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Jewelnel Davis

2026-02-26T01:51:46Z

Chandler:

'''Jewelnel Davis''' is the [[University Chaplain]], Associate Provost and Director of the [[Earl Hall]] Center at Columbia University. Her original denominational background is Baptist, although the Chaplain's office is Non-denominational and Interfaith.

When [[Lerner Hall]] opened, Davis requested that the Chaplain's office be moved out of Earl Hall due to Earl Hall's severe mold issues, and staked a claim to prime space on the 7th floor. The space in Earl Hall is now occupied by [[Candace Flemming]], head of [[CUIT]].

Davis is the first African-American woman to be a university chaplain at an Ivy League institution. She was the first chaplain in almost 30 years since the position was eliminated during the turbulent 1969 period at Columbia. In hiring Davis, Provost [[Jonathan Cole]] told the New York Times "The moral and religious life is important to the people at Columbia. That probably reflects the concern of the rest of the country." <ref> http://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/03/nyregion/columbia-s-chaplain-looks-outward.html </ref>

A graduate of [[Brown University]], Davis received an A.B. in Religious Studies in 1979. In 1983, she completed a joint degree program and was awarded a M.Div. from [[Yale University]] and an M.S.W. from the University of Connecticut School of Social Work. Davis was awarded an honorary doctorate in humane letters by Carleton College in 2005, the college where she previously served as chaplain.

She retired in 2025 and currently is Chaplain at Carleton College.

{{succession|preceded=[[John Cannon]]|succeeded= ''Incumbent'' |office=Columbia University Chaplain|years=[[1996]]-[present]}}

== References ==
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[[Category:Chaplains|Davis]]

Hartley Hall

2026-02-14T14:44:36Z

Chandler:

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{{Infobox reshall
|Name=Hartley
|Image=[[File:Hartley.jpg]]
|Built=[[1904]]
|Renovated=
|Population=230}}
'''Hartley Hall''' is one of the two residence halls that make up the [[Living Learning Center]]. It was built in [[1904]] and is the oldest residence hall on campus. It is noted for having the narrowest double on campus, 2C5, where a tall man (or woman) can touch two walls at any point in the room.

Poet [[Langston Hughes]] and [[Beat Generation]] authors [[Allen Ginsberg]] and [[Jack Kerouac]] all lived here, though Kerouac greatly preferred neighboring [[Wallach Hall|Wallach]].

==History==
Hartley Hall is Columbia's first and oldest dormitory. Opening in 1905, the building was donated by senior [[Marcellus Hartley Dodge]] (and his aunt, [[Helen Hartley Jenkins]]) on the event of his gradaution. Dodge thereby condemned all future [[Senior Fund]] collection drives to exercises in futility. Spurred by the gift, the University coughed up an equal amount of money from it's own funds to construct a twin dormitory, [[Livingston Hall]] (now known as [[Wallach Hall]]).

It should also be noted that Hartley, and its twin, [[Wallach Hall|Wallach]], were dedicated exclusively to undergraduate housing, a rather odd move in the days when Columbia was still considering shutting down the College outright ([[SEAS]], or rather the School of Mines, was still a graduate-and-professional faculty, and a fairly profitable one at that, and thus was spared the budgeter's wrath).

Until [[1970]], the building housed a lounge for students in the now-banished [[ROTC]] program. It was taken over in that year by black student activists and renamed the [[Malcolm X Lounge]].

Hartley was completely renovated following a $2 million gift from alumnus [[Jerome L. Greene]]. A concurrent gift of equal size by [[Ira D. Wallach]] supported the simultaneous renovation of [[Hartley Hall]]. While the University had offered to rename both buildings after the respective donors, Greene ultimately requested the the name of Hartley Hall remain the same after other alumni voiced displeasure over the name change. Wallach, however, was not moved, and so Livingston Hall now bears his name instead.<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19790917-01.2.3 "Alumni named in $4M dorm gift"], Columbia Daily Spectator, Volume CIV, 17 September 1979</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19791115-01.2.4 "Livingston will be renamed for alum"], Columbia Daily Spectator, Volume CIV, 15 November 1979</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19800122-01.2.11 "S. Campus rehab costs rise by $1.5 million"], Columbia Daily Spectator, Volume CIV, 22 January 1980</ref>

In [[2000]], the [[Living and Learning Center]] program began at Hartley and Wallach Halls in what supporters enthusiastically called a genuine attempt to build community and foster student body cohesion, and what detractors cynically label a failed attempt to imitate [[Yale]]'s residential college model.

In 2025-26 and 2026-27, the building was closed for renovations.

===Notable residents===
*[[Allen Ginsberg]], [[Beat Generation]] poet
*[[Herbert Gold]], novelist
*[[Langston Hughes]], poet
*[[Jack Kerouac]], Beat novelist (thought Hartley had a cockroach problem and a bad view)

== Photos ==
<gallery>
Image:HAsingle5A6view1.jpg|Single 5A6, view 1
Image:HAsingle5A6view2.jpg|Single 5A6, view 2
Image:HAsingle5A8view1.jpg|Single 5A8, view 1
Image:HAdouble1view1.jpg|Double, view 1
Image:HAdouble1view2.jpg|Double, view 2
Image:HAdouble1view3.jpg|Double, view 3
Image:HAbath1.jpg|Bathroom, view 1
Image:HAbath2.jpg|Bathroom, view 2
Image:HAsuitelounge1view1.jpg|Suite lounge, view 1
Image:HAsuitelounge1view2.jpg|Suite lounge, view 2
Image:HAstaircase.jpg|Stairway to Heaven (Hartley suites are on 2 levels)
Image:HAupperlounge.jpg|The second lounge in the suite
</gallery>

