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Images from Columbia University's Battle of the Bands
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Shake, Battle, and Roll

At Columbia’s Battle of the Bands, some 150 undergrads grooved to a mix of blues rock, R&B, indie, and folk rock from six student acts

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Beverly Gage, Molly Jong-Fast, MaryLouise Patterson, and Michael Meeropol at a Columbia University panel on McCarthyism

The New Red Scare

A recent panel featuring Molly Jong-Fast ’97BC, Michael Meeropol, and others looked at the McCarthy era and its lessons for today

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Is Objectivity in Journalism Even Possible?

A Columbia panel holds a central principle up to the light

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Buddhist monks participate in an April 10 peace march in Mumbai, India (Arko Dattar/Reuters).

Tibet's Long Shadow

China’s bitter relationship with its highland province and the Dalai Lama

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Art historian Holger Klein measures part of a Byzantine-era church during an archeological survey in Vize, Turkey
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Next Stop, Istanbul

Columbia opens its newest Global Center in Turkey

Illustration of factory workers fixing clock with European flags
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Too Late for the Euro?

Business school professor David Beim, a financial-markets expert and former investment banker, says the euro's hour of reckoning is at hand

Illustration of smoking students pushed out of Columbia campus with giant hand
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Smoking Rules

A new University policy could completely ban smoking on campus

"Family in Airshaft" by Jessie Tarbox Beals, circa 1915.
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The Art of Giving

An exhibit at Wallach Gallery looks at the visual messaging of New York charity organizations of 100 years ago

Butler Library exterior at night
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Ghost Upon the Floor

A 19th-century mantelpiece in Butler Library has seen a lot of history

Photo of lower Manhattan during 9/11 attack
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Ten Years After

On the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, Columbia professors look back at the catastrophic event

Illustration of Muhammad Ali, Salvador Dali, Audrey Hepburn, and John Lennon
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Poster Children

Street vendor Michael Wells on Columbia's favorite dorm-poster icons

Northwest Corner Building at Columbia
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In Brief: Fall 2011

The Northwest Corner Building wins a Merit Award, and other campus news

King Abdullah II of Jordan speaking at Columbia as part of the World Leaders Forum
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Jordan’s King Abdullah Speaks of Reform

The king spoke as part of Columbia’s annual World Leaders Forum

Columbia students at a networking event
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CAA Helping Alumni on the Job Hunt

The Alumni Association is providing online job-search tools, holding more networking events, and will soon offer discounted career coaching

Miniature model of a Manhattan building from the "Old York Library" collection
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Old York Archive Living on at Avery

A family of real-estate developers has given Columbia one of the largest collections of historical materials on New York City ever privately assemble

James Valentini and Columbia students
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James J. Valentini Steps in as Interim College Dean

His appointment on September 2 came just one week after the unexpected resignation of Michele Moody-Adams

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