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Riding the subway

2014-01-30T04:04:36Z

TheFeynmanParticle: /* Advanced techniques */

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[[Image:Subway map.jpg|right|thumb|For your convenience.]]

How to ride the subway like an expert, or, since you're now a Columbia student, how to look like an expert while riding the subway.

==MetroCards ==

MetroCards can be purchased in the station from MetroCard vending machines using cash, credit, or debit. A single ride MetroCard, good for two hours, costs $2.50, though customers can save by purchasing pay-per-ride MetroCards. Pay-per-ride MetroCards can store between $4.50 and $80. Putting on $8 or more on your pay-per-ride MetroCard triggers a 5% bonus. Unlimited MetroCards are also available for one day until the next 3 a.m. ($8.25), for seven days ($27), or for thirty days ($89). Complete MetroCard information is available [http://www.mta.info/metrocard/ here].

== In the station ==

Trains are often rerouted for system maintenance, especially on late nights (commonly between midnight and 5 a.m.), weekends, and holidays. It may be a good idea to check the [http://www.mta.info/ MTA website] for service changes and alerts before leaving. Advisories known in advance specific to individual stations are generally posted throughout fare control and subway platforms. A weekend summary is commonly posted next to the system map on subway platforms. Station attendants, usually located in booths at many points of fare control, should be able to assist with routine questions.

== Trains ==

=== How to get to Columbia ===

Take the (1) train to 116.

If beginning south of 96 on the Broadway IRT (1), (2), and (3), make sure you are on a (1) train before leaving 96. When service is running normally, this means walking across the platform at 96 to the local track. When (2) and (3) trains are running local (late nights and sometimes due to system maintenance), this means detraining at 96 and waiting for a (1) train on the same track. (2) and (3) trains do not run up Broadway north of 96.

=== Advice for going uptown ===

There's a world of New York north of Columbia that's mostly accessible by subway. Boarding an uptown (1) train at 116 means only an 8-10 minute ride to the [[Columbia Medical Center]], exiting at the venerable 168th St station, and a 15 minute ride to the [[Baker Field]] athletic complex, exiting (above ground) at 215th St.

=== Advice for going downtown ===

Beginning on a downtown (1) train at 116, be aware that the option usually exists to transfer to an express train across the platform at 96. The (2) and (3) express trains travel down Broadway on the Upper West Side and 7th Avenue below, making stops (alongside the (1) train) at 72, 42, 34, 14, and Chambers. Intermediate stops are accessible on the (1) train. Remember, express trains only save 5 to 10 minutes, tops, depending on one's destination. An express train that leave 96th at the same time as a local train reaches 72nd Street 2 minutes faster than a local and reaches Times Square-42nd St 5 minutes faster than a local. While time should be saved when traveling south of 34, you don't lose a large amount of time if you remain on the (1) train when traveling only as far as 42 (Times Square, a major transfer hub) or 34 (Penn Station, the next stop). If you are in a rush, as you pull into 96th, take a look at the screens displaying the wait times for the next express train and use the guidelines above to determine if switching is beneficial.

=== Advice for going out of Manhattan===

Don't take the G train. Ever.

== Crosstown ==

There are a number of ways to get crosstown from 116. The most direct route is not by subway, but rather by bus. The M4 (heading downtown), which can be picked up at 116 and Broadway makes a left on 110 and a right down 5th Avenue (with a stop at 86 for the Metropolitan Museum of Art). The M4 runs back up along Madison Avenue. Be advised that local buses do generally stop, if requested, at every avenue and every couple of blocks. Once on the east side, the subway runs up and down Lexington Avenue.

Crosstown buses are also available at 125 (one of which, the M60, can be boarded at 116 and Broadway), 96, 86, 79, 72, 66, 57, 50, 42, 34, 23, and 14, all north of Houston. Also, the (L) subway runs across 14 (and into Brooklyn), while the (S) subway runs across 42, between Times Square and Grand Central.

==Advanced techniques==

===Pre-walking===
If you're short on time, a good technique is the pre-walk. This involves moving along the platform before your train arrives and serves two main purposes. On a busy day, pre-walking to the front or back of the train can mean a more comfortable ride in a less crowded car. Pre-walking can also minimize time spent in a transfer or exiting the station if you know the layout of your destination. For example, if you are coming uptown to Columbia on the (1), try pre-walking so that you enter the third car on the train. When you exit, you'll be right at the stairs!

===Sub down, Bus back===
This technique takes advantage of the fact that you can tranfer to a bus within one hour of riding the subway. If you are making a short trip, it can save you $2.50. Suppose you're hosting a party, but you need a cable to connect your iPod to your suite's speakers. Take the subway down to 86th street, pop into PC Richards for the cable, then ride the [[M104]] back up to campus.

