Dino Grandoni

High school newspapers have a reputation for attracting top-notch students, or so says Erick Gordon, director of the Student Press Initiative at Teachers College. With Gordon’s program reaching out to schools in underprivileged communities, more students now have the opportunity to show off their journalistic knack.

Manhattanville residents have been squirming recently over an unwelcome neighborhood pest other than Columbia: a bedbug epidemic.