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Nicholas Murray Butler

2012-01-20T04:08:46Z

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[[Image:NButler.jpg|thumb|right|Nicholas Murray Butler]]

'''Nicholas Murray Butler''' [[Columbia College|CC]] [[1882]] [[MA]] [[1883]] [[PhD]] [[1884]] was the ruler of Columbia for over four decades ([[1902]]-[[1945]]). Despite being associated with several controversies, he was probably Columbia's greatest leader.

He also won a [[w:Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Peace Prize]] and was a candidate for Vice President of the United States. [[Butler Library]] and the [[Butler Medal]] are named after him.

==Butler the Student, Butler the Professor==
While a student at Columbia, Mr. Butler was a member of [[Psi Upsilon]] and the [[Peithologian Society]]. He studied philosophy during his time at the university, and after a brief jaunt through Europe, joined the faculty as a philosophy professor in [[1885]]. His academic brilliance led [[Theodore Roosevelt]] to dub him "Nicholas Miraculous."

In [[1887]], he helped found the New York Institute for the Training of Teachers, which later evolved into [[Teachers College]].

==Butler the President==
Butler was highly influential in creating the Columbia University we know today. Despite his obvious ambition to become Vice President or President of the United States, he clung tenaciously to his university title, retiring only when he went blind and was close to death.

===Physical expansion===

He embraced [[McKim, Mead, and White]]'s Master Plan for the [[Morningside Heights campus]], and oversaw the construction of many buildings, including [[Wallach]], [[Furnald]], [[Mudd]], and [[Pupin]]. Butler was responsible for the acquisition of [[South Field]], stating firmly that "the area of the site ... will be entirely insufficient for the work of the University in the very near future".

He also single-handedly blocked the construction of a [[Riverside Park]] stadium by banning [[football]] (due to its "rowdiness") and by placing a low priority on undergraduate student life.

===Support for graduate vs. undergraduate education===

Butler heavily de-emphasized undergraduate education in favor of graduate education, establishing centers of graduate learning, such as the [[Medical Center]]. At one point, it was even considered that [[Columbia College]] be done away with altogether. However, Columbia College, along with [[SEAS]] and [[GS]], have recovered finely, and thanks to his early influence Columbia's graduate programs rank among the best in the world.

===Controversies===

====Suppression of anti-war dissent====
A number of professors who spoke out against American participation in the [[First World War]] were stifled by Butler. Indignant, several of them, including luminaries such as [[John Dewey]] and [[Charles Beard]], left the university and founded the [[New School]].

====Support for fascism====
Butler was a staunch supporter of Benito Mussolini (leading to the establishment of [[Casa Italiana]]), and fascism in general. Soon after the establishment of the Nazi regime in Germany in 1933 he invited the Nazi ambassador to the United States, Hans Luther, to speak at Columbia. In doing so, he ignored vigorous student protests, dismissing them as "illiberal", and stated that Luther was an "emissary from a friendly people". Butler later rescinded his fascist favor and vehemently supported the US war effort.

====Anti-Semitism====
Butler seems to have been invested in an anti-Semitic project. In general, he considered them aggressive and vulgar. During his regime he made sure that Columbia had a very strict Jewish quota. Butler established [[Seth Low Junior College]], meant to provide parallel education to lower-income Jews, in a lame attempt to pacify his critics.

In addition, only two Jews served on the [[Board of Trustees]] during Butler's reign: [[Benjamin Cardozo]] from 1928 to 1932, and [[Arthur Hays Sulzberger]], starting in 1944. He respected some Jews, the sparkling example being the awarding of tenureship to [[Lionel Trilling]] in the [[English Department]], but these were more like exceptions to the rule.

==See also==
*''[[Nicholas Miraculous]]'', a biography of Butler by Columbia [[English]] professor [[Michael Rosenthal]]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=RLQZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false ''Columbia University Quarterly'''s coverage of Butler's Installation as President]

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Literature Humanities

2012-01-20T04:06:53Z

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Sing, Muse. '''Literature Humanities''' is popularly known as '''Lit Hum''' and known to [[Lydia Goehr]] as '''Lit Scum'''. "Hum" rhymes with "bum", not "[[Hume]]". Officially, it's called '''Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy'''.

The course is a central part of the [[Core Curriculum]] and is taken by all [[Columbia College]] first years. The first semester covers mainly Greek literature, with some Bible-stuff at the end. The second semester starts with [[Virgil]] and ends with [[Virginia Woolf]]. For your convenience, we have prepared a "lite" guide to the course (see below). That said, you probably won't get most of it until you've actually done the reading.

