2003

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Pro-Iraq War demonstration

2003 in Columbia history:

• Alan Brinkley succeeds Jonathan Cole as Provost
• Six Milks and Two Left Feet merge to form improv comedy group Fruit Paunch
• Columbia gives up management of Biosphere 2

[edit] Spring

• March: Iraq War Protest and Counter-Protests erupt
• March 26: Anthropology prof Nicholas De Genova states at a teach-in that he wishes "a million Mogadishus" upon U.S. troops
• Miklos Vasarhelyi elected President of CCSC
• George Stephanopoulos speaks at Columbia College Class Day

[edit] Summer

• University President Bollinger announces plans for the Manhattanville expansion
• SEASCommunity, the forerunner of CUCommunity, later CampusNetwork, is launched

[edit] Fall

• September 25: Edward Said dies
• Vladimir Putin (President of Russia) and Hamid Karzai (President of Afghanistan) among the prominent figures gracing campus with their snipers during the first annual World Leaders Forum
• First Midnight Mania held
• Orgo Night flyers and script controversial for being racist and offensive