===How to know where to stand===
Look at the ground. If you see a bunch of black splotches, it indicates where people spit their gum when the doors open
[[Category:Subway]]
[[Category:How to]]

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2014-01-30T03:45:58Z

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CUNIX

2014-01-30T03:38:40Z

TheFeynmanParticle: /* How to Connect to CUNIX */

'''CUNIX''' stands for ''Columbia University UNIX''. No word on why it's not called CUUNIX in that case, but [[CUIT]] says so on its [http://www.columbia.edu/acis/email/cunix/ page] about the server. CUNIX is a UNIX-based cluster of hosts that serves the entire Columbia University community. In layman's terms, CUNIX is a part of Columbia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_network computer network] that allows users to remotely access and manage websites, software programs, [[email]], and various other computing tools.

More importantly, CUNIX is a glorious text-based window into the arcane world of Columbia's server. Students can log into CUNIX using their [[UNI]] and perform many useful tasks.

Very few undergraduates fully appreciate the potential of CUNIX to help them manage their [[student groups]], individual directories, research projects, and email lists. If you ask politely, CUIT administrators will befriend you and explain the following details to you, but reading the tutorials below should save you years of figuring this stuff out on your own. It may also benefit your resume and your social life.

=Overview=

CUNIX allows you to do a lot of things.

* Programs: The server hosts programs for reading email and newsgroups, performing mathematical and statistical analysis, editing text, and programming. While most are also available for purchase, they can be run remotely through CUNIX.
* CUNIX groups: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissions Permissions], the access rights to various parts of the server, are controlled for files and directories, each of which has an individual and a group owner. The group usually defaults to "user" but can be modified to enable multiple people to read, write, or execute. You can create and manage these yourself or have CUIT do it for you.
* Web hosting: CUNIX is the gateway to Columbia's web server. Most if not all websites in the columbia.edu space are hosted on CUNIX.
* Lists: Email aliases used to be created in a shared folder accessible to all students, but today all new ones are managed separately.
* Looking at stuff: You can view the entire server hierarchy through CUNIX. There's a lot of random and sometimes interesting stuff in there.
* Tunnel your internet traffic via SSH as a poor man's VPN. This may be useful if you're dealing with sensitive data or you're trying to access websites blocked by content filters

===How to Connect to CUNIX===

CUNIX is accessed through [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh SSH] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_file_transfer_protocol SFTP], and can be accessed through any UNIX shell. For example, use the Terminal on Mac OS X or [http://www.columbia.edu/acis/software/putty/ PuTTY] on a Windows PC. If one of these programs is installed, it will open automatically on most machines if you type ssh:// into the URL field of your web browser.

If you're using any other operating system, you already know how to connect to CUNIX.

To actually log in to CUNIX, you need your UNI and one of the following basic commands:

ssh UNI@cunix.cc.columbia.edu
ssh UNI@cunix.columbia.edu
sftp UNI@cunix.cc.columbia.edu
sftp UNI@cunix.columbia.edu
ssh UNI@pine.columbia.edu

Add the -X flag if you wish to tunnel X11 applications (e.g. Emacs). The command would then be ssh -X UNI@cunix.cc.columbia.edu.

pine.columbia.edu goes only to the [[Pine]] mail program; all other combinations go to the main shell prompt. You will be asked for your "KerberosV Password," which is just the normal password associated with your UNI. The end result will look something like this:

<pre>$ ssh UNI@cunix.columbia.edu
KerberosV Password:
Last login: Date from location
Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.9 Generic May 2002
$ </pre>

At the <pre>$</pre> prompt, you are ready to enter commands. If you are in SFTP mode, the prompt may look like this:

<pre>sftp></pre>

SSH mode allows modification of groups and use of programs; SFTP mode is useful for file transfer to and from websites hosted under columbia.edu. For the latter, a program that has a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUI GUI] may be more useful.

=Tutorials=

Rather than detail each and every function of CUNIX, this section will walk through some of the most commonly used features. It presupposes a basic understanding of UNIX commands.

Contents
* How to edit your home directory (www.columbia.edu/~UNI)
* How to create and manage CUNIX groups
* How to manage and control access to student group websites (usually www.columbia.edu/cu/GROUP)
* How to see and edit simple email lists
* How to run programs on CUNIX
* How to look at random stuff on CUNIX

===Home directory===

Every Columbia affiliate has access to a small portion of the Columbia server where he or she can post pretty much anything. It is then accessible at <nowiki>http://www.columbia.edu/~UNI</nowiki>.

The original author of this page was going to write a tutorial on how to do this, but then realized CUIT already has one. See [http://www.columbia.edu/acis/webdev/create.html Creating Personal Pages] to get started.

===CUNIX groups===

Similarly, the CUIT tutorial on how to get started with CUNIX groups isn't bad. See [http://www.columbia.edu/acis/webdev/unixgroups.html Managing UNIX Groups] for more information on modifying file permissions, including technical jargon like "turn the sticky bit on".

