend, the Columbia track and field team will travel to its last meet of the outdoor season before the Ivy League Heptagonal, ECAC/IC4A, and NCAA outdoor track and field championships.

Final tune-up for rowing before Ivy championship

By Michele Cleary
Apr 30 11:23 pm ET

The heavyweight and women’s rowing teams will each compete in one final race before vying for the Ivy championship at the Eastern Sprints.

Four years of improvement for CU Athletics

By Max Puro
Apr 30 11:27 pm ET

My first article for Spectator was a football Around the League article in September 2005. Four years, three PixBox victories, and exactly 130 articles later, it is now time—this is my last-ever article for Spectator, and most likely, the last article I will ever write.

Unique approach guides men's tennis

By Kunal Gupta
May 1 12:10 am ET

When it comes to men’s tennis in the Ivy League, there is no shortage of talent.

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