==History==

Although the experience of receiving one's free copy of ''[[The Iliad|Iliad]]'', a gift from the [[Columbia College Alumni Association]], and meeting one's freshman classmates in the first Lit Hum class is marketed as one of the central experiences of an education at Columbia College, Lit Hum historically played poor cousin to its Core Curriculum counterpart in philosophy and politics, [[Contemporary Civilization]]. While the latter course began under its current name as early as [[1919]], Lit Hum developed out of a series of later course concepts.

The first was [[John Erskine]]'s [[General Honors]] course, first proposed in [[1917]], but not meeting for the first time until [[1921]]. This was the first expression of that educator's philosophy that students should engage in reading the "Great Books" of Western Civilization. This course was later co-taught by [[Mortimer Adler]] and [[Mark Van Doren]]. Van Doren went on to create General Honors' successor, [[Humanities A]], which he himself taught for 17 years. Adler would go on to become a popularizer of the [[w:Great Books|Great Books movement]], taking the Gospel of the Core to [[University of Chicago|some school in the Second City]]. During the 1930s, another class, the [[Colloquium on Important Books]], co-taught by [[Jacques Barzun]] and [[Lionel Trilling]], would embrace the Great Books philosophy and help shape modern Lit Hum.

== Syllabus ==

Although the Lit Hum syllabus is among the most ironclad in all the Core Curriculum, parts are subject to change and modification due to instructor discretion, [[grad student strikes]], and other unforseen circumstances. In Fall [[2006]], for example, the standard first semester syllabus, normally all Greek and Biblical texts, was altered to include a modern play by [[Vaclav Havel]], who was on campus at the time as [[artist in residence]]. Still, modifications are often minor - a different Greek play substituted for the ''[[Medea]]'', an additional [[Shakespeare]] play, another [[Homer]]ic poem, etc. Such changes can mean that one becomes lost when your friend from another section begins discussing an anomalous inclusion, like ''[[The Baccahe]]'', but the majority of the curriculum is fairly standard. A greater schism may open with a much older alumnus of Columbia College, who might remember a time when Milton, Voltaire, and/or Goethe appeared on the syllabus. The following table is intended to include all works in current use (either this year or in the past two or three years):

