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Dropouts

2009-11-26T16:14:25Z

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'''Dropouts''' are some (okay, maybe most) of Columbia's most famous students. That's right, a Columbia education is SO good that you don't even need a full 4 years to take the world by storm! Making it to [[Commencement]] is clearly overrated.

* [[Alexander Hamilton]] (joined the Revolutionary War)
* [[Lou Gehrig]] (signed a contract with the Yankees and bolted)
* [[Langston Hughes]] (from the [[School of Mines]] - that's right, one of the great American poets was a [[SEAS]] drop-out...)
* [[w:Eudora Welty|Eudora Welty]] (from the [[Business School]], perhaps for obvious reasons)
* [[Jack Kerouac]] (CC)
* [[Alicia Keys]]
* [[Lauryn Hill]]
* [[Joseph Gordon-Levitt]] (GS)
* [[Jake Gyllenhaal]] (CC)
* [[w:Isamu Noguchi|Isamu Noguchi]] (dropped out of CC's premed program to sculpt full-time)
* [[w:José Raúl Capablanca|José Raúl Capablanca]] (World Chess Champion, 1921-1927; dropped out of the School of Mines after one semester because he spent too much time playing chess)
* [[Mortimer J. Adler]] (spread the gospel of the [[Core Curriculum]] to the [[University of Chicago]] and [[St. John's College]] in Annapolis. He didn't bother to take the [[Swim Test]], and came back to teach Core classes with [[John Erskine]])
* [[Theodore Roosevelt]] (from the [[Law School]], after being elected to State Assembly)
* [[Franklin Roosevelt]] (from the Law School, after passing the Bar)
* [[w:Utada Hikaru|Utada Hikaru]]
*[[John Parke Custis]], [[George Washington]]'s stepson
* [[Amelia Earhart]]
* [[James Cagney]], dropped out after one semester in [[1918]] when his father died in the [[w:1918 flu pandemic|1918 flu pandemic]]

==Honorable Mentions==
* [[Benjamin Cardozo]] - dropped out of the Law School after graduating from the College
* [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] - dropped out of the Law School after graduating from the College

[[Category:Drop outs|*]]
[[Category:Traditions]]

East Campus

2009-11-26T13:49:45Z

SteveMcP:

{{wp-also2|East Campus (Columbia University)}}

{{Infobox reshall
|Name=East Campus
|Image=Eastcampus.jpeg
|Built=[[1981]]
|Renovated=[[1991]] Townhouses in [[2003]] Floors 18-20 in [[2004]]
|Population=723}}
'''East Campus''' (in common parlance, '''EC''') is a large complex abutting [[Morningside Drive]] between 118th Street and [[Faculty House]], although it only opens onto campus, facing the opposite direction. Much of the structure consists of Columbia's largest residence hall - and one of its most desirable. The rest is occupied by university offices and meeting spaces.

A $28.7 million dollar facility, it was designed by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates architects and built from [[1979]] - [[1982]]. It was completely renovated in [[1991]], and has received additional renovations in [[1997]], [[2002]], and [[2004]].

Although consisting of a single structure, the building is technically made up of 10 "townhouses" (8 of which are individually named: Carleton House; Wien House; McGill House; Ritter House; Buttenwieser House; Moses House; Kresge House; and Watson House), and a high-rise, properly known as "Hudson Hall" after [[SEAS]] alumnus Percy K. Hudson, but nobody uses their proper names. It probably doesn't help that EC is the dorm the furthest from the [[Hudson River]].

EC is a large structure with multiple facilities, some containing their own exterior entrances, others hidden within the residence hall's security screen. The security-controlled entrance to the dormitory building, the [[Heyman Center]], and the [[Faculty in Residence]] apartment is located on [[Ancel Plaza]]. Separate entrances to the [[Center for Career Education]] and the [[Facilities Management]] office are located in the bowels of the EC complex, next to [[Wien Hall]] and across from [[Faculty House]].

== History ==

===Early plans===

[[Image:Earlyec.jpg|thumb|right|Early, twin tower design for EC]]

An earlier plan for East Campus (1965), by [[Max Abramovitz|Harrison and Abramovitz]] architects, included twin concrete slab towers.<ref>[http://www.morningside-heights.net/ecp2.htm Unbuilt: Original East Campus Proposal] at Morningside Heights neighborhood website</ref> Along with the rest of the ambitious expansion plans of University President [[Grayson L. Kirk]], it was scrapped in the wake of the [[1968 protests]] against, among other things, a university gym proposed for nearby Morningside Park. When expansion finally did reach East Campus, by the late 1970s, the university was seeking a more humanist design, one which would both harmonize better with the surrounding campus and reflect, to some degree, the residential college quads of [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and [[Yale]].

===Opening and response===

East Campus received its first residents in January of 1981. These were the former occupants of Hartley and Livingston Halls, which had begun to be gutted for conversion from individual rooms to suite layouts a month earlier, at the close of the Fall Semester, 1980. This compulsory relocation over the Winter vacation was marked by the widespread theft, vandalism and careless destruction of students' possessions by the "Seven Santini Brothers," the moving firm hired by Columbia to shovel everyone's belongings into the new building. When East Campus opened, students appreciated its expansive suite space, commanding views, and spacious townhouses, which were a refreshing contrast to the cramped conditions prevailing in much of the rest of the University's housing.

Not all, however, was unalloyed bliss. The building had fallen far behind schedule and was therefore still under construction, with many workmen showing up every morning at 7:30AM, cheerfully wielding hammers, drills, and, most entertainingly of all, nail guns, the concussive staccato of which provided a daily surefire wake-up call for several weeks. Further contributing to the festive ambience was the lack of televisions in the TV lounges and washers and dryers in the Laundry Room, carpeting that had been apparently liberally marinated in Benzene, empty sockets in the bathrooms where the electrical outlets were intended to be, HVAC consoles that were unalterably tuned to Full Depths of Hell settings combined with windows that were blocked to open no further than 2 inches, and a fiendishly inventive sewer system that ensured that the flushing of any single toilet anywhere in the structure instantaneously supplied 211 degrees F water to every shower head in the building. And never to be overlooked were the rats who, having been routed from their erstwhile homes on the construction site, adamantly declined to be displaced by the new arrivals, instead making delightfully impromptu, random appearances throughout.

