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2013-05-23T17:44:27Z

Mak2117: /* Active blogs */

Many Columbia students and other affiliates keep '''blogs''' in one way or another. This page will hopefully list as many as possible.

== Active blogs ==

{|
|- style="background:#DDDDDD;"
| '''Blog name'''
| '''Author'''
| '''Topics'''
| '''Active?'''
|-
| [[The Bwog]] [http://www.bwog.net]
| ''[[The Blue and White]]''
| gossip, events, scandal
| yes
|-
| [[The Shaft]] [http://theshaft.specblogs.com/]
| [[Spec]]
| [[housing lottery]]
| yes
|-
| [http://www.thesecondageblog.com/ The Second Age]
| [[Matt Kane]]
| social commentary
| yes
|-
|[http://jennydavidson.blogspot.com/ Light Reading]
| Prof. [[Jenny Davidson]]
| literary stuff
| yes
|-
| [http://www.reflectivepundit.com/ Reflective Pundit]
| Prof. Brigitte Nacos
| econ/politics
| yes
|}

== Inactive blogs ==

{|
|- style="background:#DDDDDD;"
| '''Blog name'''
| '''Author'''
| '''Topics'''
| '''Active?'''
|-
| [[The Columns]] [http://blog.cupolitics.org/]
| [[CPU]] and pals
| politics
| not since Fall 2007
|-
| [http://www.2nd-law.blogspot.com/ 2nd Law]
| ?
| weird stuff about China
| not since February 2008
|-
| [http://editorjosh.blogspot.com/ The Stories Behind Spec News]
| [[Josh Hirschland]]
| [[Columbia Daily Spectator]], publishing
| not since Sept. 2007, replaced by Editors Notes
|-
| [http://hashbrownsandtoast.wordpress.com/ Hash Browns...and Toast!]
| ?
| ?
| not since October 2007
|-
| [http://fiveplusone.net/ Five Plus One]
| [[M. Six Silberman]]
| ?
| no
|-
| [http://columbiacritic.blogspot.com/ The Columbia Critic]
| ?
| news commentary
| not since December 2007
|-
| [http://inluminetuo.blogspot.com/ In Lumine Tuo]
| some Law student
| national news commentary
| no
|-
|[http://blog.hungrycu.com/ The Lion's Den]
|[[Hungrycu]]
|food around campus
|not since January 2008
|-
| [http://eternalmiserablesuffering.blogspot.com/ Eternal, Miserable Suffering]
| ?
| funny but true rants
| not since February 2008
|-
| [http://theonetrain.blogspot.com/ The One Train]
| [[Daniella Zalcman]]
| photos of strangers
| not since March 2011
|-
| [http://robynschneider.com/blog.html Queued Paper]
| [[Robyn Schneider]]
| writing, [[NYC]]
| no
|-
| [http://wang-tastic.blogspot.com/ wang. i am a bear.]
| [[Stephen Wang]]
| news commentary
| not since February 2009
|-
| [http://roarlions.blogspot.com/ Roar Lions Roar]
| [[Jake Novak]]
| football, [[Columbia Lions]]
| not since December 2011
|-
| [http://goinglions.blogspot.com/ Going Lions!]
| [[Henry Vick]]
| Basketball, [[Columbia Lions]]
| has been made into a private blog
|-
| [http://speccopy.blogspot.com/ The Spec Copy Community]
| [[CML]] and [[Darya Deker]] (?)
| [[Columbia Daily Spectator]]
| not since April 2007
|-
| [http://barnardrefdesk.blogspot.com/ BarnardRefDesk]
| [[Barnard College]] librarians
| stuff related to Barnard libraries
| not since April 2011
|-
| [http://tidings.cul.columbia.edu/cul-fyi/ Columbia University Libraries FYI]
| Columbia Librarians
| library related tidbits
| no
|-
| [[Commentariat]] [http://commentariat.specblogs.com/]
| [[Spec]]
| Opinion Blog of the [[Spec]]
| no
|-
| [http://editors.specblogs.com/ The Editors Notes]
| [[Spec]]
| [[Spec]] stuff
| no
|-
| [http://columbiadems.blogspot.com/ The Lion and the Donkey]
| [[College Dems]]
| Democrats, [[College Dems]]
| no
|-
| [http://gslounge.com/ GS Lounge]
| [[GS]] people?
| [[GS]] and their weird real world stories
| no
|-
| [http://peterandrobmakelistsofthings.blogspot.com/ Peter and Rob Make Lists of Things]
| [[Rob Trump]] and [[Peter Mende-Siedlecki]]
| Lists!
| no
|-
| [http://philolexian.blogspot.com/ The Phlog]
| [[Philo]]
| weird shit
| no
|-
| [http://theproxyprobe.blogspot.com/ the(pro)be]
| ?
| "art|artifice|rants|raves"
| no
|-
| [http://theblaaag.blogspot.com/ The Blaaag]
| [[Asian American Alliance]]
| Asian American politics, culture, campus life
| no
|-
| [http://elparticipante.blogspot.com/ el participante]
| [[Lucha]]
| immigration, labor, antiwar
| no
|-
| [http://offbroadway.wordpress.com/about/ Off Broadway]
| study abroad kids
| the foreigns
| no
|-
| [http://www.thecorejunction.com/ The Core Junction]
| Jacob Shapiro and Phil Levin
| politics, business, technology, entertainment, sports
| no
|-
| [http://www.devinmcdougall.org/climatelawnotes/ Climate Law Notes]
| Devin McDougall
| climate change, law and policy
| no
|}

