2006

2006 in Columbia history:

• ACIS and AIS merge to form CUIT

Spring

• Ruggles vandalization incident
• Launch of The Bwog
• SHOCC protests
• Seth Flaxman elected president of the CCSC
• 10th anniversairy of Austin Quigley's deanship of Columbia College honored during Columbia College Days
• John McCain speaks at Columbia College Class Day; students protest with orange "Not in My Name" buttons and umbrellas

Fall

September

• "Stop Being a Pussy" fliers advertising men's club hockey team lead to the team's suspension.
• Launch of The Eye as the latest of many attempts at a Spectator magazine insert

October

• Minuteman stage-rush incident
• Debate between Chris Kulawik and Avi Zvi Zenilman on The O'Reilly Factor
• Awarding of the Nobel Prize to Edmund Phelps and Orhan Pamuk

November

• Ex-Czech President and playwright Václav Havel spends two months at Columbia as artist-in residence; Lit Hum syllabus temporarily altered to include one of his works
• November: Journalism School students cheat on an ethics exam
• November: Vandals decapitate the statue of George Washington on the facade of St. John the Divine
• Columbia Political Review editor Paul Sonne wins Columbia's first Marshall Scholarship in a long time
• The women's soccer team wins the Ivy League championship against Harvard

See also

• 2005
• 2007