Many of the outer townhouses were donated and built by famous Columbia University benefactors. The most notable of these is [[Thomas J. Watson, Jr.]] who donated the popular [[Watson House]]. Donor [[George Delacorte]], for whom the building's central courtyard is formally named, said of his former room at the university "we had two nails on the wall for a closet...now I've paid for a dormitory where boys loll around in marble bathtubs." The bathrooms are not, however, actually marble, but imitate that material.<ref>"Columbia Dedicates New Suites and Townhouses for Students" in the ''New York Times'', June 4, 1981</ref>

East Campus' original red and white tile cladding was praised as innovative by architectural critics. The American Institute of Architects' Guide to New York City called it "elegant and handsome".

Despite such positive views, reception to the building was mixed overall. ''[[New York Times]]'' architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable wrote of East Campus:

<blockquote>"Consider a building that has to be vandal-proof, constructed of maintenance-free materials with every surface resistant to neglect and abuse, where violation of design and function must be an anticipated fact, along with defacement and petty thievery -- a place where surveillance is a necessity and population is transient. A description of a minimum security prison? Not at all. This is a dormitory for Columbia University... it is easy to see how an austerely simple aesthetic can be brought down to this dispiriting level..."<ref>(Architecture, Anyone? p.236)</ref></blockquote>

===Murder===

On [[October 10]], [[1985]], a SEAS student, [[Sarah M. Thomas]], was stabbed in her East Campus suite by an intruder, a man who had been signed in as a guest by another resident. It was one of a number of violent crimes in the Columbia dormitories during the 1980s..<ref>"Intruder Stabs Student in Columbia Dormitory" by Keith Schneider in the ''New York Times'', October 11, 1985</ref>

===Reconstruction===

An inspection in [[1987]] revealed that the tiled exterior which had earned the building accolades had begun to peel off its facade, and a large chunk collapsed into its courtyard in February [[1988]], prompting the university to order its recladding, a $15 million project handled by the architects Gruzon Sampton Steinglass, in the campus' traditional red brick and limestone. In the course of the scandal, Columbia sued both Gwathmey Siegel and the engineering firm that had worked on the project.<ref>"Columbia Dormitory, A New Facade," in the ''New York Times'', June 23, 1991</ref>

===Later history===

In [[2006]], a homophobic message written on a dry-erase board in East Campus was denounced as a hate crime, the sixth one alleged that year, and prompted the creation of the contrversial student group [[SHOCC]].

Until very recently, one floor of the EC high-rise was used as a small hotel for university guests. This has since been converted to student residences, in keeping with the rest of the building.

==Famous residents==

East Campus was home to US presidential adviser and television news personality [[George Stephanopoulos]], and actors [[Matthew Fox]], [[Julia Stiles]] and [[Rider Strong]], all of whom lived in the Watson House townhouse. Controversial political cartoonist [[Ted Rall]] also lived in East Campus, but was kicked out after targeting pedestrians below his window with water balloons.<ref>[http://www.tedrall.com/longarticle_002.htm Fatal Defenstration: Men Who Love Gravity Too Much] on Ted Rall's website</ref>

== Facilities ==

East Campus has four types of suites: townhouses, high-rise exclusion suites, high-rise 6-person suites, and 2-person flats.

Groups need at least 2 seniors (as well as 1 junior and 2 sophomores) to get an [[Exclusion Suite]]. Only some groups with only 1 senior are usually able to get these suites.

Every suite has a kitchen and bathroom.

=== Suites ===

* 7 high-rise 5-person suites with 5 singles

* 7 high-rise 6-person suites with 6 singles

* 56 high-rise 5-person 'exclusion' suites with 3 singles and 1 double

* 35 high-rise 2-person apartments

* 10 townhouse 4-person suites with 4 singles.
: Last one was taken by 30/1004 in 2003, 30/1327 in 2004, 30/785 in 2005, 30/398 in 2006.

* 12 townhouse 6-person suites with 4 singles and 1 double.
: Last one was taken by 30/2703 in 2003, 30/2743 in 2004, 20/600 in 2005, 30/2753 in 2006.
: H1003, H1004, H603 and H803 are Greek.
: H104, H203, H304, H403, H504, H704, H903, H904 are in the [[room selection|lottery]]

* 28 townhouse 6-person suites with 6 singles
: Last one was taken by ? in 2003, 30/1830 in 2004, 30/2913 in 2005, 30/1836 in 2006.

== Advantages ==
* Large suite lounges.
* Suite bathrooms.
* Recently-built.
*Air conditioning
* Clean. Mostly. Sometimes.
* Strong community, which even includes a faculty family in residence which will invite residents up for food.

== Disadvantages ==
* Frequently malfunctioning highrise elevators (this is not a problem if you live in one of the townhouses).
* Crazy lines at the security desk on weekends (this phenomenon occurs because EC suites are among the best dorm party venues on campus, lending the weekend queues the moniker "Club EC").
* Ever walk barefoot on the stairs inside a highrise suite? Concrete stairs suck.

== Images ==
The high-rise suite is 1410, and the townhouse is 1003.
<gallery>
Image:EChighriselounge1410view1.jpg|Suite lounge, view 1
Image:EChighriselounge1410view2.jpg|Suite lounge, view 2
Image:EChighriselounge1410window.jpg|View from suite lounge
Image:EChighrisekitchen1410.jpg|Suite kitchen
Image:EChighrisesingle1410view1.jpg|High-rise single, view 1
Image:EChighrisesingle1410view2.jpg|High-rise single, view 2
Image:EChighrisesingle1410view3.jpg|High-rise single, view 3
Image:EChighrisedouble1410.jpg|High-rise double
Image:EChighrisebathroom1410.jpg|Suite bathroom
Image:EChighrisefloorlounge8.jpg|Floor 8 lounge
Image:EChighrisefloorlounge8window.jpg|View from floor 8 lounge
Image:ECtownhouseloungeH1003A.jpg|Townhouse lounge
Image:ECtownhousesingleH1003Aview1.jpg|Townhouse single, view 1
Image:ECtownhousesingleH1003Aview2.jpg|Townhouse single, view 2
Image:ECtownhousesingleH1003Awindow.jpg|View from townhouse
Image:ECmainlounge2view1.jpg|Building lounge, view 1
Image:ECmainlounge2view2.jpg|Building lounge, view 2
Image:EastCampus.jpg|Building facade
</gallery>

