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Some things are constant: you see their faces on fliers every day, read their e-mails once a week, and turn out to vote once a year. But underneath the surface, the four undergraduate student councils each offer a different model of how to represent student interests.

After pushing back the voting deadline a day to accommodate technical difficulties, the Engineering Student Council announced the results of the class president and vice president positions in the council’s internal elections on Saturday afternoon.

In a departure from the tradition of rewarding a single victor, the first-place prize of this year’s Columbia University Assassins went to eight different people.

The Engineering Student Council voted unanimously Monday night to impeach Amit Bedi, SEAS ’09 and University Senator. Bedi, who was not present at the meeting, resigned by sending a text message to certain council members which read, “Just tell them that I resign right now.” Bedi was unaware that the vote for his impeachment had just been passed.

Engineering Student Council candidates presented their platforms at a sparsely attended forum on Friday afternoon, where they presented their platforms in informative—and occasionally fiery—speeches.

Peter Valeiras, SEAS ’09, was elected president of the Engineering Student Council last night during the council’s annual Executive Board elections. Valeiras, the current Student Services Representative, ran against Prish Dunstan, SEAS ’09 and current vice president for policy.

Reacting to the call for better study abroad programs, both the Columbia College Student Council and the Engineering School Council are taking action. A new think tank organized earlier this month by CCSC sophomore class Vice President Sue Yang and involving several council members focuses on programs for Columbia College students, whereas ESC is considering organizing a panel of students from the School of Engineering and Applied Science who have studied abroad.

At 6:05 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 22, the first shot emanated from a squeaky water gun in the densely populated Broadway computer lounge. Ian Crone, CC ’10, was dead.

With the help of a new Engineering Student Council resolution, the curriculum of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences may be broadened to allow a bigger role for visual arts classes.

With little pomp and circumstance, Herman Matte, formerly the director of housing, assumed the role of interim assistant vice president for campus operations at the Columbia University Medical Center in early January.

Two undergraduate student councils have recently taken opposite stances on one of the more esoteric differences between their schools’ transcripts—while Columbia College transcripts list the percentage of students who received A’s in a given class, School of Engineering and Applied Science transcripts do not.

Support for Israel, long a topic of global political debates, has become a focal point of controversy within Columbia’s Pro-Israel community as well, with different groups of students organizing around varying views of how best to advocate for the country.

Provost Alan Brinkley has awarded Community Impact $20,000 to be used for service learning fellowships for students.

Interim SEAS Dean Gerald Navratil focused on diversity and recent bias incidents in his first Fireside Chat in Carleton Lounge Monday night.

Kamal Yechoor of the Fu-Tang Clan was announced president of the SEAS class of 2011 after a day’s delay last Friday night.

Last night, four parties and one individual candidate submitted their registration packets for the upcoming SEAS 2011 Class Council elections, with SEAS-themed ticket names ranging from the SEAS Theorem to the Fu Element.

"As a council, what has been different this year is unity in how we approached initiatives," outgoing Engineering Student Council President Dan Okin said after one of the board's final meetings of the year.

Stephen Robinson, SEAS '08, was chosen as director of technology for next year's Engineering Student Council in an election held last night during the council's weekly meeting.

Who would have thought that inside the Zen essence of bamboo lay the potential to help a poverty-stricken continent create bicycles?

Voter turnout for Engineering Student Council elections reached 50.9 percent, beating Columbia College's turnout of 34.3 percent in an election with close races for policy representative positions and uncontested class council elections.

As students from the School of Engineering and Applied Science prepared to vote this week for at-large and class council elections, Engineering Student Council president-elect Liz Strauss, SEAS '08, laid out her goals for the coming year.

Liz Strauss, SEAS '08, was elected president of the Engineering Student Council's Executive Board last night during the council's internal elections.

Eash Cumarasamy, SEAS '08, and Liz Strauss, SEAS '08, will be pitted against each other tonight to determine the new president of the Engineering Student Council Executive Board.

Liz Strauss, SEAS '08, was elected president of the Engineering Student Council tonight during the council's internal elections.

The Engineering Student Council has hefty plans for the coming semesters, including making textbook information available to students before the semester begins, reforming the current advising system within SEAS, and making the Center for Career Education more in tune with students' needs.

Engineering Student Council elections started last night at 11 p.m. with the council beginning to accept nominations for Executive Board positions.

Zvi-Week ended with a bang last night as students flocked to see the Battle of the Bands and the crowning of the new Mr. and Ms. SEAS.

The Engineering Student Council is hoping to make Mudd, the building that houses the School of Engineering and Applied Science, a more environmentally friendly building.
Unlike Columbia College, SEAS has control over its own buildings. After attending the annual Ivy Council on Feb.

Students from the School of Engineering and Applied Science are fighting to re-establish the presence of Columbia Engineering merchandise in the Columbia Bookstore

An organizer of the Minuteman Project protest at Columbia University and a Village Voice writer discussed free speech last night at the Faculty House as the first event in a new monthly series intended to promote controversial discussion on campus.

Professor Wallace Broecker of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory received the Crafoord Prize in Geosciences last Wednesday, Jan. 17.

Local Flavor Burrito Shop, which opened for business on Tuesday at Broadway Presbyterian Church, offers a quick lunch and jobs for the local homeless population.

The shop, which is open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11 a.

Advance, a nationally funded recruitment and retention program, is giving women a step-up in their careers in the sciences and engineering on the Columbia campus.
In 2004, Columbia became the 19th institution to receive the National Science Foundation's Advance grant.

Local Flavor Burrito Shop, which opened for business on Tuesday at Broadway Presbyterian Church, offers a quick lunch and jobs for the local homeless population.

The shop, which is open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11 a.

Starting next year, students participating in the Columbia Urban Experience program will be able to extend their experience beyond the existing week of pre-orientation activities.

Allen University in South Carolina has taken the obsession with cell phones a step further, collaborating with Sprint Nextel to provide students, faculty, and staff with new phones to ease communication.

"Students are much more mobile these days than when the dormitories were built," Tony Spearman, Vice President of Operations at Allen University, said.

Ex-detainee James Yee, a Chinese-American Muslim chaplain, spoke in Roone Arledge Cinema Wednesday night about his experience as a chaplain at Guantanamo Bay and his subsequent 76 days of detainment.

Nicholas F. Maxemchuk, a Columbia professor of electrical engineering, was given the Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award in early August for his "contributions to Metropolitan and Local Area Networks, reliable multicast, and protocol testing," according to the award citation.