[[Category:Student blogs|*]]
[[Category:Websites|blogs]]

David Charlow

2007-11-27T19:18:19Z

Mak2117: just a quick grammatcial thing, the guy is not dead, just not working at columbia anymore

[[Image:Charlow.jpg|frame|David Charlow]]

'''David Charlow''' is an allegedly corrupt former financial aid director at Columbia University. Charlow owns shares in a company called Education Lending Group. The group runs a service called Student Loan Xpress, which is classified as a preferred lender<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ssw/finaid/downloads/Lender_Comparison.pdf Comparison of CU preferred lenders]</ref> at Columbia. This represents a clear conflict of interest for David Charlow.

Charlow was suspended and placed under investigation by the [[New York State]] Attorney General's office. In May [[2007]], shortly after [[Commencement]], Charlow was fired.

Other financial aid directors at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Southern California are involved in similar scandals.

== References ==
<references/>

== External links ==
* [http://media.www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2007/04/04/News/Charlow.Suspended.Amid.Allegations.Of.Corruption-2823560.shtml "Charlow Suspended Amid Allegations of Corruption"], Columbia Spectator, April 5, 2007.
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/05/education/05loans.html "Student Loans Led to Benefits by College Aides"], New York Times, April 5, 2007.
* [http://www.ctvnewsonline.com/archive.php?content=detail&s=39 "David Charlow, Associate VP of Student Affairs and Head of Financial Aid Suspended"], CTV, April 5, 2007.

[[Category:Scandals]]
[[Category:Administrators]]

Columbia-Barnard relationship

2007-10-25T01:43:27Z

Mak2117: /* Petty Nitpicking */

[[Columbia University]] and [[Barnard College]] are two independent institutions with a long shared history and a close, somewhat unique, [[:Category:School relationships|relationship]]. Complications in this relationship often lead to misconceptions and endless bickering among students. The relationship between the institutions has been governed since [[1900]] by an [[Columbia-Barnard Intercorporate Agreement|intercorporate agreement]] that is periodically renegotiated or renewed. [[Columbia College]] began admitting female students in [[1983]], creating a potential redundancy between the schools.

==Summary==
Nowadays, Columbia's relationship with Barnard is somewhat paradoxical. On the one hand, Barnard students have the ability to [[Course registration|register]] for almost any class at Columbia, their degrees are conferred by the [[Trustees]] of Columbia University, and Barnard styles itself as "one of four undergraduate schools within the Columbia University system."<ref>[http://ci.columbia.edu/ci/eresources/schools.html Columbia Interactive - School Outlines]</ref> However, Columbia has no administrative relationship with Barnard students, and as a result the University does not count them in any statistical calculation of enrollment, admission, or expenditure. All of these functions fall to Barnard College.

