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Cafe East

2012-09-20T22:41:19Z

Jiabao:

'''Cafe East''' sells bubble tea from a counter across from [[Cafe 212]] in [[Lerner Hall]]. The logo features a hyper [[Orientalism|Orientalist]] font.

Cafe East used to be called '''Tea and Tea'''. It was located in [[Uris Hall|Uris]] before the [[Business School]] ejected any features that might attract undesirable undergrads. Upon moving to Lerner, Cafe East replaced lots of seating space used by [[Cafe 212]] customers.

In more recent news, Cafe East has begun to offer frozen yogurt, just as overpriced as its bubble tea, but a cheaper, closer alternative to [[Pinkberry]]. Bon appetit.

[[Category:On-campus dining locations]]

2013

2012-04-25T21:07:55Z

Jiabao:

'''2013''' in Columbia's future:

Ha, just kidding. The world ended. Didn't you read the page on [[2012]]?

== Fall ==
*Expected end of the [[Columbia Campaign|Columbia Campaign's]] $5bn fundraising goal.

{{succession|preceded=[[2012]]|succeeded=[[2014]]|office=History of Columbia University|years=2013}}

[[Category:Future]]

2013

2012-04-25T21:07:37Z

Jiabao:

'''2013''' in Columbia's future

Ha, just kidding. The world ended. Didn't you read the page on [[2012]]?

== Fall ==
*Expected end of the [[Columbia Campaign|Columbia Campaign's]] $5bn fundraising goal.

{{succession|preceded=[[2012]]|succeeded=[[2014]]|office=History of Columbia University|years=2013}}

[[Category:Future]]

User talk:Hypsm

2012-01-10T15:18:05Z

Jiabao: Created page with "Hi! It seemed you had deleted a whole section of content on internal transfers, which might still be relevant.--~~~~"

Hi! It seemed you had deleted a whole section of content on internal transfers, which might still be relevant.--[[User:Jiabao|Jiabao]] 10:18, 10 January 2012 (EST)

School of General Studies

2012-01-10T01:17:48Z

Jiabao: Reverted edits by Hypsm (talk) to last revision by CLM

{{Infobox school
|Name=Columbia University School of General Studies
|Image=GS-Shield.gif
|Established=[[1947]]
|Dean=[[Peter Awn]]
|Student Body President=[[Niko Cunningham]]
|Degrees=[[BA]], [[BS]], Postbac Certificate in Premedical Sciences
|Enrollment=2000(2010)
|Website=[http://www.gs.columbia.edu/ www.gs.columbia.edu]
}}'''The School of General Studies''', commonly known as '''General Studies''' or simply '''GS''', is one of Columbia University's three official undergraduate colleges. It is a highly selective Ivy college for non-traditional students that confers the Bachelor of Art and Bachelor of Science degrees in over seventy different majors. GS students take the same courses with the same faculty, are held to the same high standards, and earn the same degree as all other Columbia undergraduates.

==Background==
A Columbia undergraduate class could include students from any of the following schools: GS, Columbia College, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, or Barnard College. GS is unique among colleges of its type, because its students are fully integrated into the Columbia undergraduate curriculum: GS Students take the same classes with the same students and professors and are granted the same degrees as students at Columbia College or SEAS. The school awards both the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees. GS students, who comprise of approximately 25% of all Columbia undergraduates, have the highest average GPA of all the undergraduate schools at Columbia.<ref>http://www.columbia.edu/cu/opir/abstract/enrollment%20headcount%20by%20school%20all.htm</ref>

GS is also home to Columbia's Postbaccalaureate Premedical Program, which is the largest and oldest in the United States. Students enrolled in the List College Joint Program with Jewish Theological Seminary of America are awarded two Bachelors of Arts degrees (one from GS, one from JTS) on graduation.

==Admissions==
Admission to Columbia GS is highly selective. According to the College Board, the GS acceptance rate is 23%. Admissions officers examine high school records, test scores, extra-curricular activities, resumes and essays. They conduct interviews in person and on the phone. They also consider college-level work and real-life experience. For transfer students, most successful applicants attain GPAs of at least 3.8 according to the GS admissions office. GS also requires standardized test scores for entry. The school will use scores from the SAT, ACT, or the school's own General Studies Admissions Exam. A list of admissions requirements and procedures is available from the General Studies website and statistics on application, admission, and matriculation are available at the website of Columbia's Office of Planning and Institutional Research. GS admissions statistics are not reported in conjunction with CC/SEAS statistics. This is related both to GS's different admission deadlines and the fact that CC/SEAS and GS have different applicant pools.

Applicants to the School of General Studies must have a break of one academic year or have compelling personal or professional reasons for part-time attendance to be eligible to apply for admission. GS students have the option to attend part- or full-time unlike Columbia College students, who are required to attend full-time. Also, scholarships at Columbia GS are merit based rather than income based like that of Columbia College or SEAS. In the 2006 class, the average age was 27 for incoming students, and the majority attend full-time.

Most GS students are transfer students, as 78% of the admitted class in 2006 transferred some college credit.<ref>Source: [http://www.gs.columbia.edu/bulletin_courses/bulletin98/tc.html 78% of 2006 admitted students transferred credit.]</ref> A list of admissions requirements and procedures is available from the [http://www.gs.columbia.edu/index_howtoapply.htm/ General Studies website]

Additional statistics on application, admission, and matriculation are available at the website of the Office of Planning and Institutional Research. [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/opir/index.html]

==Nontraditional students==

GS enrolls world-class dancers, Olympic athletes, and musicians; investment bankers and small business owners; published authors and military veterans; and people who come from as far away as China, Israel, and Germany. Many students work full-time while pursuing a degree, and many have family responsibilities; others attend classes full-time and experience Columbia's more traditional college life.

Many have enjoyed successful careers in fields such as investment banking and information technology and quite a few are nontraditional due to previous conscription or community service requirements in their home countries. A substantial portion of the population enter as transfer students; the previous schools of these students range from community colleges to Columbia's peer institutions.

== Academics ==
GS students must complete a total of 124 credits to graduate. Up to 60 of these credits may be transferred from another institution; at least 64 credits must be completed at Columbia University.<ref>Source: [http://www.gs.columbia.edu/bulletin_courses/bulletin98/tc.html GS Credit Policies]</ref>

=== Core Requirements ===
The following table lists the core requirements for GS and CC:

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|-
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!width="45%"|GS<ref>[http://www.gs.columbia.edu/bulletin_courses/Bulletin98/bach_core.html School of General Studes Core Requirements]</ref>
!width="45%"|CC<ref>[http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/ Columbia College Core Curriculum]</ref>
|-
!Writing<ref>[[University Writing]] is required of both GS and CC students, but the sections are divided by school.</ref>

|[[University Writing]]
|[[University Writing]]
|-
!Literature
|2 Literature Courses OR [[Literature Humanities]]
|[[Literature Humanities]]
|-
!Foreign Language
|4th Semester of a Language OR exemption by university exam
|4th Semester of a Language OR exemption by university exam
|-
!Art
|[[Art Humanities]], Asian Humanities (Art) or exemption by similar course taken at another institution
|[[Art Humanities]]
|-
!Music
|[[Music Humanities]] or Asian Humanities (Music) or exemption by similar course taken at another institution
|[[Music Humanities]]
|-
!Humanities/Social Science
|2 courses each in Humanities and Social Science (students have the option to take [[Contemporary Civilization]], which satisfies the Social Science requirement.
|[[Contemporary Civilization]]
|-
!Quantitative Reasoning
|Exemption by exam: 600 on Math section of SAT OR any mathematics, statistics, economics, or computer science course, OR [[Frontiers of Science]], which satisfies both a Science and the Quantitative requirements
|Covered under Science requirement
|-
!Physical Education
|None
|[[Swim test]], 2 courses
|-
!Science
|3 science courses, one of which can be [[Frontiers of Science]]
|[[Frontiers of Science]] and 2 additional science courses
|-
!Cultural Diversity
|1 course that focuses on a culture, society, literature, or language of a nation or region that, as a general principle, is located outside the United States, Canada, or Europe.
|2 courses from the Major Cultures [http://www.college.columbia.edu/DocRep/academics/core/major_cult.pdf Approved Courses List]
|}

=== Major Requirements ===

Major requirements are determined departmentally. These are generally the same for both GS and CC.

==Science Po Columbia University Dual BA Program==

The Dual BA Program is an intensive, transatlantic course of study for which undergraduate students earn a Bachelor of Arts from Sciences Po and Columbia University. Students will spend two years at one of three Sciences Po campuses, each of which is devoted to a particular region of the world and offers a heavy linguistic and cultural focus. After two years, students will matriculate at Columbia University School of General Studies in New York City to complete the interdisciplinary social sciences curriculum. Admission to the program is most competitive. High school students may apply.

== Financial Aid ==

GS offers scholarships for both newly accepted and continuing students. These scholarships are merit- rather than need-based like that of Columbia college and SEAS.

A common complaint made by GS students is that the financial aid amounts and options offered by GS are smaller than those offered to CC/SEAS students. In the absence of need-based institutional aid, many GS students rely on a combination of loans, external grants, and personal funds. In 2006 the University announced financial aid reforms for CC and SEAS students whose parents earn less than $50,000 annually.

GS does not offer parity with the packages offered to CC/SEAS students. This is because the scholarship system at GS is independent of the financial aid system for CC/SEAS and funding is sourced from a separate GS-only pool. GS has made some recent efforts to address the issue, both through campaigns to increase the endowment and by increasing its scholarship offerings by 10 percent (in 2006.)

== Housing ==
General Studies students are not eligible for the CC/SEAS [[Room Selection]] process. However, many GS students receive housing through [[University Apartment Housing]].

== History ==
GS's evolutionary ancestor is [[Seth Low Junior College]], which was established in [[Brooklyn]] to help alleviate the steady flood of applicants to [[Columbia College]], particularly Jews. SLJC was closed in 1936, and some students were given the option to transfer to The University Extension and finish their studies.

The University Extension program was reorganized and renamed the School of General Studies in 1947, in part to address the influx of GIs returning from World War II. It became Columbia's third official undergraduate school. It is sometimes claimed that [[Barnard College]] is Columbia's third undergraduate school, and GS is its fourth; however Barnard is officially only affiliated with Columbia University, while GS, its deans, and students are formally integrated into the university proper, along with [[Columbia College]] and the [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]].

GS originally maintained its own faculty, classes, and programs. In 1968 the University Council first decided to allow GS to grant the B.A. degree in addition to the B.S. In the 1980s it was separated from the [[School of Continuing Education|Division of Continuing Education]]. In 1990, the CC, GS, and GSAS faculties were merged into the [[Faculty of Arts and Sciences]].

The school's name refers to its diverse student body by alluding to medieval universities, which were also known as ''studia generalia''. ''Studia generalia'' were degree-granting institutions that served a much broader, often international group of students and scholars.<ref>[http://users.manchester.edu/Facstaff/SSNaragon/Kant/Universities/UnivIntro.htm Universities: Introduction]</ref><ref>[http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=Glossary%2Fstudium Janus: ` studium]</ref>

== Myths ==
* GS is night school.
:GS students attend the same classes as students in other colleges at the university. Columbia offers some classes at night, but they are available to all students.
* GS is an extension program.
:GS is a degree-granting college. Students are expected to pursue a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree. The separate [[School of Continuing Education]] offers individual courses on non-degree basis.
* GS is a back door to CC.
:* It is very rare for anyone to transfer into CC or another Columbia undergraduate school from GS. A compelling academic reason, plus a standard transfer application, must be presented. One example was a transfer from the JTS Join Program into CC. The official policy reads:
<blockquote>Undergraduates enrolled in the School of General Studies, including Joint Program students, who are interested in transferring to another Columbia or affiliated undergraduate school (Columbia College, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Barnard College, or List College/JTS) should not submit a transfer application to any of those schools without prior consultation with their GS advisors.

Transfer applications from GS to Columbia College, SEAS, or the Joint Program with JTS will not be considered by those schools without a written endorsement from the GS Dean of Students. Endorsements are limited to those students in good standing who have sound academic reasons for seeking to transfer from GS. Joint Program students who are considering the submission of a transfer application to one of the Columbia undergraduate schools, including GS, should also discuss the matter with their GS and JTS advisors; transfer to GS is not automatic for Joint Program students and requires a new application to GS through the Office of Admissions.</blockquote>

== Relationship to Columbia College ==
The School of General Studies is loosely defined as a school for 'non-traditional students.' “Nontraditional students include persons who have interrupted their educations since high school for at least one academic year or individuals who have compelling personal or professional reasons to attend college on a part-time basis. GS is also the college at Columbia for students seeking to complete a second B.A. or B.S. degree.” <ref>[http://www.gs.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/newspages.dll/pages?sitename=COLAD&record=449&htmlfile=gsnews2.htm Average gap in studies for a GS student in the fall 2006 entering class was 6 years] (Admissions section of the 2006-07 GS Academic Bulletin, pg. 7).</ref> Columbia College is for 'traditional students' who matriculate directly from high school and have not had a gap of more than one year in their undergraduate studies. On this basis, students applying to study at Columbia University are directed to the appropriate school.

In December 1968 the University Council decided, over the objections of some members of the Columbia College Faculty, to allow GS to grant the B.A. degree in addition to the B.S. The Board of Trustees authorized that decision in February 1969. The creation of the [[Faculty of Arts and Sciences]] in 1991 merged the GS, CC and [[GSAS]] faculties. As a result, GS and CC students are nearly academically indistinguishable – they both receive instruction in the liberal arts and sciences from the Columbia Faculty of Arts and Sciences and receive the Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University. Note that some do receive the Bachelor of Science degree, like SEAS students. GS students participate in nearly the same Core as Columbia College students, with a little additional flexibility, and the waiving of the swim test, PE, and [[Frontiers of Science]]. GS students have the same curriculum, but their own sections of, [[University Writing]], [[Literature Humanities]], and [[Contemporary Civilization]] although non-GS students may enroll if they wish and can gain permission. GS students may substitute certain other classes for the traditional Lit Hum, Art Hum, and CC that focus on non-western culture, if they wish.

The wide range of students that form the GS student body, from professionals or dropouts returning to school for a degree, to military veterans, to students who took 2 years off before attending college, to 'traditional'-age students enrolled in the Joint Degree Program with List College at [[JTS]], to postbac pre-med students, makes it hard to say just what specific identity GS students have that makes them so different from their fellow students in the College. In [[2007]], the administration floated the idea of a CC-GS merger.<ref>http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2007/11/12/university-may-merge-gs-cc "University May Merge GS with CC." Columbia Spectator. November 12, 2007</ref> However it quickly died down.<ref>http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2008/03/10/merits-gs-cc-integration "The Merits of the GS, CC Integration" Columbia Spectator. March 10 2008</ref>

== References ==
<references />

== External links ==
* [http://www.gs.columbia.edu/home.asp GS website]
* [http://www.gs.columbia.edu/studentservices/housing.htm GS Housing website]
* [http://www.alumni.gs.columbia.edu/ OwlNet, GS Alumni website]
* [http://www.profesays.com Best Online Custom Essay Writing Service]
* [http://gslounge.com/ GSLOUNGE] (Official Site of the [[GSSC]])
* [http://www.gs.columbia.edu/history.htm History of the School of General Studies]
*[http://media.www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2007/03/05/News/Implications.General.Studies-2757242.shtml IMPLICATIONS: General Studies (Article on the evolving and conflicting identities of GS)] - [[Columbia Spectator|The Spectator]] 3/5/07
* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,822081,00.html College for Grownups (''Time'' article from 1952)]
* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,810834,00.html The Unwashed Brother (article on GS in Time Magazine, circa 1959.)]
* [[w:Columbia University School of General Studies|Wikipedia article]]

{{Schools}}

[[Category:General Studies|*]]

School songs

2011-11-19T01:37:28Z

Jiabao: /* Roar, Lion, Roar */

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Columbia has a number of '''School songs'''. You probably don't know the words to most (or all) of them. That's OK. You have this page.

== Alma Mater ==
Alma Mater literally means "nourishing mother". The motto (and original name) of the [[w:University of Bologna|University of Bologna]] (the oldest continually operating university in the world) is ''Alma Mater Studiorum'' ("Nourishing Mother of Studies").

While in the context of Columbia [[Alma Mater]] almost always refers to the Daniel Chester French sculpture that graces the steps to [[Low Library]], in the United States "Alma Mater" is the term for a school song or hymn. At Columbia there is a University alma mater in addition to individual school alma maters for some divisions, most notably for [[Columbia College]]. It is also colloquially used as a general term for the school from which one graduated.

=== Sans Souci ===
''Sans Souci'' (french for "without cares" or "carefree") is the [[Columbia College]] Alma Mater, composed by Percy Fridenberg in 1886. It is often performed at the conclusion of various alumni functions, among them the [[Alexander Hamilton Medal]] dinner and the [[John Jay Awards for Distinguished Professional Achievement]]. The [[CUMB]] can be seen performing the song at the conclusion of each football game, with the team gathered in front of them. Additionally, [[Orgo Night]] traditionally ends with the underclassmen members of the band singing Sans Souci to the seniors, who stand together on the steps of [[Furnald|Furnald Hall]]. It is also performed [[a cappella]] at CC's [[Class Day]].

<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
{|
|
1.
What if tomorrow bring 
Sorrow or anything
::Other than joy? 
What if't be wintry chill 
Rain, storm or summer's thrill? 
Tomorrow's the future still;
::This is today! 
Tomorrow's the future still;
::This is today.
|width="50"|
|
2.
Out on life's stormy seas 
All of us soon may be,
::Far, far away. 
Still hold your glasses high, 
Here's to youth while it's nigh; 
Though we tomorrow die,
::This is today! 
Though we tomorrow die,
::This is today.
|width="50"|
|
3.
One last toast e'er we part, 
Written on ev'ry heart,
::This motto stay 
Long may Columbia stand, 
Honored throughout the land, 
Our Alma Mater grand,
::Now and for ay! 
Our Alma Mater grand,
::Now and for ay.
|}
</blockquote>

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=== Stand, Columbia ===
''Stand, Columbia'' is the official University alma mater. Written by Gilbert Oakley Ward (CC 1902) in 1904 to the tune of Haydn's Emperor Quartet, which also serves as the melody for the German national anthem (both with the old lyrics of "Deutschland über alles" and the present less jingoistic version beginning "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit"), the song possibly fell out of favor along with most other vestiges of germanophilia following World War I. The song is, however, traditionally performed at the [[Baccalaureate Ceremony]] and [[University Commencement]], as well as at various alumni functions.

<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
{|
|
1.
Mother, stay'd on rock eternal,
:Crown'd and set upon a height, 
Glorified by Light supernal
:In thy radiance we see light, 
Torch thy children's lamps to kindle,
:Beacon-star to cheer and guide, 
Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater
:Through the storms of Time abide! 
Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater
:Through the storms of Time abide!
|width="50"|
|
2.
Honor, love, and veneration
:Crown forevermore thy brow! 
Many a grateful generation
:Hail thee as we hail thee now! 
Till the lordly Hudson seaward
:Cease to roll his heaving tide, 
Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater
:Through the storms of Time abide! 
Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater
:Through the storms of Time abide!
|}
</blockquote>

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Listen here to the melody (ogg format): [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/HaydnGottErhalteFranzDenKaiserQuartetVersionPianoReduction.ogg Haydn's "Emperor" Quartet, II]

== Fight Songs ==

=== Roar, Lion, Roar ===
''Roar'' is Columbia's fight song and is the song that's most often associated with the school. The lyrics were written by [[Corey Ford]] CC '23 in 1923 to the melody of a song titled "Bold, Buccaneers!" from the 1923 [[Varsity Show]] "Half Moon Inn."<ref>[http://www.thevarsityshow.com/morningside Sing a Song of Morningside]</ref> The song is rarely, if ever, performed with both stanzas. Usually only the second is performed.

<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
{|
|
1.
When the bold, teams of old 
Wore the Blue and White, 
Deeds of fame, made their name, 
Here at old Columbia. 
Nowadays we can praise 
Fighting teams again. 
Hear the lion roar in pride, 
While the men of Morningside 
Follow the Blue and White to Vict'ry... 
|width="50"|
|
2.
Roar, Lion, Roar 
And wake the echoes of the Hudson Valley! 
Fight on to victory evermore, 
While the sons of Knickerbocker rally round 
Columbia! Columbia! 
Shouting her name forever! 
Roar, Lion, Roar 
For Alma Mater on the Hudson Shore!
|}
</blockquote>
Listen here: [[Media:roar.mp3|"Roar, Lion Roar"]] • [[Media:roar2.mp3|Instrumental Only Version]]

Alternate verse popularized by the [[CUMB|marching band]] after an 0-9 [[football]] record in November 2011:
<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
We always lose, lose, lose 
by a lot and sometimes by a little! 
We all were winners at the start, 
but four years has taught us all the value of just giving up 
('cause we really suck). 
Why are we even trying? 
We always lose, lose, lose, 
but we take solace in our booze!
</blockquote>

=== Who Owns New York? ===
''Who Owns'' is a self-aggrandizing cheer referencing Columbia's historic position as one of New York City's largest landlords.