== Floor plans ==
<gallery>
Image:EC1.gif|Floor 1
Image:EC2.gif|Floor 2
Image:EC3.gif|Floor 3
Image:EC4.gif|Floor 4
Image:EC5.gif|Floor 5
Image:EC7.gif|Floor 7
Image:EC8.gif|Floor 8
Image:EC9.gif|Floor 9
Image:EC10.gif|Floor 10
Image:EC11.gif|Floor 11
Image:EC12.gif|Floor 12
Image:EC13.gif|Floor 13
Image:EC14.gif|Floor 14
Image:EC15.gif|Floor 15
Image:EC16.gif|Floor 16
Image:EC17.gif|Floor 17
Image:EC18.gif|Floor 18
Image:EC19.gif|Floor 19
Image:EC20.gif|Floor 20
</gallery>

== Tunnel/roof connections ==

===[[Wien]]===
Take elevator to B3, but access is by key only and you won't get the key. Then there's the issue of the camera which is monitored at the front desk.

===Roof===
EC's roof is perhaps the best view on campus. Harlem? Check. Midtown? Check. Yankee Stadium? Check. Jersey? True connoisseurs know to climb the stairs and then the ladder to get to the very top of the utility room on the middle of the roof. Don't fall off. Take the elevator to 20. If you take the south staircase, look out for the camera (wear a hoodie?) and hope for the door to be propped open. If it's closed, just be aware that setting off a fire alarm is a crime, and FDNY will be mad at you, because they will come. If you take the north staircase, you'll find another fire door, with an interesting keypad contraption. Enter the appropriate code, and the door will open without setting off the fire alarm. It will, however, alert security that the door has been opened. Security's response time is unimpressive, but this method does not lend itself to a nice leisurely visit. If the door's propped, just cover your face on the way up and you should be fine. If it isn't, then be brief. Consider the security response time from Low Library to EC 20, and budget your time accordingly.

== References ==
<references />

== Map ==
<googlemap lat="40.807049" lon="-73.959564" type="map" zoom="16" width="500" height="300" controls="small">
40.807049, -73.959564, East Campus residence hall
</googlemap>

== Building address ==
70 Morningside Dr. 
New York, NY 10027

== External Links ==
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/housing/docs/residence-halls/east-campus/index.html Columbia Housing - East Campus]

[[Category:Columbia undergraduate residence halls]]
[[Category:Unnamed buildings]]

East Campus

2009-11-26T13:46:04Z

SteveMcP:

{{wp-also2|East Campus (Columbia University)}}

{{Infobox reshall
|Name=East Campus
|Image=Eastcampus.jpeg
|Built=[[1981]]
|Renovated=[[1991]] Townhouses in [[2003]] Floors 18-20 in [[2004]]
|Population=723}}
'''East Campus''' (in common parlance, '''EC''') is a large complex abutting [[Morningside Drive]] between 118th Street and [[Faculty House]], although it only opens onto campus, facing the opposite direction. Much of the structure consists of Columbia's largest residence hall - and one of its most desirable. The rest is occupied by university offices and meeting spaces.

A $28.7 million dollar facility, it was designed by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates architects and built from [[1979]] - [[1982]]. It was completely renovated in [[1991]], and has received additional renovations in [[1997]], [[2002]], and [[2004]].

Although consisting of a single structure, the building is technically made up of 10 "townhouses" (8 of which are individually named: Carleton House; Wien House; McGill House; Ritter House; Buttenwieser House; Moses House; Kresge House; and Watson House), and a high-rise, properly known as "Hudson Hall" after [[SEAS]] alumnus Percy K. Hudson, but nobody uses their proper names. It probably doesn't help that EC is the dorm the furthest from the [[Hudson River]].

EC is a large structure with multiple facilities, some containing their own exterior entrances, others hidden within the residence hall's security screen. The security-controlled entrance to the dormitory building, the [[Heyman Center]], and the [[Faculty in Residence]] apartment is located on [[Ancel Plaza]]. Separate entrances to the [[Center for Career Education]] and the [[Facilities Management]] office are located in the bowels of the EC complex, next to [[Wien Hall]] and across from [[Faculty House]].

== History ==

===Early plans===

[[Image:Earlyec.jpg|thumb|right|Early, twin tower design for EC]]

An earlier plan for East Campus (1965), by [[Max Abramovitz|Harrison and Abramovitz]] architects, included twin concrete slab towers.<ref>[http://www.morningside-heights.net/ecp2.htm Unbuilt: Original East Campus Proposal] at Morningside Heights neighborhood website</ref> Along with the rest of the ambitious expansion plans of University President [[Grayson L. Kirk]], it was scrapped in the wake of the [[1968 protests]] against, among other things, a university gym proposed for nearby Morningside Park. When expansion finally did reach East Campus, by the late 1970s, the university was seeking a more humanist design, one which would both harmonize better with the surrounding campus and reflect, to some degree, the residential college quads of [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and [[Yale]].

===Opening and response===

East Campus received its first residents in January of 1981. These were the former occupants of Hartley and Livingston Halls, which had begun to be gutted for conversion from individual rooms to suite layouts a month earlier, at the close of the Fall Semester, 1980. This compulsory relocation over the Winter vacation was marked by the widespread theft, vandalism and careless destruction of Students' possessions by the "Seven Santini Brothers," the moving firm hired by Columbia to shovel everyone's belongings into the new building. When East Campus opened, students appreciated its expansive suite space, commanding views, and spacious townhouses, which were a refreshing contrast to the cramped conditions prevailing in much of the rest of the University's housing.

Not all, however, was unalloyed bliss. The building had fallen far behind schedule and was therefore still under construction, with many workmen showing up every morning at 7:30AM, cheerfully wielding hammers, drills, and, most entertainingly of all, nail guns, the concussive staccato of which provided a daily surefire wake-up call for several weeks. Further contributing to the festive ambience was the lack of televisions in the TV lounges and washers and dryers in the Laundry Room, carpeting that had been apparently liberally marinated in Benzene, empty sockets in the bathrooms where the electrical outlets were intended to be, HVAC consoles that were unalterably tuned to Full Depths of Hell settings combined with windows that were blocked to open no further than 2 inches, and a fiendishly inventive sewer system that ensured that the flushing of any single toilet anywhere in the structure instantaneously supplied 211 degrees F water to every shower head in the building. And never to be overlooked were the rats who, having been routed from their erstwhile homes on the construction site, adamantly declined to be displaced by the new arrivals, instead making delightfully impromptu, random appearances throughout.

