News Board

President Bollinger responds to students on Ahmadinejad

Statement of University President Lee Bollinger's statement on the cancellation of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Columbia in 2006.

On Monday, September 24, the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is scheduled to appear as a speaker on campus.

Cops Kill Carjacker Near Penn
University police shot and killed an alleged carjacker Monday.
According to the Daily Pennsylvanian, security guards saw the man trying to steal a vehicle. He ran away, only to steal another. A white van was taken at gunpoint, and its original driver was dragged out.

SGB Report on the University's Rules of Conduct

16 April 2007

A few weeks ago, the punishments for those charged in the Minutemen protest were made public. These announcements opened a number of old wounds and brought the concerns surrounding the protest back into public discussion.

An article published in Neurology magazine suggests that women do not react as favorably to emergency anti-stroke treatment as men.

Rapper and actor Ice-T shared pearls of wisdom about education and officially coined the phrase "keeping it autho [authentic]" as a speaker at this weekend's Pop Culture in the Classroom, a conference at Teachers College.

Wharton Prof Faces Child Porn Charges

A former professor at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania pleaded guilty to child pornography charges this week and is likely to face 15 to 30 years of prison time, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported.

Two employees of the University of Pennsylvania were reported to be no longer working at the university after university administrators discovered last month that they were convicted sex felons, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian.

Duke Student Alleges Rape at Party

Durham, N.C. police are investigating the alleged rape of a Duke student, the Duke Chronicle reported.

Students and faculty are concerned about plans to build a power plant inside a library at City College of New York.

By the end of this week, a new online networking system, Columbia Career Connections, is set to be launched to connect Columbia undergraduates to alumni with the click of a button.

Reports of the hazing of two freshman tennis players involving homophobic slurs surfaced this week, raising concerns from Yale's LGBT community, the Yale Daily News reported. Two freshman tennis players dressed in women's underwear walked into two dining halls and sang Aretha Franklin's "A Natural Woman" on a tabletop on Nov.

Rather than heading over to the stodgy chapel room of the International Hostel on Amsterdam Avenue, their usual meeting place, the Three Parks Democrats opted instead for the Carne Bar and Restaurant on Broadway, in hopes of attracting a younger crowd to their meetings-or at least one younger in spirit.

David, CC '09, lives in a beachfront house in Florida. Last summer, his parents paid for housing while he had an unpaid internship. This year, Columbia is giving him $22,000 in financial aid.

Every summer-when the news runs as slowly as the 2/3 train on weekends-the media latch onto some technology issue and run it into the ground. Past victims have included Podcasts, political blogs, and anything done by Google or Apple.

With the possible exception of YouTube, this year's media darling was Wikipedia, covered by The New Yorker, Stephen Colbert, and Wired (which posted its article in wiki format online for user editing).