== Floor plans ==
<gallery>
Image:Hart 2001.jpg|Floor 2
Image:Hart 3001.jpg|Floor 3
Image:Hart 4001.jpg|Floor 4
Image:Hart 5001.jpg|Floor 5
Image:Hart 6001.jpg|Floor 6
Image:Hart 7001.jpg|Floor 7
Image:Hart 8001.jpg|Floor 8
Image:Hart 9001.jpg|Floor 9
Image:Hart 10001.jpg|Floor 10
</gallery>

== Tunnel connections ==

=== [[John Jay Hall]] and [[Hamilton Hall]] ===
Go down to the basement by using the stairs or the elevator. Walk south to get under [[Wallach Hall]], then use the elevator or the stairs. Continue on to get into [[John Jay Hall]] which is also legal. However, the door north to [[Hamilton Hall]] is triple padlocked & welded atomic blast door. You aren't getting around this one anytime soon. These routes are legit, but they're dirty and stink.

== Map ==
<googlemap lat="40.806466" lon="-73.961785" type="map" zoom="16" width="500" height="300" controls="small">
40.806466, -73.961785, Hartley residence hall
</googlemap>

== Building address ==
1124 Amsterdam Ave.<br>
New York, NY 10027

== External links ==
* [http://housingservices.columbia.edu/content/hartley Columbia Housing - Hartley]

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Columbia undergraduate residence halls]]

Furnald Hall

2025-02-26T20:53:25Z

Chandler: /* Disadvantages */

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{{Infobox reshall
|Name=Furnald
|Image=[[File:Furnald.jpg]]
|Built=[[1913]]
|Renovated=[[1996]]
|Population=235}}
'''Furnald''' is a popular and relatively well appointed residence hall located on [[South Lawn]] with other first-year-only dormitories.

Once upon a time Furnald was the territory of undergraduate seniors. It was very popular, not least because it allegedly had its own bar in the basement, which reached legendary status.<ref>[http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/sep05/cover.php Home on the Heights: 100 Years of Housing at Columbia]</ref>

Today, Furnald is a majority first-year residence hall that is also home to some sophomores. 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 largely insulated from upperclassmen. The remaining space is open to rising sophomores in General Selection. Until 2009, typically, only sophomores with lottery numbers between 1 and 500 (about 100 or so lucky souls) are able to get rooms in Furnald. After the opening of [[Harmony Hall|Harmony]], 25 beds were converted to freshman rooms. Now, only 50 or so rising sophomores able to pick Furnald during General Selection.

== 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. Spanish poet [[Federico Garcia Lorca]] lived there in [[1929]] and raved about the views, both of [[South Field]] and [[Broadway (avenue)|Broadway]]. 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. The protagonist of alumnus [[Herman Wouk]]'s famous novel, ''The Caine Mutiny'', was said to live in the building during this period.<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol22/vol22_iss2/Furnald_Reopens.html Furnald Repoens After Renovations], ''[[The Record]]'', 1990s</ref> After the war, it became a [[law school]] dormitory, before once again becoming an undergraduate residence hall in [[1960]].

When South Lawn still served as Columbia's primary athletics facility, Furnald's basement housed lockers, showers, and dressing rooms. The space later served as the site of a Co-Op Grocery until 1989.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=Tl5SnSGvhHoC&lpg=PA50&ots=y-Cb22tKCE&dq=%22furnald%20grocery%22&pg=PA50#v=onepage&q=%22furnald%20grocery%22&f=false "Columbia University and Morningside Heights" (Postcard History Series) by Michael V. Susi, pg. 50]</ref><ref>[http://www.eye.columbiaspectator.com/2002/02/27/our-pages In Our Pages: Furnald Grocery Faces Shutdown], Columbia Spectator, 27 February 2002</ref><ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/connection/connect/mycu/60.html My Columbia- Furnald Hall: The Jewel of Broadway]</ref>

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, which was completed in 1996.<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol22/vol22_iss2/Furnald_Reopens.html Furnald Hall Reopens after Extensive Renovation], Columbia Record, Vol. 22 Iss. 2</ref> Furnald had traditionally been the domain of the senior class, and remained so until spring of [[2000]] when the administration informed students of plans to turn Furnald into an exclusively Freshman/Sophomore dormitory and launch the [[LLC]] in [[Hartley Hall|Hartely]] and [[Wallach Hall|Wallach]]. Naturally, the students, who hadn't been informed of the administration's intentions at any point, were furious, but to no avail.<ref>[http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2000/05/10/admins-students-clash-over-housing-changes Admins, Students Clash over Housing Changes], Columbia Spectator, 10 May 2000</ref> Vestiges of Furnald's former status as a senior dormitory can be seen in the [[CUMB]]'s tradition of ending [[Orgo Night]] performances on the steps of Furnald, where bandies sing the college alma mater, ''[[Sans Souci]]'', to members of the band who will be graduating.

Most recently, as the University has made changes to handle the ongoing expansion of enrollment at Columbia College, the share of Furnald allocated to first-year students has steadily increased, with the displaced sophomores being able to find beds in the recently converted [[Harmony Hall]] and other bottom-of-the-barrel housing options.

===Famous former residents===
*[[Federico García Lorca‎]] (1929) - Spanish poet, Room 617 <ref>http://www.eye.columbiaspectator.com/2005/09/27/lorcas-new-york</ref>
*[[Ted Gold]] (1965-1967) - one of the [[1968 protests|1968 protest]]ers and member of the Weathermen terrorist group
*[[Tony Kushner]], playwright, may or may not have been a resident here, but claims he lost his virginity in Room 1006

== Facilities ==
* All rooms have air conditioning and are carpetless.
* Each floor has a spacious lounge with a TV and fully-equipped kitchen.
* Each floor has 2 large bathrooms (1 male, 1 female).
* Single, fairly clean, laundry room located in basement.
* Two elevators, one located at each end of the main corridor. They are unreliable and slow.