You should know that as with many commands in UNIX, you can simply type "group" at the prompt, and CUNIX will return a list of commands you can use to manage groups. You can see which group(s) you are already a part of by entering the command <pre>$ groups</pre>

Groups are important because they enable a number of individuals to share the same permissions for a file or directory. Since only the "owner" (an individual, group, or both) can edit most files and directories, groups are essential for controlling access to websites and email aliases. Groups are only accessible through SSH mode.

===Websites===

If you are a member of an existing group, you should have a directory on the Columbia server of the form <nowiki>http://www.columbia.edu/cu/GROUP</nowiki>. Many departments also use this syntax, though any group deemed important enough that asks for it can potentially have a subdomain instead, e.g. http://stat.columbia.edu and http://cusj.columbia.edu. How the latter got a subdomain as an undergraduate group has more to do with [[tenacious bureaucratic wrangling]] than the relative importance of [[CUSJ]].

Anyone can see the websites listed in /cu/ directory. Navigate to it by typing: <pre>$ cd /www/data/cu/</pre>

If you have access to a website in this directory, you can then modify its contents as if it were your home directory. If you represent a student group, you may need to get in contact with a previously graduated member of the group in order to have them change the ownership on the group to your new webmaster and/or a CUNIX group. CUIT can also do this for you. Any member of the assigned CUNIX group will be able to post files to that directory. From within the /cu/ folder, you can list the complete contents and see who owns which files using the ls -l command, though this will take some time. The resulting output will look like this:

<pre>$ ls -l
total 2504972
drwxrwsr-x 24 wbm1 twoone 4096 Aug 31 2000 21stC
drwxrwxr-x 47 djp22 c250 4096 Jul 19 11:11 250
drwxrwsr-x 2 36159 www 4096 Nov 18 2003 3-2house
...</pre>

The left-most line records the current permissions of the group. d denotes a directory, as opposed to a file. The next 9 digits indicate the read, write, and execute rights for the user, group, and everyone respectively. A dash indicates lack of rights and the letter indicates permission. In the examples above, everyone can read and execute the contents of the directories, but only the users and groups listed can write to them. An 's' in place of the x for groups indicates that the sticky bit is on, and group rights will be inherited. The remaining columns, in order, are the number of directories within the directory, the individual owner or creator, the group owner if it exists (otherwise it will be 'user' or 'www' or 'staff' or some other default), the file size, date of last modification, and the name.

If you are a member of a recognized student group that does not have a website, you must have your advisor [http://www.columbia.edu/acis/faq/447.html contact CUIT] with a formal request. If your student group is not recognized, apply to a [[:Category:Club administration|governing board]] first.

===Aliases===

Until recently, all simple email lists, called aliases, were stored in a shared directory accessible via CUNIX. New email lists are no longer visible to everyone and must be managed through a console located [https://www1.columbia.edu/sec-cgi-bin/samurai/maillist here]. For some reason, very few people know this. [[Majordomo]] listservs and [[public folders]] are other CUIT mass-mailing services that are controlled separately.

In any case, a large number of pre-existing aliases are still stored on CUNIX at <pre>$ cd /sharemail/aliases</pre>
Most of these are obsolete, but others are still in use. Each points to the name of the alias @columbia.edu. Each alias is a simple text file that can be easily edited to change recipients, assuming one has the proper permissions. As with any other file or directory, aliases can be assigned an individual and/or a group owner, which can be changed only by the current owner(s) or CUIT.

* As of January 2008, it appears that many aliases are being transitioned over to the web-based console and are no longer accessible through this directory. That makes me sad.

Editing an alias requires the use of a text editor, either [http://www.columbia.edu/acis/publications/pico.html Pico] or [http://www.columbia.edu/acis/publications/emacs.html Emacs], which are among the programs available on CUNIX. To edit an alias, the command from the /sharemail/aliases directory is <pre>$ pico aliasname</pre>
or
<pre>$ emacs aliasname</pre>

===Programs===

There are a wealth of programs available on CUNIX which can be accessed from anywhere in the world. They are listed on [http://www.columbia.edu/acis/software/cunix.html this] page. Most economics majors will use [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stata STATA] in their econometrics class, engineers and math or science majors will probably refer to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematica Mathematica] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matlab Matlab], and statistics students often use [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS_System SAS] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_%28programming_language%29 R]. Most of these programs can be launched simply by typing the name at the shell prompt, e.g. <pre>$ R</pre>

Some packages require a graphical interface for full functionality. To display charts in STATA on a Macintosh, for example, one must open the X11 console instead of the normal Terminal and run STATA using the command <pre>$ xstata</pre>

[[Pine]], an email client that allows text-based browsing of one's Columbia email account, is faster than [[CubMail]] for many basic tasks. As mentioned above, it can be launched either from within CUNIX <pre>$ pine</pre> or independently <pre>$ ssh UNI@pine.columbia.edu</pre>

Pico and Emacs are two fully-featured text editors for use within the CUNIX environment. Pico is recommended for beginners. [http://www.columbia.edu/acis/email/mm.home/manual.html MM] is another email reader.

