John-Jay-Awards

Coming off a season in which men’s soccer lost the Ivy League crown by a single goal, the team has found itself unable to replicate last year’s success.

Following former Provost John Coatsworth’s decision to step down after an eight-year tenure and the appointment of Amy Hungerford, current dean of humanities for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale, as executive vice president for Arts and Sciences and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for the upcoming year, Columbia approaches a critical juncture for its future.

Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History Ira Katznelson, CC ’66, will serve as interim provost, University President Lee Bollinger announced in an email Friday afternoon.

Columbia’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness received $150,000 from the U.S Customs and Border Patrol to devise medical protocol for assessing individuals in the process of crossing the southern border, according to center director Irwin Redlener. The contract agreement will continue through November 2020.

In the final plenary meeting of the year, University senators summarized committee progress, passed a resolution in honor of Provost John Coatsworth’s upcoming departure, and questioned the reputation and academic quality of the School of Professional Studies—a school that, amid its rapid expansion in enrollment, now accounts for nearly 50 percent of all the graduate degrees awarded by Columbia.

Provost John Coatsworth will be stepping down from his position as Columbia’s chief academic officer in June after eight years in the role, University President Lee Bollinger announced Thursday morning.

At its 41st annual awards dinner and reception on Wednesday night, Columbia College honored five alumni with the John Jay Award.

The U.S. Senate confirmed William Pelham Barr, CC ’71, GSAS ’73, and a corporate lawyer, to serve as the next U.S. attorney general on Thursday.

John Beatty needed some land. Or at least, that’s what his grandmother preached to him from infancy. “Get some land, boy, buy you some land. If you don’t own some land, you’re nobody.” Beatty came to New York as a 19 year-old in 1957, a bricklayer by trade—like his father—and did indeed get himself some land. He opened a bar called The Hamilton Lounge on 141st Street and Amsterdam Avenue in 1967, but having bounced around the electric nightlife downtown, he was dissatisfied with the atmosphere of his own joint. “I could have stayed in South Carolina and opened a bar,” he says. “I didn’t want that––I wanted to be like everybody else, I want to be renowned.”

A middle-aged man entered John Jay Dining Hall and stole the personal belongings of at least two students earlier this month, including one student’s phone and another student’s backpack with their laptop.