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|- style="background:#cccc33;"
|colspan="4"|'''First semester'''
|-
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|- style="background:#DDDDDD;"
|Author
|Title
|Online versions
|"Lite" study guide
|-
|[[Homer]]
|''[[Iliad]]''
|[http://librivox.org/the-iliad-by-homer-translated-by-samuel-butler/]
|Achilles is a whiny momma's boy
|- style="background:#f3f3f3;"
|[[Only Zeus Knows]]
|''Hymn to Demeter''
|
|
|-
|[[Homer]]
|''Odyssey''
|[http://librivox.org/the-odyssey-by-homer/]
|Odysseus has crazy sex appeal
|- style="background:#f3f3f3;"
|[[Herodotus]]
|''Histories''
|
|Herodotus likes to think he's a real historian, but he makes stuff up
|-
|[[Aeschylus]]
|''The Oresteia''
|[http://librivox.org/newcatalog/public_readers.php?ProjectID=663]
|Clytemnestra is a stone cold bitch
|- style="background:#f3f3f3;"
|[[Sophocles]]
|''Oedipus''
|
|Oedipus loved his Mother, more than his eyes.
|-
|[[Euripides]]
|''Medea''
|
|Medea is a psycho femi-nazi
|- style="background:#f3f3f3;"
|[[Thucydides]]
|''History of the Peloponnesian War''
|[http://librivox.org/the-history-of-the-peloponnesian-war-by-thucydides/]
|Thucydides likes to think he's a real historian, but he makes up "quotes"
|-
|[[Aristophanes]]
|''Lysistrata''
|
|Women on strike... no sex!
|- style="background:#f3f3f3;"
|[[Plato]]
|''Symposium''
|
|The greeks had sex with little boys; oh, and Socrates makes stuff up
|-
|God (via Moses)
|''Book of Genesis''
|[http://librivox.org/newcatalog/public_readers.php?ProjectID=2029]
|Buy one get one free! That's right, get two of everything!
|- style="background:#f3f3f3;"
|God?
|''Book of Job''
|[http://librivox.org/the-book-of-job/]
|The old testament God is schizophrenic
|-
|God (via Luke)
|''Gospel of Luke''
|[http://librivox.org/the-gospel-according-to-st-luke-asv-ss/]
|Uh, I didn't get this far with my reading
|- style="background:#f3f3f3;"
|God (via John)
|''Gospel of John''
|[http://librivox.org/the-gospel-according-to-saint-john-asv-ss/]
|Hey Jews, here's why should become Christian
|-
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|- style="background:#cccc33;"
|colspan="4"|'''Second semester'''
|-
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|- style="background:#DDDDDD;"
|'''Author'''
|'''Title'''
|'''Online versions'''
|'''"Lite" study guide
|-
|[[Virgil]]
|''[[Aeneid]]''
|
|Epic poem, mostly plagiarized. Remember Aeneas the Trojan from back in September? Probably not. He travels to Italy and fights a battle, thus founding Rome. It's two for the price of one; you get an Iliad and an Odyssey. Sadly, however, Aeneas is the pussiest hero in all of literature.
|- style="background:#f3f3f3;"
|[[Augustine]]
|''Confessions''
|[http://librivox.org/newcatalog/public_readers.php?ProjectID=1718]
|Babies are evil!
|-
|[[Dante]]
|''Inferno''
|[http://librivox.org/the-divine-comedy-by-dante-alighieri/]
|Which circle of hell will your i-banker and lawyer parents go to?
|- style="background:#f3f3f3;"
|[[Boccaccio]]
|''[[The Decameron]]''
|[http://librivox.org/newcatalog/public_readers.php?ProjectID=1939]
|Ten people had an orgy in the countryside
|-
|[[Montaigne]]
|''[[Essays]]''
|
|Find out all about my medieval eating and shitting schedule
|- style="background:#f3f3f3;"
|-
|[[Shakespeare]]
|''King Lear''
|[http://librivox.org/king-lear-by-william-shakespeare/]
|A dozen characters get seriously fucked up when the king stupidly decides to retire. Lesson: work till you drop.
|- style="background:#f3f3f3;"
|[[Cervantes]]
|''Don Quixote''
|[http://librivox.org/don-quixote-vol-1-by-miguel-de-cervantes-saavedra/] [http://librivox.org/newcatalog/public_readers.php?ProjectID=1069]
|Meet a fucked-up Spanish wannabe knight
|-
|[[Shakespeare]]
|''Hamlet''
|[http://librivox.org/newcatalog/public_readers.php?ProjectID=346]
|The protagonist is deep down just a poor emo kid
|-
|[[Jane Austen]]
|''Pride and Prejudice''
|[http://librivox.org/pride-and-prejudice-by-jane-austen/], [http://librivox.org/pride-and-prejudice-by-jane-austen-solo-project/], [http://librivox.org/pride-and-prejudice-by-jane-austen-2/]
|A woman's place is in marriage... and in the kitchen, so make me a sandwich, Barnard girl! Also, don't elope.
|- style="background:#f3f3f3;"
|[[Dostoevsky]]
|''[[Crime and Punishment]]''
|[http://librivox.org/newcatalog/public_readers.php?ProjectID=755]
|Murder!
|-
|[[Woolf]]
|''To the Lighthouse''
|
|Time passes. There's a window. More time passes. There's a painting. More time passes. Welcome to the boring world of modernist garbage.
|}

==See also==
*[[Lit Hum exam leak]]
*[[James Robert Russell]], who created an imitation "Literature Humanities" seminar at [[Harvard]]
*[[Core Curriculum texts]]

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William Theodore de Bary

2012-01-20T04:06:08Z

Curiousgeorge:

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[[Image:De bary.jpg|thumb|De Bary in [[Kent Library]] ]]

'''William Theodore de Bary''' [[Columbia College|CC]] '[[1941|41]] [[MA]] '[[1948|48]] [[PhD]] '[[1953|53]], [[LittD]] (HC) '[[1994|94]] ([[1919]] - ) is an East Asian studies expert. He is the [[John Mitchell Mason]] Professor, [[Provost]] Emeritus of the University, and Special Service Professor in the [[East Asian Language and Culture Department]]. A longstanding Columbian, he has played a significant role in the 20th century history of the university.

==Education==

De Bary has said that baseball legend [[Lou Gehrig]]'s connection with Columbia was one of the primary reasons he was motivated to apply to the school while he was growing up in nearby [[New Jersey]].<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/sports/baseball/for-the-columbia-class-of-41-it-is-always-the-day-after.html</ref> He is now a Columbia alumnus many times over. He earned his [[AB]] from [[Columbia College]] in 1941, his MA in 1948 after returning from World War II, and his PhD in 1953. He was awarded a LittD (Honoris Causa) in 1994, when he finally turned in the "minor revisions" he was asked to make to his 1953 doctoral dissertation. De Bary also briefly studied at [[Harvard]] before the breakout of the war. In addition, he holds honorary degrees from Loyola University of Chicago and St. Lawrence University.

