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In the midst of high competition for visas allowing international students to remain in the United States after graduation, Columbia’s International Students and Scholars Office is urging them to plan ahead and search for jobs early if they intend to stay.

In recent weeks, the competition between newspapers’ coverage of Kenyan post-election violence has been almost as fierce as the conflict itself. Pictures of people trapped in burning churches, stories of youth fleeing machete-brandishing mobs, and assembly lines of carnage have plastered front pages, while clumsy comparisons have been made between the current violence and the genocide that haunted Rwanda over a decade ago. The political reality of the conflict, however, still seems to be unclear.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg lives a life of epic proportions—he won the fight for control of City Hall, his company, Bloomberg L.P., devoured a third of the international financial media market, and his name has been inscribed in structures built with his philanthropic might. Yet rumors surrounding Bloomberg’s potential presidential candidacy keep many wondering whether he’s pushing for power or just riding the wave of media attention.

Despite another rejection of the DREAM Act in the U.S. Senate last October, members of the Chicano Caucus remain unshaken in their resolve to ensure that it passes the next time it is introduced.

Armed with a sweater, coat, and hat, Bryan Mercer, CC ’07, seemed to be preserving all the energy he could in the stiffening cold.

More than a hundred people gathered at St. Michael’s Church on 99th Street on Sunday to celebrate the reconsecration of the altar of St. Jude.

Even as he made light of possible plans to run for mayor in 2009, Comptroller William Thompson invited New York City college journalists to his office for a briefing and question and answer session on Thursday.

Men were shedding standards for a good cause at the first annual “Mr. GS Mangeant,” held Friday at The Parlour at 86th and Broadway.