===Server hierarchy===

There is likely much much more to CUNIX than this page indicates, and one of the best ways to explore it is to simply click through the server tree. Ever wondered where to find a list of all the active UNIs in the system? Wonder no more, simply do the following from your home directory:

<pre>$ cd ..
$ cd ..
$ ls
$ cd a
$ ls</pre>

You've just listed every existing user beginning with A. Repeat for the other letters of the alphabet as desired. Similarly, you can navigate to any of the many many many other directories within CUNIX by starting out at <pre>$ cd /</pre> and using the ls command (ls -a to see all files, ls -l to see rights and permissions) to see what's out there. Similarly of interest might be the complete list of email aliases, or anything else of the sort. Enjoy!

=References=

See the various Wikipedia articles and CUIT pages linked from this article for more information.

[[Category:IT]]

CUNIX

2014-01-30T03:35:19Z

TheFeynmanParticle: /* Overview */

'''CUNIX''' stands for ''Columbia University UNIX''. No word on why it's not called CUUNIX in that case, but [[CUIT]] says so on its [http://www.columbia.edu/acis/email/cunix/ page] about the server. CUNIX is a UNIX-based cluster of hosts that serves the entire Columbia University community. In layman's terms, CUNIX is a part of Columbia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_network computer network] that allows users to remotely access and manage websites, software programs, [[email]], and various other computing tools.

More importantly, CUNIX is a glorious text-based window into the arcane world of Columbia's server. Students can log into CUNIX using their [[UNI]] and perform many useful tasks.

Very few undergraduates fully appreciate the potential of CUNIX to help them manage their [[student groups]], individual directories, research projects, and email lists. If you ask politely, CUIT administrators will befriend you and explain the following details to you, but reading the tutorials below should save you years of figuring this stuff out on your own. It may also benefit your resume and your social life.

=Overview=

CUNIX allows you to do a lot of things.

* Programs: The server hosts programs for reading email and newsgroups, performing mathematical and statistical analysis, editing text, and programming. While most are also available for purchase, they can be run remotely through CUNIX.
* CUNIX groups: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissions Permissions], the access rights to various parts of the server, are controlled for files and directories, each of which has an individual and a group owner. The group usually defaults to "user" but can be modified to enable multiple people to read, write, or execute. You can create and manage these yourself or have CUIT do it for you.
* Web hosting: CUNIX is the gateway to Columbia's web server. Most if not all websites in the columbia.edu space are hosted on CUNIX.
* Lists: Email aliases used to be created in a shared folder accessible to all students, but today all new ones are managed separately.
* Looking at stuff: You can view the entire server hierarchy through CUNIX. There's a lot of random and sometimes interesting stuff in there.
* Tunnel your internet traffic via SSH as a poor man's VPN. This may be useful if you're dealing with sensitive data or you're trying to access websites blocked by content filters

===How to Connect to CUNIX===

CUNIX is accessed through [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh SSH] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_file_transfer_protocol SFTP], and can be accessed through any UNIX shell. For example, use the Terminal on Mac OS X or [http://www.columbia.edu/acis/software/putty/ PuTTY] on a Windows PC. If one of these programs is installed, it will open automatically on most machines if you type ssh:// into the URL field of your web browser.

If you're using any other operating system, you already know how to connect to CUNIX.

To actually log in to CUNIX, you need your UNI and one of the following basic commands:

ssh UNI@cunix.cc.columbia.edu
ssh UNI@cunix.columbia.edu
sftp UNI@cunix.cc.columbia.edu
sftp UNI@cunix.columbia.edu
ssh UNI@pine.columbia.edu

pine.columbia.edu goes only to the [[Pine]] mail program; all other combinations go to the main shell prompt. You will be asked for your "KerberosV Password," which is just the normal password associated with your UNI. The end result will look something like this:

<pre>$ ssh UNI@cunix.columbia.edu
KerberosV Password:
Last login: Date from location
Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.9 Generic May 2002
$ </pre>

At the <pre>$</pre> prompt, you are ready to enter commands. If you are in SFTP mode, the prompt may look like this:

<pre>sftp></pre>

SSH mode allows modification of groups and use of programs; SFTP mode is useful for file transfer to and from websites hosted under columbia.edu. For the latter, a program that has a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUI GUI] may be more useful.

=Tutorials=

Rather than detail each and every function of CUNIX, this section will walk through some of the most commonly used features. It presupposes a basic understanding of UNIX commands.