==Career==

When World War II began, de Bary ended his studies at Harvard and served in American military intelligence in the Pacific Theatre.

De Bary began teaching at Columbia in [[1953]], after completing his dissertation. Later, de Bary was active in faculty intervention during the [[1968 protests]] and turned down the Deanship of Columbia College to serve as the university's Provost from [[1971]] to [[1978]]. In the [[De Bary Report]] of the 1980s, he advocated the reshaping of Columbia College's [[Core Curriculum]] to include "Great Books" classes devoted to non-Western civilizations.

A recognized educator, he won Columbia's [[Great Teacher Award]] in [[1969]], its [[Lionel Trilling Book Award]] in [[1983]] and its [[Mark Van Doren Award for Great Teaching]] in [[1987]]. He is also a recipient of the [[John Jay Award]] for distinguished alumni, which he won in [[1989]], and an [[Alexander Hamilton Medal]].

De Bary refused to accept appointment as a [[University Professor]] in 1978, as he did not want it to seem like a backroom deal had been struck. Instead, he accepted the just-created [[John Mitchell Mason]] Professor of the University, a post created specifically for former Provosts. He retired in [[1990]], but still teaches up to five courses per semester on a pro bono basis. Usually these courses include an introduction to major topics in East Asian civilization, an intermediate literature course in Chinese humanities, an intermediate literature course in Japanese humanities, a graduate-level survey of either Chinese or Japanese philosophy (alternating each year), and the Columbia College senior colloquia [[Nobility and Civility]].

The [[2006]]-[[2007]] academic year marked de Bary's 70th year as a Columbian (he entered in [[1937]]), his 54th year on the faculty, and his 17th year of ''de jure'' retirement.

He is additionally famous for rarely missing a Columbia [[football]] game since he began teaching at the university.

== Works ==

De Bary has edited numerous books of original source material relating to East Asian (primarily Japanese and Chinese) literature, history, and culture, as well as making the case, in his book ''Nobility and Civility'', for the universality of Asian values. He is recognized as essentially creating the field of Neo-Confucian studies.

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==Major Works==
*''Living Legacies at Columbia'' (2006)
*''Nobility and Civility : Asian Ideals of Leadership and the Common Good'' (2004)
*''Asian Values and Human Rights : A Confucian Communitarian Perspective'' (1998)
*''Confucianism and Human Rights'' (1998)
*''Mahābhārata'' (translation, 1998)
*''Waiting for the Dawn : a Plan for the Prince'' (translation, 1993)
*''Learning for One's Self : Essays on the Individual in Neo-Confucian Thought'' (1991)
*''The Trouble with Confucianism'' (1991)
*''Approaches to the Asian Classics'' (1990)
*''Message of the mind in Neo-Confucianism'' (1989)
*''Neo-Confucian Education : the Formative Stage'' (1989)
*''East Asian Civilizations : a Dialogue in Five Stages'' (1988)
*''The Rise of Neo-Confucianism in Korea'' (1985)
*''The Liberal Tradition in China '' (1983)
*''Yüan thought : Chinese Thought and Religion under the Mongols'' (1982)
*''Neo-Confucian Orthodoxy and the Learning of the Mind-And-Heart'' (1981)
*''Principle and Practicality : Essays in Neo-Confucianism and Practical Learning'' (1979)
*''Unfolding of Neo-Confucianism'' (1975)
*''The Hindu Traditon: Readings in Oriental Thought'' (1972)
*''Self and Society in Ming Thought'' (1970)
*''The Buddhist Tradition in India, China and Japan'' (1969)
*''Approaches to Asian Civilizations'' (1964)
*''Guide to Oriental Classics'' (1964)
*''Sources of Japanese Tradition: Volume 1 '' (1964)
*''Sources of Chinese Tradition: Volume 1'' (1960)
*''Approaches to the Oriental Classics: Asian Literature and Thought in General Education'' (1959)
*''Sources of Indian Tradition'' (1957)

''(Source: Library of Congress Online Catalog)''

==References==

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==External links==
* [http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/your_columbians/william_debary.html Your Columbians: William Theodore de Bary]
* This article is largely based on material from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wm._Theodore_de_Bary Wikipedia's article on William Theodore de Bary]

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John Jay Hall

2012-01-20T04:05:15Z

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'''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.