Simply put, Barnard is institutionally independent, while academically and socially linked to Columbia. Institutionally, Barnard has its own board of trustees (chaired by [[Anna Quindlen]]) which oversees the school's operation, its own endowment, its own faculty, its own campus (Columbia does not share ownership of any of Barnard's campus buildings), and its own administration. There are few [[:Category:Freebies|freebies]] between the school- Barnard has to pay Columbia for access to utilities, the libraries, and other facilities. Columbia University does not handle admissions for Barnard, nor does it spend money on or collect money from Barnard students. The same goes for Barnard College and Columbia students. Nevertheless, both student bodies typically benefit in some manner when either school spends money, as the schools tend to keep student programming open to all undergraduates, though this is not always the case.

That said, both schools are academically linked by the intercorporate agreement which allows for nearly seamless, open cross-registration between the schools. As part of the agreement to open cross-registration (instigated by Columbia budgeteers in [[1973]] as a means of opening a new revenue stream by charging Barnard for each credit taken by its students at Columbia), Columbia took partial control of Barnard's tenuring process. This ultimately means that Columbia indirectly exercises some control over the Barnard faculty, in some ways making it an extension of Columbia's own faculty. Though there exist politics between members of departments with counter-parts on either side of the street (such as Columbia vs. Barnard History faculty), the schools generally hire faculty and develop departments with eye towards eliminating redundancies and maximizing the benefits from limited resources. However, in a nod to institutional separation, students answer to the department on their side of the street, even though they can usually register for classes on either side of the street.

Barnard is, for all intents and purposes, part of the same college life as the Columbia schools, despite not being under the Columbia yoke. Though there are practical consequences of Barnard's independent status, in day-to-day affairs the lines between the schools are, in fact, mostly non-existent. This is ultimately a very ambiguous relationship when attempting to determine who is and is not a "Columbia student". The situation has prompted endless rumination from all quarters, both informed and uninformed on the Columbia side, where students admitted to Columbia take issue with Barnard students referring to themselves as "Columbia students".

==Practical Consequences==
As mentioned before, in day-to-day life the lines between the schools are blurred to the point that it all appears like one big student body.

===Registration===
The schools have nearly complete cross-registration, Registration for Columbia students is almost seamless, with Barnard departments courses listed on the [[Columbia Course Directory]], and registrable through the same process as Columbia courses on [[SSOL]].

===Housing===
Barnard and Columbia College/[[SEAS]] undergrads have historically not had swipe access to each others [[:Category:Residence halls|residence halls]]. Students on both sides of the street have varying opinions on this policy. Some Barnard students believe they should have access to Columbia undergraduate dorms, but CC/SEAS undergraduates should not have access to the Barnard dorms because only girls (or mostly girls) live in these dorms and thus Barnard dorms have extra security risks. Other students from both CC/SEAS and Barnard believe that neither of the two undergraduate populations should have access to the other's dorms. The two student populations belong to separate schools, these students argue, and thus each should only have access to their own dorms and the resources therein. Finally there are students, both from Barnard and CC/SEAS, who believe that all the undergraduates within Columbia University should have access to each others dorms. Students of this view generally argue that the two student populations are not really separate and that it is inconvenient for both Barnard and CC/SEAS students to not be able to swipe into each others dorms.

The most recent attempt to enact swipe access between schools was scuttled by [[CCSC]] in 2001. Additionally, the excuse that Barnard and Columbia have separate security offices and separate swipe access systems, integrating would be too difficult and costly. Recently there was an [[SGA]] campaign for a compromised "Flash Access," in which Barnard/CC/SEAS undergraduates would be able to sign a special security contract and then would be able to themselves sign into the other schools dorm.

Students from each school have the option live in the other's dorms, in which case they are granted swipe access (Barnard students are granted access to all Columbia residence halls, while Columbia students are granted access only to their own building). Columbia students can opt to live in Barnard housing (usually [[Plimpton]]), and some students opt to [[Summer Transfer]] into Plimpton to get out of a bad Columbia housing choices if they have a really bad lottery number. Similarly, Barnard students can live with their Columbia friends in group housing (they cannot register by themselves for the Columbia lottery, but must register as a group with Columbia students). However, the number of Barnard students allowed to live in Columbia housing is limited, and cannot exceed the number of Columbia students who opt to live in Barnard housing.

==Other Aspects==

===Athletics and the Ivy League===
As part of an NCAA approved consortium, Barnard does not maintain an athletics program of its own, but instead women athletes from Barnard compete on University-wide (i.e. "Columbia") athletic teams. There are 3 such consortiums in the nation (such as the one between the 5 colleges of Claremont Mckenna), and Columbia-Barnard's is the only one in Division I. Barnard athletes figure prominently on a number of teams, including Archery.