Contents
* How to edit your home directory (www.columbia.edu/~UNI)
* How to create and manage CUNIX groups
* How to manage and control access to student group websites (usually www.columbia.edu/cu/GROUP)
* How to see and edit simple email lists
* How to run programs on CUNIX
* How to look at random stuff on CUNIX

===Home directory===

Every Columbia affiliate has access to a small portion of the Columbia server where he or she can post pretty much anything. It is then accessible at <nowiki>http://www.columbia.edu/~UNI</nowiki>.

The original author of this page was going to write a tutorial on how to do this, but then realized CUIT already has one. See [http://www.columbia.edu/acis/webdev/create.html Creating Personal Pages] to get started.

===CUNIX groups===

Similarly, the CUIT tutorial on how to get started with CUNIX groups isn't bad. See [http://www.columbia.edu/acis/webdev/unixgroups.html Managing UNIX Groups] for more information on modifying file permissions, including technical jargon like "turn the sticky bit on".

You should know that as with many commands in UNIX, you can simply type "group" at the prompt, and CUNIX will return a list of commands you can use to manage groups. You can see which group(s) you are already a part of by entering the command <pre>$ groups</pre>

Groups are important because they enable a number of individuals to share the same permissions for a file or directory. Since only the "owner" (an individual, group, or both) can edit most files and directories, groups are essential for controlling access to websites and email aliases. Groups are only accessible through SSH mode.

===Websites===

If you are a member of an existing group, you should have a directory on the Columbia server of the form <nowiki>http://www.columbia.edu/cu/GROUP</nowiki>. Many departments also use this syntax, though any group deemed important enough that asks for it can potentially have a subdomain instead, e.g. http://stat.columbia.edu and http://cusj.columbia.edu. How the latter got a subdomain as an undergraduate group has more to do with [[tenacious bureaucratic wrangling]] than the relative importance of [[CUSJ]].

Anyone can see the websites listed in /cu/ directory. Navigate to it by typing: <pre>$ cd /www/data/cu/</pre>

If you have access to a website in this directory, you can then modify its contents as if it were your home directory. If you represent a student group, you may need to get in contact with a previously graduated member of the group in order to have them change the ownership on the group to your new webmaster and/or a CUNIX group. CUIT can also do this for you. Any member of the assigned CUNIX group will be able to post files to that directory. From within the /cu/ folder, you can list the complete contents and see who owns which files using the ls -l command, though this will take some time. The resulting output will look like this:

<pre>$ ls -l
total 2504972
drwxrwsr-x 24 wbm1 twoone 4096 Aug 31 2000 21stC
drwxrwxr-x 47 djp22 c250 4096 Jul 19 11:11 250
drwxrwsr-x 2 36159 www 4096 Nov 18 2003 3-2house
...</pre>

The left-most line records the current permissions of the group. d denotes a directory, as opposed to a file. The next 9 digits indicate the read, write, and execute rights for the user, group, and everyone respectively. A dash indicates lack of rights and the letter indicates permission. In the examples above, everyone can read and execute the contents of the directories, but only the users and groups listed can write to them. An 's' in place of the x for groups indicates that the sticky bit is on, and group rights will be inherited. The remaining columns, in order, are the number of directories within the directory, the individual owner or creator, the group owner if it exists (otherwise it will be 'user' or 'www' or 'staff' or some other default), the file size, date of last modification, and the name.

If you are a member of a recognized student group that does not have a website, you must have your advisor [http://www.columbia.edu/acis/faq/447.html contact CUIT] with a formal request. If your student group is not recognized, apply to a [[:Category:Club administration|governing board]] first.

===Aliases===

Until recently, all simple email lists, called aliases, were stored in a shared directory accessible via CUNIX. New email lists are no longer visible to everyone and must be managed through a console located [https://www1.columbia.edu/sec-cgi-bin/samurai/maillist here]. For some reason, very few people know this. [[Majordomo]] listservs and [[public folders]] are other CUIT mass-mailing services that are controlled separately.

In any case, a large number of pre-existing aliases are still stored on CUNIX at <pre>$ cd /sharemail/aliases</pre>
Most of these are obsolete, but others are still in use. Each points to the name of the alias @columbia.edu. Each alias is a simple text file that can be easily edited to change recipients, assuming one has the proper permissions. As with any other file or directory, aliases can be assigned an individual and/or a group owner, which can be changed only by the current owner(s) or CUIT.

* As of January 2008, it appears that many aliases are being transitioned over to the web-based console and are no longer accessible through this directory. That makes me sad.