Many of the outer townhouses were donated and built by famous Columbia University benefactors. The most notable of these is [[Thomas J. Watson, Jr.]] who donated the popular [[Watson House]]. Donor [[George Delacorte]], for whom the building's central courtyard is formally named, said of his former room at the university "we had two nails on the wall for a closet...now I've paid for a dormitory where boys loll around in marble bathtubs." The bathrooms are not, however, actually marble, but imitate that material.<ref>"Columbia Dedicates New Suites and Townhouses for Students" in the ''New York Times'', June 4, 1981</ref>

East Campus' original red and white tile cladding was praised as innovative by architectural critics. The American Institute of Architects' Guide to New York City called it "elegant and handsome".

Despite such positive views, reception to the building was mixed overall. ''[[New York Times]]'' architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable wrote of East Campus:

<blockquote>"Consider a building that has to be vandal-proof, constructed of maintenance-free materials with every surface resistant to neglect and abuse, where violation of design and function must be an anticipated fact, along with defacement and petty thievery -- a place where surveillance is a necessity and population is transient. A description of a minimum security prison? Not at all. This is a dormitory for Columbia University... it is easy to see how an austerely simple aesthetic can be brought down to this dispiriting level..."<ref>(Architecture, Anyone? p.236)</ref></blockquote>

===Murder===

On [[October 10]], [[1985]], a SEAS student, [[Sarah M. Thomas]], was stabbed in her East Campus suite by an intruder, a man who had been signed in as a guest by another resident. It was one of a number of violent crimes in the Columbia dormitories during the 1980s..<ref>"Intruder Stabs Student in Columbia Dormitory" by Keith Schneider in the ''New York Times'', October 11, 1985</ref>

===Reconstruction===

An inspection in [[1987]] revealed that the tiled exterior which had earned the building accolades had begun to peel off its facade, and a large chunk collapsed into its courtyard in February [[1988]], prompting the university to order its recladding, a $15 million project handled by the architects Gruzon Sampton Steinglass, in the campus' traditional red brick and limestone. In the course of the scandal, Columbia sued both Gwathmey Siegel and the engineering firm that had worked on the project.<ref>"Columbia Dormitory, A New Facade," in the ''New York Times'', June 23, 1991</ref>

===Later history===

In [[2006]], a homophobic message written on a dry-erase board in East Campus was denounced as a hate crime, the sixth one alleged that year, and prompted the creation of the contrversial student group [[SHOCC]].

Until very recently, one floor of the EC high-rise was used as a small hotel for university guests. This has since been converted to student residences, in keeping with the rest of the building.

==Famous residents==

East Campus was home to US presidential adviser and television news personality [[George Stephanopoulos]], and actors [[Matthew Fox]], [[Julia Stiles]] and [[Rider Strong]], all of whom lived in the Watson House townhouse. Controversial political cartoonist [[Ted Rall]] also lived in East Campus, but was kicked out after targeting pedestrians below his window with water balloons.<ref>[http://www.tedrall.com/longarticle_002.htm Fatal Defenstration: Men Who Love Gravity Too Much] on Ted Rall's website</ref>

== Facilities ==

East Campus has four types of suites: townhouses, high-rise exclusion suites, high-rise 6-person suites, and 2-person flats.

Groups need at least 2 seniors (as well as 1 junior and 2 sophomores) to get an [[Exclusion Suite]]. Only some groups with only 1 senior are usually able to get these suites.

Every suite has a kitchen and bathroom.

=== Suites ===

* 7 high-rise 5-person suites with 5 singles

* 7 high-rise 6-person suites with 6 singles

* 56 high-rise 5-person 'exclusion' suites with 3 singles and 1 double

* 35 high-rise 2-person apartments

* 10 townhouse 4-person suites with 4 singles.
: Last one was taken by 30/1004 in 2003, 30/1327 in 2004, 30/785 in 2005, 30/398 in 2006.

* 12 townhouse 6-person suites with 4 singles and 1 double.
: Last one was taken by 30/2703 in 2003, 30/2743 in 2004, 20/600 in 2005, 30/2753 in 2006.
: H1003, H1004, H603 and H803 are Greek.
: H104, H203, H304, H403, H504, H704, H903, H904 are in the [[room selection|lottery]]

* 28 townhouse 6-person suites with 6 singles
: Last one was taken by ? in 2003, 30/1830 in 2004, 30/2913 in 2005, 30/1836 in 2006.

== Advantages ==
* Large suite lounges.
* Suite bathrooms.
* Recently-built.
*Air conditioning
* Clean. Mostly. Sometimes.
* Strong community, which even includes a faculty family in residence which will invite residents up for food.

== Disadvantages ==
* Frequently malfunctioning highrise elevators (this is not a problem if you live in one of the townhouses).
* Crazy lines at the security desk on weekends (this phenomenon occurs because EC suites are among the best dorm party venues on campus, lending the weekend queues the moniker "Club EC").
* Ever walk barefoot on the stairs inside a highrise suite? Concrete stairs suck.

== Images ==
The high-rise suite is 1410, and the townhouse is 1003.
<gallery>
Image:EChighriselounge1410view1.jpg|Suite lounge, view 1
Image:EChighriselounge1410view2.jpg|Suite lounge, view 2
Image:EChighriselounge1410window.jpg|View from suite lounge
Image:EChighrisekitchen1410.jpg|Suite kitchen
Image:EChighrisesingle1410view1.jpg|High-rise single, view 1
Image:EChighrisesingle1410view2.jpg|High-rise single, view 2
Image:EChighrisesingle1410view3.jpg|High-rise single, view 3
Image:EChighrisedouble1410.jpg|High-rise double
Image:EChighrisebathroom1410.jpg|Suite bathroom
Image:EChighrisefloorlounge8.jpg|Floor 8 lounge
Image:EChighrisefloorlounge8window.jpg|View from floor 8 lounge
Image:ECtownhouseloungeH1003A.jpg|Townhouse lounge
Image:ECtownhousesingleH1003Aview1.jpg|Townhouse single, view 1
Image:ECtownhousesingleH1003Aview2.jpg|Townhouse single, view 2
Image:ECtownhousesingleH1003Awindow.jpg|View from townhouse
Image:ECmainlounge2view1.jpg|Building lounge, view 1
Image:ECmainlounge2view2.jpg|Building lounge, view 2
Image:EastCampus.jpg|Building facade
</gallery>