=== 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 shower stalls for disabled people which have removable shower heads.
* Air conditioning.
* Lots of closet space.
* The best place to 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.)
* Floor lounges have newly-renovated kitchens, so you can actually cook.

=== Disadvantages ===
* Until its more recent designation as a primarily first-year residence hall, Furnald had a reputation for being relatively quiet and antisocial. By [[2009]], that reputation was largely talk, though to this day it does indeed remain.
* Kitchens are less useful for first years, since they are 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.
* Only freshman dorm to have communal bathrooms

== 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:Furn 1001.jpg|Floor 1
Image:Furn 2001.jpg|Floor 2
Image:Furn 3001.jpg|Floor 3
Image:Furn 4001.jpg|Floor 4
Image:Furn 5001.jpg|Floor 5
Image:Furn 6001.jpg|Floor 6
Image:Furn 7001.jpg|Floor 7
Image:Furn 8001.jpg|Floor 8
Image:Furn 9001.jpg|Floor 9
Image:Furn 10001.jpg|Floor 10
</gallery>

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

== Tunnel/roof connections ==

===[[Journalism Hall]]===
Go down to the basement by means of the north staircase. Do not use the south staircase, where a camera will see you. The first machine room on your left has a connecting to Journalism in it, but it is locked most of the time. Occasionally the door is left open by maintenance. Furnald's basement is relatively high-traffic, so go late. Tape open the lock or jam the door if you see it open, maintenance has been known to do this and they won't think twice about it.

===[[Butler tunnel system]]===
Go down to the basement by means of the north staircase. Walk to the south end. Do not use the south staircase to come down to the basement as there is a camera. Turn left and the usually-locked door in front of you will take you into the tunnels. These tunnels are almost always locked, so you'll probably need to come out the way you came in. You will notice a prominent camera on the wall. The [[CUID|card-swiper]]'s monitor shows this camera only so he/she will have a good view of you. DO NOT turn around and look north. Go fast past it and usually they won't care. [[Carman Hall]] and [[Butler Library]] are at the end of this system but are almost always locked. There is a moderate security risk and lots of traffic near the entrance.

===Outside===
This is the handicapped entrance to the basement. Interesting but not useful. The security danger of taking this tunnel outweighs visiting it. Go to the basement using the north staircase and walk to the south end where you will notice a camera and a way-overkill grate. Columbia really doesn't want people coming into the dorms without swiping. If you are lucky enough to happen upon this grate while it is unlocked, you will find it is nothing more than a short ramp up to the random camera-monitored door on the [[Broadway (avenue)|Broadway]] side of Furnald. Not that there is a very high security risk here. If you are lucky enough to find the grate unlocked and you enter, you ''will'' be noticed by the card-swiper. Campus security ''will'' come to find you, but they have no chance of discovering you if you hide. Cover your face so the camera doesn't catch it and don't take too long. Wait 20 mins after swiping in before coming here so you're forgotten by the swiper. Hide in one of Furnald's floor lounges for 20 mins before walking out the front door.

== References ==
<references/>

== 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://housingservices.columbia.edu/content/furnald Columbia Housing - Furnald]

[[Category:Columbia undergraduate residence halls]]

Wallach Hall

2025-02-26T20:51:14Z

Chandler:

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{{Infobox reshall
|Name=Wallach
|Image=[[FIle:Wallach.jpg]]
|Built=[[1904]]
|Renovated= 2012-2013
|Population=235}}

'''Wallach Hall''' is one of four [[:Category:Columbia undergraduate residence halls|residence halls]] for first years. It formerly made up the [[Living Learning Center]]. It was originally known as '''Livingston Hall'''.

== History ==
Construction on Wallach started in 1904 and was completed in 1905. Wallach is, along with its twin, [[Hartley Hall]], the oldest dormitory on campus. While Hartley was funded by the most mic-drop senior class gift of all time, Wallach was built with University funds to match young Marcellus Dodge. Both are part of the original [[McKim, Mead, and White]] Master Plan. Wallach was originally named Livingston Hall, after [[Robert Livingston|Robert R. Livingston]], a [[King's College]] alumnus active in the American Revolution and the Constitutional Convention. This is ironic because Robert Livingston's uncle, [[William Livingston]], had led some of the most vociferous opposition to the formation of King's College.

The building was renamed after Columbia College alumnus [[Ira D. Wallach]], who donated $2 million for the building to be completely renovated in 1979, despite the voiced displeasure of alumni.<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19790917-01.2.3 "Alumni named in $4M dorm gift"], Columbia Daily Spectator, Volume CIV, 17 September 1979</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19791115-01.2.4 "Livingston will be renamed for alum"], Columbia Daily Spectator, Volume CIV, 15 November 1979</ref><ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19800122-01.2.11 "S. Campus rehab costs rise by $1.5 million"], Columbia Daily Spectator, Volume CIV, 22 January 1980</ref> Appropriately, a $2 million gift from alumnus [[Jerome L. Greene]] funded a simultaneous renovation of Hartley, though Greene, unlike Wallach, bowed to sentiment and eventually requested that Hartley not be renamed.

===Notable residents===
*[[Hal Chase]], [[Beat Generation]] member
*[[Jack Giorno]], poet who was Andy Warhol's lover
*[[Jack Kerouac]], [[Beat Generation]] author, who preferred it over [[Hartley]] because his room there was a single, had a view of [[South Field]] rather than [[Amsterdam Avenue]], and had fewer cockroaches.

