Daniella Zalcman

Eight Columbia Spectator photographers share their best street photography. This slideshow is an expanded collection of the images that appeared in today's paper.

The photographer is a Columbia College junior majoring in architecture. As I See It appears on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

Photos from the New York, South Carolina and New Hampshire primaries.

The photographer is a Columbia College junior majoring in architecture. As I See it appears on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

The photographer is a Columbia College junior majoring in architecture. As I See It appears on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

Every Thursday and Sunday, the eastern stretch of Broadway between 114th and 116th Streets is overtaken by a vast array of seasonal produce, ciders, and baked goods.

Every day for the past week, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. a triangular wooden structure covered in canvas has stood quietly in the center of College Walk. John DeSerio, GS, created what he’s dubbed the “Word Wall” as an outlet for Columbia students to scribble messages, thoughts, and comments in the wake of recent bias incidents across campus.

The photographer is a Columbia College junior majoring in architecture.

Gerald Cloud has only been working in Columbia’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library for three weeks, but he’s already settled into a comfortable office on the sixth floor of Butler.

Megan Greenwell, BC ’06 and the 129th editor in chief of Spectator, just returned from an 11-week stay in Baghdad as a Washington Post reporter.

Philosophy major Brendan Ballou, CC ’09, is one of four founders of Free Culture @ Columbia—a student group that promotes the easy dissemination of digital information. In a couple weeks, he’ll leave Morningside Heights for a year abroad in Cambridge, and then plans on taking a semester off before returning to Columbia in January 2009.

When I walk into Michael Seidel’s sixth-floor office in Philosophy Hall, he’s seated at his desk contemplating a yellowed copy of Finnegans Wake squarely centered in front of him. “You know,” he says, “every time I read this book it becomes richer. What a novel!” Seidel’s enthusiasm is contagious—since joining Columbia’s English department in 1977, he has taught everything from Literature Humanities to a course on the modern comparative novel.

Philosophy major Brendan Ballou, CC ’09, is one of four founders of Free Culture @ Columbia—a student group that promotes the easy dissemination of digital information. In a couple weeks, he’ll leave Morningside Heights for a year abroad in Cambridge, and then plans on taking a semester off before returning to Columbia in January 2009.

Columbia selected Anne Rollow Sullivan as its new executive vice president for finance after a nationwide search, the University announced this summer.

Columbia Executive Vice President for Finance and Chief Financial Officer Albert Horvath will leave Columbia to become Pennsylvania State University's Vice President for Finance and Business this summer, it was announced on Friday.

The University of Chicago will not divest from companies linked to the Sudanese government, the office of University President Robert Zimmer announced in a written statement last Friday.

A record total of 2,428 students applied to Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Science under Columbia's early decision program this year-an 8 percent increase over last year's figures. Of this year's early decision applicants, 24.4 percent were admitted, down from 26 percent in 2005.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4-As the temperature spiraled into the low 20s and heavy winds whipped through Capitol Hill, a row of sleeping bags lined the Supreme Court's main entrance while students, professors, and activists waited to gain entry to the day's two oral arguments.

A taxicab crashed head-on into the cement median at the intersection of Broadway and 114th Street shortly after 11 a.m. on Tuesday.

Professor Owen King spends his time teaching creative writing, working on his novels, and avoiding Butler's stacks.

Columbia's endowment posted a record 18.4 percent growth rate for the 2006 fiscal year, rising just shy of the $6 billion mark for the University's fourth straight year of positive returns.

When the Columbia campus shuts down for the holiday season this coming December, so will the last darkroom open to the entire undergraduate student body.

The Grace Gold Darkroom, located in the lower level of McIntosh Student Center at Barnard, has long been available to Barnard and Columbia undergraduates for a fee of $90 per semester, as well as to any faculty or staff enrolled in the photography mini-course offered by Barnard's College Activities Office.

Ask Calvin Sun, CC '08, what he's doing this weekend, and he'll have to pull out a small black planner before he can even think of answering.

Less than a week after Harvard announced its decision to end early admission, Princeton issued a press release on Monday detailing a similar switch to a "single admission process" effective next year.

Citing disadvantages for low-income students and slumping performances among accepted high school seniors, Harvard College will do away with its early admission program next year in the hopes of equalizing and simplifying its application procedure, according to a statement released on Tuesday.

Columbia is considering integrating the Common Application into its admissions process "in the near future," according to university spokesperson Robert Hornsby, a move that could significantly increase Columbia's applicant pool when the change goes into effect.

Harvard College will do away with its early admissions program next year in the hopes of equalizing and simplifying its application procedure, according to a statement released on Tuesday.

The announcement cited disadvantages faced by low-income students and slumping performance among accepted high school seniors as the basis for the policy change.

With a market value of $5.2 billion, Columbia's endowment lags far behind those of some of its Ivy League cohorts. Harvard's endowment tops the charts at $25.5 billion, with Yale's and Stanford's a distant second and third at $15.2 billion and $12.2 billion, respectively.

Columbia has pledged to divest from 18 firms that conduct business in Sudan, the University announced in a press release on Friday. The decision was based on counsel that the Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing received in a presentation given by the student-run Columbia University Sudan Divestment Task Force last November.