== Floor plans ==
<gallery>
Image:EC1.gif|Floor 1
Image:EC2.gif|Floor 2
Image:EC3.gif|Floor 3
Image:EC4.gif|Floor 4
Image:EC5.gif|Floor 5
Image:EC7.gif|Floor 7
Image:EC8.gif|Floor 8
Image:EC9.gif|Floor 9
Image:EC10.gif|Floor 10
Image:EC11.gif|Floor 11
Image:EC12.gif|Floor 12
Image:EC13.gif|Floor 13
Image:EC14.gif|Floor 14
Image:EC15.gif|Floor 15
Image:EC16.gif|Floor 16
Image:EC17.gif|Floor 17
Image:EC18.gif|Floor 18
Image:EC19.gif|Floor 19
Image:EC20.gif|Floor 20
</gallery>

== Tunnel/roof connections ==

===[[Wien]]===
Take elevator to B3, but access is by key only and you won't get the key. Then there's the issue of the camera which is monitored at the front desk.

===Roof===
EC's roof is perhaps the best view on campus. Harlem? Check. Midtown? Check. Yankee Stadium? Check. Jersey? True connoisseurs know to climb the stairs and then the ladder to get to the very top of the utility room on the middle of the roof. Don't fall off. Take the elevator to 20. If you take the south staircase, look out for the camera (wear a hoodie?) and hope for the door to be propped open. If it's closed, just be aware that setting off a fire alarm is a crime, and FDNY will be mad at you, because they will come. If you take the north staircase, you'll find another fire door, with an interesting keypad contraption. Enter the appropriate code, and the door will open without setting off the fire alarm. It will, however, alert security that the door has been opened. Security's response time is unimpressive, but this method does not lend itself to a nice leisurely visit. If the door's propped, just cover your face on the way up and you should be fine. If it isn't, then be brief. Consider the security response time from Low Library to EC 20, and budget your time accordingly.

== References ==
<references />

== Map ==
<googlemap lat="40.807049" lon="-73.959564" type="map" zoom="16" width="500" height="300" controls="small">
40.807049, -73.959564, East Campus residence hall
</googlemap>

== Building address ==
70 Morningside Dr. 
New York, NY 10027

== External Links ==
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/housing/docs/residence-halls/east-campus/index.html Columbia Housing - East Campus]

[[Category:Columbia undergraduate residence halls]]
[[Category:Unnamed buildings]]

East Campus

2009-11-26T13:45:08Z

SteveMcP: A small reminiscence

{{wp-also2|East Campus (Columbia University)}}

{{Infobox reshall
|Name=East Campus
|Image=Eastcampus.jpeg
|Built=[[1981]]
|Renovated=[[1991]] Townhouses in [[2003]] Floors 18-20 in [[2004]]
|Population=723}}
'''East Campus''' (in common parlance, '''EC''') is a large complex abutting [[Morningside Drive]] between 118th Street and [[Faculty House]], although it only opens onto campus, facing the opposite direction. Much of the structure consists of Columbia's largest residence hall - and one of its most desirable. The rest is occupied by university offices and meeting spaces.

A $28.7 million dollar facility, it was designed by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates architects and built from [[1979]] - [[1982]]. It was completely renovated in [[1991]], and has received additional renovations in [[1997]], [[2002]], and [[2004]].

Although consisting of a single structure, the building is technically made up of 10 "townhouses" (8 of which are individually named: Carleton House; Wien House; McGill House; Ritter House; Buttenwieser House; Moses House; Kresge House; and Watson House), and a high-rise, properly known as "Hudson Hall" after [[SEAS]] alumnus Percy K. Hudson, but nobody uses their proper names. It probably doesn't help that EC is the dorm the furthest from the [[Hudson River]].

EC is a large structure with multiple facilities, some containing their own exterior entrances, others hidden within the residence hall's security screen. The security-controlled entrance to the dormitory building, the [[Heyman Center]], and the [[Faculty in Residence]] apartment is located on [[Ancel Plaza]]. Separate entrances to the [[Center for Career Education]] and the [[Facilities Management]] office are located in the bowels of the EC complex, next to [[Wien Hall]] and across from [[Faculty House]].

== History ==

===Early plans===

[[Image:Earlyec.jpg|thumb|right|Early, twin tower design for EC]]

An earlier plan for East Campus (1965), by [[Max Abramovitz|Harrison and Abramovitz]] architects, included twin concrete slab towers.<ref>[http://www.morningside-heights.net/ecp2.htm Unbuilt: Original East Campus Proposal] at Morningside Heights neighborhood website</ref> Along with the rest of the ambitious expansion plans of University President [[Grayson L. Kirk]], it was scrapped in the wake of the [[1968 protests]] against, among other things, a university gym proposed for nearby Morningside Park. When expansion finally did reach East Campus, by the late 1970s, the university was seeking a more humanist design, one which would both harmonize better with the surrounding campus and reflect, to some degree, the residential college quads of [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] and [[Yale]].

===Opening and response===

East Campus received its first residents in January of 1981. These were the former occupants of Hartley and Livingston Halls, which had begun to be gutted for conversion from individual rooms to suite layouts a month earlier, at the close of the Fall Semester, 1980. This compulsory relocation over the Winter vacation was marked by the widespread theft, vandalism and careless destruction of Students' possessions by the "Seven Santini Brothers," the moving firm hired by Columbia to shovel everyone's belongings into the new building. When East Campus opened, students appreciated its expansive suite space, commanding views, and spacious townhouses, which were a refreshing contrast to the cramped conditions prevailing in much of the rest of the University's housing. Not all, however, was unalloyed bliss. The building had fallen far behind schedule and was therefore still under construction, with many workmen showing up every morning at 7:30AM, cheerfully wielding hammers, drills, and, most entertainingly of all, nail guns, the concussive staccato of which provided a daily surefire wake-up call for several weeks. Further contributing to the festive ambience was the lack of televisions in the TV lounges and washers and dryers in the Laundry Room, carpeting that had been apparently liberally marinated in Benzene, empty sockets in the bathrooms where the electrical outlets were intended to be, HVAC consoles that were unalterably tuned to Full Depths of Hell settings combined with windows that were blocked to open no further than 2 inches, and a fiendishly inventive sewer system that ensured that the flushing of any single toilet anywhere in the structure instantaneously supplied 211 degrees F water to every shower head in the building. And never to be overlooked were the rats who, having been routed from their erstwhile homes on the construction site, adamantly declined to be displaced by the new arrivals, instead making delightfully impromptu, random appearances throughout.

