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The Iliad

2007-12-25T04:18:18Z

Aj2w: /* Ceremonial Presenation */

'''The Iliad''' is an epic poem attributed to Homer and dated to the 7th or 8th century BC. It's also the first book you read in [[Literature Humanities]]. Freshman in [[Columbia College|CC]] are informed that they're supposed to have read the first six books (chapters) by the time they've arrived on campus. Many students actually do this. Others don't. Seeing as this is in preparation for a 1 hour introduction to Lit Hum lecture during [[NSOP]], it's not likely that the professor is going to perform a reading check in an auditorium full of 1,000 students.

== Ceremonial Presenation ==
If you attend an [[Academic Advising Session]] over the summer before you arrive, a representative of the [[Columbia College Alumni Association]] will be on hand to present each member of the incoming class present with a copy of The Iliad. It's a gift made on behalf of the alumni of [[Columbia College]], and a symbolic passing of the torch to a new generation of Columbians. It's a pretty cool gesture, though perhaps a little unrepresentative of the way things actually work at Columbia (cold, mechanical, and impersonal).

If you aren't able to attend a summer session, have no fear. You'll get your copy of The Iliad in the mail, or on campus when you arrive for orientation.

The corollary to the presentation of The Iliad before you arrive on campus is probably the presentation of [[Class Pins]] by alumni at [[Class Day]] when you [[Commencement|graduate]].

[[Category:Traditions|Iliad, The]]

Dropouts

2007-11-17T16:56:19Z

Aj2w:

Some, (okay, maybe most) of Columbia's most famous students never actually graduated. That's right, a Columbia education is SO good, that you don't even need a full 4 years to take the world by storm!

* [[Alexander Hamilton]] (joined the Revolutionary War)
* [[Lou Gehrig]] (Signed a contract with the Yankees and bolted)
* [[Langston Hughes]] (Mining- That's right, one of the great american poets was a [[SEAS]] drop-out...)
* [[Eudora Welty]] (Business)
* [[Jack Kerouac]]
* [[Alicia Keys]]
* [[Lauryn Hill]]
* [[Jake Gyllenhaal]]
* Isamu Noguchi (Famous Sculptor. Dropped out of CC's Premed program to sculpt full-time)
* José Raúl Capablanca (World Chess Champion, 1921-1927. Dropped out of Mining after one semester because he spent too much time playing chess)
* [[Mortimer J. Adler]] (Spread the gospel of the [[Core Curriculum]] to the University of Chicago and St. John's College in Annapolis. Didn't bother to take the Swim test, and came back to teach Core classes with [[John Erskine]])
* [[Theodore Roosevelt]] (Law School, elected to State Assembly)
* [[Franklin Roosevelt]] (Law School, passed the Bar)
* [[Utada Hikaru]]
*[[John Parke Custis]], [[George Washington]]'s stepson

[[Category:Drop outs|*]]

Low Library

2007-11-06T03:51:55Z

Aj2w:

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[[Image:LowLibrary.jpg|thumb|240px|From Wikipedia's article on [[w:Columbia University|Columbia University]].]]
[[Image:LowRotunda.jpg|thumb|240px|The Low Rotunda Reading Room]]
'''Low Memorial Library''' was the university's main library on the [[Morningside Heights campus]] until the completion of [[Butler Library]] in 1934. It was named after [[Seth Low]]'s father, Abiel Abbot Low. It is now an administrative building, housing [[Bollinger]]'s office, as well as the University Archives, the [[Columbiana Collection]], the King's College Room, the Columbia Security office, and the [[Visitor's Center]].

==The Rotunda==

The Low Library Rotunda is the University's primary ceremonial space on campus. It hosts major prize ceremonies such as the Pulitzer
and Bancroft, hosts dignitaries and heads of state during the [[World Leaders Forum]], and pretty much anything that's fancy and formal. A giant mural on the third floor of [[Butler Library]] depicts the ceremony held to honor the Queen of England on her visit to Columbia in 19??. When Low still functioned as a Library, the rotunda was the main reading room and held the circulation desk.