Last week's registration period marked the first time that varsity athletes were able to sign up for classes before their peers. The new policy allowed rising sophomores and juniors to register the night before the rest of their classmates in an attempt to "provide student-athletes with limited, controlled access to the courses they need, while maintaining diversified classes and ensuring equity for all students," according to a university-wide e-mail sent out by Provost Alan Brinkley.

Columbia's rapidly growing Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative was thrust into the spotlight recently when the University announced a $200-million donation slated to fund the Jerome L. Greene Science Center. But the grant was just one step in an ongoing process that administrators hope will establish Columbia as one of the frontrunners in neuroscience research.

With its gorgeous architecture and delectable food, East Harlem is a rarely explored and underappreciated corner of the city. Beautiful churches line every other block, and street vendors sell churros and other assorted snacks at busy intersections. Third Avenue and 117th Street hosts a variety of shops and restaurants just a 15 minute walk from campus.

The wife of the late Jerome Greene, CC '26 and Law '28, has donated $200 million to Columbia University for the creation of the Jerome L. Greene Science Center as part of Columbia's continuing Mind, Brain and Behavior Initiative. University President Lee Bollinger announced the gift, the largest the University has ever received, at a press conference in Low Library Monday morning.

Dawn Greene, the wife of the late Jerome Greene, CC '26 and Law '28, has donated $200 million to Columbia University for the creation of the Jerome L. Greene Science Center as part of Columbia's continuing Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative. President Lee C.

Five first-years have discovered that they might not be the only residents living in their John Jay singles. Yaw Awiah, CC '09, reported bedbugs in his room on the 13th floor to Housing and Dining Services last Friday morning, and was asked to leave the building later that day.

For most students, completing the 124 points and about 36 classes required to graduate is enough of a hassle. But Peter Insley, CC '07, decided to spice things up a bit. A double major in math and physics, Insley is taking six classes this semester in addition to serving as a teaching assistant for the 4000-level class Introduction to Modern Analysis.

For the second time in just over a year, alarms failed to sound as a fire burned in a campus dormitory, leaving residents unaware of a blaze. At 3 a.m. Sunday morning, Public Safety officials arrived on the sixth floor of Carman to investigate a passer-by's 911 report of a fire on one of the building's ledges.

New anti-graffiti legislation will allow the New York Police Department to hold property owners responsible for keeping buildings graffiti-free. The amendment, passed by the City Council, to the administrative code of the city, applies to all commercial buildings and apartments with six or more units.

Most Columbia students tend to avoid the Upper East Side. Difficult to access via the subway alone and fairly unremarkable save the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the area is actually home to an eclectic selection of small shops and eateries tucked away among the larger brand-name stores.

Board of Visitors' meeting Monday morning to share their views on college life. Gathered under the coffered ceiling of Casa Italiana, Shaka Dickerson, CC '07, Nishant Dixit, CC '07, Kelly Gavin, CC '06, and Michelle Oh, CC '06, highlighted the details and responsibilities of their respective leadership positions on campus to the group of college advisors, made up of alumni.

Every Wednesday and Friday, Cherepanova heads to the JPMorgan Chase offices in the Financial District. While the industry is inundated with scores of young college students looking to break into the finance world, Cherepanova is still young even by Wall Street's standards.

Correction appended. America's most richly paid personalities come from all walks of life. NBA stars, corporate CEOs, and contemporary music icons pull in millions of dollars each year. In sharp contrast, professionals working in the education sector have seldom been known for their high salaries.

The University Senate convened last Friday for the last plenary meeting of the calendar year. Faculty and student representatives covered a range of topics from the lack of available study spaces for students to continued discussion of the sexual misconduct policy.

As students flipped through the Columbia College Bulletin during registration at the beginning of the semester, two classes in particular stood out. Prominent economists Joseph Stiglitz and Jeffrey Sachs both taught undergraduate courses for the first time this term.

Correction appended.   As exam season nears, Butler degenerates into a wasteland of studying debris. Students slump over desks littered with textbooks, laptops, drained cardboard coffee cups, and increasingly omnipresent slender cans of Red Bull.   In addition to the campus eateries like Cafe 212, Uris, Dodge, and Butler, which all stock the high-powered energy drink, vending machines were installed two weeks ago in East Campus, Schapiro, Broadway, and the fourth floor lounge of Ferris Booth to supply students with an around-the-clock caffeine fix.

Just as high school students across the country faced a new and expanded version of the SATs beginning last March, the Educational Testing Service announced in October that graduate students across the country will soon be taking redesigned GREs. Starting in October 2006, the Graduate Record Exam will change both in content and administration.

School of the Arts administrators announced last week the creation of the Andrew Fisher Fellowship Fund, which will be used to finance grants for visual arts graduate students in the master of the fine arts program. The $2 million gift, one of the largest donations in the school's history, should help to slightly ease the financial burden placed on graduate students.

"Give me a stronger pose!" the photographer urges. "Just a hint of a smile, now. Yeah!" The shutter clicks, and the model relaxes. While Columbia students are known for a multitude of talents, modeling generally isn't the first skill that comes to mind. But Tuesday night, the West End played host to a miniature talent search for Co-Ed magazine's ongoing profile of college students across the country.