Many of the outer townhouses were donated and built by famous Columbia University benefactors. The most notable of these is [[Thomas J. Watson, Jr.]] who donated the popular [[Watson House]]. Donor [[George Delacorte]], for whom the building's central courtyard is formally named, said of his former room at the university "we had two nails on the wall for a closet...now I've paid for a dormitory where boys loll around in marble bathtubs." The bathrooms are not, however, actually marble, but imitate that material.<ref>"Columbia Dedicates New Suites and Townhouses for Students" in the ''New York Times'', June 4, 1981</ref>

East Campus' original red and white tile cladding was praised as innovative by architectural critics. The American Institute of Architects' Guide to New York City called it "elegant and handsome".

Despite such positive views, reception to the building was mixed overall. ''[[New York Times]]'' architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable wrote of East Campus:

<blockquote>"Consider a building that has to be vandal-proof, constructed of maintenance-free materials with every surface resistant to neglect and abuse, where violation of design and function must be an anticipated fact, along with defacement and petty thievery -- a place where surveillance is a necessity and population is transient. A description of a minimum security prison? Not at all. This is a dormitory for Columbia University... it is easy to see how an austerely simple aesthetic can be brought down to this dispiriting level..."<ref>(Architecture, Anyone? p.236)</ref></blockquote>

===Murder===

On [[October 10]], [[1985]], a SEAS student, [[Sarah M. Thomas]], was stabbed in her East Campus suite by an intruder, a man who had been signed in as a guest by another resident. It was one of a number of violent crimes in the Columbia dormitories during the 1980s..<ref>"Intruder Stabs Student in Columbia Dormitory" by Keith Schneider in the ''New York Times'', October 11, 1985</ref>

===Reconstruction===

An inspection in [[1987]] revealed that the tiled exterior which had earned the building accolades had begun to peel off its facade, and a large chunk collapsed into its courtyard in February [[1988]], prompting the university to order its recladding, a $15 million project handled by the architects Gruzon Sampton Steinglass, in the campus' traditional red brick and limestone. In the course of the scandal, Columbia sued both Gwathmey Siegel and the engineering firm that had worked on the project.<ref>"Columbia Dormitory, A New Facade," in the ''New York Times'', June 23, 1991</ref>

===Later history===

In [[2006]], a homophobic message written on a dry-erase board in East Campus was denounced as a hate crime, the sixth one alleged that year, and prompted the creation of the contrversial student group [[SHOCC]].

Until very recently, one floor of the EC high-rise was used as a small hotel for university guests. This has since been converted to student residences, in keeping with the rest of the building.

==Famous residents==

East Campus was home to US presidential adviser and television news personality [[George Stephanopoulos]], and actors [[Matthew Fox]], [[Julia Stiles]] and [[Rider Strong]], all of whom lived in the Watson House townhouse. Controversial political cartoonist [[Ted Rall]] also lived in East Campus, but was kicked out after targeting pedestrians below his window with water balloons.<ref>[http://www.tedrall.com/longarticle_002.htm Fatal Defenstration: Men Who Love Gravity Too Much] on Ted Rall's website</ref>

== Facilities ==

East Campus has four types of suites: townhouses, high-rise exclusion suites, high-rise 6-person suites, and 2-person flats.

Groups need at least 2 seniors (as well as 1 junior and 2 sophomores) to get an [[Exclusion Suite]]. Only some groups with only 1 senior are usually able to get these suites.

Every suite has a kitchen and bathroom.

=== Suites ===

* 7 high-rise 5-person suites with 5 singles

* 7 high-rise 6-person suites with 6 singles

* 56 high-rise 5-person 'exclusion' suites with 3 singles and 1 double

* 35 high-rise 2-person apartments

* 10 townhouse 4-person suites with 4 singles.
: Last one was taken by 30/1004 in 2003, 30/1327 in 2004, 30/785 in 2005, 30/398 in 2006.

* 12 townhouse 6-person suites with 4 singles and 1 double.
: Last one was taken by 30/2703 in 2003, 30/2743 in 2004, 20/600 in 2005, 30/2753 in 2006.
: H1003, H1004, H603 and H803 are Greek.
: H104, H203, H304, H403, H504, H704, H903, H904 are in the [[room selection|lottery]]

* 28 townhouse 6-person suites with 6 singles
: Last one was taken by ? in 2003, 30/1830 in 2004, 30/2913 in 2005, 30/1836 in 2006.

== Advantages ==
* Large suite lounges.
* Suite bathrooms.
* Recently-built.
*Air conditioning
* Clean. Mostly. Sometimes.
* Strong community, which even includes a faculty family in residence which will invite residents up for food.

== Disadvantages ==
* Frequently malfunctioning highrise elevators (this is not a problem if you live in one of the townhouses).
* Crazy lines at the security desk on weekends (this phenomenon occurs because EC suites are among the best dorm party venues on campus, lending the weekend queues the moniker "Club EC").
* Ever walk barefoot on the stairs inside a highrise suite? Concrete stairs suck.