Whether or not Barnard is an '[[Ivy League]]' school hinges on the interpretation of this arrangement. The Ivy League is an NCAA Division I athletics conference with 8 member schools. Though Barnard itself is not affiliated with the league, as it has no athletics program, its athletes are represented in the league, though only through its connection to Columbia.

===Diplomas===
One of the more contentious points of the agreement between the school, Barnard College degrees are officially granted by the Trustees of Columbia University, the same body that grants degrees to all Columbia students. This is despite Barnard's status as an affiliate as opposed to an undergraduate school of the University itself, and is often the grounds on which Barnard students argue that they are "Columbia students." Barnard students also take part in Columbia's [[University Commencement]] exercises.

===Single-sex admissions===
Barnard's single-sex admissions policy is an issue of some controversy in some circles on Columbia's campus. Some consider it to be outmoded and even sexist. The Barnard administration, as well as the majority of the Barnard student population, believe that its single-sex policy is necessary to the educational mission and general college environment. Generally they point to both the continual existence of sexism within society as well as data that suggests that at least some women work better and are more likely to succeed when they are educated at single-sex colleges. Barnard has a unique relationship with its parent Ivy compared to the other [[Seven Sisters]] colleges. For example, before [[Harvard University|Harvard]] went co-ed, Radcliffe College was a separate college affiliated with Harvard. Soon after Harvard began accepting women, Radcliffe was subsumed into Harvard College. Barnard has long been concerned about losing its individual identity as a college, as Radcliffe did, and as it most certainly would if it integrated with Columbia.

==Endless Debates==
Some of the things people will endlessly argue over are as follows.

===E-Mail Addresses===
Barnard students are given email address at both barnard.edu and columbia.edu. There are some who believe this is unfair because Barnard students are only affiliates of the school. However, most would point out this is policy is for academic simplicity. This way, teachers can just email all their students at their Columbia email addresses using [[Courseworks]], instead of having to figure out which students have Columbia email addresses and which have Barnard email addresses.

The point of contention lies with the ability of Barnard students to apply to jobs using the Columbia domain name as their e-mail address and inform their potential employer that they are Columbia University students when, in fact, Barnard College is its own separate entity. There have been stories of Barnard College students turning their back on their school and pretending to be from Columbia under the assumption that it would make them look better in the eyes of their potential employer.

==== Facebook ====
A related issue is Barnard's presence on [[Facebook]]. Specifically, that it doesn't have one. Rather than create overlapping 'networks' like they did for the Claremont Colleges, the Facebook programmers decided to create only one network. Since facebook networks are largely based on e-mail domains (the @columbia.edu part of your address), there's really nothing to do. Students are ambivalent about this issue, as there are a number who lament the lack of distinction between Columbia and Barnard students, though most admit that it would be unfortunate for students at both schools not to be able to stalk each other.

===Selectivity===
Some of the more ahem, elitist, Columbia students argue that Barnard students identifying themselves as "Columbia students" cheapen Columbia students' prestige, as they believe Barnard students since admission to Columbia is considerably more selective than to Barnard. They point to figures such as Barnard's significantly lower high school GPA, class rank, SAT scores and higher [[Admissions|acceptance rate]]. Barnard students often argue that they perform just as well as Columbia students in Columbia courses, though there has yet to be any concrete evidence of this.

== References ==
<references />

* [http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/about/columbia.html Extensive discussion on Barnard's site]
* [http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/cuhis3057/Timelines/BCCUTimeline.htm timeline] From History BC 3457
Fall 2004 "Columbia University: A Social History
1754 - 2004"

[[Category:School relationships]]

Columbia-Barnard relationship

2007-10-25T01:37:07Z

Mak2117: /* E-Mail Addresses */

[[Columbia University]] and [[Barnard College]] are two independent institutions with a long shared history and a close, somewhat unique, [[:Category:School relationships|relationship]]. Complications in this relationship often lead to misconceptions and endless bickering among students. The relationship between the institutions has been governed since [[1900]] by an [[Columbia-Barnard Intercorporate Agreement|intercorporate agreement]] that is periodically renegotiated or renewed. [[Columbia College]] began admitting female students in [[1983]], creating a potential redundancy between the schools.