<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
Oh, who owns New York? 
Oh, who owns New York? 
Oh, who owns New York the people say. 
Why, we own New York! 
Why, we own New York! 
C-O-L-U-M-B-I-A!
</blockquote>

=== Stand Up and Cheer ===
''Stand up'' is a short cheer/song that the band will often play during breaks in action. The song was originally written for the University of Kansas in 1909, but has since been adapted as a fight song by a number of schools.<ref>See, e.g. [[w:Stand Up and Cheer (song)|Wikipedia]], "College fight songs II: a supplementary anthology" (pgs. ii, and 2) [http://books.google.com/books?id=5T_VguL00J0C&pg=PA3&dq=%22roar,+lion,+roar%22&hl=en&ei=PSl1TpvyI8y4tgf26KCrDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&sqi=2&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22university%20of%20kansas%22&f=false]</ref>

<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
Stand up and cheer! 
Stand up and cheer for old Columbia! 
For today we raise 
The Blue and White above the rest. 
Our boys are fighting 
And they are bound to win the fray. 
We've got the team! 
We've got the steam! 
For this is old Columbia's day!
</blockquote>

[[Media:standup.mp3|"Stand Up and Cheer" from Ohio Unversity]]

==Defunct Songs of a Bygone Era==
There are other Columbia songs that have faded into the mists of time.

=== Columbia Marching Song ===
In Fall of 1909, the Columbia Alumni Club of Illinois offered a prize of $100 for the composition of a new Columbia song. The April issue of Columbia Alumni News announced that the winner of $50 for the lyrics was Professor [[John Erskine]] CC 1900. In September, Frank Ward, organist of [[St Paul's Chapel]], was awarded the other $50 for composing the winning melody to Erskine's song. The song has not been performed in recent memory.

<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
{|
|
I.
When you're marching for Columbia, you had better march
::like men! 
And every mile you march for her you will wish were
::eight or ten; 
When you're marching for Columbia, your four years
::won't seem long, 
And then you'll wish you were back again to sing her marching
::song-- 
Chorus:
::Marching for Columbia, a royal road we tread!
::The heart is beating high, and the blood runs red,
::We're all young together, the best of life's ahead.
::::When you march for Columbia!
|width="50"|
|
II.
Now the thunder of the city sets Columbia's heart athrill. 
Our home is on the battle-field--the battle's with us still! 
We keep the city's honor, we build the city's walls, 
And when she calls for fighting men, it's Columbia men
::she calls. 
Chorus:
::Marching for Columbia, a royal road we tread!
::The heart is beating high, and blood runs red,
::We're all young together, the best of life's ahead.
::::When you march for Columbia!
|width="50"|
|
III.
They are sitting down and dreaming, are some folk we
::needn't name, 
Of their dead and gone forefathers, who gave them all
::their fame; 
But we've more and better fellows than we've ever had
::before, 
And we're marching toward to-morrow, that will give us
::plenty more. 
Chorus:
::Marching for Columbia, a royal road we tread!
::The heart is beating high, and the blood runs red,
::We're all young together, the best of life's ahead.
::::When you march for Columbia!
|}
</blockquote>

==Pop Songs==
These aren't really "Columbia" songs, but they do feature Columbia in some way or form.

===Tom's Diner===

[[Tom's Diner (song)|Tom's Diner]] is an a cappella song written in 1982 by Suzanne Vega. It captures a dreary morning scene inside [[Tom's Restaurant]].

===Hey There Delilah===

[[w:Hey There Delilah|Hey There Delilah]] is a love song written for Columbia alum [[Delilah DiCrescenzo]].

===Campus===

"Campus" is a song written by alternative band and Columbia alumni [[Vampire Weekend]]. It is somewhat of a love song, but mostly describes day-to-day life on campus for a [[hipster]], with ironic lines like "spilled kefir on my keffiyeh".

== See also ==
* [[Barnard College songs]]

== External links ==
* [http://cumb.org/ Columbia University Marching Band]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=e7MQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Songs of Columbia 1877], 19th century college songbook, some original, some not, all predating the current classics.

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Traditions]]
[[Category:Songs]]

School songs

2011-11-19T01:36:39Z

Jiabao: /* Roar, Lion, Roar */

[[Image:Rahrah.jpg|thumb|240px]]
Columbia has a number of '''School songs'''. You probably don't know the words to most (or all) of them. That's OK. You have this page.

== Alma Mater ==
Alma Mater literally means "nourishing mother". The motto (and original name) of the [[w:University of Bologna|University of Bologna]] (the oldest continually operating university in the world) is ''Alma Mater Studiorum'' ("Nourishing Mother of Studies").

While in the context of Columbia [[Alma Mater]] almost always refers to the Daniel Chester French sculpture that graces the steps to [[Low Library]], in the United States "Alma Mater" is the term for a school song or hymn. At Columbia there is a University alma mater in addition to individual school alma maters for some divisions, most notably for [[Columbia College]]. It is also colloquially used as a general term for the school from which one graduated.

=== Sans Souci ===
''Sans Souci'' (french for "without cares" or "carefree") is the [[Columbia College]] Alma Mater, composed by Percy Fridenberg in 1886. It is often performed at the conclusion of various alumni functions, among them the [[Alexander Hamilton Medal]] dinner and the [[John Jay Awards for Distinguished Professional Achievement]]. The [[CUMB]] can be seen performing the song at the conclusion of each football game, with the team gathered in front of them. Additionally, [[Orgo Night]] traditionally ends with the underclassmen members of the band singing Sans Souci to the seniors, who stand together on the steps of [[Furnald|Furnald Hall]]. It is also performed [[a cappella]] at CC's [[Class Day]].

<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
{|
|
1.
What if tomorrow bring 
Sorrow or anything
::Other than joy? 
What if't be wintry chill 
Rain, storm or summer's thrill? 
Tomorrow's the future still;
::This is today! 
Tomorrow's the future still;
::This is today.
|width="50"|
|
2.
Out on life's stormy seas 
All of us soon may be,
::Far, far away. 
Still hold your glasses high, 
Here's to youth while it's nigh; 
Though we tomorrow die,
::This is today! 
Though we tomorrow die,
::This is today.
|width="50"|
|
3.
One last toast e'er we part, 
Written on ev'ry heart,
::This motto stay 
Long may Columbia stand, 
Honored throughout the land, 
Our Alma Mater grand,
::Now and for ay! 
Our Alma Mater grand,
::Now and for ay.
|}
</blockquote>

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=== Stand, Columbia ===
''Stand, Columbia'' is the official University alma mater. Written by Gilbert Oakley Ward (CC 1902) in 1904 to the tune of Haydn's Emperor Quartet, which also serves as the melody for the German national anthem (both with the old lyrics of "Deutschland über alles" and the present less jingoistic version beginning "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit"), the song possibly fell out of favor along with most other vestiges of germanophilia following World War I. The song is, however, traditionally performed at the [[Baccalaureate Ceremony]] and [[University Commencement]], as well as at various alumni functions.

<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
{|
|
1.
Mother, stay'd on rock eternal,
:Crown'd and set upon a height, 
Glorified by Light supernal
:In thy radiance we see light, 
Torch thy children's lamps to kindle,
:Beacon-star to cheer and guide, 
Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater
:Through the storms of Time abide! 
Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater
:Through the storms of Time abide!
|width="50"|
|
2.
Honor, love, and veneration
:Crown forevermore thy brow! 
Many a grateful generation
:Hail thee as we hail thee now! 
Till the lordly Hudson seaward
:Cease to roll his heaving tide, 
Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater
:Through the storms of Time abide! 
Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater
:Through the storms of Time abide!
|}
</blockquote>

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Listen here to the melody (ogg format): [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/HaydnGottErhalteFranzDenKaiserQuartetVersionPianoReduction.ogg Haydn's "Emperor" Quartet, II]

== Fight Songs ==

=== Roar, Lion, Roar ===
''Roar'' is Columbia's fight song and is the song that's most often associated with the school. The lyrics were written by [[Corey Ford]] CC '23 in 1923 to the melody of a song titled "Bold, Buccaneers!" from the 1923 [[Varsity Show]] "Half Moon Inn."<ref>[http://www.thevarsityshow.com/morningside Sing a Song of Morningside]</ref> The song is rarely, if ever, performed with both stanzas. Usually only the second is performed.

<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
{|
|
1.
When the bold, teams of old 
Wore the Blue and White, 
Deeds of fame, made their name, 
Here at old Columbia. 
Nowadays we can praise 
Fighting teams again. 
Hear the lion roar in pride, 
While the men of Morningside 
Follow the Blue and White to Vict'ry... 
|width="50"|
|
2.
Roar, Lion, Roar 
And wake the echoes of the Hudson Valley! 
Fight on to victory evermore, 
While the sons of Knickerbocker rally round 
Columbia! Columbia! 
Shouting her name forever! 
Roar, Lion, Roar 
For Alma Mater on the Hudson Shore!
|}
</blockquote>
Listen here: [[Media:roar.mp3|"Roar, Lion Roar"]] • [[Media:roar2.mp3|Instrumental Only Version]]

Alternate verse popularized by the [[CUMB|marching band]] after an 0-9 [[football]] record in November 2011:
<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
We always lose, lose, lose 
by a lot and sometimes by a little! 
We all were winners at the start, 
but four years has taught us all the value of just giving up, 'cause we really suck. 
Why are we even trying? 
We always lose, lose, lose, 
but we take solace in our booze!
</blockquote>

=== Who Owns New York? ===
''Who Owns'' is a self-aggrandizing cheer referencing Columbia's historic position as one of New York City's largest landlords.

<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
Oh, who owns New York? 
Oh, who owns New York? 
Oh, who owns New York the people say. 
Why, we own New York! 
Why, we own New York! 
C-O-L-U-M-B-I-A!
</blockquote>

=== Stand Up and Cheer ===
''Stand up'' is a short cheer/song that the band will often play during breaks in action. The song was originally written for the University of Kansas in 1909, but has since been adapted as a fight song by a number of schools.<ref>See, e.g. [[w:Stand Up and Cheer (song)|Wikipedia]], "College fight songs II: a supplementary anthology" (pgs. ii, and 2) [http://books.google.com/books?id=5T_VguL00J0C&pg=PA3&dq=%22roar,+lion,+roar%22&hl=en&ei=PSl1TpvyI8y4tgf26KCrDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&sqi=2&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22university%20of%20kansas%22&f=false]</ref>

<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
Stand up and cheer! 
Stand up and cheer for old Columbia! 
For today we raise 
The Blue and White above the rest. 
Our boys are fighting 
And they are bound to win the fray. 
We've got the team! 
We've got the steam! 
For this is old Columbia's day!
</blockquote>

[[Media:standup.mp3|"Stand Up and Cheer" from Ohio Unversity]]

==Defunct Songs of a Bygone Era==
There are other Columbia songs that have faded into the mists of time.

=== Columbia Marching Song ===
In Fall of 1909, the Columbia Alumni Club of Illinois offered a prize of $100 for the composition of a new Columbia song. The April issue of Columbia Alumni News announced that the winner of $50 for the lyrics was Professor [[John Erskine]] CC 1900. In September, Frank Ward, organist of [[St Paul's Chapel]], was awarded the other $50 for composing the winning melody to Erskine's song. The song has not been performed in recent memory.

<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
{|
|
I.
When you're marching for Columbia, you had better march
::like men! 
And every mile you march for her you will wish were
::eight or ten; 
When you're marching for Columbia, your four years
::won't seem long, 
And then you'll wish you were back again to sing her marching
::song-- 
Chorus:
::Marching for Columbia, a royal road we tread!
::The heart is beating high, and the blood runs red,
::We're all young together, the best of life's ahead.
::::When you march for Columbia!
|width="50"|
|
II.
Now the thunder of the city sets Columbia's heart athrill. 
Our home is on the battle-field--the battle's with us still! 
We keep the city's honor, we build the city's walls, 
And when she calls for fighting men, it's Columbia men
::she calls. 
Chorus:
::Marching for Columbia, a royal road we tread!
::The heart is beating high, and blood runs red,
::We're all young together, the best of life's ahead.
::::When you march for Columbia!
|width="50"|
|
III.
They are sitting down and dreaming, are some folk we
::needn't name, 
Of their dead and gone forefathers, who gave them all
::their fame; 
But we've more and better fellows than we've ever had
::before, 
And we're marching toward to-morrow, that will give us
::plenty more. 
Chorus:
::Marching for Columbia, a royal road we tread!
::The heart is beating high, and the blood runs red,
::We're all young together, the best of life's ahead.
::::When you march for Columbia!
|}
</blockquote>

==Pop Songs==
These aren't really "Columbia" songs, but they do feature Columbia in some way or form.

===Tom's Diner===

[[Tom's Diner (song)|Tom's Diner]] is an a cappella song written in 1982 by Suzanne Vega. It captures a dreary morning scene inside [[Tom's Restaurant]].

===Hey There Delilah===

[[w:Hey There Delilah|Hey There Delilah]] is a love song written for Columbia alum [[Delilah DiCrescenzo]].

===Campus===

"Campus" is a song written by alternative band and Columbia alumni [[Vampire Weekend]]. It is somewhat of a love song, but mostly describes day-to-day life on campus for a [[hipster]], with ironic lines like "spilled kefir on my keffiyeh".

== See also ==
* [[Barnard College songs]]

== External links ==
* [http://cumb.org/ Columbia University Marching Band]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=e7MQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Songs of Columbia 1877], 19th century college songbook, some original, some not, all predating the current classics.

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Traditions]]
[[Category:Songs]]

School songs

2011-11-19T01:34:13Z

Jiabao: /* Campus */

[[Image:Rahrah.jpg|thumb|240px]]
Columbia has a number of '''School songs'''. You probably don't know the words to most (or all) of them. That's OK. You have this page.

== Alma Mater ==
Alma Mater literally means "nourishing mother". The motto (and original name) of the [[w:University of Bologna|University of Bologna]] (the oldest continually operating university in the world) is ''Alma Mater Studiorum'' ("Nourishing Mother of Studies").

While in the context of Columbia [[Alma Mater]] almost always refers to the Daniel Chester French sculpture that graces the steps to [[Low Library]], in the United States "Alma Mater" is the term for a school song or hymn. At Columbia there is a University alma mater in addition to individual school alma maters for some divisions, most notably for [[Columbia College]]. It is also colloquially used as a general term for the school from which one graduated.

=== Sans Souci ===
''Sans Souci'' (french for "without cares" or "carefree") is the [[Columbia College]] Alma Mater, composed by Percy Fridenberg in 1886. It is often performed at the conclusion of various alumni functions, among them the [[Alexander Hamilton Medal]] dinner and the [[John Jay Awards for Distinguished Professional Achievement]]. The [[CUMB]] can be seen performing the song at the conclusion of each football game, with the team gathered in front of them. Additionally, [[Orgo Night]] traditionally ends with the underclassmen members of the band singing Sans Souci to the seniors, who stand together on the steps of [[Furnald|Furnald Hall]]. It is also performed [[a cappella]] at CC's [[Class Day]].

<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
{|
|
1.
What if tomorrow bring 
Sorrow or anything
::Other than joy? 
What if't be wintry chill 
Rain, storm or summer's thrill? 
Tomorrow's the future still;
::This is today! 
Tomorrow's the future still;
::This is today.
|width="50"|
|
2.
Out on life's stormy seas 
All of us soon may be,
::Far, far away. 
Still hold your glasses high, 
Here's to youth while it's nigh; 
Though we tomorrow die,
::This is today! 
Though we tomorrow die,
::This is today.
|width="50"|
|
3.
One last toast e'er we part, 
Written on ev'ry heart,
::This motto stay 
Long may Columbia stand, 
Honored throughout the land, 
Our Alma Mater grand,
::Now and for ay! 
Our Alma Mater grand,
::Now and for ay.
|}
</blockquote>

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=== Stand, Columbia ===
''Stand, Columbia'' is the official University alma mater. Written by Gilbert Oakley Ward (CC 1902) in 1904 to the tune of Haydn's Emperor Quartet, which also serves as the melody for the German national anthem (both with the old lyrics of "Deutschland über alles" and the present less jingoistic version beginning "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit"), the song possibly fell out of favor along with most other vestiges of germanophilia following World War I. The song is, however, traditionally performed at the [[Baccalaureate Ceremony]] and [[University Commencement]], as well as at various alumni functions.

<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
{|
|
1.
Mother, stay'd on rock eternal,
:Crown'd and set upon a height, 
Glorified by Light supernal
:In thy radiance we see light, 
Torch thy children's lamps to kindle,
:Beacon-star to cheer and guide, 
Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater
:Through the storms of Time abide! 
Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater
:Through the storms of Time abide!
|width="50"|
|
2.
Honor, love, and veneration
:Crown forevermore thy brow! 
Many a grateful generation
:Hail thee as we hail thee now! 
Till the lordly Hudson seaward
:Cease to roll his heaving tide, 
Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater
:Through the storms of Time abide! 
Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater
:Through the storms of Time abide!
|}
</blockquote>

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Listen here to the melody (ogg format): [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/HaydnGottErhalteFranzDenKaiserQuartetVersionPianoReduction.ogg Haydn's "Emperor" Quartet, II]

== Fight Songs ==

=== Roar, Lion, Roar ===
''Roar'' is Columbia's fight song and is the song that's most often associated with the school. The lyrics were written by [[Corey Ford]] CC '23 in 1923 to the melody of a song titled "Bold, Buccaneers!" from the 1923 [[Varsity Show]] "Half Moon Inn."<ref>[http://www.thevarsityshow.com/morningside Sing a Song of Morningside]</ref> The song is rarely, if ever, performed with both stanzas. Usually only the second is performed.

<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
{|
|
1.
When the bold, teams of old 
Wore the Blue and White, 
Deeds of fame, made their name, 
Here at old Columbia. 
Nowadays we can praise 
Fighting teams again. 
Hear the lion roar in pride, 
While the men of Morningside 
Follow the Blue and White to Vict'ry... 
|width="50"|
|
2.
Roar, Lion, Roar 
And wake the echoes of the Hudson Valley! 
Fight on to victory evermore, 
While the sons of Knickerbocker rally round 
Columbia! Columbia! 
Shouting her name forever! 
Roar, Lion, Roar 
For Alma Mater on the Hudson Shore!
|}
</blockquote>
Listen here: [[Media:roar.mp3|"Roar, Lion Roar"]] • [[Media:roar2.mp3|Instrumental Only Version]]

Alternate Version (Popularized by [[CUMB]] in November 2011):
<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
We always lose, lose, lose 
by a lot and sometimes by a little! 
We all were winners at the start, 
but four years has taught us all the value of just giving up, 'cause we really suck. 
Why are we even trying? 
We always lose, lose, lose, 
but we take solace in our booze!
</blockquote>

=== Who Owns New York? ===
''Who Owns'' is a self-aggrandizing cheer referencing Columbia's historic position as one of New York City's largest landlords.

<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
Oh, who owns New York? 
Oh, who owns New York? 
Oh, who owns New York the people say. 
Why, we own New York! 
Why, we own New York! 
C-O-L-U-M-B-I-A!
</blockquote>

=== Stand Up and Cheer ===
''Stand up'' is a short cheer/song that the band will often play during breaks in action. The song was originally written for the University of Kansas in 1909, but has since been adapted as a fight song by a number of schools.<ref>See, e.g. [[w:Stand Up and Cheer (song)|Wikipedia]], "College fight songs II: a supplementary anthology" (pgs. ii, and 2) [http://books.google.com/books?id=5T_VguL00J0C&pg=PA3&dq=%22roar,+lion,+roar%22&hl=en&ei=PSl1TpvyI8y4tgf26KCrDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&sqi=2&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22university%20of%20kansas%22&f=false]</ref>

<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
Stand up and cheer! 
Stand up and cheer for old Columbia! 
For today we raise 
The Blue and White above the rest. 
Our boys are fighting 
And they are bound to win the fray. 
We've got the team! 
We've got the steam! 
For this is old Columbia's day!
</blockquote>

[[Media:standup.mp3|"Stand Up and Cheer" from Ohio Unversity]]

==Defunct Songs of a Bygone Era==
There are other Columbia songs that have faded into the mists of time.

=== Columbia Marching Song ===
In Fall of 1909, the Columbia Alumni Club of Illinois offered a prize of $100 for the composition of a new Columbia song. The April issue of Columbia Alumni News announced that the winner of $50 for the lyrics was Professor [[John Erskine]] CC 1900. In September, Frank Ward, organist of [[St Paul's Chapel]], was awarded the other $50 for composing the winning melody to Erskine's song. The song has not been performed in recent memory.