== Space reservations ==

Contact Joseph Sabbat, Space & Reservations Coordinator, Low Memorial Library on 212-854-1874.

[[Category:Buildings on the Morningside Heights campus]]

Dining Services

2007-11-06T03:48:09Z

Aj2w: /* Locations and hours */ removed wien food court, since it closed

{{Infobox administration
|Name=Dining Services
|Location=118 [[Hartley Hall]] (Customer Service)
|Phone=212-854-4076
|Hours=M-F 9-5
|Website=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/dining/
|}}

'''Dining Services''', sibling of [[Housing Services]]. They handle [[Dining locations]], and the [[meal plan]]. You can sign up for a Halal meal option at their office.

== Locations and hours ==

{| border="1" cellpadding="3"
|-
|'''Location'''
|width="50"|'''Mon'''
|width="50"|'''Tues'''
|width="50"|'''Wed'''
|width="50"|'''Thurs'''
|width="80"|'''Fri'''
|width="80"|'''Sat'''
|width="80"|'''Sun'''
|-
| [[Blue Java Butler]]
|colspan="4"| 8am-12am
| 8am-8pm || 12pm-6pm || 12pm-12am
|-
| [[Blue Java John Jay]]
|colspan="4"| 7:30am-9:30am
|colspan="3"| closed
|-
| [[Cafe 212]]
|colspan="4"| 8am-2am
| 8am-9pm || 9am-9pm || 9am-2am
|-
| [[Cafe East]]
|colspan="5"| 11:30am-9:30pm
| 12pm-6pm || 2pm-8pm
|-
| [[Carleton Lounge]]
|colspan="5"| 8am-4pm
|colspan="2"| closed
|-
| [[Ferris Booth Commons]]
|colspan="4"| 10am-9pm
| 11am-5pm
|colspan="2"| closed
|-
| [[Hartley Kosher Deli]]
|colspan="4"| 11am-3pm
|colspan="3"| closed
|-
| [[Hewitt Dining Hall]]
|colspan="5"| 8am-10am for breakfast, 11:30am-2pm for lunch, 5pm-7:45pm for dinner
|colspan="2"| 11am-2pm for brunch, 4:30pm-7pm for dinner
|-
| [[JJ's Place]]
|colspan="4"| 8pm-4am
|colspan="2"| closed
| 3pm-4am
|-
| [[John Jay Dining Hall]]
|colspan="7"| 10:30am-1:30pm for brunch, and 5pm-8pm for dinner
|-
| [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/dining/docs/menus/index.html John Jay menu]
| [http://www.dining.columbia.edu/docs/menus/index.html#Monday Mon]
| [http://www.dining.columbia.edu/docs/menus/index.html#Tuesday Tues]
| [http://www.dining.columbia.edu/docs/menus/index.html#Wednesday Wed]
| [http://www.dining.columbia.edu/docs/menus/index.html#Thursday Thurs ]
| [http://www.dining.columbia.edu/docs/menus/index.html#Friday Fri]
| [http://www.dining.columbia.edu/docs/menus/index.html#Saturday Sat]
| [http://www.dining.columbia.edu/docs/menus/index.html#Sunday Sun]
|-
| [[Lenfest Cafe]]
|colspan="5"| 8:30am-4pm
|colspan="2"| closed
|-
| [[Tasti D-Lite]]
|colspan="4"| 12pm-11pm
| 12pm-6pm
| closed
| 12pm-11pm
|-
| [[Uris Deli]]
|colspan="3"| 7:30am-7pm
|colspan="2"| 7:30am-5pm
|colspan="2"| closed
|}

[[Category:Food and drink]]
[[Category:Student Services]]

Furnald Hall

2007-11-04T02:07:06Z

Aj2w: /* History */

{{prefrosh}}

{{Infobox reshall
|Name=Furnald
|Image=Furnald.jpg
|Built=[[1913]]
|Renovated=[[1996]]
|Population=235}}
'''Furnald''' is a popular, but controversial, residence hall.