== Description==
Wallach, like Hartley, has both singles and doubles of various sizes. Singles range from 94 sq ft to 130 sq ft and doubles from 194 sq ft to 222 sq ft. The 9th floor has larger rooms, and the 10th floor is for the building [[CPA]] and his or her friends.

Rooms used to be priced according to size, and the spendthrifts would therefore nab all the bigger rooms. Wallach was then incorporated in the [[LLC]]. Students who want to live in the LLC had tocomplete an extensive application. If they were accepted, they were then assigned a random lottery number. Students were then able to select an LLC room in order of seniority (senior, junior, sophomore), or if they have the same seniority, in order of lottery number. A large number of sophomores would apply in the hope of getting a single, thus avoiding the harsh reality of the normal student's housing lottery.

Wallach, along with Hartley, was no longer especially popular among seniors due to all these complications.

Wallach was recently renovated, removing the suites and turning it into a pseudo-Furnald. Hardwood floors, nicer bathrooms, and a fresh coat of paint make it significantly more desirable than Hartley. The walls are still paper-thin though.

As of 2024, Hartley now houses first-years.

Despite what the Columbia Housing website said until recently, Wallach has no laundry room and residents must use either the one in Hartley (accessible through the tunnel in the basement) or the one in John Jay (also through the basement).

Like Hartley, Wallach has an underwhelming "Sky Lounge" on the top floor which is a small room with skylights that is usually used for studying.
Wallach also has an [[Esports Lounge]] located in the lobby.

== Advantages ==
* Indoor access to [[John Jay]] and [[Hartley]] for dining hall and Hospitality Desk needs.
* Individual window AC units in each room that can be turned on any time of year
* Very spacious floor lounges on floors 3-9 with full kitchens (oven, stoves, microwave, sink, cabinets), a large table, couches, and a TV.
* Two fast elevators, one on each side of the building, which is efficient for traffic.
* Seven single-use bathrooms on each floor, that are spread throughout the hallways, preventing long lines. They are also mostly clean.
* The [[Gaming Lounge]] is on the first floor.

== Disadvantages ==
* Has a reputation for being antisocial.
* Not as many people on each floor as [[John Jay]] or [[Carman]]
* The tunnel to the [[Hartley]] laundry room is musty.
* The doors are not fully soundproof; you can hear loud things that are outside your room.

== Photos ==
<gallery>
Image:WAsingle7A5v1.jpg|Single 7A5, view 1
Image:WAsingle7A5v2.jpg|Single 7A5, view 2
Image:WAsingle7A5v3.jpg|Single 7A5, view 3
Image:WAsingle7A8v1.jpg|Single 7A8
Image:WAdouble3B3v1.jpg|Double 3B3, view 1
Image:WAdouble3B3v2.jpg|Double 3B3, view 2
Image:WAsuiteBlounge.jpg|B-suite lounge
Image:WAsuiteBkitchen.jpg|B-suite kitchen
Image:WAsuiteClounge.jpg|C-suite lounge
Image:WAsuiteCkitchen.jpg|C-suite kitchen
Image:WAmainlounge1.jpg|Main lounge, view 1
Image:WAmainlounge3.jpg|Main lounge, view 2
</gallery>

== Floor plans ==
(Some are outdated)
<gallery>
Image:Wallach 2001.jpg|Floor 2
Image:Wallach 3001.jpg|Floor 3
Image:Wallach 4001.jpg|Floor 4
Image:Wallach 5001.jpg|Floor 5
Image:Wallach 6001.jpg|Floor 6
Image:Wallach 7001.jpg|Floor 7
Image:Wallach 8001.jpg|Floor 8
Image:Wallach 9001.jpg|Floor 9
Image:wallach 10001.jpg|Floor 10
</gallery>

== Map ==
<googlemap lat="40.806081" lon="-73.962077" type="map" zoom="16" width="500" height="300" controls="small">
40.806081, -73.962077, Wallach residence hall
</googlemap>

== Building address ==
1116 Amsterdam Ave.<br>
New York, NY 10025

==Significant contributors==
* [[Tao Tan]]

== External links ==
* [http://housingservices.columbia.edu/content/wallach Columbia Housing - Wallach]

== References ==
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[[Category:Columbia undergraduate residence halls]]
[[Category:Renamed buildings and facilities]]

John Jay Hall

2025-02-26T20:33:50Z

Chandler:

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{{Infobox reshall
|Name=John Jay
|Image=[[File:JohnJay.jpg]]
|Built=[[1927]]
|Renovated=
|Population=458}}

'''John Jay''' is a first year [[residence hall]]. It also contains the [[John Jay Dining Hall]], the offices of [[Health Services]], and [[JJ's Place]], a basement snack bar. The building is located at the corner of 114th Street and [[Amsterdam Avenue]], with its entrance on the campus side. It is named for Founding Father and alumnus [[John Jay (person)|John Jay]]. Not, therefore, to be pronounced Juan Jé or John Jizzle.

== History ==

[[Image:Johnjayroom.jpg|frame|right|A John Jay room in the 1920s]]

[[Image:Johnjaylounge.jpg|frame|right|John Jay Lounge in the 1950s]]

John Jay Hall was one of the last [[McKim, Mead, and White]] creations, built in [[1927]]. It was not the first John Jay Hall. Between 1919 and 1920, Columbia had purchased a group of four apartment buildings on [[Claremont Avenue]] (Nos. 21, 29, 35, and 39), one of which was named John Jay Hall and used for housing [[Barnard College]] students. The present John Jay Hall was called "Students Hall" until [[1925]], when the "John Jay" name was transferred to it, and the [[Claremont Avenue]] building, which had been converted to staff housing in the meantime, was re-christened [[Charles King]] Hall.

