Harris Walker

Columbia does not have an illustrious history when it comes to its football program. In fact, Columbia is the only school in the Ivy League that has an all-time losing record at 373-633-43. It also has the smallest number of championship wins among the Ancient Eight, with just one—from 1961, which it shared with Harvard. This year, however, the Lions are planning to challenge people’s ideas of what Columbia football is all about.

In a ceremony attended by the entire Columbia football team and hosted in collaboration with the nonprofit Team IMPACT, the Lions made 12-year-old Gabe Patnoi the 124th member of the team when he signed an official letter of intent on Saturday morning.

Last season did not go the way Josh Wainwright expected. Coming off of a 2017 season in which the Lions had finished 8-2 and Wainwright himself had hauled in 78 receptions for 1,001 yards and eight touchdowns, hopes were high for the star wide receiver. But, his 2018 season was over before it ever really began, as he tore his ACL in the second quarter of the season opener against Central Connecticut State.

In a preseason matchup featuring the two winningest active head coaches in college football, Columbia took on Montclair State in a scrimmage on Friday—the Lions’ only test against a real opponent before kicking off the season.

With the start of the college football season fast approaching, senior linebacker and co-captain Michael Murphy, senior defensive lineman Daniel DeLorenzi, and head coach Al Bagnoli traveled to ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut on Thursday for Ivy League Football Media Day.

The Columbia University fencing team won its fifth co-ed team national championship, making it the team’s third title in the past five years.

The scene took place in the Studebaker Building on 132rd street, the location of the Office of Labor Relations, in a medium-sized room with rows of folding tables and chairs at 1:30 p.m.

With negotiations between Graduate Workers of Columbia and the administration set to begin by the end of the month, a new wave of bargaining committee members is looking to disrupt the traditional bargaining process, intending to leverage the union’s seat at the table to throw support behind issues such as climate change, the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, and anti-gentrification campaigns.

With bargaining talks set to begin in February, members of the graduate student union plan to redouble their negotiation efforts on attaining grievance procedures. Up to this point, the University has indicated a greater willingness to make monetary concessions.