For a long time, only seniors were able to get rooms in Furnald in the [[Room Selection]] process. It was very popular, not least because it had its own bar in the basement, which reached legendary status.

Today, after being completely renovated, Furnald is a first year and sophomore residence hall. Therefore, first years who aren't housed in [[Carman Hall|Carman]], [[John Jay Hall|John Jay]] or the [[Living Learning Center]], still get to live in the quad and are protected to some extent from juniors and seniors. The remaining space is open to rising sophomores in General Selection. Typically, only sophomores with lottery numbers between 1 and 500 (about 100 or so lucky souls) are able to get rooms in Furnald.

== History ==

Furnald Hall was funded by a bequest from Francis Furnald in memory of his son, Royal Blackler Furnald ([[Columbia College|CC]] 1901). It was designed by [[McKim, Mead, and White]], and opened in [[1913]].

During World War I, Furnald was a residence for female graduate students. During World War II, it housed "ninety-day wonder" commissioned naval officers, who were sent off to war after only three months of officer training. It then became a [[law school]] dormitory, before once again becoming an undergraduate residence hall in [[1960]].

By the mid-90s, Furnald had fallen into a state of disrepair. [[Hartley Hall|Hartley]] and [[Wallach Hall]] had benefited from major renovation and reconstruction in the 1960s and 1970s due to the generosity of [[Ira D. Wallach]] and [[Jerome L. Greene]], but Furnald did not. President [[George Rupp]] ordered a $12m complete gutting and rebuilding.

===Famous former residents===
*[[Federico García Lorca‎]] (1929)
*[[Ted Gold]] (1965-1967)

== Facilities ==
* All rooms have carpets, air conditioning.
* Each floor has a spacious lounge with a TV and fully-equipped kitchen.
* Each floor has 2 large bathrooms (1 male, 1 female).
* Single laundry room located in basement

=== Rooms ===
* For first years, 78 singles and 17 doubles.
* For sophomores, 109 singles and 7 doubles.
* Floors 1, 2 and 10 have especially large rooms.
* 1002 is an architecturally interesting room.

== Advantages and disadvantages ==

=== Advantages ===
* Recently renovated, so it almost feels like a new building.
* Convenient location near [[Lerner]], and, well, everything. Perhaps the best location on campus.
* Great campus and [[Broadway (avenue)|Broadway]] views.
* Nice bathrooms. Especially the handicapped shower stalls with removable shower heads.
* Air conditioning.
* Lots of closet space.
* Basically the only place where you can get a single as a sophomore.
* Ideal choice for independence-minded first years who want lots of privacy. (See below for why Furnald is a bad choice for most first years.)
* Reliable elevators.
* Floor lounges have kitchens, so you can actually cook.

=== Disadvantages ===
* Furnald is a relatively quiet and antisocial residence hall. There are only 25 people on each floor, of whom about 12 are first years, compared to 40+ first years on the average [[John Jay Hall|John Jay]] or [[Carman Hall|Carman]] floor. Furthermore, the sophomores in Furnald already have their own social networks and tend not to socialize with the first years. So the building doesn't have John Jay's or Carman's social atmosphere, where hundreds of eager beaver first years all want to get to know each other. This is a significant drawback since most students' social networks are built up from their first year floormates.
* Social interaction in lounges is infrequent (relative to other first year dorms).
* Kitchens are less useful for first years required to be on a [[meal plan]].
* Layout is not conducive to intra-floor socializing, since stairways and elevators are on the north and south ends of the hall, which somewhat isolates the north and south sides of the floor from one another
* Uncommon for people to leave their doors open (relative to other first year dorms).
* Doubles are fairly small.

