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After a year as acting dean of the School of International and Public Affairs, John Coatsworth has been named to the position permanently, University President Lee Bollinger announced in an e-mail Tuesday afternoon.

As administrators of the School of International and Public Affairs consider streamlining the school’s academic structure, the international media concentration faces an identity crisis and a hazy future.

David Paterson, CC '77 and an adjunct professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, was sworn in as Governor of New York Monday afternoon.

The U.S. still treats Latin America as a front of unending problems to be dealt with as time permits. The Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia acts as a network to promote greater understanding of this region.

Whoever is selected as the next permanent dean of the School of International and Public Affairs will find the institution primed for a makeover.

Since a survey last spring documented students’ ill-sentiment toward the International Affairs Building, questions have arisen regarding the space constraints that topped many frequenters’ priority lists.

Since University President Lee Bollinger announced his initiative to make Columbia a global university five years ago, the School of International and Public Affairs has been among the most public faces of the effort.

Yesterday, Lee Bollinger referred to the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran as a "petty and cruel dictator" and openly doubted whether Mahmoud Ahmedinajad would have the "intellectual courage" to answer the questions posed. In the history of the World Leaders Forum at Columbia University, no guest has ever been treated with such contempt and disrespect.

An inflammatory message with racist sentiments toward people of Middle Eastern and African descent was discovered scrawled in a bathroom stall in the International Affairs Building yesterday.

Fresh leaders at Columbia’s School of the Arts and School of International and Public Affairs have expressed their intentions to carve a niche for their institutions in the University’s Manhattanville expansion and to increase funding for financial aid.