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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

Illustration of journalistic objectivity

Is Objectivity in Journalism Even Possible?

A Columbia panel holds a central principle up to the light

Buddhist monks marching in Mumbai, India
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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Palace in Moscow
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State's Man

State Department spokesman Ian Kelly '86GSAS returns to Columbia 

Illustration of taping of the Dr. Oz show
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That’s Healthfotainment!

We visit the set of The Dr. Oz Show, starring Mehmet Oz, professor of surgery at Columbia

Michael Snudson and Leonard Downie
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J-school Report: Local News Needs Handout

Newspapers' earnings are being siphoned away by Web sites that offer free news content and cheap advertising rates

James Harden speaking at Columbia
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Harden Elected to University Trustees

The health-care executive is among Columbia’s most active alumni

Staircase of St. Paul's Chapel at Columbia University
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Tales from the Crypt

Welcome to the Postcrypt Coffeehouse in St. Paul's Chapel, the dark heart that has been giving Columbia its musical beat since 1964

Illustration of Gene Sosin at Columbia by Mark Steele
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Moscow and the Hudson

A Varsity Show writer enters the world's stage — behind the Iron Curtain 

Person on laptop next to phone
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Texting, One, Two

The Journalism School holds its annual "Changing Media Landscape" lecture

Illustration by James Steinberg of professor pointing to chalkboard drawing of a sinking ship
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Crash Course

The financial crisis rippled throughout the curriculum of the University this year, challenging faculty to turn on a dime

Illustration of photographers by Mark Steele
On Campus

Photo Finish

During the election of 1948, a surprise development

Illustration by Irena Roman of Columbia University's "The Thinker" statue in a bathtub outside Philosophy
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Wax Philosophical

Columbia's "The Thinker" sculpture gets a spa treatment and makeover

Columbia students training to fight in World War I practicing shooting at Camp Columbia in Litchfield, CT
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Memorial Day

More than 200 Columbians lost their lives in World War I

Student protesters entering Morningside Park in the spring of 1968
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The Real Heroes of '68

One professor stands firmly with the quiet majority

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