The new John Jay was designed in part to serve as a "grand university commons." More than just a residence hall, the building also included a dining facility, space for student activities, and an infirmary. The mezzanine of John Jay, its putative Fourth Floor became the first true home of student activities on campus, long before [[Ferris Booth Hall|Ferris Booth]] and [[Alfred Lerner Hall|Alfred Lerner Halls]]<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19570917-01.1.4&e=-------en-20--1-byDA-txt-IN-campus+map----# "On the Fourth Floor of Jay Extra-Currics Are Outlets for Talented"], Columbia Spectator, 17 September 1957. Article includes hand-drawn map of student offices on John Jay mezzanine.</ref> Even the ''[[Columbia Spectator]]'' had offices there. The space gave its name to the [[Fourth Floor Cabinet]], an informal committee of student activity leaders who advocated to the administration on behalf of their organizations. The name stuck even after the organizations moved into Ferris Booth. Vestiges of the old fourth floor can still be seen from the building's lobby - look up and you'll notice bannister railings for a mezzanine balcony, but which has been drywalled up to form [[Health Services]]. When John Jay opened, the infirmary was originally located up on the 14th floor.

With almost three decades of Columbia campus planning experience, McKim, Mead, and White planned John Jay Hall down to the last detail. Johnson (now [[Wien]]) Hall had been completed just two years earlier to house female graduate students. In keeping with John Jay's mission of housing male students, the wood paneling, massive fireplace, opulent dining hall, were all carefully selected and designed to create a more "masculine" feel.

Students often wonder why John Jay Hall, exclusively freshman housing, would consist of all singles, when singles are the exception, rather than the rule, at any other university. The answer is that Columbia's priorities up until the 1990s were heavily tilted in favor of its graduate and professional schools. Like its companion dormitory, [[Wien Hall]], John Jay wasn't to house just undergraduates, to say nothing of first-years. One student at the [[SEAS|School of Engineering]] in [[1947]] distinctively remembers living on John Jay 11. He also remembers a place in the basement of John Jay, then the [[Lion's Den]], now [[JJ's Place]], that served some wonderful fried chicken (and beer!) that one could get at any hour of the night. He also remembers uncooperative elevators (because the elevator operators went on strike). Some things never change.

But most do. The twentieth century witnessed an epic struggle between [[Columbia College]] and the graduate and professional faculties for control of John Jay Hall. As late as [[1965]], Columbia College winning yet another floor from the graduate and professional schools (one of which was [[SEAS]]), was enough to make front-page news in the ''Spectator''. By the 1980s and 1990s, as Columbia was beginning to refocus on its undergraduate education, the battle was finally over as the [[South Field]] dormitories were set aside for first-year housing.

=== Famous residents ===

*[[Federico García Lorca]] (1929-1930), Room 1231<ref>http://www.eye.columbiaspectator.com/2005/09/27/lorcas-new-york</ref>, Spanish poet, while enrolled in [[GS]]: “my room in John Jay is wonderful. It is on the 12th floor of the dormitory, and I can see all the university buildings, the Hudson River and a distant vista of white and pink skyscrapers”
*[[John Berryman]], poet: once reported that he was knocked cold by a bottle that was tossed in through an open John Jay window
*[[Sha Na Na]] (1963-8) rock group including co-founders [[George Leonard]] (1963-7) and [[Robert Leonard]] (1967-68), singer/composer [[Scott Simon]] (1966-67), manager [[Ed Goodgold]] (1964-65)
*[[James M. “Jim” McMillian]] (1965-1966), Los Angeles Lakers star
*[[David Paterson]] (1972-1975), [[Governor of New York]]
*[[Tom Kitt]] (1992-1993), [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning composer
*[[Julia Stiles]] (2000-2001), actress
*[[Max Minghella]] (2005-2006), actor
*[[Spencer Treat Clark]] (2006-2007), actor
*[[Jake Gyllenhaal]] (1998-2000), actor
*[[Katori Hall]] (1999-2000?), playwright

==Architecture and Design==

===Exterior===
Seen from a distance, John Jay Hall—like many tall McKim, Meade and White structures-- is austere to the point of plainness, so tall and broad that it is forbidding. Only a copper crown, weathered green like the copper covering the Statue of Liberty, gives it any visual interest.

Enter the quad between John Jay and [[Hamilton Hall]], however, and one’s experience changes. You discover that John Jay, walling off the outside world, has carved a surprisingly quiet, private space out of the City. Its arms thrust forward to seal out not only the City’s noise but also any distracting buildings built in jarring styles that would have been seen over a smaller building’s shoulder. Walking towards John Jay from Hamilton, everything one can see on all sides is MM&W Renaissance or Classical.

This space one walks though is as richly ornamented as John Jay’s upper stories are plain.

=== Interior ===

[[File:Lobby.jpg|thumb|John Jay's Lobby as it appeared in 1927]]

When one enters the building-- for the modern audience, at least-- there is a shock of recognition.As one student blogger joyfully wrote a year or two ago, “I recognized it immediately: Hogwarts!” In a Spec article from February 2009, before going on to bash the food in the dining hall, an angry gourmet did admit, “when I learned that John Jay’s interior looked like Hogwarts, reality was not strong enough to make me think that Columbia was anything other than paradise on earth.”