==Summary==
Nowadays, Columbia's relationship with Barnard is somewhat paradoxical. On the one hand, Barnard students have the ability to [[Course registration|register]] for almost any class at Columbia, their degrees are conferred by the [[Trustees]] of Columbia University, and Barnard styles itself as "one of four undergraduate schools within the Columbia University system."<ref>[http://ci.columbia.edu/ci/eresources/schools.html Columbia Interactive - School Outlines]</ref> However, Columbia has no administrative relationship with Barnard students, and as a result the University does not count them in any statistical calculation of enrollment, admission, or expenditure. All of these functions fall to Barnard College.

Simply put, Barnard is institutionally independent, while academically and socially linked to Columbia. Institutionally, Barnard has its own board of trustees (chaired by [[Anna Quindlen]]) which oversees the school's operation, its own endowment, its own faculty, its own campus (Columbia does not share ownership of any of Barnard's campus buildings), and its own administration. There are few [[:Category:Freebies|freebies]] between the school- Barnard has to pay Columbia for access to utilities, the libraries, and other facilities. Columbia University does not handle admissions for Barnard, nor does it spend money on or collect money from Barnard students. The same goes for Barnard College and Columbia students. Nevertheless, both student bodies typically benefit in some manner when either school spends money, as the schools tend to keep student programming open to all undergraduates, though this is not always the case.

That said, both schools are academically linked by the intercorporate agreement which allows for nearly seamless, open cross-registration between the schools. As part of the agreement to open cross-registration (instigated by Columbia budgeteers in [[1973]] as a means of opening a new revenue stream by charging Barnard for each credit taken by its students at Columbia), Columbia took partial control of Barnard's tenuring process. This ultimately means that Columbia indirectly exercises some control over the Barnard faculty, in some ways making it an extension of Columbia's own faculty. Though there exist politics between members of departments with counter-parts on either side of the street (such as Columbia vs. Barnard History faculty), the schools generally hire faculty and develop departments with eye towards eliminating redundancies and maximizing the benefits from limited resources. However, in a nod to institutional separation, students answer to the department on their side of the street, even though they can usually register for classes on either side of the street.

Barnard is, for all intents and purposes, part of the same college life as the Columbia schools, despite not being under the Columbia yoke. Though there are practical consequences of Barnard's independent status, in day-to-day affairs the lines between the schools are, in fact, mostly non-existent. This is ultimately a very ambiguous relationship when attempting to determine who is and is not a "Columbia student". The situation has prompted endless rumination from all quarters, both informed and uninformed on the Columbia side, where students admitted to Columbia take issue with Barnard students referring to themselves as "Columbia students".

==Practical Consequences==
As mentioned before, in day-to-day life the lines between the schools are blurred to the point that it all appears like one big student body.

===Registration===
The schools have nearly complete cross-registration, Registration for Columbia students is almost seamless, with Barnard departments courses listed on the [[Columbia Course Directory]], and registrable through the same process as Columbia courses on [[SSOL]].

===Housing===
Barnard and Columbia College/[[SEAS]] undergrads have historically not had swipe access to each others [[:Category:Residence halls|residence halls]]. Students on both sides of the street have varying opinions on this policy. Some Barnard students believe they should have access to Columbia undergraduate dorms, but CC/SEAS undergraduates should not have access to the Barnard dorms because only girls (or mostly girls) live in these dorms and thus Barnard dorms have extra security risks. Other students from both CC/SEAS and Barnard believe that neither of the two undergraduate populations should have access to the other's dorms. The two student populations belong to separate schools, these students argue, and thus each should only have access to their own dorms and the resources therein. Finally there are students, both from Barnard and CC/SEAS, who believe that all the undergraduates within Columbia University should have access to each others dorms. Students of this view generally argue that the two student populations are not really separate and that it is inconvenient for both Barnard and CC/SEAS students to not be able to swipe into each others dorms.

The most recent attempt to enact swipe access between schools was scuttled by [[CCSC]] in 2001. Additionally, the excuse that Barnard and Columbia have separate security offices and separate swipe access systems, integrating would be too difficult and costly. Recently there was an [[SGA]] campaign for a compromised "Flash Access," in which Barnard/CC/SEAS undergraduates would be able to sign a special security contract and then would be able to themselves sign into the other schools dorm.

