Tuesday, October 27, 2009

NEWS »

Apartment complex promotes sustainability

By Mario Harris-Rosser
Oct 27 01:40 am ET

A public housing complex in West Harlem took out the trash and is now going green.

New diversity director hired at Barnard

By Madina Toure
Oct 27 01:48 am ET

Barnard's new director of Diversity Initiatives will take on varied challenges under one office.

Athena Center promotes leadership at Barnard

By Carly Silver
Oct 27 01:54 am ET

The Athena Center for Leadership Studies opened this fall. Barnard's student council got caught up on its progress.

Schools to receive H1N1 vaccine

By Maggie Astor
Oct 27 02:00 am ET

New York City's public schools will be providing swine flu vaccinations.

OPINION »

Why hate speech?

By Derek Turner
Oct 26 07:24 pm ET

Banning hate speech ultimately prevents us from supporting the principle of free speech.

Policy is serious business

By Monica Anjali Varman
Oct 26 07:26 pm ET

The intersection between business and policy is garnering more attention and interest in the world of international development, with “systems” and “process” thought increasingly recognized as crucial to sustainable policy.

Columbia & Its Discontents

By Julia Alekseyeva
Oct 26 07:29 pm ET

Columbia & Its Discontents

Voices of Rwanda

By Briana Wong
Oct 26 08:04 pm ET

Last Tuesday, the Columbia/Barnard Hillel hosted Voices of Rwanda, a group dedicated to creating a platform for survivors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide to share their stories with the world that abandoned them 15 years ago. The genocide, which took place between the beginning of April and the middle of July in 1994, began when Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana was murdered. Over the course of the next three months, somewhere between 500,000 and 1,000,000 Rwandans, the majority of whom belonged to the Tutsi tribe, were slaughtered.

Crowns and frowns

By Editorial Board
Oct 26 09:51 pm ET

For Halloween, students may actually need to go to Ricky's.

SPORTS »

Better coaching could turn season around for football

By Kunal Gupta
Oct 26 07:04 pm ET

As they always say in sports, it’s a marathon not a sprint, and believe it or not, Columbia still has a chance to salvage its season against its four remaining Ivy League opponents.

Win lifts Big Green out of Ivy cellar

By Spencer Gyory
Oct 26 07:06 pm ET

Of the four league games played this past Saturday, only one proved to be a close contest. The other three Ivy League matchups were blowouts.

Soccer breaks from Ivy play to face Lafayette

By Sabine Schulz
Oct 26 07:07 pm ET

The Columbia men's soccer team will take on nonconference opponent Lafayette after upsetting No. 15 Dartmouth.

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