The set directors of the Harry Potter movies, when they created Harry’s school, were after the same mixture of history, tradition, and comfort as McKim, Meade and White were when they created the opulent public spaces on John Jay’s main floor. The grand dining hall, carved all of wood a century ago, with richly paneled walls and a coffered ceiling, is a classic, as are the posh sitting rooms and reception areas, with their giant fireplaces and Hogwarts-like pictures of vanished royalty. (Though the pictures don’t talk.)

''[[The New York Times]]'' immediately dubbed John Jay "the Skyscraper Dorm." To understand what McKim, Meade and White intended by raising the fifteen story, block-long colossus upstairs, one has to live in the rooms (as this author did for four years.) Then it becomes clear that John Jay is all about the views, and using them to enlarge the rooms. The architects had seen that this site would afford, looking north, Low Library set in one of the most beautiful campus views in America; and looking south, dramatic views of Cathedral bell towers, Manhattan rooftops, distant skyscrapers and their lights at night—great New York City “sense of place.” Above the eighth floor, as the sun’s arc sinks towards the horizon in December, the sun pours almost horizontally into Jay’s windows, crossing left to right but never leaving.

The higher floors are compensated for the elevator ride. Truly “unique,” as Housing puts it, are the topmost rooms on the Fifteenth Floor, under the copper crown. Something of a tourist attraction, the Fifteenth Floor cannot even be reached by the ancient elevators. One has to get off at Fourteen and climb the rest of the way by stairs (which, during Move-In, traditionally acquire a sign reading, “To the Penthouse”) up to a series of rooms, larger than the rooms on floors below, whose ceilings curve in interesting ways echoing the copper crown right above them. From the windows of these “penthouse” rooms, up in the air and the sun, one gets helicopter views of the buildings and streets far below.

Artists from [[Federico Garcia Lorca]] to [[Jack Kerouac]] have exclaimed over the views McKim, Meade and White created from their Columbia dorms. Photographs of the rooms themselves show only the room itself, a simple, narrow, almost monastic cell. The experience of living in that room is quite different, because all the space outside the window, beside the student’s desk, becomes part of the room. Mentally, one lives outside the room, looking down on the City. Like Spiderman.

However, [[John Erskine]], the guy behind Lit-Hum was not a big fan of John Jay. In his novel ''[[Bachelor of Arts]]'', he wrote of the dorm:<blockquote>[He] had never as yet seen a jail, but he suspected that his narrow cubicle, and the still narrower bed, the wash-stand, the undersize desk, the one chair, and the inadequate clothes closet, were what you would get in Sing Sing, if you weren't violent. The length of the dormitory corridor bore out this prison impression—except that from the dormitory the inmates departed early in the day and returned only under the compulsion of nature to sleep.</blockquote> <ref>Erskine, John. 'Bachelor of Arts' (1934). p 13 </ref>

=== John Jay Lounge ===
John Jay features a large ground floor student lounge that serves host to numerous student events throughout the year. It's also where [[Room Selection]] takes place each spring, and the [[Yule Log Ceremony]] each winter.

The Lounge also features three large oil paintings (John Jay? Some English Monarch?) and a bust of the building's namesake, John Jay, donated by the College Class of 1943. If you look carefully, you will notice the absence of the labeling plate under one of John Jay's portraits. This is because Jay's dates were originally given incorrectly, as a student astutely observed several years after it was put up. In typical Columbia fashion, the problem was blamed on the alumni who had who donated the painting and never really fixed. <ref>"Vexations at Columbia", New Yorker, 2 May, 1931</ref>

The focal design feature of the lounge is the massive fireplace, presented on [[University Commencement|Commencement Day]] 1926 by the Classes of 1881 of the College, School of Mines, and Graduate School of Political Science. Above the fireplace, inscribed in large gold letters is the motto "HOLD FAST TO THE SPIRIT OF YOUTH LET YEARS TO COME DO WHAT THEY MAY." The inscription was composed by William Waldemar Share of the School of Mines, and then-president of the [[Society of the Early Eighties]].<ref>[https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=%22let+years+to+come+do+what+they+may%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=%22let+years+to+come+do+what+they+may%22&client=ubuntu&channel=fs&hl=en&tbs=sbd:1&tbm=bks&ei=pIN4UZPTOers0QG5hoCgAQ&start=10&sa=N&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.45645796,d.dmQ&fp=99e706774af487ab&biw=1400&bih=960 Columbia Alumni News, Volume 18, Pg. 369, 1926]</ref>

== Facilities ==

=== Floors ===

* Floor 4: administrative offices for Health Services.
* Floor 6: the highest floor.
* Floors 5-15: residential floors

=== Living Arrangements ===

====Single Room====

====Double Rooms====

====Walkthrough Doubles====

===Bathrooms===

===Elevators===

Lower floors avoid the misery of the notorious John Jay elevators, which after nearly 85 years of complaints remain mysteriously low on the University’s “to do” list. The British Empire crumbled; the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, Mao’s China, rose and fell; the John Jay elevators remain the same. They have karma. Someday, they will reveal their true purpose here and Who they are waiting to carry. Or—less fancifully-- is the slowness of the elevators simply the fault of that desecrated Indian graveyard directly beneath them?
=== Elevator trivia ===

Residents of John Jay 5 (the lowest floor with residents) are legendary for their refusal to take the stairs, even though this only exacerbates the elevator problem.

In November [[2007]], residents of John Jay 6 ordered [[John Jay 6 T-shirts|t-shirts]] with the words "I TAKE THE ELEVATOR" screen-printed on the front.

=== Stairs to JJ's place ===
The staircase that runs from the lobby to the basement is very interesting, featuring nice brickwork and a fancy wooden sign that contrasts with the usual bland white wall, carpet, and fluorescent lighting everywhere else. This staircase is probably entered no more than once a week as everyone uses the elevator instead. Most John Jay residents don't know of its existence.

