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Images from Columbia University's Battle of the Bands
On Campus

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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Mamadou Diouf
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A Grand Entrance

Mamadou Diouf speaks at his first international conference as director of Columbia's Institute of African Studies

Illustration by Mark Steele
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Revolution, Ink.

Spectator reporters remember the protests of 1968

Buddhist monks marching in Mumbai, India
On Campus

Tibet's Long Shadow

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

Photo from Columbia campus 1968 protest
On Campus

Stir It Up

Filmmaker Paul Cronin rouses debate and emotions in his new documentary on the Columbia crisis of 1968

Pakistani woman photographed by Rizwan Tabassum
On Campus

The Promise of Pakistan

The past year was among the most tumultuous in Pakistan's history. SIPA's Saeed Shafqat explains the danger — and sees hope for a democratic future

Historic photo of workers installing a sculpture of Alexander Hamilton on Columbia campus, outside Hamilton Hall
On Campus

Foundry Father

How Alexander Hamilton got to campus

Elizabeth Eckford walking to enroll at Little Rock Central High School in 1957, with mob of white protesters yelling
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Freedom on Their Minds

Professor Manning Marable launches a new Web-based teaching resource on African American history

Actor Michael Hedges, in the persona of Alexander Hamilton, addressing Columbia alumni at a September 8, 2007 ceremony celebrating the renovation of Hamilton Hall
On Campus

All About the Hamiltons

The Campaign for Undergraduate Education aims to raise $865 million for undergraduate students and the faculty who teach them

Columbia Lions football team in 2006, photographed by Ben Shyman
On Campus

Roar, Lion, More

Over the past five years, Columbia has been rebuilding its athletic programs

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at Columbia University in 2007
On Campus

Ahmadinejad at Columbia: A Campus View

September 24, 2007 was a busy day for free speech on campus

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In the Eye of the Storm

Columbia Magazine talks with Lee C. Bollinger about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, new media, and the value of French poetry

Sheila Coronel
On Campus

The Cynical Optimist

Investigative journalist Sheila Coronel brings her watchdog ethic to the J-school

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