<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
{|
|
I.
When you're marching for Columbia, you had better march
::like men! 
And every mile you march for her you will wish were
::eight or ten; 
When you're marching for Columbia, your four years
::won't seem long, 
And then you'll wish you were back again to sing her marching
::song-- 
Chorus:
::Marching for Columbia, a royal road we tread!
::The heart is beating high, and the blood runs red,
::We're all young together, the best of life's ahead.
::::When you march for Columbia!
|width="50"|
|
II.
Now the thunder of the city sets Columbia's heart athrill. 
Our home is on the battle-field--the battle's with us still! 
We keep the city's honor, we build the city's walls, 
And when she calls for fighting men, it's Columbia men
::she calls. 
Chorus:
::Marching for Columbia, a royal road we tread!
::The heart is beating high, and blood runs red,
::We're all young together, the best of life's ahead.
::::When you march for Columbia!
|width="50"|
|
III.
They are sitting down and dreaming, are some folk we
::needn't name, 
Of their dead and gone forefathers, who gave them all
::their fame; 
But we've more and better fellows than we've ever had
::before, 
And we're marching toward to-morrow, that will give us
::plenty more. 
Chorus:
::Marching for Columbia, a royal road we tread!
::The heart is beating high, and the blood runs red,
::We're all young together, the best of life's ahead.
::::When you march for Columbia!
|}
</blockquote>

==Pop Songs==
These aren't really "Columbia" songs, but they do feature Columbia in some way or form.

===Tom's Diner===

[[Tom's Diner (song)|Tom's Diner]] is an a cappella song written in 1982 by Suzanne Vega. It captures a dreary morning scene inside [[Tom's Restaurant]].

===Hey There Delilah===

[[w:Hey There Delilah|Hey There Delilah]] is a love song written for Columbia alum [[Delilah DiCrescenzo]].

===Campus===

"Campus" is a song written by alternative band and Columbia alumni [[Vampire Weekend]]. It is somewhat of a love song, but mostly describes day-to-day life on campus for a [[hipster]], with ironic lines like "spilled kefir on my keffiyeh".

== See also ==
* [[Barnard College songs]]

== External links ==
* [http://cumb.org/ Columbia University Marching Band]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=e7MQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Songs of Columbia 1877], 19th century college songbook, some original, some not, all predating the current classics.

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Traditions]]
[[Category:Songs]]

School songs

2011-11-19T01:31:06Z

Jiabao: /* Roar, Lion, Roar */

[[Image:Rahrah.jpg|thumb|240px]]
Columbia has a number of '''School songs'''. You probably don't know the words to most (or all) of them. That's OK. You have this page.

== Alma Mater ==
Alma Mater literally means "nourishing mother". The motto (and original name) of the [[w:University of Bologna|University of Bologna]] (the oldest continually operating university in the world) is ''Alma Mater Studiorum'' ("Nourishing Mother of Studies").

While in the context of Columbia [[Alma Mater]] almost always refers to the Daniel Chester French sculpture that graces the steps to [[Low Library]], in the United States "Alma Mater" is the term for a school song or hymn. At Columbia there is a University alma mater in addition to individual school alma maters for some divisions, most notably for [[Columbia College]]. It is also colloquially used as a general term for the school from which one graduated.

=== Sans Souci ===
''Sans Souci'' (french for "without cares" or "carefree") is the [[Columbia College]] Alma Mater, composed by Percy Fridenberg in 1886. It is often performed at the conclusion of various alumni functions, among them the [[Alexander Hamilton Medal]] dinner and the [[John Jay Awards for Distinguished Professional Achievement]]. The [[CUMB]] can be seen performing the song at the conclusion of each football game, with the team gathered in front of them. Additionally, [[Orgo Night]] traditionally ends with the underclassmen members of the band singing Sans Souci to the seniors, who stand together on the steps of [[Furnald|Furnald Hall]]. It is also performed [[a cappella]] at CC's [[Class Day]].

<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
{|
|
1.
What if tomorrow bring 
Sorrow or anything
::Other than joy? 
What if't be wintry chill 
Rain, storm or summer's thrill? 
Tomorrow's the future still;
::This is today! 
Tomorrow's the future still;
::This is today.
|width="50"|
|
2.
Out on life's stormy seas 
All of us soon may be,
::Far, far away. 
Still hold your glasses high, 
Here's to youth while it's nigh; 
Though we tomorrow die,
::This is today! 
Though we tomorrow die,
::This is today.
|width="50"|
|
3.
One last toast e'er we part, 
Written on ev'ry heart,
::This motto stay 
Long may Columbia stand, 
Honored throughout the land, 
Our Alma Mater grand,
::Now and for ay! 
Our Alma Mater grand,
::Now and for ay.
|}
</blockquote>

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=== Stand, Columbia ===
''Stand, Columbia'' is the official University alma mater. Written by Gilbert Oakley Ward (CC 1902) in 1904 to the tune of Haydn's Emperor Quartet, which also serves as the melody for the German national anthem (both with the old lyrics of "Deutschland über alles" and the present less jingoistic version beginning "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit"), the song possibly fell out of favor along with most other vestiges of germanophilia following World War I. The song is, however, traditionally performed at the [[Baccalaureate Ceremony]] and [[University Commencement]], as well as at various alumni functions.

<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
{|
|
1.
Mother, stay'd on rock eternal,
:Crown'd and set upon a height, 
Glorified by Light supernal
:In thy radiance we see light, 
Torch thy children's lamps to kindle,
:Beacon-star to cheer and guide, 
Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater
:Through the storms of Time abide! 
Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater
:Through the storms of Time abide!
|width="50"|
|
2.
Honor, love, and veneration
:Crown forevermore thy brow! 
Many a grateful generation
:Hail thee as we hail thee now! 
Till the lordly Hudson seaward
:Cease to roll his heaving tide, 
Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater
:Through the storms of Time abide! 
Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater
:Through the storms of Time abide!
|}
</blockquote>

<videoflash>6MhhVGzOhEM</videoflash>
<videoflash>G0ZFAoK1Zf0</videoflash>

Listen here to the melody (ogg format): [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/HaydnGottErhalteFranzDenKaiserQuartetVersionPianoReduction.ogg Haydn's "Emperor" Quartet, II]

== Fight Songs ==

=== Roar, Lion, Roar ===
''Roar'' is Columbia's fight song and is the song that's most often associated with the school. The lyrics were written by [[Corey Ford]] CC '23 in 1923 to the melody of a song titled "Bold, Buccaneers!" from the 1923 [[Varsity Show]] "Half Moon Inn."<ref>[http://www.thevarsityshow.com/morningside Sing a Song of Morningside]</ref> The song is rarely, if ever, performed with both stanzas. Usually only the second is performed.

<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
{|
|
1.
When the bold, teams of old 
Wore the Blue and White, 
Deeds of fame, made their name, 
Here at old Columbia. 
Nowadays we can praise 
Fighting teams again. 
Hear the lion roar in pride, 
While the men of Morningside 
Follow the Blue and White to Vict'ry... 
|width="50"|
|
2.
Roar, Lion, Roar 
And wake the echoes of the Hudson Valley! 
Fight on to victory evermore, 
While the sons of Knickerbocker rally round 
Columbia! Columbia! 
Shouting her name forever! 
Roar, Lion, Roar 
For Alma Mater on the Hudson Shore!
|}
</blockquote>
Listen here: [[Media:roar.mp3|"Roar, Lion Roar"]] • [[Media:roar2.mp3|Instrumental Only Version]]

Alternate Version (Popularized by [[CUMB]] in November 2011):
<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
We always lose, lose, lose 
by a lot and sometimes by a little! 
We all were winners at the start, 
but four years has taught us all the value of just giving up, 'cause we really suck. 
Why are we even trying? 
We always lose, lose, lose, 
but we take solace in our booze!
</blockquote>

=== Who Owns New York? ===
''Who Owns'' is a self-aggrandizing cheer referencing Columbia's historic position as one of New York City's largest landlords.

<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
Oh, who owns New York? 
Oh, who owns New York? 
Oh, who owns New York the people say. 
Why, we own New York! 
Why, we own New York! 
C-O-L-U-M-B-I-A!
</blockquote>

=== Stand Up and Cheer ===
''Stand up'' is a short cheer/song that the band will often play during breaks in action. The song was originally written for the University of Kansas in 1909, but has since been adapted as a fight song by a number of schools.<ref>See, e.g. [[w:Stand Up and Cheer (song)|Wikipedia]], "College fight songs II: a supplementary anthology" (pgs. ii, and 2) [http://books.google.com/books?id=5T_VguL00J0C&pg=PA3&dq=%22roar,+lion,+roar%22&hl=en&ei=PSl1TpvyI8y4tgf26KCrDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&sqi=2&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22university%20of%20kansas%22&f=false]</ref>

<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
Stand up and cheer! 
Stand up and cheer for old Columbia! 
For today we raise 
The Blue and White above the rest. 
Our boys are fighting 
And they are bound to win the fray. 
We've got the team! 
We've got the steam! 
For this is old Columbia's day!
</blockquote>

[[Media:standup.mp3|"Stand Up and Cheer" from Ohio Unversity]]

==Defunct Songs of a Bygone Era==
There are other Columbia songs that have faded into the mists of time.

=== Columbia Marching Song ===
In Fall of 1909, the Columbia Alumni Club of Illinois offered a prize of $100 for the composition of a new Columbia song. The April issue of Columbia Alumni News announced that the winner of $50 for the lyrics was Professor [[John Erskine]] CC 1900. In September, Frank Ward, organist of [[St Paul's Chapel]], was awarded the other $50 for composing the winning melody to Erskine's song. The song has not been performed in recent memory.

<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
{|
|
I.
When you're marching for Columbia, you had better march
::like men! 
And every mile you march for her you will wish were
::eight or ten; 
When you're marching for Columbia, your four years
::won't seem long, 
And then you'll wish you were back again to sing her marching
::song-- 
Chorus:
::Marching for Columbia, a royal road we tread!
::The heart is beating high, and the blood runs red,
::We're all young together, the best of life's ahead.
::::When you march for Columbia!
|width="50"|
|
II.
Now the thunder of the city sets Columbia's heart athrill. 
Our home is on the battle-field--the battle's with us still! 
We keep the city's honor, we build the city's walls, 
And when she calls for fighting men, it's Columbia men
::she calls. 
Chorus:
::Marching for Columbia, a royal road we tread!
::The heart is beating high, and blood runs red,
::We're all young together, the best of life's ahead.
::::When you march for Columbia!
|width="50"|
|
III.
They are sitting down and dreaming, are some folk we
::needn't name, 
Of their dead and gone forefathers, who gave them all
::their fame; 
But we've more and better fellows than we've ever had
::before, 
And we're marching toward to-morrow, that will give us
::plenty more. 
Chorus:
::Marching for Columbia, a royal road we tread!
::The heart is beating high, and the blood runs red,
::We're all young together, the best of life's ahead.
::::When you march for Columbia!
|}
</blockquote>

==Pop Songs==
These aren't really "Columbia" songs, but they do feature Columbia in some way or form.

===Tom's Diner===

[[Tom's Diner (song)|Tom's Diner]] is an a cappella song written in 1982 by Suzanne Vega. It captures a dreary morning scene inside [[Tom's Restaurant]].

===Hey There Delilah===

[[w:Hey There Delilah|Hey There Delilah]] is a love song written for Columbia alum [[Delilah DiCrescenzo]].

===Campus===

"Campus" is a song written by alternative band and Columbia alumni [[Vampire Weekend]]. It is somewhat of a love song, but mostly describes day-to-day life on campus at Columbia.

== See also ==
* [[Barnard College songs]]

== External links ==
* [http://cumb.org/ Columbia University Marching Band]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=e7MQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Songs of Columbia 1877], 19th century college songbook, some original, some not, all predating the current classics.

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Traditions]]
[[Category:Songs]]

School songs

2011-11-19T01:30:53Z

Jiabao: /* Roar, Lion, Roar */

[[Image:Rahrah.jpg|thumb|240px]]
Columbia has a number of '''School songs'''. You probably don't know the words to most (or all) of them. That's OK. You have this page.

== Alma Mater ==
Alma Mater literally means "nourishing mother". The motto (and original name) of the [[w:University of Bologna|University of Bologna]] (the oldest continually operating university in the world) is ''Alma Mater Studiorum'' ("Nourishing Mother of Studies").

While in the context of Columbia [[Alma Mater]] almost always refers to the Daniel Chester French sculpture that graces the steps to [[Low Library]], in the United States "Alma Mater" is the term for a school song or hymn. At Columbia there is a University alma mater in addition to individual school alma maters for some divisions, most notably for [[Columbia College]]. It is also colloquially used as a general term for the school from which one graduated.

=== Sans Souci ===
''Sans Souci'' (french for "without cares" or "carefree") is the [[Columbia College]] Alma Mater, composed by Percy Fridenberg in 1886. It is often performed at the conclusion of various alumni functions, among them the [[Alexander Hamilton Medal]] dinner and the [[John Jay Awards for Distinguished Professional Achievement]]. The [[CUMB]] can be seen performing the song at the conclusion of each football game, with the team gathered in front of them. Additionally, [[Orgo Night]] traditionally ends with the underclassmen members of the band singing Sans Souci to the seniors, who stand together on the steps of [[Furnald|Furnald Hall]]. It is also performed [[a cappella]] at CC's [[Class Day]].

<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
{|
|
1.
What if tomorrow bring 
Sorrow or anything
::Other than joy? 
What if't be wintry chill 
Rain, storm or summer's thrill? 
Tomorrow's the future still;
::This is today! 
Tomorrow's the future still;
::This is today.
|width="50"|
|
2.
Out on life's stormy seas 
All of us soon may be,
::Far, far away. 
Still hold your glasses high, 
Here's to youth while it's nigh; 
Though we tomorrow die,
::This is today! 
Though we tomorrow die,
::This is today.
|width="50"|
|
3.
One last toast e'er we part, 
Written on ev'ry heart,
::This motto stay 
Long may Columbia stand, 
Honored throughout the land, 
Our Alma Mater grand,
::Now and for ay! 
Our Alma Mater grand,
::Now and for ay.
|}
</blockquote>

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=== Stand, Columbia ===
''Stand, Columbia'' is the official University alma mater. Written by Gilbert Oakley Ward (CC 1902) in 1904 to the tune of Haydn's Emperor Quartet, which also serves as the melody for the German national anthem (both with the old lyrics of "Deutschland über alles" and the present less jingoistic version beginning "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit"), the song possibly fell out of favor along with most other vestiges of germanophilia following World War I. The song is, however, traditionally performed at the [[Baccalaureate Ceremony]] and [[University Commencement]], as well as at various alumni functions.

<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
{|
|
1.
Mother, stay'd on rock eternal,
:Crown'd and set upon a height, 
Glorified by Light supernal
:In thy radiance we see light, 
Torch thy children's lamps to kindle,
:Beacon-star to cheer and guide, 
Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater
:Through the storms of Time abide! 
Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater
:Through the storms of Time abide!
|width="50"|
|
2.
Honor, love, and veneration
:Crown forevermore thy brow! 
Many a grateful generation
:Hail thee as we hail thee now! 
Till the lordly Hudson seaward
:Cease to roll his heaving tide, 
Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater
:Through the storms of Time abide! 
Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater
:Through the storms of Time abide!
|}
</blockquote>

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Listen here to the melody (ogg format): [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/HaydnGottErhalteFranzDenKaiserQuartetVersionPianoReduction.ogg Haydn's "Emperor" Quartet, II]

== Fight Songs ==

=== Roar, Lion, Roar ===
''Roar'' is Columbia's fight song and is the song that's most often associated with the school. The lyrics were written by [[Corey Ford]] CC '23 in 1923 to the melody of a song titled "Bold, Buccaneers!" from the 1923 [[Varsity Show]] "Half Moon Inn."<ref>[http://www.thevarsityshow.com/morningside Sing a Song of Morningside]</ref> The song is rarely, if ever, performed with both stanzas. Usually only the second is performed.

<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
{|
|
1.
When the bold, teams of old 
Wore the Blue and White, 
Deeds of fame, made their name, 
Here at old Columbia. 
Nowadays we can praise 
Fighting teams again. 
Hear the lion roar in pride, 
While the men of Morningside 
Follow the Blue and White to Vict'ry... 
|width="50"|
|
2.
Roar, Lion, Roar 
And wake the echoes of the Hudson Valley! 
Fight on to victory evermore, 
While the sons of Knickerbocker rally round 
Columbia! Columbia! 
Shouting her name forever! 
Roar, Lion, Roar 
For Alma Mater on the Hudson Shore!
|}
</blockquote>
Listen here: [[Media:roar.mp3|"Roar, Lion Roar"]] • [[Media:roar2.mp3|Instrumental Only Version]]

Alternate Version (Popularized by [[CUMB]] in November 2011):
<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
We always lose, lose, lose 
by a lot and sometimes by a little! 
We all were winners at the start, 
but four years has taught us all the value of just giving up, 'cause we really suck. 
Why are we even trying? 
We always lose, lose, lose, 
but we take solace in our booze!
</blockquote>
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062933/Marching-band-0-9-Columbia-University-football-team-banned-final-game-changed-fight-song-lyrics.html#ixzz1e6updlTJ

=== Who Owns New York? ===
''Who Owns'' is a self-aggrandizing cheer referencing Columbia's historic position as one of New York City's largest landlords.

<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
Oh, who owns New York? 
Oh, who owns New York? 
Oh, who owns New York the people say. 
Why, we own New York! 
Why, we own New York! 
C-O-L-U-M-B-I-A!
</blockquote>

=== Stand Up and Cheer ===
''Stand up'' is a short cheer/song that the band will often play during breaks in action. The song was originally written for the University of Kansas in 1909, but has since been adapted as a fight song by a number of schools.<ref>See, e.g. [[w:Stand Up and Cheer (song)|Wikipedia]], "College fight songs II: a supplementary anthology" (pgs. ii, and 2) [http://books.google.com/books?id=5T_VguL00J0C&pg=PA3&dq=%22roar,+lion,+roar%22&hl=en&ei=PSl1TpvyI8y4tgf26KCrDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&sqi=2&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22university%20of%20kansas%22&f=false]</ref>

<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
Stand up and cheer! 
Stand up and cheer for old Columbia! 
For today we raise 
The Blue and White above the rest. 
Our boys are fighting 
And they are bound to win the fray. 
We've got the team! 
We've got the steam! 
For this is old Columbia's day!
</blockquote>

[[Media:standup.mp3|"Stand Up and Cheer" from Ohio Unversity]]

==Defunct Songs of a Bygone Era==
There are other Columbia songs that have faded into the mists of time.

=== Columbia Marching Song ===
In Fall of 1909, the Columbia Alumni Club of Illinois offered a prize of $100 for the composition of a new Columbia song. The April issue of Columbia Alumni News announced that the winner of $50 for the lyrics was Professor [[John Erskine]] CC 1900. In September, Frank Ward, organist of [[St Paul's Chapel]], was awarded the other $50 for composing the winning melody to Erskine's song. The song has not been performed in recent memory.

<blockquote style="border: 0px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 1em;">
{|
|
I.
When you're marching for Columbia, you had better march
::like men! 
And every mile you march for her you will wish were
::eight or ten; 
When you're marching for Columbia, your four years
::won't seem long, 
And then you'll wish you were back again to sing her marching
::song-- 
Chorus:
::Marching for Columbia, a royal road we tread!
::The heart is beating high, and the blood runs red,
::We're all young together, the best of life's ahead.
::::When you march for Columbia!
|width="50"|
|
II.
Now the thunder of the city sets Columbia's heart athrill. 
Our home is on the battle-field--the battle's with us still! 
We keep the city's honor, we build the city's walls, 
And when she calls for fighting men, it's Columbia men
::she calls. 
Chorus:
::Marching for Columbia, a royal road we tread!
::The heart is beating high, and blood runs red,
::We're all young together, the best of life's ahead.
::::When you march for Columbia!
|width="50"|
|
III.
They are sitting down and dreaming, are some folk we
::needn't name, 
Of their dead and gone forefathers, who gave them all
::their fame; 
But we've more and better fellows than we've ever had
::before, 
And we're marching toward to-morrow, that will give us
::plenty more. 
Chorus:
::Marching for Columbia, a royal road we tread!
::The heart is beating high, and the blood runs red,
::We're all young together, the best of life's ahead.
::::When you march for Columbia!
|}
</blockquote>

==Pop Songs==
These aren't really "Columbia" songs, but they do feature Columbia in some way or form.

===Tom's Diner===

[[Tom's Diner (song)|Tom's Diner]] is an a cappella song written in 1982 by Suzanne Vega. It captures a dreary morning scene inside [[Tom's Restaurant]].

