This is not a real kite. This isn’t, arguably, even a very good depiction of one.

In 2000, Columbia ran out of space to store its books.

Though we may not be able to see it, history is all around us.

At Columbia, every new initiative gets a committee, a report, and a focus group. That includes the new columbia.edu.

Inscribed in the stone above the Lawrence A. Wien Reference Room, known to most students as Butler 301—or the site of desperate all-nighters—is a Francis Bacon quote: "A Man Is But What He Knoweth." I can tell you it is not the most heartening thing to see as you struggle to understand the Catalogue of Ships the day before your first Literature Humanities class.