==Temporary Notice to 15th Floor Residents, Aug. 10, 2009==
Exec. Dir. of Residence Halls confirms that due to renovations and additions to the 15th Floor, the floorplan listed below is no longer accurate. A new one has been posted on CU's official site for JJ. (Request: can anyone good with tech repost it below too? Thanks.)

== 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. Previously, Columbia had purchased a group of four apartment buildings in the surrounding area, one of which was named John Jay Hall; later it was revised to [[Charles King]] Hall. The present John Jay Hall was originally called "Students Hall" and sought to become a "grand university commons" that would combined student quarters with dining facilities and club rooms. The fourteenth floor was a men's infirmary. Before [[Lerner Hall]], and [[Ferris Booth Hall]] before that, the space now taken up by Health Services was Columbia's student center. Even the ''[[Columbia Spectator]]'' had offices there. Vestiges of this former function can be seen from the building's lobby - look up and you'll notice what are clearly bannister rails for what should be a second floor balcony, but which has been drywalled up to form [[Health Services]]. 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. John Jay was never meant to house just undergraduates, to say nothing of first-years. One student at the [[SEAS|School of Engineering]] in [[1947]] and 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

==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: public rooms, dining hall===

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.)

===Interior: "the skyscraper dorm" and the logic of the rooms===

''[[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.

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.

===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?

===Top floors===

The higher floors, however, 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.

== Facilities ==

=== Floors ===

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

=== 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.

== 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 and spacious 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 air conditioning.
* 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]].

== 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:JJ5.gif|Floor 5
Image:JJ6.gif|Floor 6
Image:JJ7.gif|Floor 7
Image:JJ8.gif|Floor 8
Image:JJ9.gif|Floor 9
Image:JJ10.gif|Floor 10
Image:JJ11.gif|Floor 11
Image:JJ12.gif|Floor 12
Image:JJ13.gif|Floor 13
Image:JJ14.gif|Floor 14
Image:JJ15.gif|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.

=== 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]].

==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.

==References==

<references/>

== 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://www.columbia.edu/cu/housing/docs/residence-halls/jay/index.html Columbia Housing - John Jay]
* [http://www.petitiononline.com/j4j/petition.html Petition to rename John Jay Hall]

[[Category:Columbia undergraduate residence halls]]

James Valentini

2011-10-14T22:37:24Z

Curiousgeorge:

[[File:JJValentini.jpg|thumb|James J. Valentini]]

'''James J. Valentini''' is a professor of Chemistry at Columbia and the current Acting [[Dean of Columbia College]]. He assumed the responsibilities of the deanship and of the position of Vice President for Undergraduate Education after [[Michele M. Moody-Adams]] resigned in the summer of [[2011]].

==Academic career==

Valentini grew up in a small town in Appalachia and was the first in his family to attend college, graduating from the [[University of Pittsburgh]] as [[valedictorian]]. He received a master's degree in chemistry from the [[University of Chicago]] and a doctorate in chemistry from the [[University of California at Berkeley]], after which he completed a postdoc at [[Harvard]]. First a professor at the [[University of California, Irvine]], he has been a member of the Columbia faculty since [[1991]].

In [[2009]], Valentini was selected by his peers as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and earlier as a fellow of the American Physical Society for his research involving chemical reaction dynamics.

He generally teaches [[Organic Chemistry]] and leads a small seminar on chemistry for high school students as well. In [[2009]], he created a small seminar for non-science majors on energy conservation and general energy principles. The course was designed to fulfill the science requirement of the Core.

==Administrative roles==

Valentini has served in a number of administrative roles since joining the faculty. He served as chair of Columbia's Chemistry Department from [[2005]] to [[2008]] and was later the directer of the Chemistry Department’s undergraduate studies program. He has also served as chair of the [[Committee on Science Instruction]] for several years, and therefore represented both [[Frontiers of Science]] and the science requirement to the [[Committee on the Core Curriculum]] until assuming the deanship in [[2011]]. He also served on Columbia College's [[Committee on Instruction]], and was a member of the committee that selected [[Michele Moody-Adams]] after [[Austin Quigley]] stepped down.

==Personal life==

Valentini married [[Teodolinda Barolini]], the current chair of the [[Italian Department]], in [[2001]]. They met while serving on the executive committee of the [[Faculty of Arts and Sciences]] in [[1994]].<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/11/style/teodolinda-barolini-james-valentini.html</ref> Notably, closer oversight by Arts and Sciences of Columbia College was one of the rumored causes of Moody-Adams' resignation.