Editing an alias requires the use of a text editor, either [http://www.columbia.edu/acis/publications/pico.html Pico] or [http://www.columbia.edu/acis/publications/emacs.html Emacs], which are among the programs available on CUNIX. To edit an alias, the command from the /sharemail/aliases directory is <pre>$ pico aliasname</pre>
or
<pre>$ emacs aliasname</pre>

===Programs===

There are a wealth of programs available on CUNIX which can be accessed from anywhere in the world. They are listed on [http://www.columbia.edu/acis/software/cunix.html this] page. Most economics majors will use [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stata STATA] in their econometrics class, engineers and math or science majors will probably refer to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematica Mathematica] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matlab Matlab], and statistics students often use [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAS_System SAS] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_%28programming_language%29 R]. Most of these programs can be launched simply by typing the name at the shell prompt, e.g. <pre>$ R</pre>

Some packages require a graphical interface for full functionality. To display charts in STATA on a Macintosh, for example, one must open the X11 console instead of the normal Terminal and run STATA using the command <pre>$ xstata</pre>

[[Pine]], an email client that allows text-based browsing of one's Columbia email account, is faster than [[CubMail]] for many basic tasks. As mentioned above, it can be launched either from within CUNIX <pre>$ pine</pre> or independently <pre>$ ssh UNI@pine.columbia.edu</pre>

Pico and Emacs are two fully-featured text editors for use within the CUNIX environment. Pico is recommended for beginners. [http://www.columbia.edu/acis/email/mm.home/manual.html MM] is another email reader.

===Server hierarchy===

There is likely much much more to CUNIX than this page indicates, and one of the best ways to explore it is to simply click through the server tree. Ever wondered where to find a list of all the active UNIs in the system? Wonder no more, simply do the following from your home directory:

<pre>$ cd ..
$ cd ..
$ ls
$ cd a
$ ls</pre>

You've just listed every existing user beginning with A. Repeat for the other letters of the alphabet as desired. Similarly, you can navigate to any of the many many many other directories within CUNIX by starting out at <pre>$ cd /</pre> and using the ls command (ls -a to see all files, ls -l to see rights and permissions) to see what's out there. Similarly of interest might be the complete list of email aliases, or anything else of the sort. Enjoy!

=References=

See the various Wikipedia articles and CUIT pages linked from this article for more information.

[[Category:IT]]

Columbia University Software Archives

2014-01-30T03:32:22Z

TheFeynmanParticle: /* Software available for download */

The '''Columbia University Software Archives''' is a software mirror hosted by CUIT for use by its own employees, but is accessible to the public. This is a great resource for Linux users to install software through their package managers, as the mirror is accessible through Columbia's local network and therefore software downloads through the mirror do not count towards your bandwidth quota.

== Software available for download ==
Some of these software such as Arch Linux are not available at the website. To access them you have to manually navigate the FTP server.
=== Linux Distributions ===
*Arch Linux
*CentOS
*Debian (no ISOs available for download)
*Fedora
*Gentoo
*Linux Kernel Archives
*Knoppix
*Mandriva
*Scientific Linux
*Slackware
*Ubuntu (package archives only)
=== BSD Operating Systems ===
*OpenBSD
=== Software ===
*Apache
*CPAN
*CTAN
*Cygwin
*Eclipse
*GNU
*GNOME
*KDE
*Mozilla Firefox, Thuderbird, and Sea Monkey
*OpenOffice.org

== External Links ==
[[http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/ Mirror site]]
[[ftp://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/ FTP site]]

[[Category:IT]]

Columbia University Software Archives

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The '''Columbia University Software Archives''' is a software mirror hosted by CUIT for use by its own employees, but is accessible to the public. This is a great resource for Linux users to install software through their package managers, as the mirror is accessible through Columbia's local network and therefore software downloads through the mirror do not count towards your bandwidth quota.

== Software available for download ==
Some of these software such as Arch Linux are not available at the website. To access them you have to manually navigate the FTP server.
=== Linux Distributions ===
*Arch Linux
*CentOS
*Debian (no ISOs available for download)
*Fedora
*Gentoo
*Linux Kernel Archives
*Knoppix
*Mandriva
*Scientific Linux
*Slackware
*Ubuntu (package archives only)

=== BSD Operating Systems ===
*OpenBSD

=== Software ===
*Apache
*CPAN
*CTAN
*Cygwin
*Eclipse
*GNU
*GNOME
*KDE
*Mozilla Firefox, Thuderbird, and Sea Monkey
*OpenOffice.org

== External Links ==
[[http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/ Mirror site]]
[[ftp://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/ FTP site]]

[[Category:IT]]

Columbia University Software Archives

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The '''Columbia University Software Archives''' is a software mirror hosted by CUIT for use by its own employees, but is accessible to the public. This is a great resource for Linux users to install software through their package managers, as the mirror is accessible through Columbia's local network and therefore software downloads through the mirror do not count towards your bandwidth quota.

== Software available for download ==
Some of these software such as Arch Linux are not available at the website. To access them you have to manually navigate the FTP server.
=== Linux Distributions ===
*Arch Linux
*CentOS
*Debian (no ISOs available for download)
*Fedora
*Gentoo
*Linux Kernel Archives
*Knoppix
*Mandriva
*Scientific Linux
*Slackware
*Ubuntu (package archives only)

=== BSD Operating Systems ===
*OpenBSD

=== Software ===
*Apache
*CPAN
*CTAN
*Cygwin
*Eclipse
*GNU
*GNOME
*KDE
*Mozilla Firefox, Thuderbird, and Sea Monkey
*OpenOffice.org

== External Links ==
[[http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/ Mirror site]]
[[ftp://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/ FTP site]]

[Category: IT]

File sharing

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'''File sharing''' is as ubiquitous at Columbia as almost any other university. File sharing of copyrighted content is illegal. However, you are of course allowed to share copyright-free content.

