Ivy-League

“Let’s go Brozy! Right here.”

We, Columbia students, are not that amazing.

Many would not call tennis a loud sport, but at the Dick Savitt Tennis Center this weekend, the enthusiasm could be both felt and heard among the crowd of students and alumni as they chanted players’ names and “Go Lions!” at men’s tennis’ Ivy League opening matches against Yale and Brown.

“Do you take any notice of people you don’t know?”

At 9 o’clock sharp this past Thursday, the doors of Lerner’s Roone Arledge Auditorium swung open as members of various performance troupes stormed the tables for the best seating available. This, however, was ultimately in vain; in short order, many had taken to the dance floor, leaving only small pockets of students clustered around the edges.

Bid Goswami, Columbia men’s tennis head coach, will retire at the end of the 2019 season, Campbell Family Director of Intercollegiate Athletics and Physical Education Peter Pilling announced on Thursday.

For my parents, an acceptance to Harvard would’ve been affirmation of their hard work in raising me—in a sense, the fulfillment of their American dream. Asian-American parents sending their child to a place that is often understood as the best university in the world—what better form of validation exists?

Student representatives from six of the eight Ivy League universities assembled in the Jerome L. Greene Science Center Saturday to discuss ways to bolster mental health support and professional development for international students at the second Ivy Council for International Student Affairs Fall Conference.