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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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Torture's Thin Line

“Torture on Trial,” a discussion held at Columbia Law School, explored the implications of the US government’s allowing extreme interrogation practices 

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Still Left Behind

Black men, especially in cities, did not benefit from the economic boom of the 1990s, according to new research

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Art's Diamonds

Art Garfunkel ’62CC, ’65GSAS wins third annual I.A.L. Diamond Award for Achievement in the Arts

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Ed Reform Expert Susan Fuhrman Named President of Teachers College

She is the first woman to hold the position

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With New Acquisitions, Library to Open Human Rights Documentation Center

Amnesty International USA sent its archive to Columbia 

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UCSF Epidemiologist Lee Goldman Tapped to Lead Medical Center

Goldman will join Columbia on August 1 

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Public Health Dean Rosenfield to Step Down

He will remain as dean until the University chooses his successor, and he will stay on as a professor

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Taps for the Beats?

The 90-plus-year-old West End is invariably mentioned in any discussion of the Beats at Columbia

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Conserving the Center

In trying to uphold Judaism's center, retiring JTS Chancellor Ismar Schorsch found himself caught in the middle

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Smart Growth

Columbia’s got a long-range plan to advance academics and revitalize West Harlem

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Home for the Homilies

An alumna recalls a lesson in community

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Robert Kraft Receives NCAA’s Theodore Roosevelt Award

The chairman and CEO of the New England Patriots received the NCAA’s highest honor for citizens

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