Barnard

In what could have been her final public appearance as Barnard’s president, Judith Shapiro sang happy birthday in Portuguese to a roomful of Barnard donors at Monday’s 2008 scholarship gala and auction.

This past week, Barnard College students received the exciting news that Mayor Michael Bloomberg will be delivering the keynote address at Barnard’s Commencement on May 20. Though some might be surprised by the mayor’s selection, Bloomberg is a fine choice of whom Barnard is rightly proud.

Barnard’s 116th Commencement ceremony, which will be held at Columbia due to Nexus construction, will feature an address by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. New Yorker editor David Remnick, tennis player Billie Jean King, and Harlem activist and Head Start program organizer Thelma Davidson Adair will also be present to receive Medals of Distinction, Barnard’s highest honor.

Columbia should dissuade its students from entrusting their belongings to the self-proclaimed “very best in collegiate shipping and storage.” What’s more, it should keep Collegeboxes off of College Walk.

Students sometimes feel apathy toward student council and its role on campus. Nonetheless, the new SGA board is inheriting a record of success, and we have every reason to hope it will live up to students’ expectations.

Last week, over one thousand young women received thick envelopes announcing their admission to Barnard College. This spring, Barnard accepted 1,207 prospective students from a pool of 4,273 applicants, maintaining 2007’s admission rate of 28 percent.

The days of lining up for hours to register for limited enrollment classes at Barnard, a process that can take hours, appear to be coming to an end.

The complex relationships among the University’s four undergraduate schools have long been a source of both benefits and misunderstandings.

In the first of many 40th anniversary commemorations of the 1968 protests, Estelle Freedman, BC ’69, addressed a crowd of roughly 100 in the James Room Wednesday night about her struggle to build an identity in the midst of that politically tumultuous year.

Though Lerner’s eight floors house student mailboxes, administrative offices, food courts, and lounge space, many Barnard students say they don’t feel at home. “I definitely feel out of place in Lerner,” Natalie Reilly, BC ’11, said.