== Pictures ==
<gallery>
Image:Furnaldsingle1view1.jpg|Single, view 1
Image:Furnaldsingle1view2.jpg|Single, view 2
Image:Furnalddouble1view1.jpg|Double, view 1
Image:Furnalddouble1view2.jpg|Double, view 2
Image:Furnalddouble2view1.jpg|Double 2, view 1
Image:Furnalddouble2view2.jpg|Double 2, view 2
Image:Furnalddouble2view3.jpg|Double 2, view 3
Image:Furnalddouble2view4.jpg|Double 2, view 4
Image:Furnaldbathroom.jpg|Floor bathroom, view 1
Image:Furnaldbathroomshower.jpg|Floor bathroom, view 2
Image:Furnaldfloorlounge.jpg|Floor lounge
Image:Furnaldkitchen.jpg|Floor kitchen
Image:Furnaldmainlounge.jpg|Main lounge on ground floor
</gallery>

== Floor plans ==
<gallery>
Image:Furnald1.jpg|Floor 1
Image:Furnald2.jpg|Floor 2
Image:Furnald3.jpg|Floor 3
Image:Furnald4.jpg|Floor 4
Image:Furnald5.jpg|Floor 5
Image:Furnald6.jpg|Floor 6
Image:Furnald7.jpg|Floor 7
Image:Furnald8.jpg|Floor 8
Image:Furnald9.jpg|Floor 9
Image:Furnald10.jpg|Floor 10
</gallery>

== Building address ==
2960 Broadway<br>
New York, NY 10027

== Map ==
<googlemap lat="40.807335" lon="-73.963826" type="map" zoom="16" width="500" height="300" controls="small">
40.807335, -73.963826, Furnald residence hall
</googlemap>

== External Links ==
[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/housing/docs/residence-halls/furnald/index.html Columbia Housing - Furnald]

[[Category:Residence halls]]

Furnald Hall

2007-11-04T02:06:43Z

Aj2w: /* History */

{{prefrosh}}

{{Infobox reshall
|Name=Furnald
|Image=Furnald.jpg
|Built=[[1913]]
|Renovated=[[1996]]
|Population=235}}
'''Furnald''' is a popular, but controversial, residence hall.

For a long time, only seniors were able to get rooms in Furnald in the [[Room Selection]] process. It was very popular, not least because it had its own bar in the basement, which reached legendary status.

Today, after being completely renovated, Furnald is a first year and sophomore residence hall. Therefore, first years who aren't housed in [[Carman Hall|Carman]], [[John Jay Hall|John Jay]] or the [[Living Learning Center]], still get to live in the quad and are protected to some extent from juniors and seniors. The remaining space is open to rising sophomores in General Selection. Typically, only sophomores with lottery numbers between 1 and 500 (about 100 or so lucky souls) are able to get rooms in Furnald.

== History ==

Furnald Hall was funded by a bequest from Francis Furnald in memory of his son, Royal Blackler Furnald ([[Columbia College|CC]] 1901). It was designed by [[McKim, Mead, and White]], and opened in [[1913]].

During World War I, Furnald was a residence for female graduate students. During World War II, it housed "ninety-day wonder" commissioned naval officers, who were sent off to war after only three months of officer training. It then became a [[law school]] dormitory, before once again becoming an undergraduate residence hall in [[1960]].

By the mid-90s Furnald had fallen into a state of disrepair. [[Hartley Hall|Hartley]] and [[Wallach Hall]] had benefited from major renovation and reconstruction in the 1960s and 1970s due to the generosity of [[Ira D. Wallach]] and [[Jerome L. Greene]], but Furnald did not. President [[George Rupp]] ordered a $12m complete gutting and rebuilding.

===Famous former residents===
*[[Federico García Lorca‎]] (1929)
*[[Ted Gold]] (1965-1967)

== Facilities ==
* All rooms have carpets, air conditioning.
* Each floor has a spacious lounge with a TV and fully-equipped kitchen.
* Each floor has 2 large bathrooms (1 male, 1 female).
* Single laundry room located in basement

=== Rooms ===
* For first years, 78 singles and 17 doubles.
* For sophomores, 109 singles and 7 doubles.
* Floors 1, 2 and 10 have especially large rooms.
* 1002 is an architecturally interesting room.