== External links ==
* [http://bwog.com/2011/09/02/breaking-professor-james-valentini-is-the-new-interim-dean-of-cc/ BREAKING: Professor James Valentini is the New Interim Dean of CC], The Bwog, September 2, 2011
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/chemistry/fac-bios/valentini/faculty.html Faculty Profile], Columbia Faculty Profile

{{succession|office=Acting Dean of Columbia College|years=[[2011]]-Present|preceded=[[Michelle Moody-Adams]]|succeeded=Incumbent}}

[[Category:Deans of Columbia College|Valentini, James J.]]
[[Category:Chemistry professors|Valentini]]

James Valentini

2011-09-03T23:17:34Z

Curiousgeorge:

[[File:JJValentini.jpg|thumb|James J. Valentini]]

'''Professor James J. Valentini''' is a professor of Chemistry at Columbia - he has been a member of the Columbia faculty since 1991. He assumed the responsibilities of [[Dean of Columbia College]] and Vice President for Undergraduate Education in the Department of Chemistry after [[Michele M. Moody-Adams]] resigned in the summer of [[2011]].
He is currently the interim dean but was chair of Columbia's Chemistry Department from 2005 to 2008 and was later the directer of the chemistry department’s undergraduate studies program.

==Academic career==

In 2009, Valentini was selected by his peers as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and earlier as a fellow of the American Physical Society for his research involving chemical reaction dynamics.

== External links ==
* [http://bwog.com/2011/09/02/breaking-professor-james-valentini-is-the-new-interim-dean-of-cc/ BREAKING: Professor James Valentini is the New Interim Dean of CC], The Bwog, September 2, 2011
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/chemistry/fac-bios/valentini/faculty.html Faculty Profile], Columbia Faculty Profile

James Valentini

2011-09-03T23:15:58Z

Curiousgeorge:

[[File:JJValentini.jpg|thumb|James J. Valentini]]

'''Professor James J. Valentini''' is a professor of Chemistry at Columbia - he has been a member of the Columbia faculty since 1991. He assumed the responsibilities of [[Dean of Columbia College]] and Vice President for Undergraduate Education in the Department of Chemistry after [[Michele M. Moody-Adams]] resigned in the summer of [[2011]].
He is currently the interim dean but was chair of Columbia's Chemistry Department from 2005 to 2008 and was later the directer of the chemistry department’s undergraduate studies program.

==Academic career==

In 2009, Valentini was selected by his peers as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and earlier as a fellow of the American Physical Society for his research involving chemical reaction dynamics.

== External links ==
* [http://bwog.com/2011/09/02/breaking-professor-james-valentini-is-the-new-interim-dean-of-cc/], The Bwog, September 2, 2011
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/chemistry/fac-bios/valentini/faculty.html], Columbia Faculty Profile

James Valentini

2011-09-03T23:13:24Z

Curiousgeorge:

James Valentini

2011-09-03T21:48:25Z

Curiousgeorge:

James Valentini

2011-09-03T21:32:21Z

Curiousgeorge:

[[File:JJValentini.jpg|thumb|James J. Valentini]]

'''Professor James J. Valentini''' is a professor of Chemistry at Columbia. He assumed the responsibilities of [[Dean of Columbia College]] and Vice President for Undergraduate Education in the Department of Chemistry after [[Michele M. Moody-Adams]] resigned in the summer of 2011.
He is currently the interim dean but had been chair of Columbia's Chemistry Department from 2005 to 2008 and later the directer of the chemistry department’s undergraduate studies program.

James Valentini

2011-09-03T21:30:57Z

Curiousgeorge: Created page with "James J. Valentini '''Professor James J. Valentini''' is a professor of Chemistry and assumed the responsibilities of Dean of Columbia College..."

[[File:JJValentini.jpg|thumb|James J. Valentini]]

'''Professor James J. Valentini''' is a professor of Chemistry and assumed the responsibilities of [[Dean of Columbia College]] and Vice President for Undergraduate Education in the Department of Chemistry after [[Michele M. Moody-Adams]] resigned in the summer of 2011.
He is currently the interim dean but had been chair of Columbia's Chemistry Department from 2005 to 2008 and later the directer of the chemistry department’s undergraduate studies program.

File:JJValentini.jpg

2011-09-03T21:20:14Z

Curiousgeorge: James J. Valentini. Photo comes from his Columbia faculty page.

James J. Valentini.
Photo comes from his Columbia faculty page.