== File sharing methods ==

=== P2P programs ===
File sharing kicked off through computer programs like Napster and Kazaa. These were either shut down or became clogged up with falsely named files. Many students then turned to DC++, but this was shut down by [[AcIS]]. After that, people turned to i2hub, which was based on the DC++ protocol. The i2hub network ran on the high-speed Abilene Network, which was created by the Internet2 consortium. This also restricted the network to university students and therefore there were few falsely named files. The most popular P2P program is now Limewire.

=== BitTorrent ===
BitTorrent is a revolutionary file sharing protocol whereby files are split into much smaller components. All the users sharing a file collaborate to share these components as rapidly as possible. This makes BitTorrent an excellent way to rapidly download movies, music, and other large file-size content. When sharing a file using BitTorrent, the user's IP address is visible to all the other users sharing that file. Many students get caught violating copyrights when an organization acting on behalf of the RIAA or MPAA connects to the file and makes a note of all the IP addresses.

=== Ruckus ===
Columbia.edu [[email]] address holders are able to use [http://www.ruckus.com/ Ruckus] to download a large selection of copyrighted files perfectly legitimately. However, the selection of songs is rather limited. Ruckus only works on Windows computers, not Macs. And there are heavy DRM restrictions. For example, you can't play Ruckus files on your portable audio device.

=== Other file acquisition methods ===
These methods do not involve uploading files and are therefore not file sharing methods. That said, even just downloading copyrighted files is illegal. The only difference is that it's harder to trace and harder to prosecute.
* [http://www.g2p.org/ G2P Beta: Using Google to locate MP3s]
* [http://www.alluc.org/ AllUC]

== Bandwidth limitations ==
Almost every node on the Columbia network is restricted to downloading 2000 MB per hour and uploading 700 MB per hour. A 700 MB movie would take 45 minutes to download going at maximum speed on the Columbia network, or about 2.5 hours at throttled speed. Users who exceed the above limits are restricted to a severely throttled bandwidth for between 20 minutes and 4 hours depending on how much they went over the limits. The throttled bandwidth is extremely slow; only fast enough for slowly surfing basic web pages. Thus, if you plan to download a large file, you may want to limit your download speed to 570 KB/s and your upload speed to 200 KB/s.

Bandwidth limits are currently only applied from 10am to midnight. So from midnight to 10am, you can download at unrestricted speeds, up to four times faster than the restricted speeds mentioned above. In practical terms, this means you can download up to 3.5 GB per hour, equivalent to about 1 MB/s. You can also upload at similar speeds.

== Legal risks ==

In late 2008, the RIAA and MPAA ceased their antipiracy strategy of suing individual users,<ref>http://www.wired.com/business/2008/12/riaa-says-it-pl/</ref> partially because [[Harvard|braver universities]] announced they would no longer hand over student information voluntarily.<ref>http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/02/tell-the-riaa-to-take-a-hike-how-harvard-law-threw-down-the-gauntlet/</ref> The myth that copyright organizations still pursue lone filesharers persists, with help from harshly-worded CUIT antipiracy posters in most computer labs and residence halls.

Although large rightsholder organizations no longer pursue students, CUIT still takes it upon itself to penalize filesharers.

=== Detection ===
Organizations like the RIAA and MPAA hire specialized detection firms to track down students who illegally upload and download files. Such firms log on to file sharing networks and BitTorrent, and connect to users on these networks to obtain their IP addresses.

The firm then sends letters to Columbia to forward to the violating IP addresses. IP addresses on the Columbia residence halls network are static and can be tied to a particular user (except for the public network jacks). CUIT is therefore able to identify the user and pass on the letter.

If the user was logged on in a [[computer lab]], CUIT compares the IP to a time log and can therefore still identify the particular user.

CUIT is less aggressive about pursuing filesharers in [[UAH]] buildings or offices connected to the Columbia network, although they still do on occasion.

=== Avoiding detection ===
Some file sharers try to avoid detection by connecting to file-sharing networks via another computer (a proxy). The user can then connect to file-sharing networks and use the internet as normal, except that the IP address by which their computer is visible to these networks is that of the other computer (the proxy). This way, if the RIAA or MPAA or some other organization wants to make a claim, they will address it to the proxy rather than the end-user file-sharer. This is useful if the proxy is in a jurisdiction with lax copyright laws like Sweden. By connecting to file-sharing networks via a Swedish proxy, it is almost impossible for any such organization mentioned above to make a claim against the user.

