Samantha Saly

This year’s pluralist and social justice-themed Hillel seder consisted of more than just the four questions and a lot of matzo. Co-led by two rabbinical students, one orthodox and one reform, the leaders of Saturday’s service attempted to develop a program that would appeal to reform, conservative, and orthodox Jews.

Hundreds of nervous parents, crying babies, and squirming children gathered into a large gym Thursday evening and scanned the projection screens for a familiar name—the key to an education at the Harlem Success Academy Charter School.

After two years of communication with concerned students, Barnard has developed a dorm-by-dorm plan to create a wireless campus. While currently only Sulzberger and Elliot are wireless, the rest of the Quad and 616 will be outfitted with wireless hubs this summer. Plimpton, 620, and 600 will follow suit during the coming academic year.

Columbia Journalism School professor and author David Hajdu spoke about his new book, The Ten-Cent Plague, in an interview last night at Book Culture. The book centers on the history, implications, and demise of the American comic book industry during the mid-1900s.

After a year of pressure from students, the Barnard faculty approved a resolution yesterday to grant elective credit to students who have taken courses in
American Sign Language.

After the recent financial aid overhaul of Columbia’s undergraduate colleges, Barnard is taking a closer look at its own offerings. A few years ago, colleges nationwide instituted need-blind admissions. Now many universities, including Columbia, no longer include loans as part of financial aid packages. But Barnard is having some difficulty meeting students’ needs through similar measures.

While some students were satisfied with their decisions, others faced existential crises as Columbia College’s major declaration period came to an end Thursday.

In one of several changes, Frontiers of Science lectures will be split into two sections next semester, according to the faculty members working to improve the pilot course in accordance with student feedback.

Due to a shortage of University housing allotted to Greek groups, three organizations do not currently have chapter residences—and won’t for the foreseeable future­—a situation that they say puts them in a bind during rush season.

Members of campus fraternities challenged University party policies and guidelines pertaining to fraternity events at a meeting Monday, where they presented a draft of proposed modifications to existing rules that have received a largely negative response from the Greek community.

Community Board 9 committee members voted to approve the Department of City Planning’s proposal to change the face of 125th Street at a public hearing Monday evening.

When Lisa Hogarty, who begins as chief operating officer at the Columbia University Medical Center today, was hired out of the health care industry as a Columbia administrator in 2001, she thought that she was leaving hospitals behind for good.

City Councilwoman Inez Dickens, D-Morningside Heights and Harlem, has introduced a bill to ban smoking within 25 feet of city hospital entrances.

With religiously-inspired fanfare, United States Sen. Barack Obama, D­-Ill. and CC ’83, appealed to his base at the Apollo Theater in Harlem Thursday night.

Documentary filmmaker Ofra Bikel has won so many prizes that a prestigious award from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is “not really going to make one bit of difference” in her career, she said.

While most people enjoyed warm feasts this past Thanksgiving, local soup kitchens and food pantries struggled to provide the little that they could for needy New Yorkers, due to decreased federal funding for emergency food aid.

A trash can fire on the ninth floor of Sulzberger Hall led to the hospitalization of five security guards and the evacuation of nearly 1,000 students from the Barnard Quad early Sunday morning.