===Hey There Delilah===

[[w:Hey There Delilah|Hey There Delilah]] is a love song written for Columbia alum [[Delilah DiCrescenzo]].

===Campus===

"Campus" is a song written by alternative band and Columbia alumni [[Vampire Weekend]]. It is somewhat of a love song, but mostly describes day-to-day life on campus at Columbia.

== See also ==
* [[Barnard College songs]]

== External links ==
* [http://cumb.org/ Columbia University Marching Band]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=e7MQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false Songs of Columbia 1877], 19th century college songbook, some original, some not, all predating the current classics.

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:Traditions]]
[[Category:Songs]]

Columbia University Marching Band

2011-11-19T01:25:41Z

Jiabao: /* External links */ ban links

[[Image:CUMBpyramid.jpg|300px|thumb|CUMB 2005]]

'''Columbia University Marching Band''' (CUMB), also known as ''The Cleverest Band the World (tm)'' was formed in [[1904]] and is one of the oldest student groups on campus, and the perpetrator of one of Columbia's only traditions, [[Orgo Night]]. During games they tend to please the crowd by playing songs and [[Marching Band Chants|cheers]]. They also perform at halftime when everyone is attentively engaged.

== History ==
[[Image:fascistband.jpg|300px|thumb|The CUMB of yore appearing on Johnny Carson]]

We used to have a real "rah-rah-let's-go-team" band. That broke up sometime around the early 60s, when fascism became decidedly uncool, and now we have a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramble_band '''scramble band'''], which prides itself upon its witty scripts, edgy humor, and a definite lack of marching.

As fascism grows more popular, our developing a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Marching_Band lamer, more traditional marching band] appears more likely. This new band will destroy the environment and offer no-bid contracts to multinational corporations.

== Slogans ==
* G(tb)²
* The Cleverest Band in the World™
* If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the band.

==Traditions==

=== Orgo Night ===

''Lisa Birnbach's College Book'' named the CUMB's [[Orgo Night]] performances as the University's most popular campus tradition. Since at least the mid-1970s, the Band has performed at 11:59 p.m. on the night before each Organic Chemistry final exam. The course is notorious as one of the most challenging undergraduate subjects. In an effort to relieve pre-exam jitters and lower the exam's curve in general, the CUMB interrupts studies at the main reading room of [[Butler Library]]. Several hundred students gather for the show, often standing on desks and bookshelves. Orgo Night performances are presented in a style similar to their halftime shows, and have sometimes included comedy banned from those shows by the university's censors.

===Tax Night===

Every year (since the mid 1980s<ref>[http://cumb.tumblr.com/post/98446512 CUMBlog - Tax Day], 15 Apr 2009. "A tradition that dates back more than twenty-five years, the Tax Day performance is both a fan and Band favorite."</ref>) on the final due date for filing income tax returns with the [[w:IRS|IRS]] (usually April 15th unless it falls on a weekend), the Band [http://cumb.tumblr.com/post/98446512 plays on the steps] of the [[w:James Farley Post Office|James Farley Post Office]], which stays open until midnight on Tax Day, until closing time to entertain last-minute tax filers.

Fittingly, the Farley building was designed by [[McKim, Mead, and White]], the same firm that designed the original plan for Columbia's [[Morningside Heights campus]]. Its architects adorned the building with the now-famous inscription "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds", which is often mistakenly assumed to be the USPS motto (it has none.) Good Columbia students know it's actually an adaptation from Herodotus' "Histories" because they read it in [[Lit Hum]].

===Underground Tour===

During Orientation Week the Band takes recently-arrived freshmen on a tour of what it calls "the side of Columbia that the admissions office never dared nor cared to tell you about." The tour also may or may not involve actually taking tour groups underground.

== Controversies ==

Due to its irreverent humor, some of the band's halftime shows have caused controversy. The CUMB prides itself on evading university censorship:

*In [[1964]], the band performed a "Salute to Moral Decay," featuring a formation of "the upper part of a topless bathing suit" (all marchers left the field except for two sousaphones, while the band played "My Favorite Things") and a typically heavy-handed reference to Walter Jenkins, an aide to President Lyndon Johnson, who had been caught ''in flagrante delicto'' in a men's room. Columbia's president had to fend off angry letters from several notables, including conductor Leonard Bernstein.
*In [[1966]], the band was suspended for several games for the infamous "birth control" show where they formed a Combined oral contraceptive pill, a calendar (for the Rhythm Method), and a chastity belt.
*In [[1968]], at West Point, the band formed what it called a "burning Cambodian village" on the field. CUMB has yet to be invited back to West Point. The football team hasn't actually played any games at West Point in recent years, but the band feels it should be invited to perform at the occasional halftime show anyway.
*In [[1973]], a brawl broke out between the CUMB and the [[Harvard]] University Band over the alleged attempted theft of the giant Harvard Bass Drum.
*The band's theme for a [[1981]] halftime show at Holy Cross was "The Lions vs. The Christians". Holy Cross administrators subsequently dis-invited the band from any future games played in Worcester, much to the band's relief. Columbia's next road game against Holy Cross, in [[1983]], marked the beginning of what became an NCAA-record winless streak.
*The band's script for the [[1982]] season-opening road game against Harvard mysteriously turned out to be identical to the script the Harvard band was set to use moments later. The Columbia band subsequently denied that this astonishing and inexplicable coincidence had anything to do with the fact that two of its members had spent the previous week posing as new freshmen at Harvard's undergraduate orientation. Faculty of Columbia's statistics department refused to support the band's claim.
*In [[1990]], the band received a bomb threat over its symbolic formation of a burning American Flag accompanied by The Doors' "Light My Fire". This performance happened shortly after a controversial United States Supreme Court ruling that actual flag burnings are legal.
*In [[1992]], at the Halloween show, the band performed in costume or drag, including one member dressed as Jesus, with cross. This was also the homecoming game. Two alumni took the field and attempted to charge Jesus, but were thwarted by drummers clad in snare drums. Quoth the alumni: "Don't you know that's fucking sacrilegious?!?"
*In 1992, at the [[Yale]] Bowl the band pantomimed the consummation of a same-sex marriage on the field, while the couple was held aloft on a CAVA stretcher while the band did the hora and played Have Nagila. The occasion was Youth Day and hundreds of local children from community groups were in attendance. The first words of the halftime show: "We swear, we didn't know it was youth day."
*In [[1993]], the band drew parallels between the Holocaust and policies for management of [[New York City]]'s homeless population proposed by newly-elected mayor Rudolph Giuliani. The Anti-Defamation League demanded an apology.
*In 1993, at [[Princeton]], the band recreated the Magic Bullet Theory as put forth by the Warren Commission on the John F. Kennedy assassination, complete with band members as scattering skull fragments.
*Not really a controversy, but on October 7, [[1994]] the Marching Band [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_s-N4ikDds showed up] outside of David Letterman's ''Late Show with David Letterman''. They were soon invited for an impromptu performance.
*In [[1998]], at the Yale Bowl, the band performed a show featuring a homosexual, pot-smoking Jesus Christ in a homage to the Terrence McNally play ''Corpus Christi''. Angry Yale fans demanded their money back.
*During a game against [[Fordham University]] in 2002, soon after the Catholic church was rocked by disclosures about pedophile priests, the band claimed that Fordham tuition was "going down like an altar boy" in a joke improvised minutes before the start of the pre-game show. In the ensuing media frenzy, band Poet Laureate Andy Hao was featured on MSNBC's Phil Donahue Show in a debate with Catholic League President William Donohue. The ''[[New York Times]]'' profiled the CUMB. Columbia University President [[Lee Bollinger]] ended the controversy in one of his first official acts as University President when he apologized to Fordham president, the Reverend Joseph O'Hare.
*In [[2011]], [[Athletics]] administrators banned the band from performing at the final football game of the season, following an incident in which the "banned" sang a modified rendition of [[School songs#Roar, Lion, Roar|Roar, Lion, Roar]] with the lyrics "We always lose" during the football team's ninth straight defeat of the season. Two days later, the ban was reversed.

== See also ==
* [[School songs]]

== External links ==
*[http://www.cuband.org The Columbia University Marching Band]
:*The Band on [http://twitter.com/cumb Twitter], [http://facebook.com/theCUMB Facebook], and [http://youtube.com/theCUMB YouTube].
*[http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1741746 ''Editor and Publisher''] criticizes censored ''New York Times'' and ''Associated Press'' coverage of the Fordham halftime show. 2002
*[http://cumb.org/news/092902.html New York Times CUMB profile] '' Sunday Styles section, [[The New York Times]]'', 2002.
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/uscc/archives/news/spectator022504a.htm Student Coalition Calls for Systematic Changes to Address Issues of Racism, Discrimination; Fed, CCCC, CUMB Offer Apologies], ''[[Columbia Daily Spectator]]'', February 25, 2004
*[http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2011/11/16/athletics-bans-marching-band-football-finale Athletics bans marching band from football finale], ''[[Columbia Daily Spectator]]'', November 16, 2011
*[http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2011/11/18/athletics-reverses-band-ban Athletics reverses band ban], ''[[Columbia Daily Spectator]]'', November 18, 2011

== Bibliography ==

''Lisa Birnbach's New and Improved College Book'', by Lisa Birnbach (1992) ISBN 0-671-79289-X

[[Category:Performance clubs]]

Columbia University Marching Band

2011-11-19T01:23:59Z

Jiabao: /* Controversies */ We always lose ban

[[Image:CUMBpyramid.jpg|300px|thumb|CUMB 2005]]

'''Columbia University Marching Band''' (CUMB), also known as ''The Cleverest Band the World (tm)'' was formed in [[1904]] and is one of the oldest student groups on campus, and the perpetrator of one of Columbia's only traditions, [[Orgo Night]]. During games they tend to please the crowd by playing songs and [[Marching Band Chants|cheers]]. They also perform at halftime when everyone is attentively engaged.

== History ==
[[Image:fascistband.jpg|300px|thumb|The CUMB of yore appearing on Johnny Carson]]

We used to have a real "rah-rah-let's-go-team" band. That broke up sometime around the early 60s, when fascism became decidedly uncool, and now we have a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramble_band '''scramble band'''], which prides itself upon its witty scripts, edgy humor, and a definite lack of marching.

As fascism grows more popular, our developing a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Marching_Band lamer, more traditional marching band] appears more likely. This new band will destroy the environment and offer no-bid contracts to multinational corporations.

== Slogans ==
* G(tb)²
* The Cleverest Band in the World™
* If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the band.

==Traditions==

=== Orgo Night ===

''Lisa Birnbach's College Book'' named the CUMB's [[Orgo Night]] performances as the University's most popular campus tradition. Since at least the mid-1970s, the Band has performed at 11:59 p.m. on the night before each Organic Chemistry final exam. The course is notorious as one of the most challenging undergraduate subjects. In an effort to relieve pre-exam jitters and lower the exam's curve in general, the CUMB interrupts studies at the main reading room of [[Butler Library]]. Several hundred students gather for the show, often standing on desks and bookshelves. Orgo Night performances are presented in a style similar to their halftime shows, and have sometimes included comedy banned from those shows by the university's censors.

===Tax Night===

Every year (since the mid 1980s<ref>[http://cumb.tumblr.com/post/98446512 CUMBlog - Tax Day], 15 Apr 2009. "A tradition that dates back more than twenty-five years, the Tax Day performance is both a fan and Band favorite."</ref>) on the final due date for filing income tax returns with the [[w:IRS|IRS]] (usually April 15th unless it falls on a weekend), the Band [http://cumb.tumblr.com/post/98446512 plays on the steps] of the [[w:James Farley Post Office|James Farley Post Office]], which stays open until midnight on Tax Day, until closing time to entertain last-minute tax filers.

Fittingly, the Farley building was designed by [[McKim, Mead, and White]], the same firm that designed the original plan for Columbia's [[Morningside Heights campus]]. Its architects adorned the building with the now-famous inscription "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds", which is often mistakenly assumed to be the USPS motto (it has none.) Good Columbia students know it's actually an adaptation from Herodotus' "Histories" because they read it in [[Lit Hum]].

===Underground Tour===

During Orientation Week the Band takes recently-arrived freshmen on a tour of what it calls "the side of Columbia that the admissions office never dared nor cared to tell you about." The tour also may or may not involve actually taking tour groups underground.

== Controversies ==

Due to its irreverent humor, some of the band's halftime shows have caused controversy. The CUMB prides itself on evading university censorship:

*In [[1964]], the band performed a "Salute to Moral Decay," featuring a formation of "the upper part of a topless bathing suit" (all marchers left the field except for two sousaphones, while the band played "My Favorite Things") and a typically heavy-handed reference to Walter Jenkins, an aide to President Lyndon Johnson, who had been caught ''in flagrante delicto'' in a men's room. Columbia's president had to fend off angry letters from several notables, including conductor Leonard Bernstein.
*In [[1966]], the band was suspended for several games for the infamous "birth control" show where they formed a Combined oral contraceptive pill, a calendar (for the Rhythm Method), and a chastity belt.
*In [[1968]], at West Point, the band formed what it called a "burning Cambodian village" on the field. CUMB has yet to be invited back to West Point. The football team hasn't actually played any games at West Point in recent years, but the band feels it should be invited to perform at the occasional halftime show anyway.
*In [[1973]], a brawl broke out between the CUMB and the [[Harvard]] University Band over the alleged attempted theft of the giant Harvard Bass Drum.
*The band's theme for a [[1981]] halftime show at Holy Cross was "The Lions vs. The Christians". Holy Cross administrators subsequently dis-invited the band from any future games played in Worcester, much to the band's relief. Columbia's next road game against Holy Cross, in [[1983]], marked the beginning of what became an NCAA-record winless streak.
*The band's script for the [[1982]] season-opening road game against Harvard mysteriously turned out to be identical to the script the Harvard band was set to use moments later. The Columbia band subsequently denied that this astonishing and inexplicable coincidence had anything to do with the fact that two of its members had spent the previous week posing as new freshmen at Harvard's undergraduate orientation. Faculty of Columbia's statistics department refused to support the band's claim.
*In [[1990]], the band received a bomb threat over its symbolic formation of a burning American Flag accompanied by The Doors' "Light My Fire". This performance happened shortly after a controversial United States Supreme Court ruling that actual flag burnings are legal.
*In [[1992]], at the Halloween show, the band performed in costume or drag, including one member dressed as Jesus, with cross. This was also the homecoming game. Two alumni took the field and attempted to charge Jesus, but were thwarted by drummers clad in snare drums. Quoth the alumni: "Don't you know that's fucking sacrilegious?!?"
*In 1992, at the [[Yale]] Bowl the band pantomimed the consummation of a same-sex marriage on the field, while the couple was held aloft on a CAVA stretcher while the band did the hora and played Have Nagila. The occasion was Youth Day and hundreds of local children from community groups were in attendance. The first words of the halftime show: "We swear, we didn't know it was youth day."
*In [[1993]], the band drew parallels between the Holocaust and policies for management of [[New York City]]'s homeless population proposed by newly-elected mayor Rudolph Giuliani. The Anti-Defamation League demanded an apology.
*In 1993, at [[Princeton]], the band recreated the Magic Bullet Theory as put forth by the Warren Commission on the John F. Kennedy assassination, complete with band members as scattering skull fragments.
*Not really a controversy, but on October 7, [[1994]] the Marching Band [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_s-N4ikDds showed up] outside of David Letterman's ''Late Show with David Letterman''. They were soon invited for an impromptu performance.
*In [[1998]], at the Yale Bowl, the band performed a show featuring a homosexual, pot-smoking Jesus Christ in a homage to the Terrence McNally play ''Corpus Christi''. Angry Yale fans demanded their money back.
*During a game against [[Fordham University]] in 2002, soon after the Catholic church was rocked by disclosures about pedophile priests, the band claimed that Fordham tuition was "going down like an altar boy" in a joke improvised minutes before the start of the pre-game show. In the ensuing media frenzy, band Poet Laureate Andy Hao was featured on MSNBC's Phil Donahue Show in a debate with Catholic League President William Donohue. The ''[[New York Times]]'' profiled the CUMB. Columbia University President [[Lee Bollinger]] ended the controversy in one of his first official acts as University President when he apologized to Fordham president, the Reverend Joseph O'Hare.
*In [[2011]], [[Athletics]] administrators banned the band from performing at the final football game of the season, following an incident in which the "banned" sang a modified rendition of [[School songs#Roar, Lion, Roar|Roar, Lion, Roar]] with the lyrics "We always lose" during the football team's ninth straight defeat of the season. Two days later, the ban was reversed.

== See also ==
* [[School songs]]

== External links ==
*[http://www.cuband.org The Columbia University Marching Band]
:*The Band on [http://twitter.com/cumb Twitter], [http://facebook.com/theCUMB Facebook], and [http://youtube.com/theCUMB YouTube].
*[http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1741746 ''Editor and Publisher''] criticizes censored ''New York Times'' and ''Associated Press'' coverage of the Fordham halftime show. 2002
*[http://cumb.org/news/092902.html New York Times CUMB profile] '' Sunday Styles section, [[The New York Times]]'', 2002.
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/uscc/archives/news/spectator022504a.htm Student Coalition Calls for Systematic Changes to Address Issues of Racism, Discrimination; Fed, CCCC, CUMB Offer Apologies], ''[[Columbia Daily Spectator]]'', February 25, 2004

== Bibliography ==

''Lisa Birnbach's New and Improved College Book'', by Lisa Birnbach (1992) ISBN 0-671-79289-X

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Investment banking

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'''Investment banking''' is a common career path for Columbia students. It involves working in a "front office" division within an [[investment bank]], whether in the actual investment banking division, or in asset management, or sales & trading.

== Career time line ==

=== Summer analyst ===
Undergraduates who want to work at an investment bank are best off starting in a summer internship program. Investment banks that recruit via Columbia's [[Center for Career Education]] generally conduct information sessions about their programs in November/December, require resumes to be submitted by early January, and conduct interviews in January and February. Most students who get a place on one of these programs will be between their junior and senior year, though a small number of students get a place earlier in their time as an undergraduate. These summer analysts (or summer interns) receive about a week of training then fulfill the same role as full-time analysts for anything from 6 to 12 weeks. Many summer interns receive full-time offers from their investment bank, but those who don't are nevertheless in a much better position when they apply to other banks for a full-time role.

=== Analyst ===
The main Columbia recruiting cycle is for the full-time analyst roles at investment banks (and management consultancies). A vast range of students participate: summer analysts who want to find something better than their full-time offer, summer analysts who failed to get offers, students who failed to get a summer analyst position, and students who have only just considered a career in investment banking. Similar to summer analyst recruiting, investment banks that use [[CCE]] conduct information sessions in September, require resumes to be submitted by the end of September, and conduct interviews in October. Offers generally expire by the end of November. Most investment banks recruit many more students at this stage than for their summer internship programs. Recruited students are then free to relax for the rest of the academic year and a large part of the summer. Upon beginning, they undergo a week or more of training. Analysts are then expected to work for 2 to 3 years before either being promoted to associate level or being kicked out to go to business school. Most European banks choose the former; most US banks choose the latter.

=== Associate ===
Associates are generally recruited directly out of business school, just as analysts are recruited directly out of college. They also go through a first recruiting cycle to become summer associates, then a second cycle to become full-time associates. Once hired, they relax for the year, get a few months off in the summer, are briefly trained, then start work. On the upside, if they are abused or overworked by VPs and MDs, they can offload some of the abuse and work onto analysts. On the downside, they do not have any defined end goal, such as 2 to 3 years for analysts, at which point their suffering will end.

=== VP, SVP, AD, MD, etc. ===
There are usually 2 to 3 ranks of people above the analysts and associates. These are variously known as Vice President, Senior Vice President, Associate Director, and Managing Director. Above these people are the Chairman and the board of directors, but those roles are not directly involved in earning fees. The aforementioned higher ranks within the firm provide it with reason to exist. In the Investment Banking division, they win business for the investment bank and hand it out to people lower down for processing and completion. In the other divisions, they occupy similarly important roles.

=== Exit opportunities ===
* Private equity.
* Hedge fund.
* Become CEO/CFO of a big corporation.
* Unemployment.

== Life/role of a person in an investment bank ==

=== Hours ===
Hours worked by people in investment banks vary from about 60 hours per week to over 100. Sales & Trading analysts are often at the lower end of the scale because their work depends on when their particular markets are open, with a few additional hours to prepare for the next day or the day ahead. Asset Management analysts are often at the middle of the scale. And Investment Banking analysts almost always work the longest hours, working up to 115 hours per week when completing deals.

=== Compensation ===
Investment banks like to pay low basic salaries to make it cheaper to fire people; and large bonuses to give people a strong incentive to work hard. The high total compensation motivates a lot of Columbia students to pursue a career in investment banking.