== Advantages and disadvantages ==

=== Advantages ===

* You're in the same building as [[John Jay Dining Hall]] and [[JJ's Place]], so you don't have to go outside during the winter or inclement weather to use up your meal plan or buy snacks.
* You're also in the same building as Health Services in case you fall sick.
* [[Hamilton Hall]], where many undergraduate humanities classes are held, is a minute's walk away.
* Beautiful spacious lounge on first floor, with a piano where you can practice.
* Single rooms for freshmen, which is almost unheard of at most colleges.
* Connected to [[Wallach Hall|Wallach]] and [[Hartley Hall|Hartley]], so you can use the Hartley computer lab and LLC laundry room (when the John Jay laundry room is full) without going outside. If you forget your key, you will not have to walk across campus to Housing Services
* Nice floor lounges.
* Beautiful campus views from rooms on the higher floors that face campus.
* Some of the rooms have nice views of [[St. John the Divine]] or [[midtown]], etc.

=== Disadvantages ===

* The 2 elevators are abysmally slow, if they're running. People routinely take the stairs even from the 8th or 9th floor just out of frustration.
* The entire building is older, and therefore feels somewhat shabby, especially the bathrooms.
* No kitchens besides pathetic little "floor kitchens." This means a microwave and sink.
* Floors are not as immediately sociable as in [[Carman Hall]].
* Walls are thin, so soundproofing isn't as good as in [[Carman Hall]].
* The bathrooms are known to be dirty and are not cleaned often.
* The floor lounges can seat only about 10 people.

== Photos ==

<gallery>
Image:JJsingle1.jpg|A single
Image:JJsingle2view1.jpg|Single 2, view 1
Image:JJsingle2view2.jpg|Single 2, view 2
Image:JJsingle2window.jpg|View from a north-facing single
Image:JJbathroom.jpg|Floor bathroom
Image:JJfloorlounge.jpg|Floor lounge
Image:JJmainlounge.jpg|Main lounge on ground floor
</gallery>

== Floor plans ==

<gallery>
Image:JJH FL 05.jpg|Floor 5
Image:|Floor 6[Broken Link]
Image:JJH FL 07.jpg|Floor 7
Image:JJH FL 08.jpg|Floor 8
Image:JJH FL 09.jpg|Floor 9
Image:JJH FL 10.jpg|Floor 10
Image:JJH FL 11.jpg|Floor 11
Image:JJH FL 12.jpg|Floor 12
Image:JJH FL 13.jpg|Floor 13
Image:JJH FL 14.jpg|Floor 14
Image:JJH FL 15.jpg|Floor 15
</gallery>

== Incidents in the building ==

*[[1934]]: Anti-Semitic demonstration interrupts the [[1934 Purim dance|Purim dance]] being held in the building
*[[1967]]: Vietnam-era anti-recruitment protest led by [[Ted Gold]] and the [[SDS]] turns violent

== Tunnel/roof connections ==

=== [[Hartley Hall]] ===

Get down to the basement by using the stairs or elevators. Do not enter the basement by means of JJ's, the doors are alarmed. The tunnels leads north up a ramp. Hartley lies beyond, but Hamilton is locked off. There are no alarms or cameras other than the ones on the JJ's doors. This tunnel is legal, but it is dirty and foul-smelling.

=== [[Butler tunnel system]] ===

This tunnel is blocked semi-permanently. To even see it from the John Jay side is extremely risky, as it is located at the back of the JJ's storeroom, which has cameras at the entrance. The door itself is hot-glued and welded shut. Better visit the Butler side which is much easier to get to. If you want to get to the connection of the John Jay side, you also have to sneak into the storeroom, which is hard because the JJ's people are pretty much always there.

At one point they were used to transport food from [[John Jay Dining Hall]] to the [[Lion's Den]] cafeteria in [[Ferris Booth Hall]].

=== Roof ===

The roof is the slanted copper style, so you can't stand on it, except for a small section near the edge of the roof, if you have a friend on the 15th floor. However, you are six inches away from a 160 ft drop; it's not worth it. In any case, the access hatch is easily located on the roof of the fifteenth floor, but good luck opening it without anyone noticing. If you want a good view of the campus from a roof, try [[Mudd Hall]], [[Pupin Hall]], or [[Butler Library]].

==References==

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== Map ==
<googlemap lat="40.805851" lon="-73.962522" type="map" zoom="16" width="500" height="300" controls="small">
40.805851, -73.962522, John Jay residence hall
</googlemap>

== Building address ==
519 W. 114th St.<br>
New York, NY 10025

== External links ==
* [http://housingservices.columbia.edu/content/john-jay Columbia Housing - John Jay]
* [http://www.petitiononline.com/j4j/petition.html Petition to rename John Jay Hall]

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Mary Boyce

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[[Image:Boyce.png|thumb|Mary Boyce]]

'''Mary Cunningham Boyce''' is a former administrator. She was the 15th [[Dean of SEAS]] (2013–2021) and as such, the Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor. On December 2, 2020, she was appointed to Provost and served between July 1, 2021, and June 30, 2023. She had been the fifteenth dean of the school and the first woman to hold the position. Her term as the Engineering Dean began on July 1, [[2013]] and ended in 2021.

== Background ==

Prior to coming to Columbia, Boyce spent twenty-five years as a faculty member at [[MIT]]. At the end of her time there, she was the Ford Professor of Engineering and Head of Department for Mechanical Engineering.