== Images ==
The high-rise suite is 1410, and the townhouse is 1003.
<gallery>
Image:EChighriselounge1410view1.jpg|Suite lounge, view 1
Image:EChighriselounge1410view2.jpg|Suite lounge, view 2
Image:EChighriselounge1410window.jpg|View from suite lounge
Image:EChighrisekitchen1410.jpg|Suite kitchen
Image:EChighrisesingle1410view1.jpg|High-rise single, view 1
Image:EChighrisesingle1410view2.jpg|High-rise single, view 2
Image:EChighrisesingle1410view3.jpg|High-rise single, view 3
Image:EChighrisedouble1410.jpg|High-rise double
Image:EChighrisebathroom1410.jpg|Suite bathroom
Image:EChighrisefloorlounge8.jpg|Floor 8 lounge
Image:EChighrisefloorlounge8window.jpg|View from floor 8 lounge
Image:ECtownhouseloungeH1003A.jpg|Townhouse lounge
Image:ECtownhousesingleH1003Aview1.jpg|Townhouse single, view 1
Image:ECtownhousesingleH1003Aview2.jpg|Townhouse single, view 2
Image:ECtownhousesingleH1003Awindow.jpg|View from townhouse
Image:ECmainlounge2view1.jpg|Building lounge, view 1
Image:ECmainlounge2view2.jpg|Building lounge, view 2
Image:EastCampus.jpg|Building facade
</gallery>

== Floor plans ==
<gallery>
Image:EC1.gif|Floor 1
Image:EC2.gif|Floor 2
Image:EC3.gif|Floor 3
Image:EC4.gif|Floor 4
Image:EC5.gif|Floor 5
Image:EC7.gif|Floor 7
Image:EC8.gif|Floor 8
Image:EC9.gif|Floor 9
Image:EC10.gif|Floor 10
Image:EC11.gif|Floor 11
Image:EC12.gif|Floor 12
Image:EC13.gif|Floor 13
Image:EC14.gif|Floor 14
Image:EC15.gif|Floor 15
Image:EC16.gif|Floor 16
Image:EC17.gif|Floor 17
Image:EC18.gif|Floor 18
Image:EC19.gif|Floor 19
Image:EC20.gif|Floor 20
</gallery>

== Tunnel/roof connections ==

===[[Wien]]===
Take elevator to B3, but access is by key only and you won't get the key. Then there's the issue of the camera which is monitored at the front desk.

===Roof===
EC's roof is perhaps the best view on campus. Harlem? Check. Midtown? Check. Yankee Stadium? Check. Jersey? True connoisseurs know to climb the stairs and then the ladder to get to the very top of the utility room on the middle of the roof. Don't fall off. Take the elevator to 20. If you take the south staircase, look out for the camera (wear a hoodie?) and hope for the door to be propped open. If it's closed, just be aware that setting off a fire alarm is a crime, and FDNY will be mad at you, because they will come. If you take the north staircase, you'll find another fire door, with an interesting keypad contraption. Enter the appropriate code, and the door will open without setting off the fire alarm. It will, however, alert security that the door has been opened. Security's response time is unimpressive, but this method does not lend itself to a nice leisurely visit. If the door's propped, just cover your face on the way up and you should be fine. If it isn't, then be brief. Consider the security response time from Low Library to EC 20, and budget your time accordingly.

== References ==
<references />

== Map ==
<googlemap lat="40.807049" lon="-73.959564" type="map" zoom="16" width="500" height="300" controls="small">
40.807049, -73.959564, East Campus residence hall
</googlemap>

== Building address ==
70 Morningside Dr. 
New York, NY 10027

== External Links ==
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/housing/docs/residence-halls/east-campus/index.html Columbia Housing - East Campus]

[[Category:Columbia undergraduate residence halls]]
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Phi Gamma Delta

2009-11-24T14:19:56Z

SteveMcP:

'''Phi Gamma Delta''' is a fraternity that is also known as '''Fiji'''. Columbia had previously hosted one of the original chapters of the fraternity, having been founded as "Omega Chapter" in 1848. Omega Fiji was indisputably the most socially active fraternity on campus, providing generations of its Brothers and their guests a veritable oasis of cordial camaraderie, a revivifying outlier of genial companionship in the otherwise aridly inaffable wasteland that was, for far too long, the social desert that was Columbia. It was recently reinstated into Columbia's Greek system after being suspended for seven years for "behavior that was not consistent with the standards of the Greek community" (aka the high crime of tossing back a couple of cold ones). <ref>[http://media.www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2005/03/01/Opinion/Staff.Editorial.The.Old.Boys.Frat-2031526.shtml STAFF EDITORIAL: The Old Boys Frat] in the [[Spec]]</ref> Despite being one of the only fraternities on campus without permanent housing, having lost its previous and long established home at 538 West 114 Street to the implacable squeeze of the Big Blue Loan Shark, the Columbia chapter continues to recruit large classes of new members.

==Alumni==
*[[Roone Arledge]], late CEO of the ABC Network
*[[Ralph Morgan]], co-founder and first president of the Screen Actor's Guild
*[[Jack Kerouac]], Beat Generation author
*[[Matthew Fox]], Actor, ''Lost''
*[[Neil Gorsuch]], co-founder of ''[[The Fed]]'' and federal court judge
*[[Edward Harris Klees]]

== References ==
<references />

[[Category:Fraternities]]

Beta Theta Pi

2009-11-23T07:22:19Z

SteveMcP: a bit of recent institutional larceny

'''Beta Theta Pi''' is a fraternity primarily composed of students involved with student government. Beta was removed from the Columbia Greek system in [[2000]] for charges of drug abuse, among other things. Members of the [[Class of 2006]] resurrected the troubled wrestling frat in [[2002]]. The fraternity house is now "dry" and members are required to do community service and maintain a [[GPA]] above 2.75.

For the last three years Beta has had the highest Greek Life GPA. In the Spring Semester of 2009 the overall GPA was a 3.8 according to the Center for Greek Life.

The Beta brownstone on [[Frat Row|114th Street]] is now the only fraternity [[brownstone]] not owned by Columbia, the Fiji house just down the block having been heisted by the Big Blue Loan Shark some years ago. The house received a major renovation and is now pretty teched out.

[[Category:Fraternities]]

Phi Gamma Delta

2009-11-23T07:12:38Z

SteveMcP: A few details

'''Phi Gamma Delta''' is a fraternity that is also known as '''Fiji'''. Columbia had previously hosted one of the original chapters of the fraternity, having been founded as "Omega Chapter" in 1848. Omega Fiji was indisputably the most socially active fraternity on campus, providing generations of its Brothers and their guests a veritable oasis of cordial camaraderie, a revivifying outlier of genial companionship in the otherwise aridly inaffable wasteland that was, for far too long, the social desert that was Columbia. It was recently reinstated into Columbia's Greek system after being suspended for seven years for "behavior that was not consistent with the standards of the Greek community" <ref> (aka/tossing back a couple of cold ones).[http://media.www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2005/03/01/Opinion/Staff.Editorial.The.Old.Boys.Frat-2031526.shtml STAFF EDITORIAL: The Old Boys Frat] in the [[Spec]]</ref> Despite being one of the only fraternities on campus without permanent housing, having lost its previous and long established home at 538 West 114 Street to the implacable vig squeeze of the Big Blue Loan Shark, the Columbia chapter continues to recruit large classes of new members.