Summer analysts in New York are typically paid a salary of $60,000 pro-rated, plus a housing allowance of $1,000-$2,000. This makes for weekly pay of about $1,200. However, many summer analysts receive overtime for work over 40 hours per week, and in these cases can expect to earn up to $2,000 per week.

First-year analysts typically receive a basic salary of up to $70,000 per year plus a signing bonus of $10,000. The signing bonus is typically paid during the student's final semester at college, or with the first paycheck. Standard benefits include health insurance, life insurance, travel insurance, on-site gym membership, meal allowances, and up to 20 days of holiday per year (just as a joke by someone in HR).

The opportunity to make lots of money comes with the end of year bonus, which usually depends on a mix of company or division performance, team performance, and personal performance as judged by the people you've worked for. Bonuses are therefore fairly meritocratic. The top first-year analysts at the top firms can receive bonuses of up to $110,000, resulting in total compensation of up to $170,000 per year.<ref>[http://www.dealbreaker.com/2007/05/bonusbumer_update.php DealBreaker.com bonus gossip]</ref> Most salaries are not this high, but nevertheless considerably higher than a 22-year old straight out of college could earn in almost any other industry. Compensation increases by up to $20,000-$30,000 for second-year analysts, and again for third-year analysts.

Salaries then increase exponentially going up through the organization. The best investment bankers in the world earn over a billion dollars a year for their firm (usually in M&A fees) and make tens of millions of dollars per year.

=== Role of an investment banking analyst ===

=== Role of an asset management analyst ===

=== Role of a sales & trading analyst ===

== Further information ==

=== Books ===
* Investment banking: Monkey Business
* Financial markets: Liar's Poker
* Private equity: Barbarians at the Gate

== External links ==

* http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/ - discussion forum centered around U.S. investment bank recruiting
* http://ibtalk.com/ - U.K./Europe investment bank recruiting

[[Category:Jobs]]

Activities Board at Columbia

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The '''Activities Board at Columbia''' (ABC) is the largest of five [[governing boards]] that oversee undergraduate student groups on campus. As of Fall 2007, there are 153 organizations recognized by ABC, including [[:Category:Cultural clubs|cultural clubs]], [[:Category:Performance clubs|performance groups]], [[:Category:Student_publications|publications]], and special events. ABC recognition affords a group the right to officially use the Columbia name, access to space reservations, and a potential budget.

There are two categories of recognition for student groups, Category A and Category B. About two-thirds of the recognized groups are in the latter category, which provides full benefits. Category A is a more limited form of recognition generally reserved for newer or less active groups, as well as groups that do not require significant funding. Such organizations are allotted a maximum of $250 per semester by appeal.

ABC has a complicated structure of appeals, allocations, and event approval that enable the board to serve as fiduciary for its groups, liaison with the administration, and solve problems within the bureaucratic structure. While the ABC traditionally has received much criticism for its shortcomings as a student-run organization, recent boards have worked to make the organization more into an advocate for student groups in their efforts to build community on campus and create new events.

ABC consists of an internally elected Executive Board composed of four members, usually with prior experience on the board, thirteen Representatives-at-Large, elected by the officers of recognized clubs, and three liaisons from the [[GSSC|General Studies]], [[CCSC|Columbia College]], and [[ESC|Engineering]] student councils. These twenty individuals are responsible for approving expenditures, advising recognized groups in cooperation with [[SDA|Student Development & Activities]] (SDA), and voting on the allocations to each group.

==In campus culture==

In the [[2007]] [[Varsity Show]], ABC was portrayed as a maniacally greedy, evil organization that had started World War II and which denied student groups funding in order to reconstruct the orb that once sat atop the [[Sundial]], so as to determine the location of [[Alexander Hamilton]]'s treaure. The depiction is a result of the shortchanging many student groups feel at the hands of Columbia's administrative and student bureaucracy, of which ABC is an integral part.

== Executive boards ==

=== Contact ===
Email [mailto:abc_exec@columbia.edu abc_exec] to reach all members of the current board.

===2009-2010===
*President: Scott St. Marie CC '10
*Vice President: Betty Kim CC '10
*Treasurer: Bill Jung CC '11
*Secretary: Vikas Anand CC '11

=== 2008-2009 ===
* President: Samantha John [[SEAS]] '09
* Vice President: Grace Chan [[Columbia College|CC]] '09
* Treasurer: Scott St. Marie CC '10
* Secretary: Krissie Zambrano SEAS '09

=== 2007-2008 ===
* President: Paula Cheng CC '08
* Vice President: Dominic McClure CC '08
* Treasurer: Jacob Weaver CC '09
* Secretary: Samantha John SEAS '09

=== 2006-2007 ===
* President: Keith Hernandez CC '07
* Vice President: Lissy Hu CC '07
* Treasurer: Angela Kou CC '08
* Secretary: Allison Fortune CC '07

=== 2005-2006 ===
* President: Stanley Tan CC '06
* Vice President: Shyam Kadakia SEAS '06
* Treasurer: Keith Hernandez CC '07
* Secretary: Robert Wray CC '06

== See also ==
* [[Image:ABCAllocations06-07.xls|Allocations for 2006-2007]]
== External links ==

* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/abc ABC website]

[[Category:Club administration]]

Mary Rozenman

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'''Mary Rozenman''' [[Columbia College|CC]] '[[2003|03]] immigrated to the United States from Moscow at age 8, and was a Russian Literature and [[Chemistry]] double-major and [[John Jay Scholar]]. At Columbia, she became involved with the creation of [[Frontiers of Science]]. After graduation, she completed a PhD in Organic Chemistry at Harvard in three and a half years.

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[[Category: John Jay Scholars]]
[[Category: Slavic languages majors|Rozenman]]
[[Category: Class of 2003|Rozenman]]

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Latin phrases

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As an institution founded before the 20th century, initially in the model of the great English universities, Columbia draws on a significant classical heritage. Nowadays, Columbia tries to appeal to this classical tradition in many ways, including preserving its Latin inscriptions and various other things of that nature.

==Latin in Academia==
The Latin language has been the ''lingua franca'' of Europe, roughly from the time of Charlemagne to the eighteenth century. Universities taught primarily in Latin, as it was both the language of scholars and a common language through which students across Europe could converse. When Columbia was founded, more than half of its curriculum was in the Greek and Latin classics. As far along as the 1850s, 14 of Columbia's 32 courses required for the [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree had to do with Greek and Latin literature.

When Columbia's [[History of the Morningside Heights campus|Morningside campus]] was being built, there was a huge disagreement over whether the inscription the frieze of [[Low Library]] would be in Latin or English. Around the same time, the College abolished the Greek entrance and curriculum requirements.

Latin has long ago left the day-to-day functions of this University, and in many ways is slowly being phased out of the ceremonial aspects as well. Harvard and Princeton, for example, still have a Latin oration given as part of the commencement ceremony. At Columbia, there was even talk recently of issuing English-only degrees for Columbia College, an arrangement that would oddly enough have made Barnard the only Columbia-associated school to still issue Latin degrees. Naturally, this was overwhelmingly voted down.

In the 1960s, Harvard switched to English-only degrees, a move that provoked the infamous "Diploma Riots", where angry, pretentious students dressed up in togas in the style of Roman orators, and traveled the campus, delivering disputations in Classical Latin on the "vile, dog-like, and incestuous qualities of the English language".

More recently, a Dickinson College Latin professor published an op-ed<ref>Christopher A. Francese, [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/opinion/15Francese.html A Degree in English], ''The New York Times'', May 15, 2009</ref> in ''The New York Times'' in favor of English-language diplomas, to general disapproval.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/opinion/l19latin.html Letters], ''The New York Times'', May 19, 2009.</ref>

Both Columbia and Harvard continue granting honorary degrees (Honoris Causa) in Latin.

==Academic Degrees==

===A.B. or B.A.===
'''Artium Baccalaureus''', or as it is known at Columbia, '''Baccalaureus in Artibus''', meaning "Bachelor of Arts". Only the degrees of [[Columbia College]], [[Barnard College]], and [[Columbia Law School]] are granted in Latin.

The degree itself reads:
''Curatores Universitatis Columbia Noveboracensis Collegii Olim Regalis omnibus et singulis quos praesentes litterate pervenerint salutem sciatis nos [NAME] cum exercitationes omnes ad gradum BACCALEUREI IN ARTIBUS attinentes rite ac legitime peregerit ad istum gradum provexisse eique omnia iura privilegia et honores quae adsolent in tali re adtribui dedisse et concessisse in cuius rei plenius testimonium chirographis Praesidis huius Universitatis et Decani Collegii Columbiae nec non sigillo nostro communi diploma hocce muniendum curavimus [DATE]''

Translated:
"The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, of the College formerly known as King's, present our greetings to all and everyone to whom this document may come. We inform you that NAME has duly and lawfully completed all the requirements appropriate to the degree of Bachelor of Arts and as accordingly been advanced to that degree with all the rights, privileges, and honors customarily pertaining thereto. In fuller testimony of this action, we have ensured that the signatures of the President of the University and the Dean of Columbia College as well as our corporate seal be affixed to this diploma. Done at New York on DATE in YEAR."

===A.M. or M.A.===
'''Artium Magister''', meaning "Master of Arts".

===M. Phil===
'''Philosophiae magister''', meaning [[Master of Philosophy]].

===Ph. D.===
'''Philosophiae doctor''', meaning "Doctor of Philosopy".

===LL.B.===
'''Legum Baccaleureus''', meaning "Bachelor of Laws". The "LL" signifies a plural of the Latin ''lex'' or "law", hence the two L's. The LL.B. was a "first-professional" degree and usually could be earned only after already earning a Bachelor of Arts. Replaced with the J.D. in the 1970s.

===J.D.===
'''Juris doctor''', or "Doctor of Law". Replaced the LL.B. in the 1970s because law students didn't want the world thinking they were undergraduates. It should be noted that the US Department of Education does not consider the J.D. a doctoral degree, even though it is denoted "Doctor", because there is no dissertation work associated therein. That being said, the M.D. degree is not considerd a doctoral degree either. Both are "first-professional" degrees. Both the J.D. and the J.S.D. are granted in Latin.

===J.S.D.===
'''Juris scientiae doctor''', or "Doctor of the Science of Law". The Ph.D. equivalent of a law degree. As this does involve dissertation work, the J.S.D. degree is considered a doctoral degree. Both the J.D. and the J.S.D. are granted in Latin.

===M.D.===
'''Medicinae doctor''', or "Doctor of Medicine". Not considered a doctoral degree by the US Department of Education, but rather a "first-professional' degree because of the lack of dissertation work.

===D. Litt===
'''Litterae doctor''', meaning "Doctor of Letters", an "upper-level" doctorate, usually not granted in the United States. Used, however, for granting honorary degrees.

===H.C.===
'''Honoris causa''', appended to the end of a degree, meaning "for the reason of honor (or merit)". Used to signify an honorary degree.

==Latin honors==

Academic honors for graduating students are also awarded in Latin. The three levels of such honors apply to most of Columbia schools; in [[Columbia College]] they are chosen on the basis of [[GPA]] and faculty recommendations. For CC, the [[Committee on Honors, Awards, and Prizes]] reviews the records of the top 35% of the class by GPA. The cutoff GPA is unknown, but anecdotal evidence suggests that it falls somewhere around 3.70.

The number of people receiving honors varies each year. No more than 25 percent of CC students receive honors; this compares with higher cutoffs elsewhere in the [[Ivy League]], e.g. [[Yale]] (30 percent)<ref>[http://www.yale.edu/yalecol/publications/ycps/chapter_i/honors/general.html Yale Registrar]</ref> and [[Harvard]] (50 percent)<ref>[http://www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/fasro/ugrad/honors.jsp?cat=ugrad&subcat=registration Harvard Registrar]</ref>. Basically, Latin honors at Harvard are meaningless.

The levels for Latin honors are:

*''Summa Cum Laude'': "with highest praise"
*''Magna Cum Laude'': "with great praise"
*''Cum Laude'': with praise

Interestingly, one doesn't know if one has earned a Latin honor (or which honorific it is) until [[Class Day]], when it is printed in the official programme.

The honors are inscribed in Latin on graduates' diplomas, regardless of those diplomas' primary language.

==Inscriptions==
===Trustee's Room, Low Library===
''Hujus collegii, regalis dicti, regio diplomate constituti in honorem dei O. M. atq in ecclesiae reiq publicae emolumentum, primum hunc lapidem posuit vir praecellentissimus, Carolus Hardy, eques auratus, hujus provinciae praefecturs dignissimus augti. die 23 AN DOM MDCCLVI''

Translation:
"The first stone of this college called King's established by Royal charter for the Honor of Almighty God and the advancement of the public good both in Church and State, was laid by His Excellency Sir Charles Hardy, Knight, the very worthy governor of this province. August 23, A.D. 1756."
*This is the cornerstone of [[College Hall]], Columbia's first building, located down by where City Hall is today.

===Low Plaza===
''De super artificis spectant monumenta per annos''

Translation:
"The monuments of an artist look down upon us throughout the ages"

===St. Paul's Chapel, Frieze===
''Pro Ecclesia Dei''

Translation:
"For the church (congregation) of God"

===Hamilton Hall, Exterior===
''Huius collegii olim regalis nunc Columbiae dicti regio diplomate AN DOM MDCCLIIII constituti in honorem dei optimi maximi atq in ecclesiae reiq publicae emolumentum primus hic lapis positus est Sept. Die XXVII AN DOM MDCCCCV''

Translation:
"This first stone of this College, once called King's now Columbia, established by royal charter AD 1754 to the honor of Almighty God and the advancement of the church and the state, was laid September 27, 1905 AD"

===Sundial, Inscription===
''Horam expecta, veniet.''

Translation: "Await the hour—it will come."

==Miscellaneous==
===Motto===
''In lumine tuo videbimus lumen.''

Translation:
"In thy light, we will see light."

===Fight song===
''Some time ago, I translated "Roar, Lion, Roar" into Latin. I'll see if I can dig it up.''

==External Links==
<references />

[[Category:References]]

Latin phrases

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As an institution founded before the 20th century, initially in the model of the great English universities, Columbia draws on a significant classical heritage. Nowadays, Columbia tries to appeal to this classical tradition in many ways, including preserving its Latin inscriptions and various other things of that nature.

==Latin in Academia==
The Latin language has been the ''lingua franca'' of Europe, roughly from the time of Charlemagne to the eighteenth century. Universities taught primarily in Latin, as it was both the language of scholars and a common language through which students across Europe could converse. When Columbia was founded, more than half of its curriculum was in the Greek and Latin classics. As far along as the 1850s, 14 of Columbia's 32 courses required for the [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree had to do with Greek and Latin literature.

When Columbia's [[History of the Morningside Heights campus|Morningside campus]] was being built, there was a huge disagreement over whether the inscription the frieze of [[Low Library]] would be in Latin or English. Around the same time, the College abolished the Greek entrance and curriculum requirements.

Latin has long ago left the day-to-day functions of this University, and in many ways is slowly being phased out of the ceremonial aspects as well. Harvard and Princeton, for example, still have a Latin oration given as part of the commencement ceremony. At Columbia, there was even talk recently of issuing English-only degrees for Columbia College, an arrangement that would oddly enough have made Barnard the only Columbia-associated school to still issue Latin degrees. Naturally, this was overwhelmingly voted down.

In the 1960s, Harvard switched to English-only degrees, a move that provoked the infamous "Diploma Riots", where angry, pretentious students dressed up in togas in the style of Roman orators, and traveled the campus, delivering disputations in Classical Latin on the "vile, dog-like, and incestuous qualities of the English language".

Both Columbia and Harvard continue granting honorary degrees (Honoris Causa) in Latin.

==Academic Degrees==

===A.B. or B.A.===
'''Artium Baccalaureus''', or as it is known at Columbia, '''Baccalaureus in Artibus''', meaning "Bachelor of Arts". Only the degrees of [[Columbia College]], [[Barnard College]], and [[Columbia Law School]] are granted in Latin.

The degree itself reads:
''Curatores Universitatis Columbia Noveboracensis Collegii Olim Regalis omnibus et singulis quos praesentes litterate pervenerint salutem sciatis nos [NAME] cum exercitationes omnes ad gradum BACCALEUREI IN ARTIBUS attinentes rite ac legitime peregerit ad istum gradum provexisse eique omnia iura privilegia et honores quae adsolent in tali re adtribui dedisse et concessisse in cuius rei plenius testimonium chirographis Praesidis huius Universitatis et Decani Collegii Columbiae nec non sigillo nostro communi diploma hocce muniendum curavimus [DATE]''

Translated:
"The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, of the College formerly known as King's, present our greetings to all and everyone to whom this document may come. We inform you that NAME has duly and lawfully completed all the requirements appropriate to the degree of Bachelor of Arts and as accordingly been advanced to that degree with all the rights, privileges, and honors customarily pertaining thereto. In fuller testimony of this action, we have ensured that the signatures of the President of the University and the Dean of Columbia College as well as our corporate seal be affixed to this diploma. Done at New York on DATE in YEAR."

===A.M. or M.A.===
'''Artium Magister''', meaning "Master of Arts".

===M. Phil===
'''Philosophiae magister''', meaning [[Master of Philosophy]].

===Ph. D.===
'''Philosophiae doctor''', meaning "Doctor of Philosopy".

===LL.B.===
'''Legum Baccaleureus''', meaning "Bachelor of Laws". The "LL" signifies a plural of the Latin ''lex'' or "law", hence the two L's. The LL.B. was a "first-professional" degree and usually could be earned only after already earning a Bachelor of Arts. Replaced with the J.D. in the 1970s.

===J.D.===
'''Juris doctor''', or "Doctor of Law". Replaced the LL.B. in the 1970s because law students didn't want the world thinking they were undergraduates. It should be noted that the US Department of Education does not consider the J.D. a doctoral degree, even though it is denoted "Doctor", because there is no dissertation work associated therein. That being said, the M.D. degree is not considerd a doctoral degree either. Both are "first-professional" degrees. Both the J.D. and the J.S.D. are granted in Latin.

===J.S.D.===
'''Juris scientiae doctor''', or "Doctor of the Science of Law". The Ph.D. equivalent of a law degree. As this does involve dissertation work, the J.S.D. degree is considered a doctoral degree. Both the J.D. and the J.S.D. are granted in Latin.

===M.D.===
'''Medicinae doctor''', or "Doctor of Medicine". Not considered a doctoral degree by the US Department of Education, but rather a "first-professional' degree because of the lack of dissertation work.

===D. Litt===
'''Litterae doctor''', meaning "Doctor of Letters", an "upper-level" doctorate, usually not granted in the United States. Used, however, for granting honorary degrees.

===H.C.===
'''Honoris causa''', appended to the end of a degree, meaning "for the reason of honor (or merit)". Used to signify an honorary degree.

==Latin honors==

Academic honors for graduating students are also awarded in Latin. The three levels of such honors apply to most of Columbia schools; in [[Columbia College]] they are chosen on the basis of [[GPA]] and faculty recommendations. For CC, the [[Committee on Honors, Awards, and Prizes]] reviews the records of the top 35% of the class by GPA. The cutoff GPA is unknown, but anecdotal evidence suggests that it falls somewhere around 3.70.

The number of people receiving honors varies each year. No more than 25 percent of CC students receive honors; this compares with higher cutoffs elsewhere in the [[Ivy League]], e.g. [[Yale]] (30 percent) and [[Harvard]] (50 percent). Basically, Latin honors at Harvard are meaningless.

The levels for Latin honors are:

*''Summa Cum Laude'': "with highest praise"
*''Magna Cum Laude'': "with great praise"
*''Cum Laude'': with praise

Interestingly, one doesn't know if one has earned a Latin honor (or which honorific it is) until [[Class Day]], when it is printed in the official programme.

The honors are inscribed in Latin on graduates' diplomas, regardless of those diplomas' primary language.

==Inscriptions==
===Trustee's Room, Low Library===
''Hujus collegii, regalis dicti, regio diplomate constituti in honorem dei O. M. atq in ecclesiae reiq publicae emolumentum, primum hunc lapidem posuit vir praecellentissimus, Carolus Hardy, eques auratus, hujus provinciae praefecturs dignissimus augti. die 23 AN DOM MDCCLVI''

Translation:
"The first stone of this college called King's established by Royal charter for the Honor of Almighty God and the advancement of the public good both in Church and State, was laid by His Excellency Sir Charles Hardy, Knight, the very worthy governor of this province. August 23, A.D. 1756."
*This is the cornerstone of [[College Hall]], Columbia's first building, located down by where City Hall is today.

