Zeynep Memecan

Jason Resnikoff’s mother watched proudly as her son got stabbed in the back by a vicious murderer. But she wasn’t upset—Resnikoff was playing the Duke of Clarence in a student production of Shakespeare’s Richard III.

Barnard professor and internationally recognized scholar Dennis Dalton, who has taught the same two-semester political theory sequence since 1969, will give his last lecture this Thursday. The announcement of his retirement shook up Barnard’s political science department, which has not needed to recruit someone to teach political theory in nearly 40 years, thanks to Dalton’s lengthy and much-acclaimed tenure.

She greets you everyday on the main gates of Barnard. She dances with you at Midnight Breakfast. She decorates your bulletin boards, T-shirts, notebooks, flip-flops, and buildings. She’s Barnard’s beloved mascot, Millie the Bear, and she represents the “strong, beautiful Barnard woman.” But some alumnae have bemoaned seeing less of her since the Office of Communications decided to “phase out” her role as the college’s representative to alums.

It’s Valentine’s Day and, while some students are showing off their bouquets of red roses or trying to guess which secret admirer sent them a candygram, Barnard dance professor Lynn Garafola is receiving a truly romantic Valentine’s Day gift. Her husband, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History Eric Foner, is returning home from his scholar-in-residence program in London to spend a precious few days with his wife and daughter.

More than a month after a pair of hate crimes shook Teachers College, the school has installed a new ID reader to secure campus buildings.

A male resident of Watt lives in a single with two cute girls. They keep him company when he’s pulling an all-nighter, and they’re always excited to see him when he comes back from class.