== Advantages and disadvantages ==

=== Advantages ===
* Recently renovated, so it almost feels like a new building.
* Convenient location near [[Lerner]], and, well, everything. Perhaps the best location on campus.
* Great campus and [[Broadway (avenue)|Broadway]] views.
* Nice bathrooms. Especially the handicapped shower stalls with removable shower heads.
* Air conditioning.
* Lots of closet space.
* Basically the only place where you can get a single as a sophomore.
* Ideal choice for independence-minded first years who want lots of privacy. (See below for why Furnald is a bad choice for most first years.)
* Reliable elevators.
* Floor lounges have kitchens, so you can actually cook.

=== Disadvantages ===
* Furnald is a relatively quiet and antisocial residence hall. There are only 25 people on each floor, of whom about 12 are first years, compared to 40+ first years on the average [[John Jay Hall|John Jay]] or [[Carman Hall|Carman]] floor. Furthermore, the sophomores in Furnald already have their own social networks and tend not to socialize with the first years. So the building doesn't have John Jay's or Carman's social atmosphere, where hundreds of eager beaver first years all want to get to know each other. This is a significant drawback since most students' social networks are built up from their first year floormates.
* Social interaction in lounges is infrequent (relative to other first year dorms).
* Kitchens are less useful for first years required to be on a [[meal plan]].
* Layout is not conducive to intra-floor socializing, since stairways and elevators are on the north and south ends of the hall, which somewhat isolates the north and south sides of the floor from one another
* Uncommon for people to leave their doors open (relative to other first year dorms).
* Doubles are fairly small.

== Pictures ==
<gallery>
Image:Furnaldsingle1view1.jpg|Single, view 1
Image:Furnaldsingle1view2.jpg|Single, view 2
Image:Furnalddouble1view1.jpg|Double, view 1
Image:Furnalddouble1view2.jpg|Double, view 2
Image:Furnalddouble2view1.jpg|Double 2, view 1
Image:Furnalddouble2view2.jpg|Double 2, view 2
Image:Furnalddouble2view3.jpg|Double 2, view 3
Image:Furnalddouble2view4.jpg|Double 2, view 4
Image:Furnaldbathroom.jpg|Floor bathroom, view 1
Image:Furnaldbathroomshower.jpg|Floor bathroom, view 2
Image:Furnaldfloorlounge.jpg|Floor lounge
Image:Furnaldkitchen.jpg|Floor kitchen
Image:Furnaldmainlounge.jpg|Main lounge on ground floor
</gallery>

== Floor plans ==
<gallery>
Image:Furnald1.jpg|Floor 1
Image:Furnald2.jpg|Floor 2
Image:Furnald3.jpg|Floor 3
Image:Furnald4.jpg|Floor 4
Image:Furnald5.jpg|Floor 5
Image:Furnald6.jpg|Floor 6
Image:Furnald7.jpg|Floor 7
Image:Furnald8.jpg|Floor 8
Image:Furnald9.jpg|Floor 9
Image:Furnald10.jpg|Floor 10
</gallery>

== Building address ==
2960 Broadway<br>
New York, NY 10027

== Map ==
<googlemap lat="40.807335" lon="-73.963826" type="map" zoom="16" width="500" height="300" controls="small">
40.807335, -73.963826, Furnald residence hall
</googlemap>

== External Links ==
[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/housing/docs/residence-halls/furnald/index.html Columbia Housing - Furnald]

[[Category:Residence halls]]

McIntosh Center

2007-11-03T22:18:15Z

Aj2w: changed to past tense

The '''McIntosh Center''' was [[Barnard College]]'s student center. It was named after [[Millicent Carey McIntosh]], the fourth president of the college.

The center was demolished in June of 2007 to make way for a larger student center called [[Nexus]] that, sadly, bears a striking resemblance to [[Lerner Hall]].

== External links ==
* [http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/tour/mcintosh.html Virtual tour of McIntosh]

[[Category:Buildings on the Barnard College campus]]