===Low Plaza===
''De super artificis spectant monumenta per annos''

Translation:
"The monuments of an artist look down upon us throughout the ages"

===St. Paul's Chapel, Frieze===
''Pro Ecclesia Dei''

Translation:
"For the church (congregation) of God"

===Hamilton Hall, Exterior===
''Huius collegii olim regalis nunc Columbiae dicti regio diplomate AN DOM MDCCLIIII constituti in honorem dei optimi maximi atq in ecclesiae reiq publicae emolumentum primus hic lapis positus est Sept. Die XXVII AN DOM MDCCCCV''

Translation:
"This first stone of this College, once called King's now Columbia, established by royal charter AD 1754 to the honor of Almighty God and the advancement of the church and the state, was laid September 27, 1905 AD"

===Sundial, Inscription===
''Horam expecta, veniet.''

Translation: "Await the hour—it will come."

==Miscellaneous==
===Motto===
''In lumine tuo videbimus lumen.''

Translation:
"In thy light, we will see light."

===Fight song===
''Some time ago, I translated "Roar, Lion, Roar" into Latin. I'll see if I can dig it up.''

[[Category:References]]

Latin phrases

2009-05-20T20:34:50Z

Jiabao: /* Latin honors */

As an institution founded before the 20th century, initially in the model of the great English universities, Columbia draws on a significant classical heritage. Nowadays, Columbia tries to appeal to this classical tradition in many ways, including preserving its Latin inscriptions and various other things of that nature.

==Latin in Academia==
The Latin language has been the ''lingua franca'' of Europe, roughly from the time of Charlemagne to the eighteenth century. Universities taught primarily in Latin, as it was both the language of scholars and a common language through which students across Europe could converse. When Columbia was founded, more than half of its curriculum was in the Greek and Latin classics. As far along as the 1850s, 14 of Columbia's 32 courses required for the [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree had to do with Greek and Latin literature.

When Columbia's [[History of the Morningside Heights campus|Morningside campus]] was being built, there was a huge disagreement over whether the inscription the frieze of [[Low Library]] would be in Latin or English. Around the same time, the College abolished the Greek entrance and curriculum requirements.

Latin has long ago left the day-to-day functions of this University, and in many ways is slowly being phased out of the ceremonial aspects as well. Harvard and Princeton, for example, still have a Latin oration given as part of the commencement ceremony. At Columbia, there was even talk recently of issuing English-only degrees for Columbia College, an arrangement that would oddly enough have made Barnard the only Columbia-associated school to still issue Latin degrees. Naturally, this was overwhelmingly voted down.

In the 1960s, Harvard switched to English-only degrees, a move that provoked the infamous "Diploma Riots", where angry, pretentious students dressed up in togas in the style of Roman orators, and traveled the campus, delivering disputations in Classical Latin on the "vile, dog-like, and incestuous qualities of the English language".

Both Columbia and Harvard continue granting honorary degrees (Honoris Causa) in Latin.

==Academic Degrees==

===A.B. or B.A.===
'''Artium Baccalaureus''', or as it is known at Columbia, '''Baccalaureus in Artibus''', meaning "Bachelor of Arts". Only the degrees of [[Columbia College]], [[Barnard College]], and [[Columbia Law School]] are granted in Latin.

The degree itself reads:
''Curatores Universitatis Columbia Noveboracensis Collegii Olim Regalis omnibus et singulis quos praesentes litterate pervenerint salutem sciatis nos [NAME] cum exercitationes omnes ad gradum BACCALEUREI IN ARTIBUS attinentes rite ac legitime peregerit ad istum gradum provexisse eique omnia iura privilegia et honores quae adsolent in tali re adtribui dedisse et concessisse in cuius rei plenius testimonium chirographis Praesidis huius Universitatis et Decani Collegii Columbiae nec non sigillo nostro communi diploma hocce muniendum curavimus [DATE]''

Translated:
"The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, of the College formerly known as King's, present our greetings to all and everyone to whom this document may come. We inform you that NAME has duly and lawfully completed all the requirements appropriate to the degree of Bachelor of Arts and as accordingly been advanced to that degree with all the rights, privileges, and honors customarily pertaining thereto. In fuller testimony of this action, we have ensured that the signatures of the President of the University and the Dean of Columbia College as well as our corporate seal be affixed to this diploma. Done at New York on DATE in YEAR."

===A.M. or M.A.===
'''Artium Magister''', meaning "Master of Arts".

===M. Phil===
'''Philosophiae magister''', meaning [[Master of Philosophy]].

===Ph. D.===
'''Philosophiae doctor''', meaning "Doctor of Philosopy".

===LL.B.===
'''Legum Baccaleureus''', meaning "Bachelor of Laws". The "LL" signifies a plural of the Latin ''lex'' or "law", hence the two L's. The LL.B. was a "first-professional" degree and usually could be earned only after already earning a Bachelor of Arts. Replaced with the J.D. in the 1970s.

===J.D.===
'''Juris doctor''', or "Doctor of Law". Replaced the LL.B. in the 1970s because law students didn't want the world thinking they were undergraduates. It should be noted that the US Department of Education does not consider the J.D. a doctoral degree, even though it is denoted "Doctor", because there is no dissertation work associated therein. That being said, the M.D. degree is not considerd a doctoral degree either. Both are "first-professional" degrees. Both the J.D. and the J.S.D. are granted in Latin.

===J.S.D.===
'''Juris scientiae doctor''', or "Doctor of the Science of Law". The Ph.D. equivalent of a law degree. As this does involve dissertation work, the J.S.D. degree is considered a doctoral degree. Both the J.D. and the J.S.D. are granted in Latin.

===M.D.===
'''Medicinae doctor''', or "Doctor of Medicine". Not considered a doctoral degree by the US Department of Education, but rather a "first-professional' degree because of the lack of dissertation work.

===D. Litt===
'''Litterae doctor''', meaning "Doctor of Letters", an "upper-level" doctorate, usually not granted in the United States. Used, however, for granting honorary degrees.

===H.C.===
'''Honoris causa''', appended to the end of a degree, meaning "for the reason of honor (or merit)". Used to signify an honorary degree.

==Latin honors==

Academic honors for graduating students are also awarded in Latin. The three levels of such honors apply to most of Columbia schools; in [[Columbia College]] they are chosen on the basis of [[GPA]] and faculty recommendations. For CC, the [[Committee on Honors, Awards, and Prizes]] reviews the records of the top 35% of the class by GPA. The cutoff GPA is unknown, but anecdotal evidence suggests that it falls somewhere around 3.70.

The number of people receiving honors varies each year. No more than 25 percent of CC students receive Latin Honors; this compares with higher cutoffs elsewhere in the [[Ivy League]], e.g. [[Yale]] (30 percent) and [[Harvard]] (50 percent). Basically, Latin Honors at Harvard are meaningless.

The levels for Latin honors are:

*''Summa Cum Laude'': "with highest praise"
*''Magna Cum Laude'': "with great praise"
*''Cum Laude'': with praise

Interestingly, one doesn't know if one has earned a Latin honor (or which honorific it is) until [[Class Day]], when it is printed in the official programme.

The honors are inscribed in Latin on graduates' diplomas, regardless of those diplomas' primary language.

==Inscriptions==
===Trustee's Room, Low Library===
''Hujus collegii, regalis dicti, regio diplomate constituti in honorem dei O. M. atq in ecclesiae reiq publicae emolumentum, primum hunc lapidem posuit vir praecellentissimus, Carolus Hardy, eques auratus, hujus provinciae praefecturs dignissimus augti. die 23 AN DOM MDCCLVI''

Translation:
"The first stone of this college called King's established by Royal charter for the Honor of Almighty God and the advancement of the public good both in Church and State, was laid by His Excellency Sir Charles Hardy, Knight, the very worthy governor of this province. August 23, A.D. 1756."
*This is the cornerstone of [[College Hall]], Columbia's first building, located down by where City Hall is today.

===Low Plaza===
''De super artificis spectant monumenta per annos''

Translation:
"The monuments of an artist look down upon us throughout the ages"

===St. Paul's Chapel, Frieze===
''Pro Ecclesia Dei''

Translation:
"For the church (congregation) of God"

===Hamilton Hall, Exterior===
''Huius collegii olim regalis nunc Columbiae dicti regio diplomate AN DOM MDCCLIIII constituti in honorem dei optimi maximi atq in ecclesiae reiq publicae emolumentum primus hic lapis positus est Sept. Die XXVII AN DOM MDCCCCV''

Translation:
"This first stone of this College, once called King's now Columbia, established by royal charter AD 1754 to the honor of Almighty God and the advancement of the church and the state, was laid September 27, 1905 AD"

===Sundial, Inscription===
''Horam expecta, veniet.''

Translation: "Await the hour—it will come."

==Miscellaneous==
===Motto===
''In lumine tuo videbimus lumen.''

Translation:
"In thy light, we will see light."

===Fight song===
''Some time ago, I translated "Roar, Lion, Roar" into Latin. I'll see if I can dig it up.''

[[Category:References]]

User talk:Sixth Floor Jay

2009-05-17T19:32:20Z

Jiabao: New page: {{welcome}} : I've noticed that you've been citing Wikipedia guidelines. Please note that WikiCU isn't meant to be that formal. Removing a dead link is all well and good, but something am...

{{welcome}}

: I've noticed that you've been citing Wikipedia guidelines. Please note that WikiCU isn't meant to be that formal. Removing a dead link is all well and good, but something amusing like a paperweight is pretty harmless and probably not worth your time. More to the point, Wikipedia policies don't necessarily apply here. [[User:Jiabao|Jiabao]] 15:32, 17 May 2009 (EDT)

User talk:Gilesgoatboy

2009-04-29T14:41:19Z

Jiabao:

* Awesome article about Nachalo. I'm actually using that book right now lol. [[User:Nateoxford|Nateoxford]] 19:57, 27 April 2009 (EDT)

* From 1883 to 2009, the Phillies have a win-loss record of 8955-10106, a .470 average. The only teams with worse lifetime averages are expansion teams: the Colorado Rockies (.469), the Texas Rangers (.468), the San Diego Padres (.462), and the Tampa Bay Rays (.417). On the other hand, franchises older than the Phillies have done better and lost fewer games. The Braves, founded in 1876, are 9777-9817, good for a .499 average. The Cubs (yes, the ''Cubs''), also starting from 1876, are 10091-9632 (.514). The other NL team founded in 1883 far outstrips the Phillies: the Giants are 10265-8823 - that's a .538 average. I'm not suggesting anything; these are just the facts. Btw, I hate the New York and Boston teams just as much as you do. If I am detracting in the Phillies article, it's because I am only being fair. [[User:Nateoxford|Nateoxford]] 02:11, 29 April 2009 (EDT)

* Well, most kids at Columbia from Philly aren't hoodlums, so I don't think you really need to worry about your city's perception. At least, not on this site. We tend to blow things out of proportion around here, and pretty much anyone other than Columbia and New York get a little tongue-in-cheek. [[User:Nateoxford|Nateoxford]] 02:23, 29 April 2009 (EDT)

* Moved your comment to Nateoxford to his talk page. The welcome template where you saved it shows up in other places too! [[User:Jiabao|Jiabao]] 10:41, 29 April 2009 (EDT)

User talk:Nateoxford

2009-04-29T14:39:50Z

Jiabao: /* Phillies */ new section

{{welcome}}

*Welcome back. [[User:Absentminded|Absentminded]] 17:19, 19 December 2008 (EST)
*Nice article on Moe Berg. Columbia has a thing for spooks - Wild Bill Donovan, Berg... [[User:Absentminded|Absentminded]] 14:21, 26 January 2009 (EST)
*Random Belgian spammer blocked, as requested. [[User:Jiabao|Jiabao]] 20:24, 20 March 2009 (EDT)

== Phillies ==

* Fair enough. I did go overboard on the Phillies' article, and I will accept some modifications. I am merely a little bit touchy about people representing Philadelphia fans as hoodlums. The Mets do have a slightly higher all-time winning percentage, around .480 if I'm not mistaken, but I lost the website where I found this data. I figured you were not a Mets fan, or you would've edited what I did to that page too... ([[User:Gilesgoatboy|Gilesgoatboy]] 02:17, 29 April 2009 (EDT))

User:Nateoxford

2009-04-29T14:39:24Z

Jiabao: what am I doing...wrong page

College class of 2011.

I always wear a hat because:
1) I hate my hair.
2) I hate my hair.

User:Nateoxford

2009-04-29T14:38:42Z

Jiabao: Moved Gilesgoatboy comment from welcome template to talk page

College class of 2011.

I always wear a hat because:
1) I hate my hair.
2) I hate my hair.

* Fair enough. I did go overboard on the Phillies' article, and I will accept some modifications. I am merely a little bit touchy about people representing Philadelphia fans as hoodlums. The Mets do have a slightly higher all-time winning percentage, around .480 if I'm not mistaken, but I lost the website where I found this data. I figured you were not a Mets fan, or you would've edited what I did to that page too... ([[User:Gilesgoatboy|Gilesgoatboy]] 02:17, 29 April 2009 (EDT))

Template:Welcome

2009-04-29T14:37:41Z

Jiabao: Reverted edits by Gilesgoatboy (Talk); changed back to last version by Jiabao

==Welcome!==

Hello, and welcome to WikiCU! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. This website uses [http://www.mediawiki.org MediaWiki] syntax, as does Wikipedia. If you need help formatting pages, please see the [[:Help:Editing|editing help]] page, which is also accessible from each Editing page. Remember that whenever you leave a comment on a talk page, you should sign it with four tildes (<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>). These four tildes will be automatically replaced with your user name and the date.

User talk:Nateoxford

2009-03-21T00:24:57Z

Jiabao:

Talk:Marcie Jaffee

2009-03-21T00:20:35Z

Jiabao: New page: Nicely written vanity page. Frankly, I think we could use more of these. ~~~~

Nicely written vanity page. Frankly, I think we could use more of these. [[User:Jiabao|Jiabao]] 20:20, 20 March 2009 (EDT)

Fictional alumni

2009-03-05T14:33:23Z

Jiabao: in re: comment on Category:Alumni discussion page

'''Fictional Alumni''' are fictive characters who supposedly attended Columbia. They are relatively common in popular culture.

= Examples =

An anonymous writer suggested Peter Parker, Elektra, Will Truman and Grace Adler, and Jessie Spano. No doubt there are many others, but said writer did not go to the trouble of actually creating this page.

[[Category: Alumni]]
[[Category: Definitions]]

Uris Deli

2009-03-03T19:38:17Z

Jiabao:

'''Uris Deli''' is an on-campus [[dining]] outlet located, surprisingly enough, in [[Uris]].

For the 2006-2007 school year, several changes were made to Uris in an deliberate effort to keep out undergraduates and to cater more to business school students.<ref>http://www.columbiaspectator.com/?q=node/22135</ref> The made-to-order sandwich counter, considered one of the best at Columbia, was closed. Tea and Tea, the bubble tea shop, was reopened in [[Lerner]] as [[Cafe East]] and the space was converted into vending machines. Currently, a b-school student-operated coffee shop occupies the space. Also, Uris stopped accepting Flex/Dining dollars, the primary currency of many undergraduate students, though this change was reversed in [[2009]].

== Hours ==

{| border="1" cellpadding="3"
|-
|'''Location'''
|width="50"|'''Mon'''
|width="50"|'''Tues'''
|width="50"|'''Wed'''
|width="50"|'''Thurs'''
|width="80"|'''Fri'''
|width="80"|'''Sat'''
|width="80"|'''Sun'''
|-
| [[Uris Deli]]
|colspan="3"| 7:30am-7pm
|colspan="2"| 7:30am-5pm
|colspan="2"| closed
|}

== References ==
<references />

[[Category:On-campus dining locations]]

Uris Deli

2009-03-03T19:34:11Z

Jiabao:

'''Uris Deli''' is an on-campus [[dining]] outlet located, surprisingly enough, in [[Uris]].

For the 2006-2007 school year, several changes were made to Uris in an deliberate effort to keep out undergraduates and to cater more to business school students.<ref>http://www.columbiaspectator.com/?q=node/22135</ref> The made-to-order sandwich counter, considered one of the best at Columbia, was closed. Tea and Tea, the bubble tea shop, was reopened in [[Lerner]] as [[Cafe East]] and the space was converted into vending machines. Also, Uris stopped accepting Flex/Dining dollars, the primary currency of many undergraduate students, though this change was reversed in [[2009]].

== Hours ==

{| border="1" cellpadding="3"
|-
|'''Location'''
|width="50"|'''Mon'''
|width="50"|'''Tues'''
|width="50"|'''Wed'''
|width="50"|'''Thurs'''
|width="80"|'''Fri'''
|width="80"|'''Sat'''
|width="80"|'''Sun'''
|-
| [[Uris Deli]]
|colspan="3"| 7:30am-7pm
|colspan="2"| 7:30am-5pm
|colspan="2"| closed
|}

== References ==
<references />

[[Category:On-campus dining locations]]

Columbia Business School

2009-03-03T19:31:27Z

Jiabao:

{{Infobox school
|Name=Columbia Business School
|Image=Columbia_GSB.gif
|Established=1916
|Dean=[[Glenn Hubbard|R. Glenn Hubbard]]
|Degrees=[[MBA]], [[PhD]], [[PhM]]
|Enrollment=1,947 students (2005)
|Website=[http://www.gsb.columbia.edu/ www.gsb.columbia.edu]
}}

'''Columbia Business School''' or, officially, '''Columbia University Graduate School of Business''' (GSB), is the business school. It is located in [[Uris Hall]], where it moved from [[Dodge Hall]] in the 1960s.

In recent years, the business school has moved to set itself off from undergraduate life on campus, placing business school computers on a different network and removing the ability to use [[Dining Dollars]] at [[Uris Deli]]. (Reversed in [[2009]]). Unsatisfied by these moves, the school has sought to move off the [[Morningside Heights campus]] entirely, initially scouting a site on the grounds of [[St. John the Divine]]. It has been confirmed, however, that the business school's next home will be [[Manhattanville campus|the new campus in Manhattanville]].

== Photos ==
<gallery>
Image:Columbia GSB.png|Old business school logo
</gallery>

== External links ==
* [http://www.cbscoursereview.com/ CBS professor review website]

{{Schools}}

[[Category:Business school|*]]

Helvidius Group

2009-02-18T02:49:50Z

Jiabao: /* History */

{{Infobox club
|Name=Helvidius Group
|Image=Helvidius.jpg
|Founded=[[1989]]
|Recognition=[[ABC]]
|Membership=25
|Executive board=Jacob Weaver, Editor-in-Chief Josh Mathew, Executive Editor Brendan Price, Managing Editor Sara Milstein, Lead Senior Editor Anusha Sriram, Deputy Managing Editor
|Allocation=$5,500.00 (2007-2008)
|Category=[[:Category:Student publications|Publication]]}}

The '''Helvidius Group''' is a student organization that publishes the ''Journal of Politics & Society'', an annual journal of undergraduate research in the social sciences. It is believed to be unique in its focus on interdisciplinary undergraduate research.

== Process ==
The Helvidius Group conducts an international call for papers every year, soliciting manuscripts from students at major research universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa, Australia, and various other English-language universities. From 200-300 submissions, the Editorial Board selects approximately 6-8 papers for an intensive peer review and editing process before print publication. Traditionally, at least one Columbia undergraduate has been published in the journal. The Helvidius Group occasionally publishes other content such as book reviews.

The Helvidius Group also conducts extensive editing development for its members, teaching the process of managing and editing an academic journal through workshops, guest speakers, and writing exercises.

== History ==
Founded in 1989 by [[Peter Tomassi]], [[CC]] '91, the journal began as a magazine distributed to schools in the [[Ivy League]] and in Congress.<ref>[http://www.helvidius.org/index.php?page=post&article_id=1 Helvidius Group Website - About]</ref> It was originally called the ''Columbia University Journal of Law and Public Policy,'' and the journal did not change to an academic journal format until the mid-1990s. It was originally founded to provided undergraduates with an outline to bring forth good political argument regardless of the ideology they espoused. Thus it was very much a journal that revered the First Amendment. The journal expanded its distribution over the years, reaching subscribers and outside academic departments as well as establishing a solid presence on campus. Currently, about half the journal's distribution occurs for free on Columbia's campus to all Columbia affiliates.

