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Orientation 2013: 10 burning questions for Columbia athletics 27 Aug 2013 | 03:25 am
Baseball—How do you top last season? Baseball arguably had its best season in history when it tied a program record with 28 wins, won the Ivy title, and won its first ever game in the NCAA Tournament...
Orientation 2013: Storylines to follow 26 Aug 2013 | 11:48 pm
Special interest housing, mental health, and the first female dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science are among the storylines to follow this year. Special interest housing stirs up de....
Orientation 2013: From Nutella to Twitter, Columbians have grown accustomed to national headlines 26 Aug 2013 | 09:13 pm
Some of Columbia's top storylines last year included a bizarre performance in a Frontiers of Science lecture, Nutellagate, Faculty House contract negotiations, and an alleged hate crime by a football ...
Orientation 2013: Who’s who in Columbia’s student music scene 26 Aug 2013 | 08:58 pm
Columbia has an illustrious history of musical groups, with famous acts ranging from Vampire Weekend to, well, Vampire Weekend. But if you think Columbia's musical legacy begins and ends at “A-Punk,” ...
Columbia lawsuit over St. Luke's commitment dismissed 19 Aug 2013 | 10:58 pm
A lawsuit accusing Columbia of involuntarily committing a student to St. Luke's Hospital for 30 days after he called his Spanish teacher a ‘bitch’ has been dismissed—but the student plans to re-file t...
ZBT loses brownstone after celebrating Ivy baseball win with unsanctioned party 14 Aug 2013 | 03:35 am
Zeta Beta Tau's national leadership confirmed Tuesday that Columbia has rescinded ZBT’s brownstone. Columbia's ZBT chapter will remain a recognized fraternity, according to a statement sent to Spectat...
Judge rules stop and frisk violated rights, CC grad to monitor NYPD 13 Aug 2013 | 01:14 am
A federal judge ruled on Monday that the New York Police Department’s stop and frisk policy violated the constitutional rights of minorities, a major victory for Upper Manhattan politicians, who have ...
Officials won't deny alleged ZBT housing loss 8 Aug 2013 | 07:07 am
Student Affairs and Zeta Beta Tau officials would not deny rumors Wednesday night that Columbia’s ZBT chapter has lost its brownstone. Asked about Bwog's unsourced report—posted Wednesday around 6 p....
CU students, alumni hit Fringe with ‘Lydia & Tom’ 6 Aug 2013 | 11:52 pm
What began as a campus performance is now taking Columbia students and alumni to the New York International Fringe Festival. “Lydia & Tom,” put on in November 2012 as a CUPAL special project, will ope...
CC junior drops out to pursue startup 6 Aug 2013 | 05:36 am
Ben Drucker is looking to follow in the footsteps of Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates. Drucker, formerly CC '15, has dropped out of Columbia to work full-time on Valet.io, the startup he co-founded. Th...