Students from each school have the option live in the other's dorms, in which case they are granted swipe access (Barnard students are granted access to all Columbia residence halls, while Columbia students are granted access only to their own building). Columbia students can opt to live in Barnard housing (usually [[Plimpton]]), and some students opt to [[Summer Transfer]] into Plimpton to get out of a bad Columbia housing choices if they have a really bad lottery number. Similarly, Barnard students can live with their Columbia friends in group housing (they cannot register by themselves for the Columbia lottery, but must register as a group with Columbia students). However, the number of Barnard students allowed to live in Columbia housing is limited, and cannot exceed the number of Columbia students who opt to live in Barnard housing.

==Other Aspects==

===Athletics and the Ivy League===
As part of an NCAA approved consortium, Barnard does not maintain an athletics program of its own, but instead women athletes from Barnard compete on University-wide (i.e. "Columbia") athletic teams. There are 3 such consortiums in the nation (such as the one between the 5 colleges of Claremont Mckenna), and Columbia-Barnard's is the only one in Division I. Barnard athletes figure prominently on a number of teams, including Archery.

Whether or not Barnard is an '[[Ivy League]]' school hinges on the interpretation of this arrangement. The Ivy League is an NCAA Division I athletics conference with 8 member schools. Though Barnard itself is not affiliated with the league, as it has no athletics program, its athletes are represented in the league, though only through its connection to Columbia.

===Diplomas===
One of the more contentious points of the agreement between the school, Barnard College degrees are officially granted by the Trustees of Columbia University, the same body that grants degrees to all Columbia students. This is despite Barnard's status as an affiliate as opposed to an undergraduate school of the University itself, and is often the grounds on which Barnard students argue that they are "Columbia students." Barnard students also take part in Columbia's [[University Commencement]] exercises.

===Single-sex admissions===
Barnard's single-sex admissions policy is an issue of some controversy in some circles on Columbia's campus. Some consider it to be outmoded and even sexist. The Barnard administration, as well as the majority of the Barnard student population, believe that its single-sex policy is necessary to the educational mission and general college environment. Generally they point to both the continual existence of sexism within society as well as data that suggests that at least some women work better and are more likely to succeed when they are educated at single-sex colleges. Barnard has a unique relationship with its parent Ivy compared to the other [[Seven Sisters]] colleges. For example, before [[Harvard University|Harvard]] went co-ed, Radcliffe College was a separate college affiliated with Harvard. Soon after Harvard began accepting women, Radcliffe was subsumed into Harvard College. Barnard has long been concerned about losing its individual identity as a college, as Radcliffe did, and as it most certainly would if it integrated with Columbia.

==Petty Nitpicking==
Some of the things people will endlessly argue over are as follows.

===E-Mail Addresses===
Barnard students are given email address at both barnard.edu and columbia.edu. There are some who believe this is unfair because Barnard students are only affiliates of the school. However, most would point out this is policy is for academic simplicity. This way, teachers can just email all their students at their Columbia email addresses using [[Courseworks]], instead of having to figure out which students have Columbia email addresses and which have Barnard email addresses.

The point of contention lies with the ability of Barnard students to apply to jobs using the Columbia domain name as their e-mail address and inform their potential employer that they are Columbia University students when, in fact, Barnard College is its own separate entity. There have been stories of Barnard College students turning their back on their school and pretending to be from Columbia under the assumption that it would make them look better in the eyes of their potential employer.

==== Facebook ====
A related issue is Barnard's presence on [[Facebook]]. Specifically, that it doesn't have one. Rather than create overlapping 'networks' like they did for the Claremont Colleges, the Facebook programmers decided to create only one network. Since facebook networks are largely based on e-mail domains (the @columbia.edu part of your address), there's really nothing to do. Students are ambivalent about this issue, as there are a number who lament the lack of distinction between Columbia and Barnard students, though most admit that it would be unfortunate for students at both schools not to be able to stalk each other.

===Selectivity===
Some of the more ahem, elitist, Columbia students argue that Barnard students identifying themselves as "Columbia students" cheapen Columbia students' prestige, as they believe Barnard students since admission to Columbia is considerably more selective than to Barnard. They point to figures such as Barnard's significantly lower high school GPA, class rank, SAT scores and higher [[Admissions|acceptance rate]]. Barnard students often argue that they perform just as well as Columbia students in Columbia courses, though there has yet to be any concrete evidence of this.