In 2006, the Helvidius Group held its first alumni reunion. In 2007, it launched an annual research symposium in the spring. Also in 2007, the journal became the nation's first commercially distributed undergraduate periodical, after a period of [[tenacious bureaucratic wrangling]]. It is now sold in Barnes & Noble and Borders bookstores.<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/07/06/helvidius.html Columbia Publication Earns First-In-Nation Status], ''Columbia News'', June 25, 2007</ref>

== Name ==
The group is named after the Roman statesman and philosopher, [[w:Helvidius Priscus|Helvidius Priscus]], who was banished and eventually executed for his vocal support of republican government.<ref>[http://www.helvidius.org/index.php?page=post&article_id=2 Helvidius Group Website - The Name]</ref>

== References ==
See the [http://www.helvidius.org Helvidius Group Website] for further information, including current contact details and submissions requirements.
<references />

[[Category:Student publications]]

Kenneth Waltz

2009-02-18T02:48:47Z

Jiabao: refs

{{wp-also}}

'''Kenneth Waltz''' [[PhD]] '[[1957|57]] is one of the most influential scholars in modern international relations theory<ref>[http://mjtier.people.wm.edu/intlpolitics/teaching/surveyreport.pdf Survey of U.S. International Relations Faculty], College of William and Mary, August 2005</ref> and a major founder of the school of thought called ''neorealism'' (or ''structural realism''), which argues that the structure of the international system is the primary determinant of state behavior. He is best-known for his books ''Man, the State, and War'' and ''Theory of International Politics'', both of which are classics in the field. An excerpt<ref>[http://helvidius.org/files/2004/2004_Waltz.pdf Neorealism - Confusions and Criticisms], The Helvidius Group, Spring 2004</ref> from the introduction to the latter was the guest essay in the [[2004]] [[Helvidius Group|Journal of Politics & Society]]. In recent years he has also made waves with his somewhat controversial views on nuclear proliferation.

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Political science professors|Waltz]]
[[Category:GSAS alumni|Waltz]]

Kenneth Waltz

2009-02-18T02:41:57Z

Jiabao: added article

{{wp-also}}

'''Kenneth Waltz''' [[PhD]] '[[1957|57]] is one of the most influential scholars in modern international relations theory ([http://mjtier.people.wm.edu/intlpolitics/teaching/surveyreport.pdf ref]) and a major founder of the school of thought called ''neorealism'' (or ''structural realism''), which argues that the structure of the international system is the primary determinant of state behavior. He is best-known for his books ''Man, the State, and War'' and ''Theory of International Politics'', both of which are classics in the field. An [http://helvidius.org/files/2004/2004_Waltz.pdf excerpt] from the introduction to the latter was the guest essay in the [[2004]] [[Helvidius Group|Journal of Politics & Society]]. In recent years he has also made waves with his somewhat controversial views on nuclear proliferation.

[[Category:Political science professors|Waltz]]
[[Category:GSAS alumni|Waltz]]

Manhattanville controversy

2008-12-21T18:35:29Z

Jiabao: /* Support of the plan */

In the summer of [[2003]], President Bollinger announced the University's intentions to build a [[Manhattanville campus|satellite campus extension]] in the area bounded by [[125th Street|125th]] and 133rd Streets between [[Broadway (avenue)|Broadway]] and 12th Avenue, an area of approximately 18 acres. The region in question, known as Manhattanville, is a largely depopulated industrial area northwest of campus.

Controversy surrounds the impact of Columbia's plans on the neighborhood and the possibility of the state using eminent domain to condemn properties in the area. As of [[2008]], plans to use the state's power of eminent domain to force the sale of the remaining holdouts on the planned campus are underway. Some of the objection surrounds the alleged but disproven plans for the construction of a Bio Safety Level 3 laboratory on the campus.

[[Community Board 9]] is the local neighborhood group that works on this issue, negotiating with Columbia through the West Harlem Local Development Corporation. Having initially presented their ideal 197-a plan, they are now looking to negotiate an agreement with Columbia for affordable housing, community benefits, and other forms of local funding. Columbia has already agreed to create a [[Columbia Science, Math and Engineering Secondary School|public high school]] on or near the campus.

The [[Student Coalition on Expansion and Gentrification]] is the main student group against Columbia's expansion as proposed, calling for changes to the plan to make Columbia accountable to the community. The [http://www.stopcolumbia.org/ Coalition to Preserve Community] is a neighborhood group dedicated to protecting the rights of tenants in the wake of Manhattan's largest development. Anti-Columbia activist [[Nellie McKay]] has also spoken out on the issue.

== Two visions for Manhattanville ==

===The Columbia Plan===

:''See also: [[Manhattanville campus]]''

Columbia has retained world renowned architect Renzo Piano to lay the master plan for the expansion, a plan which Bollinger has insisted must be implemented either in whole or not at all. Current plans call for the first phase of construction to include new sites for the [[Columbia Business School|Business School]], the [[School of the Arts]], the newly created [[Jerome L. Greene Science Center]], and the [[Columbia Science, Math and Engineering Secondary School]].

===The 197-a Plan===
197-a refers to section 197-a of the New York City Charter. This section authorizes community boards and borough boards, as well as the Mayor, the City Planning Commission, the Department of City Planning, and any Borough President, to sponsor plans for the development, growth, and improvement of the city, its boroughs and communities.

Community Board 9 has drafted 197-a plan for Morningside Heights, Manhattanville, and Hamilton Heights. It was developed in cooperation with the [http://www.prattcenter.net/cp-cb9.php Pratt Institute Center for Community Development] and the Department of City Planning.

Once ratified, the plan itself has no legal force. Yet, since the plan is an embodiment of the "people's will" any development or activity that ran counter to the plan would be a major contretemps for Columbia. The 197-a plan does not prevent the development of the Manhattanville campus, but does contain provisions that would require significant modifications to Columbia's current proposal.

== Eminent domain ==
Typical of these kinds of land use disputes, there are a number of 'hold-outs' in the Manhattanville area. Several businesses were approached with buyout offers by Columbia, and many accepted over time.

A number of property owners were initially opposed to any sort of deal. Anne Whitman of Hudson Moving and Storage famously went on the record in August 2006, stating “No way Columbia is going to steal this property right out from underneath me. Remember that man who stood in front of the tank at Tiananmen Square? That’s me.” She accused Columbia of deliberately causing family strife when it reached a deal in 2007 with her brothers, who owned a nearby property. In June 2008 she agreed to swap her property for one on Audobon Avenue near Columbia's [[Columbia University Medical Center|Medical Center]] in [[Washington Heights]], on which Columbia agreed to build her a new building, while providing temporary accommodation on yet another site.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/nyregion/11columbia.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion Landowner Who Balked Gives In to Columbia], New York Times, June 11, 2008</ref>

Ultimately only 2 refused to sell:

*[[Nick Sprayregan]], a wealthy property owner, is the most vocal of the holdouts
*Gurnam Singh, who owns two gas stations in the area

These holdouts have caused Columbia to pursue plans to have the property taken by [[w:eminent domain|eminent domain]], a power possessed by [[New York State]]. Under the plan, recalcitrant owners would be forced to sell to the state, which would then sell the land to Columbia. Eminent domain is philosophically justified by the premise that a greater use, or public good, can justify property displacement, so long as there is fair compensation, as allowed in the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution. There is ongoing legal controversy about whether a private developer can constitute a public good - relevant in Columbia's case. The Supreme Court in ''[[w:Kelo v. New London|Kelo v. New London]]'' upheld the idea that uses of eminent domain for private purposes are legitimate.

On [[December 18]], [[2008]], the Empire State Development Corporation voted unanimously to use eminent domain to seize Manhattanville property for Columbia's benefit.<ref>http://www.bwog.net/articles/new_york_state_decides_to_use_eminent_domain_in_manhattanville</ref> In May of that year, the corporation had approved Columbia's plan for the area, which it characterised as "blighted". In [[2007]], the plan was approved by the New York City Land Use Committee.

The 197-a plan contained clauses proscribing the use of eminent domain in the area.

== Support of the plan ==
* Expansion creates new job opportunities<ref>6,900 university jobs [http://www.neighbors.columbia.edu/pages/manplanning/faqs/index.html#N100E8 from Columbia's Neighbor Website]</ref> in the neighborhood
* Expansion leads to more commerce in the area and in New York City<ref>$11 Billion in commerce generated [http://www.neighbors.columbia.edu/pages/manplanning/faqs/index.html#N10129 from Columbia's Neighbor Website]</ref>
* Expansion would change the character of the neighborhood for the better
* Plan includes community amenities including the creation of parkland and the creation of Columbia secondary school
* Expansion improves the university's research capabilities, which benefit society in many ways

== Objections to the plan ==
* The expansion would considerably change the character of the neighborhood
* The expansion would require residents in the neighborhood to relocate<ref>Columbia claims that 132 units would need to be relocated [http://www.neighbors.columbia.edu/pages/manplanning/faqs/index.html#N100E8 from Columbia's Neighbor Website]</ref>
* The expansion would eliminate several business operating in the area
* The University has indicated it would use eminent domain if necessary
* The proximity of biotech facilities to densely populated neighborhoods
* The expansion is expected to cause secondary displacement throughout West Harlem and Upper Manhattan due to increased rents

== References ==
<references />

== External links ==
* [http://www.neighbors.columbia.edu/pages/manplanning/index.html Manhattanville in West Harlem (Columbia's information site)]
* [http://www.prattcenter.net/cp-cb9-197a.php Community Board 9 197-a plan]
* [http://www.stopcolumbia.org/ Coalition to Preserve Community]

[[Category:Scandals]]
[[Category:Manhattanville]]
[[Category:Manhattanville campus]]

Manhattanville controversy

2008-12-21T18:34:55Z

Jiabao: /* Support of the plan */

In the summer of [[2003]], President Bollinger announced the University's intentions to build a [[Manhattanville campus|satellite campus extension]] in the area bounded by [[125th Street|125th]] and 133rd Streets between [[Broadway (avenue)|Broadway]] and 12th Avenue, an area of approximately 18 acres. The region in question, known as Manhattanville, is a largely depopulated industrial area northwest of campus.

Controversy surrounds the impact of Columbia's plans on the neighborhood and the possibility of the state using eminent domain to condemn properties in the area. As of [[2008]], plans to use the state's power of eminent domain to force the sale of the remaining holdouts on the planned campus are underway. Some of the objection surrounds the alleged but disproven plans for the construction of a Bio Safety Level 3 laboratory on the campus.

[[Community Board 9]] is the local neighborhood group that works on this issue, negotiating with Columbia through the West Harlem Local Development Corporation. Having initially presented their ideal 197-a plan, they are now looking to negotiate an agreement with Columbia for affordable housing, community benefits, and other forms of local funding. Columbia has already agreed to create a [[Columbia Science, Math and Engineering Secondary School|public high school]] on or near the campus.

The [[Student Coalition on Expansion and Gentrification]] is the main student group against Columbia's expansion as proposed, calling for changes to the plan to make Columbia accountable to the community. The [http://www.stopcolumbia.org/ Coalition to Preserve Community] is a neighborhood group dedicated to protecting the rights of tenants in the wake of Manhattan's largest development. Anti-Columbia activist [[Nellie McKay]] has also spoken out on the issue.

== Two visions for Manhattanville ==

===The Columbia Plan===

:''See also: [[Manhattanville campus]]''

Columbia has retained world renowned architect Renzo Piano to lay the master plan for the expansion, a plan which Bollinger has insisted must be implemented either in whole or not at all. Current plans call for the first phase of construction to include new sites for the [[Columbia Business School|Business School]], the [[School of the Arts]], the newly created [[Jerome L. Greene Science Center]], and the [[Columbia Science, Math and Engineering Secondary School]].

===The 197-a Plan===
197-a refers to section 197-a of the New York City Charter. This section authorizes community boards and borough boards, as well as the Mayor, the City Planning Commission, the Department of City Planning, and any Borough President, to sponsor plans for the development, growth, and improvement of the city, its boroughs and communities.

Community Board 9 has drafted 197-a plan for Morningside Heights, Manhattanville, and Hamilton Heights. It was developed in cooperation with the [http://www.prattcenter.net/cp-cb9.php Pratt Institute Center for Community Development] and the Department of City Planning.

Once ratified, the plan itself has no legal force. Yet, since the plan is an embodiment of the "people's will" any development or activity that ran counter to the plan would be a major contretemps for Columbia. The 197-a plan does not prevent the development of the Manhattanville campus, but does contain provisions that would require significant modifications to Columbia's current proposal.

== Eminent domain ==
Typical of these kinds of land use disputes, there are a number of 'hold-outs' in the Manhattanville area. Several businesses were approached with buyout offers by Columbia, and many accepted over time.

A number of property owners were initially opposed to any sort of deal. Anne Whitman of Hudson Moving and Storage famously went on the record in August 2006, stating “No way Columbia is going to steal this property right out from underneath me. Remember that man who stood in front of the tank at Tiananmen Square? That’s me.” She accused Columbia of deliberately causing family strife when it reached a deal in 2007 with her brothers, who owned a nearby property. In June 2008 she agreed to swap her property for one on Audobon Avenue near Columbia's [[Columbia University Medical Center|Medical Center]] in [[Washington Heights]], on which Columbia agreed to build her a new building, while providing temporary accommodation on yet another site.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/nyregion/11columbia.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion Landowner Who Balked Gives In to Columbia], New York Times, June 11, 2008</ref>

Ultimately only 2 refused to sell:

*[[Nick Sprayregan]], a wealthy property owner, is the most vocal of the holdouts
*Gurnam Singh, who owns two gas stations in the area

These holdouts have caused Columbia to pursue plans to have the property taken by [[w:eminent domain|eminent domain]], a power possessed by [[New York State]]. Under the plan, recalcitrant owners would be forced to sell to the state, which would then sell the land to Columbia. Eminent domain is philosophically justified by the premise that a greater use, or public good, can justify property displacement, so long as there is fair compensation, as allowed in the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution. There is ongoing legal controversy about whether a private developer can constitute a public good - relevant in Columbia's case. The Supreme Court in ''[[w:Kelo v. New London|Kelo v. New London]]'' upheld the idea that uses of eminent domain for private purposes are legitimate.

On [[December 18]], [[2008]], the Empire State Development Corporation voted unanimously to use eminent domain to seize Manhattanville property for Columbia's benefit.<ref>http://www.bwog.net/articles/new_york_state_decides_to_use_eminent_domain_in_manhattanville</ref> In May of that year, the corporation had approved Columbia's plan for the area, which it characterised as "blighted". In [[2007]], the plan was approved by the New York City Land Use Committee.

The 197-a plan contained clauses proscribing the use of eminent domain in the area.

== Support of the plan ==
* Expansion creates new job opportunities<ref>6,900 university jobs [http://www.neighbors.columbia.edu/pages/manplanning/faqs/index.html#N100E8 from Columbia's Neighbor Website]</ref> in the neighborhood
* Expansion leads to more commerce in the area and in New York City<ref>$11 Billion in commerce generated[http://www.neighbors.columbia.edu/pages/manplanning/faqs/index.html#N10129 from Columbia's Neighbor Website]</ref>
* Expansion would change the character of the neighborhood for the better
* Plan includes community amenities including the creation of parkland and the creation of Columbia secondary school
* Expansion improves the university's research capabilities, which benefit society in many ways.

== Objections to the plan ==
* The expansion would considerably change the character of the neighborhood
* The expansion would require residents in the neighborhood to relocate<ref>Columbia claims that 132 units would need to be relocated [http://www.neighbors.columbia.edu/pages/manplanning/faqs/index.html#N100E8 from Columbia's Neighbor Website]</ref>
* The expansion would eliminate several business operating in the area
* The University has indicated it would use eminent domain if necessary
* The proximity of biotech facilities to densely populated neighborhoods
* The expansion is expected to cause secondary displacement throughout West Harlem and Upper Manhattan due to increased rents

== References ==
<references />

== External links ==
* [http://www.neighbors.columbia.edu/pages/manplanning/index.html Manhattanville in West Harlem (Columbia's information site)]
* [http://www.prattcenter.net/cp-cb9-197a.php Community Board 9 197-a plan]
* [http://www.stopcolumbia.org/ Coalition to Preserve Community]

[[Category:Scandals]]
[[Category:Manhattanville]]
[[Category:Manhattanville campus]]

User talk:Chexpeare

2008-11-11T03:13:39Z

Jiabao: New page: == Obama == Not quite sure what you're talking about, Chexpeare. I for one supported Obama, and I don't see anything wrong with the claims in this article. Is there something in particula...

== Obama ==

Not quite sure what you're talking about, Chexpeare. I for one supported Obama, and I don't see anything wrong with the claims in this article. Is there something in particular you find objectionable? Even (and especially!) his most ardent supporters on campus wish he'd show a little more love to alma mater. Most of the rest is straight out of ''Dreams from my Father'' [[User:Jiabao|Jiabao]] 22:13, 10 November 2008 (EST)

Barack Obama

2008-11-11T03:10:56Z

Jiabao: Reverted edits by Chexpeare (Talk); changed back to last version by Jiabao

{{wp-also}}

[[Image:Obamany.jpg|thumb|right|Obama the Columbia undergrad, visiting [[Central Park]] ]]

'''Barack Obama''' [[Columbia College|CC]] '[[1983|83]] is a US Senator from [[w:Illinois|Illinois]] and will be the 44th President of the United States. He will become the first African-American and the first Columbia graduate to hold the nation's highest office.

Many Columbia students [[w:The Audacity of Hope|audaciously hoped]] he would win his primary and the national election. He is the first attendee of [[Columbia College]] and the first graduate of any Columbia school<ref>[[Theodore Roosevelt]] and [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] both attended [[Columbia Law School]], but neither graduated, as you only needed to pass the bar after 2 years of school to practice law. One Roosevelt dropped out after passing the bar, the other after being elected to the NY State Assembly. [[Dwight Eisenhower]] never attended Columbia, but rather served as a somewhat absentee President of the University while biding his time to run for the Presidency.</ref>, to occupy the Oval Office. Obama was also the first Columbia College alumnus to be nominated by a major modern party ticket, and the first CC alum to be a major party nominee since the Federalists nominated [[DeWitt Clinton]] in [[1812]].

Obama, however, tends to forget/ignore his Columbia affiliation, preferring to mention that he attended [[Harvard|Harvard Law School]]. He has repeatedly turned down requests to be the [[Class Day]] speaker in recent years, as well as general requests to appear from the [[College Democrats]]. He did, however, note that Columbia was his alma mater while visiting during the [[ServiceNation Presidential Candidates Forum]], and sent a letter to the attendees of the Class of 1983's 25th reunion gathering.

==Columbia years==

[[Image:Obama tenement.jpg|thumb|right|The East Harlem tenement where Obama lived during most of his time at Columbia]]

[[Image:Obama grandparents.jpg|thumb|right|Obama gets a visit from his grandparents during his Columbia years]]

Obama [[transfer student|transferred]] to CC from [[w:Occidental College|Occidental College]] which (poor place) is even more rarely mentioned by the young senator. At Occidental, Obama had been into partying and drugs. He hoped the move to New York, and Columbia, would put him on a more serious track.

Columbia at that time did not guarantee university housing for all students, so Obama lived off campus. He claims to have spent his first night sleeping in an alley near the corner of 109th and [[Amsterdam Avenue]] and washing with the homeless next to an open fire hydrant. He eventually moved into a walkup on E. 94th St., in [[Yorkville]], where he would "chat with his Puerto Rican neighbors about...the sound of gunfire at night".<ref>http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/30/where-obama-lived-in-1980s-new-york/</ref>

When he was on campus, he concentrated on academic work, spending most of his time in [[Butler Library]] "like a monk", and made few friends. He also took up jogging and "stopped getting high". The racist and anti-Semitic graffiti he sometimes encountered on bathroom walls on campus (how times never change!) helped him form his ideas about race and class. He wrote of "the almost mathematical precision with which America’s race and class problems joined; the depth, the ferocity, of resulting tribal wars; the bile that flowed freely not just out on the streets but in the stalls of Columbia’s bathrooms as well".<ref>''Dreams from My Father'', p. ?</ref>

Obama claims to have participated to some extent in anti-apartheid activities with the [[Black Students Organization]], but no one is quite sure.

He majored in [[Political Science Department|PoliSci]], and claims to have concentrated in "International Relations," (now [[International Politics]] - this is a subfield of the PoliSci major and should not be confused with a "concentration," the Columbia term that substitutes for what most schools term a "minor"). Obama's professors and classmates, including former international politics professor [[Michael Baron]] and current MTV president [[Michael Wolf]], confirm that he was a brilliant, standout student and that he was an active participant in seminars. Baron said he was one of the top one or two students in his class. Despite this, Obama continually declines requests to release his Columbia transcript.

Sources first differed on whether he wrote his senior thesis on Soviet nuclear disarmament<ref>http://www.columbiaspectator.com/?q=node/28631</ref> or the North-South debate on trade and the "new international economic order"<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/magazine/04obama-t.html</ref>. Later, it emerged that he had not really written an official thesis at all: students were not required to do so at the time, and what counted as a "thesis" was really a long seminar paper. Obama wrote his for Prof. Baron's American Foreign Policy class. A search has been launched<ref>http://www.bwog.net/articles/obama_s_schoolwork_verily_a_mystery</ref> for a copy of the paper, which was confirmed to have been on the topic of Soviet disarmament. Baron, Obama's de facto "thesis" advisor, is now retired to Florida, and claims to have lost his copy of the paper in a move some time ago.

It has been reported that Obama graduated without honors<ref>http://www.nysun.com/new-york/obamas-years-at-columbia-are-a-mystery/85015/</ref>, but if the policies then were the same as they are today, he would not have been eligible for latin honors, because he spent only two years in the college. Obama hoped to become a community organizer, but could not find work as one, and joined a small consulting firm instead. In his memoir, he portrays this as a big corporate job, and claims it prompted fears he was becoming a sellout.