Passport to New York

2011-07-13T04:30:31Z

Curiousgeorge:

'''Passport to New York''' is a program sponsored by the [[Arts Initiative]] that allows undergraduate and graduate students to get into the following 28 museums for free. Some of these are a fantastic value. MoMA ($12) and the Guggenheim ($15) charge an exorbitant amount even at their student rates. The MoMA discount is particularly nice since Columbia students can enter via the VIP line.

{|
|- style="background:#DDDDDD;"
| '''Museum'''
| '''Location'''
| '''Phone'''
|-
| [http://www.folkartmuseum.org/ American Folk Art Museum]
| 45 West 53rd Street
| 212-265-1040
|-
| [http://www.numismatics.org/ American Numismatic Society]
| 96 Fulton Street
| 212-571-4470
|-
| [http://www.asiasociety.org/ Asia Society]
| 725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street)
| 212-288-6400
|-
| [http://www.bronxmuseum.org/ Bronx Museum of the Arts]
| 1040 Grand Concourse (at 165th Street)
| 718-681-6000 (ext. 120)
|-
| [http://www.brooklynhistory.org/ Brooklyn Historical Society]
| 128 Pierrepont Street (at Clinton St)
| 718-222-4111
|-
| [http://www.cccadi.org/ Caribbean Cultural Center/Africa Diaspora Institute]
| 408 West 58th Street
| 212-307-7420
|-
| [http://www.metmuseum.org/ The Cloisters]
| Fort Tryon Park
| 212-923-3700
|-
| [http://www.cooperhewitt.org/ Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum]
| 2 East 91st St (at 5th Avenue)
| 212-849-8400
|-
| [http://www.daheshmuseum.org/ Dahesh Museum]
| 580 Madison Avenue (between 56th and 57th Streets)
| 212-759-0606
|-
| [http://www.elmuseo.org/ El Museo del Barrio]
| 1230 Fifth Avenue (at 104th Street)
| 212-831-7272
|-
| [http://www.guggenheim.org/new_york_index.shtml Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]
| 1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street)
| 212-423-3500
|-
| [http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/ney/enindex.htm Goethe-Institute]
| 1014 Fifth Avenue (between 82nd and 83rd St)
| 212-439-8700
|-
| [http://www.icp.org/ International Center of Photography]
| 1133 Sixth Avenue
| 212-857-0000
|-
| [http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/intrepidmuseum/index.php?MERCURYSID=f860f1e972b6f768c5eb8f843da7dcf3 Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum]
| Pier 86, 12th Ave. & 46th Street
| 212-245-0072
|-
| [http://www.africanart.org/ Museum for African Art]
| Varies by exhibit, check website
| 718-784-7700
|-
| [http://www.moca-nyc.org/MoCA/content.asp Museum of Chinese in the Americas]
| 70 Mulberry Street, 2nd Floor
| 212-619-478
|-
| [http://www.mcny.org/ Museum of the City of New York]
| 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd St
| 212-534-1672
|-
| [http://www.mjhnyc.org/index.htm Museum of Jewish Heritage]
| 39 Battery Park Place
| 646-437-4200
|-
| [http://www.moma.org/ Museum of Modern Art]
| 11 West 53 Street
| 212-708-9400
|-
| [http://www.metmuseum.org/ Metropolitan Museum of Art]
| 1000 Fifth Avenue
| 212-535-7710
|-
| [http://www.mtr.org/ Museum of Television & Radio]
| 25 West 52 Street
| 212-621-6800
|-
| [http://www.nationalacademy.org/ National Academy Museum]
| 1083 Fifth Avenue at 90th Street
| 212 369-4880
|-
| [http://www.nmcah.org/ National Museum of Catholic Art and History]
| 443 East 115th Street (1st Ave and Pleaseant Ave.)
| 212-828-5209
|-
| [http://www.nycpolicemuseum.org/ New York City Police Museum]
| 100 Old Slip
| 212-480-3100
|-
| [https://www.nyhistory.org/web/ New York Historical Society]
| 170 Central Park West, at 77th St
| 212-873-3400
|-
| [http://www.roerich.org/ Nicholas Roerich Museum]
| 319 West 107th Street
| 212-864-7752
|-
| [http://www.ps1.org/ PS1/MoMA]
| 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101
| 718-784-2084
|-
| [http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture]
| 515 Malcolm X Boulevard
| 212-491-2200
|-
| [http://www.studiomuseum.org/ Studio Museum in Harlem]
| 144 West 125th Street
| 212-864-4500
|}

=External links=
[http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums/ Passport to New York]

[[Category:Exploring the city]]
[[Category:Arts Initiative]]

Passport to New York

2011-07-13T04:29:56Z

Curiousgeorge:

'''Passport to New York''' is a program sponsored by the [[Arts Initiative]] that allows undergraduate and graduate students to get into the following 28 museums for free. Some of these are a fantastic value. MoMA ($12), and the Guggenheim ($15)charge an exorbitant amount even at their student rates. The MoMA discount is particularly nice since Columbia students can enter via the VIP line.

