2006

2006 in Columbia history:

• ACIS and AIS 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

• Ex-Czech President and playwright Václav Havel spends a semester at Columbia as artist-in residence; Lit Hum syllabus temporarily altered to include one of his works
• Awarding of the Nobel Prize to Edmund Phelps and Orhan Pamuk
• October: Minuteman stage-rush incident
• Debate between Chris Kulawik and Avi Zvi Zenilman on The O'Reilly Factor
• Launch of The Eye as the latest of many attempts at a Spectator magazine insert
• Columbia Political Review editor Paul Sonne wins Columbia's first Marshall Scholarship in a long time
• November: Journalism School students cheat on an ethics exam
• The women's soccer team wins the Ivy League championship against Harvard