Boyce's research interests include the molecular and nanomechanics of polymers, soft composites and soft tissues—studying the elastic, thermal and kinetic properties of physical systems at the nanometer scale. Her leadership in the field of the mechanics of materials, both those that are manufactured and those formed naturally, has expanded understanding of the interplay between micro-geometry and the inherent physical behavior of a material, which has led to innovative hybrid material designs. Models and results from Professor Boyce’s group have the potential to influence a range of industrial and academic fields from polymer processing to composite material design, tire mechanics, biological cells and tissues. Her expertise will further enhance Columbia’s strength in the study of nanotechnology and nanomaterials.

The author of more than 150 publications with her group, she has received numerous honors in recognition of her achievements, including election as a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. She is the holder of five US patents.

Boyce earned her [[BS|B.S.]] degree in Engineering Science and Mechanics from Virginia Tech and her [[MS|S.M.]] and [[Ph.D.]] degrees in Mechanical Engineering from [[MIT]].

Boyce stepped down as Provost on June 30, 2023, but announced her intention to stay on the faculty as a professor. <ref>https://president.columbia.edu/news/announcement-regarding-provost-mary-c-boyce</ref>

{{succession|preceded=[[Donald Goldfarb]] (Acting)|succeeded=[[Shih-Fu Chang]]|office=Dean of [[SEAS]]|years=[[2013]] - [[2021]]}}

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Shih-Fu Chang

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[[Image:shihfu_chang.jpg|thumb|Shih-Fu Chang]]

'''Shih-Fu Chang''' is the Dean of [[SEAS]] and a Richard Dicker Professor of Telecommunications and Professor of Computer Science at [[SEAS]]. Chang came to Columbia in [[1993]], after finishing his PhD at [[Berkeley]]. In [[2007]], he was named chair of the [[Electrical Engineering Department]], and in [[2011]] was created an endowed faculty chair in the same department, with a joint appointment in [[Computer Science]].

In [[2012]], Interim Dean [[Donald Goldfarb]] named Chang the Senior Vice Dean of SEAS, giving him oversight and responsibility for faculty affairs, space, and research.

Chang was appointed the Dean of SEAS in May 2022. He had previously been the Interim Dean after the departure of [[Mary Cunningham Boyce]].<ref>https://president.columbia.edu/news/shih-fu-chang-appointed-dean-fu-foundation-school-engineering-and-applied-science</ref>

{{succession|preceded=[[Morton Friedman]]|succeeded=[[Helen Lu]]|office=Senior Vice-Dean of [[SEAS]]|years=[[2012]] - [[2022]]}}
{{succession|preceded=[[Mary Boyce]]|succeeded=Incumbent|office=Dean of [[SEAS]]|years=[[2022]] - Present}}

== External Links ==
*[http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~sfchang Chang's EE faculty page]

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Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

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{{Infobox school
|Name=School of Engineering and Applied Science
|Image=SEAS_new_logo.jpg
|Established=1863
|Dean=[[Shih-Fu Chang]]
|Degrees=[[BS]], [[MS]], [[Eng.Sc.D]], [[Prof. Degree]]
|Enrollment=1,531 Undergraduate; 1,652 Masters; 697 PhD (2012-2013)
|Website=[http://www.engineering.columbia.edu/ http://www.engineering.columbia.edu/]
}}

'''The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science''' (referred to for branding purposes as '''Columbia Engineering''' as of the late [[2000s]], but almost always informally referred to as '''SEAS'''), is the engineering school of Columbia. No one calls it Fu. Ever. It awards degrees in engineering, applied physics and applied mathematics.

The school maintains a close [[CC-SEAS Relationship|relationship]] with [[Columbia College]], and undergraduate students from both schools fall under the oversight of the [[Division of Student Affairs]] and live in the same dorms.

== History ==

SEAS was founded in [[1863]] by [[Thomas Egleston Jr.]] as the '''School of Mines''' and then the '''School of Mines, Engineering and Chemistry''' before becoming the '''School of Engineering and Applied Science'''. It was the country's first such institution. In [[1997]], the school was renamed in honor of Chinese businessman [[Z. Y. Fu]], who had donated $26 million.

Following Columbia's move to the [[Morningside Heights campus]], the school took residence in [[Lewisohn Hall]] and [[Mathematics Hall]], which were then known as Mines and Engineering Halls, respectively. The construction of the [[Seeley W. Mudd Building]] in the '60s allowed the school to move into more spacious (though more ugly) quarters on the northeast corner of the main campus. Due to the growth of the school in the past four decades, further expansion was determined necessary, leading to the planning of the [[Northwest Science Building]], which opened in the spring of 2011. SEAS will benefit greatly from the opening of the [[Manhattanville campus]], including 1,000,000 square feet of space being allocated for a new [[Institute for Data Science]].

In May 2022, President [[Lee C. Bollinger]] appointed [[Shih-Fu Chang]] Dean of SEAS.<ref>https://president.columbia.edu/news/shih-fu-chang-appointed-dean-fu-foundation-school-engineering-and-applied-science</ref>

== Departments and faculty members ==

SEAS is divided into nine departments with a total of 152 members of faculty as follows:
* [[Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Department]] (29)
* [[Biomedical Engineering Department]] (19)
* [[Chemical Engineering Department]] (10)
* [[Civil Engineering Department]] (13)
* [[Computer Science Department]] (35)
* [[Earth and Environmental Engineering Department]] (15) (formerly "Mining, Metallurgical, and Mineral Engineering (Henry Krumb School of Mines))
* [[Electrical Engineering Department]] (20)
* [[Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department]] (16)
* [[Mechanical Engineering Department]] (11)

Additional faculty unaccounted for in above departments:
* [[Computer Engineering]] (10)
* [[Material Science and Engineering]] (9)
* Other (1)

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