{|
|- style="background:#DDDDDD;"
| '''Museum'''
| '''Location'''
| '''Phone'''
|-
| [http://www.folkartmuseum.org/ American Folk Art Museum]
| 45 West 53rd Street
| 212-265-1040
|-
| [http://www.numismatics.org/ American Numismatic Society]
| 96 Fulton Street
| 212-571-4470
|-
| [http://www.asiasociety.org/ Asia Society]
| 725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street)
| 212-288-6400
|-
| [http://www.bronxmuseum.org/ Bronx Museum of the Arts]
| 1040 Grand Concourse (at 165th Street)
| 718-681-6000 (ext. 120)
|-
| [http://www.brooklynhistory.org/ Brooklyn Historical Society]
| 128 Pierrepont Street (at Clinton St)
| 718-222-4111
|-
| [http://www.cccadi.org/ Caribbean Cultural Center/Africa Diaspora Institute]
| 408 West 58th Street
| 212-307-7420
|-
| [http://www.metmuseum.org/ The Cloisters]
| Fort Tryon Park
| 212-923-3700
|-
| [http://www.cooperhewitt.org/ Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum]
| 2 East 91st St (at 5th Avenue)
| 212-849-8400
|-
| [http://www.daheshmuseum.org/ Dahesh Museum]
| 580 Madison Avenue (between 56th and 57th Streets)
| 212-759-0606
|-
| [http://www.elmuseo.org/ El Museo del Barrio]
| 1230 Fifth Avenue (at 104th Street)
| 212-831-7272
|-
| [http://www.guggenheim.org/new_york_index.shtml Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]
| 1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street)
| 212-423-3500
|-
| [http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/ney/enindex.htm Goethe-Institute]
| 1014 Fifth Avenue (between 82nd and 83rd St)
| 212-439-8700
|-
| [http://www.icp.org/ International Center of Photography]
| 1133 Sixth Avenue
| 212-857-0000
|-
| [http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/intrepidmuseum/index.php?MERCURYSID=f860f1e972b6f768c5eb8f843da7dcf3 Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum]
| Pier 86, 12th Ave. & 46th Street
| 212-245-0072
|-
| [http://www.africanart.org/ Museum for African Art]
| Varies by exhibit, check website
| 718-784-7700
|-
| [http://www.moca-nyc.org/MoCA/content.asp Museum of Chinese in the Americas]
| 70 Mulberry Street, 2nd Floor
| 212-619-478
|-
| [http://www.mcny.org/ Museum of the City of New York]
| 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd St
| 212-534-1672
|-
| [http://www.mjhnyc.org/index.htm Museum of Jewish Heritage]
| 39 Battery Park Place
| 646-437-4200
|-
| [http://www.moma.org/ Museum of Modern Art]
| 11 West 53 Street
| 212-708-9400
|-
| [http://www.metmuseum.org/ Metropolitan Museum of Art]
| 1000 Fifth Avenue
| 212-535-7710
|-
| [http://www.mtr.org/ Museum of Television & Radio]
| 25 West 52 Street
| 212-621-6800
|-
| [http://www.nationalacademy.org/ National Academy Museum]
| 1083 Fifth Avenue at 90th Street
| 212 369-4880
|-
| [http://www.nmcah.org/ National Museum of Catholic Art and History]
| 443 East 115th Street (1st Ave and Pleaseant Ave.)
| 212-828-5209
|-
| [http://www.nycpolicemuseum.org/ New York City Police Museum]
| 100 Old Slip
| 212-480-3100
|-
| [https://www.nyhistory.org/web/ New York Historical Society]
| 170 Central Park West, at 77th St
| 212-873-3400
|-
| [http://www.roerich.org/ Nicholas Roerich Museum]
| 319 West 107th Street
| 212-864-7752
|-
| [http://www.ps1.org/ PS1/MoMA]
| 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101
| 718-784-2084
|-
| [http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture]
| 515 Malcolm X Boulevard
| 212-491-2200
|-
| [http://www.studiomuseum.org/ Studio Museum in Harlem]
| 144 West 125th Street
| 212-864-4500
|}

=External links=
[http://www.cuarts.com/freemuseums/ Passport to New York]

[[Category:Exploring the city]]
[[Category:Arts Initiative]]