==Other Columbia coincidences==

In his primary fight to become the Democratic nominee, Obama faced, among others, [[GS]] alum [[Mike Gravel]]. His Republican opponent was [[John McCain]], a former [[Class Day]] speaker whose daughter, [[Meghan McCain]], was CC'07. In the general election, he also faced tickets with [[Wayne Allen Root]], also CC'83, the Libertarian Party vice presidential nominee, and independent vice presidential candidate [[Matt Gonzalez]] CC'87.

==References==
<references />

==External links==
*[http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/jan05/cover.php Columbia College Today profile of Obama]
*[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/us/politics/30obama.html NYT article on Obama's years at Columbia and subsequent time in New York]

[[Category:Columbia College alumni|Obama, Barack]]
[[Category:Class of 1983|Obama, Barack]]
[[Category:Political science majors|Obama, Barack]]
[[Category:Presidential candidates|Obama, Barack]]

Barack Obama

2008-11-05T20:05:24Z

Jiabao: /* Later Columbia coincidences */ Yippee!

Barack Obama

2008-11-05T20:04:16Z

Jiabao: whoo!!!!!!!!

{{wp-also}}

[[Image:Obamany.jpg|thumb|right|Obama the Columbia undergrad, visiting [[Central Park]] ]]

'''Barack Obama''' [[Columbia College|CC]] '[[1983|83]] is a US Senator from [[w:Illinois|Illinois]] and will be the 44th President of the United States. He will become the first African-American and the first Columbia graduate to hold the nation's highest office.

Many Columbia students [[w:The Audacity of Hope|audaciously hoped]] he would win his primary and the national election. He is the first attendee of [[Columbia College]] and the first graduate of any Columbia school<ref>[[Theodore Roosevelt]] and [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] both attended [[Columbia Law School]], but neither graduated, as you only needed to pass the bar after 2 years of school to practice law. One Roosevelt dropped out after passing the bar, the other after being elected to the NY State Assembly. [[Dwight Eisenhower]] never attended Columbia, but rather served as a somewhat absentee President of the University while biding his time to run for the Presidency.</ref>, to occupy the Oval Office. Obama was also the first Columbia College alumnus to be nominated by a major modern party ticket, and the first CC alum to be a major party nominee since the Federalists nominated [[DeWitt Clinton]] in [[1812]].

Obama, however, tends to forget/ignore his Columbia affiliation, preferring to mention that he attended [[Harvard|Harvard Law School]]. He has repeatedly turned down requests to be the [[Class Day]] speaker in recent years, as well as general requests to appear from the [[College Democrats]]. He did, however, note that Columbia was his alma mater while visiting during the [[ServiceNation Presidential Candidates Forum]], and sent a letter to the attendees of the Class of 1983's 25th reunion gathering.

==Columbia years==

[[Image:Obama tenement.jpg|thumb|right|The East Harlem tenement where Obama lived during most of his time at Columbia]]

[[Image:Obama grandparents.jpg|thumb|right|Obama gets a visit from his grandparents during his Columbia years]]

Obama [[transfer student|transferred]] to CC from [[w:Occidental College|Occidental College]] which (poor place) is even more rarely mentioned by the young senator. At Occidental, Obama had been into partying and drugs. He hoped the move to New York, and Columbia, would put him on a more serious track.

Columbia at that time did not guarantee university housing for all students, so Obama lived off campus. He claims to have spent his first night sleeping in an alley near the corner of 109th and [[Amsterdam Avenue]] and washing with the homeless next to an open fire hydrant. He eventually moved into a walkup on E. 94th St., in [[Yorkville]], where he would "chat with his Puerto Rican neighbors about...the sound of gunfire at night".<ref>http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/30/where-obama-lived-in-1980s-new-york/</ref>

When he was on campus, he concentrated on academic work, spending most of his time in [[Butler Library]] "like a monk", and made few friends. He also took up jogging and "stopped getting high". The racist and anti-Semitic graffiti he sometimes encountered on bathroom walls on campus (how times never change!) helped him form his ideas about race and class. He wrote of "the almost mathematical precision with which America’s race and class problems joined; the depth, the ferocity, of resulting tribal wars; the bile that flowed freely not just out on the streets but in the stalls of Columbia’s bathrooms as well".<ref>''Dreams from My Father'', p. ?</ref>

Obama claims to have participated to some extent in anti-apartheid activities with the [[Black Students Organization]], but no one is quite sure.

He majored in [[Political Science Department|PoliSci]], and claims to have concentrated in "International Relations," (now [[International Politics]] - this is a subfield of the PoliSci major and should not be confused with a "concentration," the Columbia term that substitutes for what most schools term a "minor"). Obama's professors and classmates, including former international politics professor [[Michael Baron]] and current MTV president [[Michael Wolf]], confirm that he was a brilliant, standout student and that he was an active participant in seminars. Baron said he was one of the top one or two students in his class. Despite this, Obama continually declines requests to release his Columbia transcript.

Sources first differed on whether he wrote his senior thesis on Soviet nuclear disarmament<ref>http://www.columbiaspectator.com/?q=node/28631</ref> or the North-South debate on trade and the "new international economic order"<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/magazine/04obama-t.html</ref>. Later, it emerged that he had not really written an official thesis at all: students were not required to do so at the time, and what counted as a "thesis" was really a long seminar paper. Obama wrote his for Prof. Baron's American Foreign Policy class. A search has been launched<ref>http://www.bwog.net/articles/obama_s_schoolwork_verily_a_mystery</ref> for a copy of the paper, which was confirmed to have been on the topic of Soviet disarmament. Baron, Obama's de facto "thesis" advisor, is now retired to Florida, and claims to have lost his copy of the paper in a move some time ago.

It has been reported that Obama graduated without honors<ref>http://www.nysun.com/new-york/obamas-years-at-columbia-are-a-mystery/85015/</ref>, but if the policies then were the same as they are today, he would not have been eligible for latin honors, because he spent only two years in the college. Obama hoped to become a community organizer, but could not find work as one, and joined a small consulting firm instead. In his memoir, he portrays this as a big corporate job, and claims it prompted fears he was becoming a sellout.

==Later Columbia coincidences==

In his primary fight to become the Democratic nominee, Obama has faced, among others, [[GS]] alum [[Mike Gravel]]. His Republican opponent would be [[John McCain]], a former [[Class Day]] speaker whose daughter, [[Meghan McCain]], was CC'07. In the general election, he is facing tickets with [[Wayne Allen Root]], also CC'83, the Libertarian Party vice presidential nominee, and independent vice presidential candidate [[Matt Gonzalez]] CC'87.

==References==
<references />

==External links==
*[http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/jan05/cover.php Columbia College Today profile of Obama]
*[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/us/politics/30obama.html NYT article on Obama's years at Columbia and subsequent time in New York]

[[Category:Columbia College alumni|Obama, Barack]]
[[Category:Class of 1983|Obama, Barack]]
[[Category:Political science majors|Obama, Barack]]
[[Category:Presidential candidates|Obama, Barack]]

Talk:Columbia University Swing Dancing Club

2008-10-28T13:48:37Z

Jiabao: New page: == PC bias== This may be a bit outdated, but according to one participant: To satisfy the PC needs of the Columbia community, the instructors make frequent, awk...

== PC bias==

This may be a bit outdated, but according to one participant:
To satisfy the [[Political Correctness|PC]] needs of the Columbia community, the instructors make frequent, awkward attempts to play down the inherent sexism of a dance in which the "follow" partner (which guys never volunteer for) is expected to do whatever steps their "lead" partner (which girls rarely volunteer for) leads them into. You'll often hear phrases like "Ladies, you must ''rise'' to the occasion of being led." The instructor also encourages men to try acting as the follow and women act as the lead.

Political correctness

2008-10-28T01:32:07Z

Jiabao:

'''Political Correctness''' is so '90s. Columbia prefers [[anti-oppression training]].

[[Category:Definitions]]

Political correctness

2008-10-28T01:30:19Z

Jiabao: New page: '''Political Correctness''' is so '90s. See anti-oppression training. Category:Definitions

'''Political Correctness''' is so '90s. See [[anti-oppression training]].

[[Category:Definitions]]

Columbia University Swing Dancing Club

2008-10-28T01:28:38Z

Jiabao: don't just delete content, esp. if it's funny

'''CU Swing''' is Columbia's swing dance club. It offers weekly, 1 hour classes in [[Lerner 555]] taught by professional swing instructors. It also coordinates club members for on- and off-campus swing events.

== Levels ==
The class is offered at two levels: beginner and intermediate. Advanced level is not being offered at this time. Anyone is free to show up for any class, but beginner is tailored towards students who have no prior swing experience. Generally speaking, the Intermediate level requires knowledge of the eight-count step.

== Guy:Girl ratio ==
Most of the classes tend to have a slight excess of girls, with a guy girl ratio of about 4:5. To deal with this, partners are rotated, so that everyone has a chance to practice. In addition, some girls will spend the class learning to dance as "leads".

== PC bias==
According to one participant: to satisfy the [[Political Correctness|PC]] needs of the Columbia community, the instructors make frequent, awkward attempts to play down the inherent sexism of a dance in which the "follow" partner (which guys never volunteer for) is expected to do whatever steps their "lead" partner (which girls rarely volunteer for) leads them into. You'll often hear phrases like "Ladies, you must ''rise'' to the occasion of being led." The instructor also encourages men to try acting as the follow and women act as the lead.

== Club dues ==
As of Fall 2008, semesterly dues were '''$30''' (an uncomfortable jump from the '''$20''' dues of [[2007]]).

== External Links ==
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/swing/ CU Swing website]
* [mailto:kpschenk@gmail.com Kristen Schenk], coordinator

[[Category:Club sports]]

User talk:Pacman

2008-10-27T14:44:54Z

Jiabao: /* Chichilnisky */

== Chat ==

It would be great to have an (anonymous) chat with you [http://www.wikicu.com/chat.html here]. I'll be online this evening. I'll leave you another message on this page when I'm on. Thanks, [[User:Admin|Admin]] 14:21, 8 March 2007 (PST)

:I left a message for you at [[User talk:Admin#Chat with Pacman]]. [[User:Admin|Admin]] 00:11, 18 March 2007 (PDT)

== Logo voting ==

Hi. It would be great to decide on a logo. Could you please head over to '''[[Logo]]''' to place your vote or upload a new design. [[User:Admin|Admin]] 18:26, 18 March 2007 (EDT)

== Brown ==

Believe it or not, kids used to chant, "What's the color of horse shit? Brown! Brown!" at football games. [[User:Adolph Lewisohn|Adolph Lewisohn]] 06:39, 19 March 2007 (EDT)

==Thanks==
Very helpful edits! [[User:Ttan|Ttan]] 22:49, 1 April 2007 (EDT)

==CC Admissions==
*I removed the part about regular decision because 8.9% is the total admission rate for CC. The RD rate is even lower.
*I removed the comparisons to Harvard and Yale because they're dishonest at best, and factually wrong at worst.
*Harvard and Yale (as well Princeton, Dartmouth, and Brown) all include their engineering students in their reported statistics. Granted, this is because engineering is a division in the university, and not a separate school. You just declare an engineering major when the time comes. You're admitted to the "college" in general when you apply.
*However, Penn and Cornell are similar to Columbia in respect to having a school of engineering with separate admissions processes. Even then, both include those statistics in their overall admissions (as well as all of their other divisions...)
*Therefore to use just CC's rate in comparison with other schools' overall rate is not a fair comparison, and amounts to dishonest self-aggrandizement (in my opinion). I hope this justifies my edits.

:*Yes, come to think of it, those are very fair points. Thanks for the clarification. [[User:Reaganaut|Reaganaut]] 21:25, 6 April 2007 (EDT)

==Columbia University Statistical Abstract==
The greatest stat source ever: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/opir/abstract/ [[User:Absentminded|Absentminded]] 11:05, 9 April 2007 (EDT)

==Random Questions==
Hey, I noticed that you when you categorize things, you'll do for example '''<nowiki>[[Category:SEAS students|Weinberg]]</nowiki>''' instead of just '''<nowiki>[[Category:SEAS students]]</nowiki>'''. What does that do? Should I do that? [[User:Nonsensical|Nonsensical]] 15:47, 24 May 2007 (EDT)
:Yes, you should (with people's names, at least). That way, they're arranged on the category page by alphabetized last name, rather than first. [[User:Pacman|Pacman]] 16:16, 24 May 2007 (EDT)
::Ooooh, interesting. Will do. Thanks for the tip! [[User:Nonsensical|Nonsensical]] 16:17, 24 May 2007 (EDT)

==weathermen article==
where are you getting your information for the claim that the weathermen were trying to bomb alma mater? wikipedia says they were bombing Fort Dix. [[User:Foobar|Foobar]] 08:09, 31 May 2007 (EDT)
:Here's one source, for starters: http://www.columbiaspectator.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticle&ustory_id=ce2f5cee-0b46-465b-ad83-e0600bca4d92 [[User:Pacman|Pacman]] 12:26, 31 May 2007 (EDT)

You're a machine! Nice work. --[[User:Nonsensical|Nonsensical]] 03:34, 16 July 2007 (EDT)

==de Bary==

"de Bary", not "De Bary" (unless starting a sentence), and certainly not "deBary".

== thanksgiving history edits ==

these historical edits (year-by-year) are great! where are you finding this stuff?

it does make me wonder though if more things could be cited w/references so people easily can find documentation/verification or followup info. do you know: is there some sort of best practices statement by wikipedia about when a reference is necessary? [[User:Foobar|Foobar]] 07:08, 23 November 2007 (EST)
: i found wikip's best practices page: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cite_sources#When_you_add_content here] [[User:Foobar|Foobar]] 07:29, 23 November 2007 (EST)

:Not sure how to cite it, since I'm getting it all from one site: http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/stand_columbia/Timeline1970-03.html [[User:Pacman|Pacman]] 10:14, 23 November 2007 (EST)

== Dubious Columbians ==

What do you think about a "Dubious Columbians" category / article for people we like to endlessly pimp when it suits us (Lorenzo da Ponte, the Roosevelts, Alan Greenspan, Amelia Earhart, Howard Dean)?

I'd imagine this to be a great source. http://www.columbiaspectator.com/search/node/greatest+columbia+alumni

[[User:Ttan|Ttan]] 04:20, 23 January 2008 (EST)

:Don't you mean "tenuous Columbians"? I mean, we ''know'' all those people had ''some'' connection (wait...Howard Dean?) [[User:Pacman|Pacman]] 13:02, 23 January 2008 (EST)
::Yeah. Post-bacc pre-med for a semester or two. One of those creepy GS people destroying the curve in Chem 1403 because they have to take 2 classes per semester instead of like, 6. [[User:Ttan|Ttan]] 13:49, 23 January 2008 (EST)

:You mean like [[Tao Tan]]? That guy was never on campus :) [[User:Jiabao|Jiabao]] 15:01, 23 January 2008 (EST)

==FYI==
[[WikiCU:Community_Portal#Crime_policy]] {{User:Reaganaut/sig}} 17:24, 20 February 2008 (EST)

==Nostalgia==
Check out the picture of [[Harry Carman]] playing baseball on south field. Reading and writing about Columbia in the 50s and early 60s makes me a little jealous. [[User:Absentminded|Absentminded]] 23:14, 24 February 2008 (EST)
:I'm not sure I'd want to be at Columbia when everyone had to wear a tie and there were no girls (I had enough of that in Catholic high school) [[User:Pacman|Pacman]] 23:17, 24 February 2008 (EST)
::Point taken! But on the other hand, [[David Truman]] cut the legs out from under the college's parietal rules, so you could've spent some private time with a Barnard lass if you so pleased.

==Hi!==
*Apologies for editing articles at the same time as you! I hope I didn't get in your way... {{User:Reaganaut/sig}} 01:57, 12 April 2008 (EDT)

== Talk page etiquette? ==

I'm not exactly sure how these discussion pages work. You wrote on mine and I replied, but I don't know if you got an email notification saying so.

[[User_talk:Rab2148]]

(I just typed this to let you know that I replied, but you can delete this once you've read it.) --[[User:Rab2148|Rab2148]] 14:48, 22 April 2008 (EDT)

==Stratford Canning==
The cited Harper's Weekly article is for sale on [http://cgi.ebay.com/1884-Kings-College-Columbia-College-New-York-City_W0QQitemZ120242100907QQihZ002QQcategoryZ29223QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638Q2em118Q2el1247 eBay]. I read the relevant text from the slightly blurry JPGs included by the seller, and cited accordingly! Naturally, I have finals to be preparing for. I found it during a "I have nothing better to do" searches. [[User:Absentminded|Absentminded]] 18:16, 29 April 2008 (EDT)
*I purchased that exact item my freshman year and donated it to the U Archives. [[User:Ttan|Ttan]] 18:55, 29 April 2008 (EDT)

== Chichilnisky ==

Good article, but I don't think she's a stat professor. There's definitely a lot of overlap in the domains of "Mathematics and Economics" and Statistics, but she doesn't have any affiliation with the stat department and I'm pretty sure they wouldn't claim her. [[User:Jiabao|Jiabao]] 08:10, 27 October 2008 (EDT)
:Hm, her website lists her as "Professor of Statistics" and her office in Math was part of the Stats dept. [[User:Pacman|Pacman]] 10:39, 27 October 2008 (EDT)
::I see where she claims that on her site, but maybe there's been some bureaucratic reshuffling. Stat dept offices are now in SSW. Eh, no big deal I guess. [[User:Jiabao|Jiabao]] 10:44, 27 October 2008 (EDT)

User talk:Pacman

2008-10-27T12:10:07Z

Jiabao: /* Chichilnisky */ new section

User talk:192.136.22.4

2008-10-26T17:00:06Z

Jiabao: New page: ==Anti-oppression== Nothing wrong with your point of view, but integrate it into the article, please.

==Anti-oppression==
Nothing wrong with your point of view, but integrate it into the article, please.

Anti-oppression training

2008-10-26T16:59:41Z

Jiabao: Reverted edits by 192.136.22.4 (Talk); changed back to last version by Jiabao

'''Anti-oppression training''' is a vaguely Stalinist-sounding program that has been urged by several campus protest groups over the last several years. It is difficult to define, but not very popular. Thanks to [[SHOCC]], it is now a somewhat mandatory part of [[NSOP]]. Thanks to the [[2007 hunger strike]], incoming faculty have to deal with it too.

Columbia being the multicultural institution that it is, few participants in anti-oppression training are actually [[oppressor]]s.

==External links==
*[http://www.bwog.net/index.php?page=post&article_id=3089&tpl_override=print_tpl Article describing the process of going through anti-oppression training]

[[Category:Definitions]]

Barnard jokes

2008-10-12T13:50:06Z

Jiabao: Reverted edits by 209.2.232.139 (Talk); changed back to last version by Jiabao

'''Barnard Jokes''' are an institution at Columbia. The [[CUMB]] is often a source for these jokes, usually the most vulgar and risque of them. This despite reasonably high Barnard representation in the band. It's just part of Columbia life. Jokes are also kept alive by freshmen who feel the need to revel in feelings of superiority over someone. They usually just need to get over themselves.

== Wikipedia ==
Repeated attempts to add a "Barnard jokes" section to wikipedia's Columbia article have been thwarted by a--curiously--few number of overzealous administrators

== Jokes ==
*By and large, Barnard girls are Bi and Large.
*Why did the Columbia student cross the street? To get a blow job.
*Why did the Barnard student cross the street? To get an education.
*Barnard to Bed, Columbia to Wed
*Why is Barnard on the West side of Broadway? So if the Hudson floods, all of the dykes will protect Columbia.
*A Barnard girl goes down quicker than the vodka it took to make her look pretty.
*Barnard girls are lesbians that steal Columbia girls' boyfriends.
*Not ''all'' Barnard girls were rejected by CC... Some were rejected by SEAS.
*''Alternative version:'' Not ''all'' Barnard girls were rejected by CC... Some were rejected by GS.
*We'll stop bashing Barnard when Barnard stops sucking.

[[Category:Barnard College]]
[[Category:Humor]]

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

2008-09-24T14:57:55Z

Jiabao:

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'''Joseph Gordon-Levitt''' is an actor who attended Columbia from [[2001]] to [[2004]], presumably in [[GS]]. Best known for starring in the sitcom ''Third Rock from the Sun'', Gordon-Levitt is now an indie film staple. In 1999, he starred in ''10 Things I Hate About You'' with [[Julia Stiles]] before either was enrolled at Columbia. While at Columbia he studied history, literature, and French, becoming a professed Francophile and acknowledging that his time at the university helped him to grow up. Nevertheless, he dropped out again as soon as the acting bug struck him.

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