==Alumni==
*[[Roone Arledge]], late CEO of the ABC Network
*[[Ralph Morgan]], co-founder and first president of the Screen Actor's Guild
*[[Jack Kerouac]], Beat Generation author
*[[Matthew Fox]], Actor, ''Lost''
*[[Neil Gorsuch]], co-founder of ''[[The Fed]]'' and federal court judge
*[[Edward Harris Klees]]

== References ==
<references />

[[Category:Fraternities]]

Dwight D. Eisenhower

2008-07-03T10:19:13Z

SteveMcP:

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[[Image:Ike.jpg|thumb|President Eisenhower at [[Commencement]]]]
'''Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower''' was president of Columbia from [[1948]] until becoming US President in [[1953]].

He was mostly in absentia during his tenure, dealing with such important matters as the Korean War, being Supreme Commander of NATO, and running for President of the United States, but he did manage to turn the stretch of [[116th Street]] running through campus into the mostly traffic-free [[College Walk]].

Less successfully, he proposed a "Citizenship Center," including military recruitment offices and a rifle range (which was built in the basement of now-demolished student center Ferris Booth Hall, and which hosted the now-defunct Columbia University Rifle Team).

Once, it was rumored that [[SIPA]] would be named after him.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

2008-07-03T10:17:30Z

SteveMcP:

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[[Image:Ike.jpg|thumb|PrezIke at [[Commencement]]]]
'''Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower''' was president of Columbia from [[1948]] until becoming US President in [[1953]].

He was mostly in absentia during his tenure, dealing with such important matters as the Korean War, being Supreme Commander of NATO, and running for President of the United States, but he did manage to turn the stretch of [[116th Street]] running through campus into the mostly traffic-free [[College Walk]].

Less successfully, he proposed a "Citizenship Center," including military recruitment offices and a rifle range (which was built in the basement of now-demolished student center Ferris Booth Hall, and which hosted the now-defunct Columbia University Rifle Team).

Once, it was rumored that [[SIPA]] would be named after him.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

2008-07-03T10:15:48Z

SteveMcP: The rifle range's purpose wasn't for preparing to "shoot Soviets," but for serving the needs of ROTC (through 1968) & The Rifle Team (through 1996).

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[[Image:Ike.jpg|thumb|PrezIke at [[Commencement]]]]
'''Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower''' was president of Columbia from [[1948]] until becoming US President in [[1953]].

He was mostly in absentia during his tenure, dealing with such important matters as the Korean War, being Supreme Commander of NATO, and running for President of the United States, but he did manage to turn the stretch of [[116th Street]] running through campus into the mostly traffic-free [[College Walk]].

Less successfully, he proposed a "Citizenship Center," including military recruitment offices and a rifle range (which was built in the basement of now-demolished student center Ferris Booth Hall, and which hosted the sadly, now-defunct Columbia University Rifle Team).

Once, it was rumored that [[SIPA]] would be named after him.

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[[Category:University presidents|Eisenhower, Dwight D.]]
[[Category:History|Eisenhower, Dwight D.]]
[[Category:U.S. Presidents|Eisenhower, Dwight D.]]

Ferris Booth Hall

2008-07-03T10:01:23Z

SteveMcP: Added several other facilities that were present in FBH; also, the "aim" of the Rifle Team was not to "kill Communists," but to enjoy the sport, and compete against other NYC Metro-area teams.

[[Image:FerrisBoothHall.jpg|thumb|240px|Ferris Booth Hall in front of [[Carman Hall]] ca. 1970ish]]
[[Image:FerrisCarman.jpg|thumb|240px|Ferris Booth Hall]]
[[Image:LionsDenFerris.jpg|thumb|240px|The Lion's Den in [[Ferris Booth Hall]], Early 1960's]]

The predecessor to [[Lerner Hall|Alfred Lerner Hall]], '''Ferris Booth Hall''' (known among students simply as '''FBH''', or in the 90s as '''FBiatch''') boasted magnificent campus views, a grand entry hall staircase, Wollman Auditorium (site of dances, receptions, amateur theatrics, etc.), a full-service commercial kitchen with extensive walk-in refrigeration facilities, broadcast studios for WKCR radio, a music and entertainment space known as "The Lion's Den," a six-lane bowling alley, a fifty-foot smallbore rifle range, billiards room, the facilities of the Student Beer & Wine service (staffed by the Student Bartending Service, and supplying beverage services within FBH, and at many other events across campus), and, in the Hewitt Lounge, an open-sided fireplace. Completed in 1960 from a design by Shreve, Lamb and Harmon Associates, it was razed in 1996.

Prior to its construction, various locations around campus served the function of student center, most notably the second floor of [[John Jay Hall]], a space now occupied by [[Health Services]].

Ferris Booth also featured an outdoor terrace that hosted numerous bands. [[w:The Grateful Dead|The Grateful Dead]] played Ferris Booth following the [[1968 protests]].[http://www.gettyimages.com/search/detail.aspx?id=528-248&esource=feed_google_video]

[[Lerner Hall]] has none of these amenities. Instead, it has ramps and lots of big windows, which has lead to it commonly being compared to a rather generic airport terminal.

[[Ferris Booth Commons]], a dining facility in Lerner, commemorates the former building. A plaque on the walkway outside the glass wall of Lerner also memorializes the old building.

== Citizenship Center ==

[[Dwight D. Eisenhower|University President Eisenhower]] first proposed, but never seriously pursued, creating a "Citizenship Center" where students would develop "a greater sense of obligation and responsibility to the community". The "Citizenship Center" would be partially staffed by military officers. The mission of Columbia's student centers since then has backed off from the second half of Eisenhower's plan, but still tries to uphold the first half, as exemplified in the [[Double Discovery Center]].

[[Category:Demolished buildings on the Morningside Heights campus]]