== References ==
<references />

* [http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/about/columbia.html Extensive discussion on Barnard's site]
* [http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/cuhis3057/Timelines/BCCUTimeline.htm timeline] From History BC 3457
Fall 2004 "Columbia University: A Social History
1754 - 2004"

[[Category:School relationships]]

Top of the Rock

2007-07-24T19:36:07Z

Mak2117: added category

The '''Top of the Rock''' is an observation deck 70 stories up on 30 Rockefeller Plaza, also known as the GE Building, in the middle of Rockfeller Plaza in New York City. While visiting the Top of the Rock, one is able to tour the multi-media exhibit that is in the pre-show area. After that, each participant will be taken to the observation desk via a sky shuttle, where one is able to see 360 degree views of New York City.

== External Links ==
* [http://www.topoftherocknyc.com/ Top of the Rock website]

[[Category:New York City]]

Top of the Rock

2007-07-24T19:35:13Z

Mak2117:

Top of the Rock

2007-07-24T19:34:24Z

Mak2117: Created article

New Student Orientation Program

2007-07-24T19:24:09Z

Mak2117:

{{prefrosh}}

The '''New Student Orientation Program''' takes up your first week at Columbia. The committee for NSOP 2007 has been working hard on the various activities and all of the nuts and bolts that go into a successful orientation week. Some of the events that they have been working on include:

* CU: Take One - This event is similar to the [[BlaZe]] but was tweaked for this year's orientation.
* [[Academic Resources Fair]]
* A party on Ellis Island exclusively for new Columbia University students
* [[New York City|New York]] Waterway Cruise for new transfer students
* A [[Top of the Rock]] tour for internation students new to the University
* Open Mic Night
* Concert in [[Roone Arledge Auditorium]]
* [[Alfred Lerner Hall|Lerner]] Party

== External links ==
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/orientation/ NSOP website]

[[Category:Orientation]]

New Student Orientation Program

2007-07-24T19:22:24Z

Mak2117: Updating the page for NSOP 2007

{{prefrosh}}

The '''New Student Orientation Program''' takes up your first week at Columbia. The committee for NSOP 2007 has been working hard on the various activities and all of the nuts and bolts that go into a successful orientation week. Some of the events that they have been working on include:

* CU: Take One - This event is similar to the [[BlaZe]] but was tweaked for this year's orientation.
* [[Academic Resources Fair]]
* A party on Ellis Island exclusively for new Columbia University students
* [[New York City|New York]] Waterway Cruise for new transfer students
* Open Mic Night
* Concert in [[Roone Arledge Auditorium]]
* [[Alfred Lerner Hall|Lerner]] Party

== External links ==
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/orientation/ NSOP website]

[[Category:Orientation]]

User:Skanelaw

2007-07-09T23:18:55Z

Mak2117: New page: Columbia College graduate of 1980, Columbia Law 1983.

Columbia College graduate of 1980, Columbia Law 1983.

David Charlow

2007-06-13T14:28:39Z

Mak2117:

[[Image:Charlow.jpg|frame|David Charlow]]'''David Charlow''' was an allegedly corrupt financial aid director at Columbia University. Charlow owns shares in a company called Education Lending Group. The group runs a service called Student Loan Xpress, which is classified as a preferred lender<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ssw/finaid/downloads/Lender_Comparison.pdf Comparison of CU preferred lenders]</ref> at Columbia, a clear conflict of interest.

Charlow was suspended and placed under investigation by the [[New York State]] Attorney General's office. In May [[2007]], shortly after [[Commencement]], Charlow was fired.

Other financial aid directors at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Southern California are involved in similar scandals.

== Notes ==
<references/>

== External links ==
* [http://media.www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2007/04/04/News/Charlow.Suspended.Amid.Allegations.Of.Corruption-2823560.shtml "Charlow Suspended Amid Allegations of Corruption"], Columbia Spectator, April 5, 2007.
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/05/education/05loans.html "Student Loans Led to Benefits by College Aides"], New York Times, April 5, 2007.
* [http://www.ctvnewsonline.com/archive.php?content=detail&s=39 "David Charlow, Associate VP of Student Affairs and Head of Financial Aid Suspended"], CTV, April 5, 2007.
* [http://www.columbiancokane.blogspot.com "Defining Hypocrisy"], Columbian CoKane

[[Category:Scandals]]
[[Category:Administrators]]

David Charlow

2007-06-13T14:28:13Z

Mak2117:

[[Image:Charlow.jpg|frame|David Charlow]]'''David Charlow''' was an allegedly corrupt financial aid director at Columbia University. Charlow owns shares in a company called Education Lending Group. The group runs a service called Student Loan Xpress, which is classified as a preferred lender<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ssw/finaid/downloads/Lender_Comparison.pdf Comparison of CU preferred lenders]</ref> at Columbia, a clear conflict of interest.

Charlow was suspended and placed under investigation by the [[New York State]] Attorney General's office. In May [[2007]], shortly after [[Commencement]], Charlow was fired.

Other financial aid directors at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Southern California are involved in similar scandals.

== Notes ==
<references/>

== External links ==
* [http://media.www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2007/04/04/News/Charlow.Suspended.Amid.Allegations.Of.Corruption-2823560.shtml "Charlow Suspended Amid Allegations of Corruption"], Columbia Spectator, April 5, 2007.
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/05/education/05loans.html "Student Loans Led to Benefits by College Aides"], New York Times, April 5, 2007.
* [http://www.ctvnewsonline.com/archive.php?content=detail&s=39 "David Charlow, Associate VP of Student Affairs and Head of Financial Aid Suspended"], CTV, April 5, 2007.
[http://www.columbiancokane.blogspot.com "Defining Hypocrisy"], Columbian CoKane

[[Category:Scandals]]
[[Category:Administrators]]

David Charlow

2007-06-13T14:23:27Z

Mak2117:

File:Charlow.jpg

2007-06-13T14:12:43Z

Mak2117:

Blogs

2007-04-25T17:34:27Z

Mak2117:

== List of blogs ==

{|
|- style="background:#DDDDDD;"
| '''Blog name'''
| '''Author'''
| '''Topics'''
| '''Active?'''
|-
| [http://editorjosh.blogspot.com/ The Stories Behind Spec News]
| Josh
| [[Columbia Daily Spectator]], publishing
| yes
|-
| [http://blog.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/ Columbia Spectator opinion blog]
| [[Spec]]
| ?
| doesn't even work
|-
| [http://theonetrain.blogspot.com/ The One Train]
| ?
| photos of strangers
| yes
|-
| [http://opencolumbia.blogspot.com/ Columbia College Student Council]
| [[CCSC]]
| CCSC emails
| not since March
|-
| [http://hashbrownsandtoast.wordpress.com/ Hash Browns...and Toast!]
| ?
| ?
| yes
|-
| [http://columbiadems.blogspot.com/ Columbia Dems]
| [[College Dems]]
| Democrats, [[College Dems]]
| not since early April
|-
| [http://fiveplusone.net/ Five Plus One]
| ?
| ?
| yes
|-
| [http://columbiacritic.blogspot.com/ The Columbia Critic]
| ?
| news commentary
| yes
|-
| [http://robynschneider.com/blog.html Queued Paper]
| [[Robyn Schneider]]
| writing, [[NYC]]
| yes
|-
| [http://wang-tastic.blogspot.com/ wang. i am a bear.]
| Stephen Wang
| news commentary
| yes
|-
| [http://www.2nd-law.blogspot.com/ 2nd Law]
| ?
| weird stuff about China
| no
|-
| [http://roarlions.blogspot.com/ Roar Lions Roar]
| ?
| football, [[Columbia Lions]]
| yes
|-
| [http://www.blog.cupolitics.org/ CPU Blog]
| [[CPU]]
| politics
| yes
|-
| [http://eternalmiserablesuffering.blogspot.com/ Eternal, Miserable Suffering]
| ?
| funny but true rants
| yes
|-
| [http://www.columbiancokane.blogspot.com/ Columbian CoKane]
| Matt Kane
| Social Commentary
| yes
|-
| [http://speccopy.blogspot.com/ The Spec Copy Community]
| [[CML]] and [[Darya Deker]] (?)
| [[Columbia Daily Spectator]]
| fairly active
|}

[[Category:Blogs]]
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