Some file sharers also avoid detection on the Columbia [[wifi]] network by changing or "spoofing" their MAC address once their previous MAC address has been identified as violating copyright.<ref>http://www.klcconsulting.net/change_mac_w2k.htm</ref> It is unclear whether this is legal. However, students who do it generally don't care because there is no easy way for CUIT to learn whether your MAC address is genuine or spoofed. In 2011, an anonymous Columbia redditor released an initial guide to doing so <ref>http://www.reddit.com/r/columbia/comments/kh9kp/a_simple_explanation_of_how_busting_torrenters/]</ref>

Others use public network jacks in the libraries and classrooms. These cannot be traced to individual users unless CUIT tries to match UNI login records (eg, for [[Cubmail]], [[Courseworks]], or [[SSOL]]) with connection records.

A foolproof way to avoid getting caught is to go to somewhere with free Wi-Fi such as Starbucks or Uni Cafe and then torrent off of their network.

=== Columbia policy ===
Columbia blocks file sharers from accessing its network upon receiving a notice from the RIAA or MPAA. Students are generally able to reactivate their network access upon affirming that they do not hold any content in violation of copyrights, and that they promise not to illegally share files in the future. Columbia does not monitor this promise. If Columbia receives a second notice from the RIAA or MPAA, the student's internet access may be permanently disabled, and the student is subjected to [[Dean's Discipline]].

== Effects on Columbia students ==
* Columbia gets a few hundred DMCA notices per year.
* The RIAA has so far sued 47 Columbia file sharers, of whom 39 settled out of court.
* 39 of the 47 lawsuits arose from RIAA targetting of i2hub.
* On Wednesday 21 March 2007, a further 20 students were issued threats of lawsuits by the RIAA unless they settle.
* Some students have formed a club called [[Free Culture at Columbia]] to protest against copyright and the RIAA and MPAA's legal actions.
* Columbia was recently honored by the MPAA <ref>http://www.901am.com/2007/the-mpaa-lists-the-top-25-movie-piracy-schools.html</ref> as the #1 school for movie piracy. However, Columbia was snubbed by the RIAA and did not even break the top 25 worst offenders list.
== References ==
<references />

== External links ==

[[Category:File sharing|*]]

Piracy

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Dinosaur Bar-B-Que

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'''Dinosaur Bar-B-Que''' (or specifically the lack of) is the reason why we're all here stuck in John Jay Lounge writing WikiCU pages.

== External links ==
*[http://www.dinosaurbarbque.com/ Official Website]

[[Category:American restaurants]]

Dinosaur Bar-B-Que

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Dinosaur

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Dinosaur Bar-B-Que

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'''Dinosaur Bar-B-Que''' (or specifically the lack of) is the reason why we're all here stuck in John Jay Lounge writing WikiCU pages.

Schapiro Hall

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{{Infobox reshall
|Name=Schapiro
|Image=Schapiro.jpg
|Built=[[1987]]
|Renovated= 2012-2013
|Population=415}}

'''Morris A. Schapiro Hall''', popularly known as Schapiro, is an undergraduate [[:Category:Residence halls|residence hall]] that mostly houses juniors in singles and sophomores in doubles. It has yet to earn the nickname "The Schap." It's on 115th St between [[Broadway (avenue)|Broadway]] and [[Riverside Drive]]. Schapiro was built in [[1987]] for $18m, making it the second newest residence hall after [[Broadway Residence Hall|Broadway]]. When it was completed, Schapiro enabled Columbia to guarantee housing to all undergraduates for all 4 years for the first time in its history.

Schapiro singles usually go to rising seniors, and rising juniors with a lottery number better than 1800.

==History==

=== Purpose ===

More than 90% of [[Columbia College]] and [[SEAS]] students had lived either on campus or in the immediate area since the the 1950s. Sometimes the university resorted to several stop-gap measures, such as housing men in [[Barnard College|Barnard]]'s [[Hewitt Hall|Hewitt]] and [[Brooks Hall|Brooks]] Halls. However, many students could not be accommodated and therefore lingered on the "non-guaranteed wait-list" while living off-campus. Schapiro Hall was intended to allow the university to guarantee four-year housing for all students.

=== Design and construction ===

Schapiro was the first and only residence hall built at Columbia with active student and faculty input. Dean [[Robert Pollack|Pollack]] of [[Columbia College]] convened an advisory committee which selected sites for kitchens, lounges, rooms, practice areas, and bathrooms. Schapiro was thus as much the creation of the students who would live in the building as the architect who built it.

Schapiro Hall was designed by Gruzen Samton Steinglass, and it opened in 1987.

=== Funding ===

However, the most interesting and touching story came with the construction of Schapiro Hall. The Schapiro brothers, Morris and Meyer, graduated in [[1923]] and [[1924]], respectively. [[Meyer Schapiro]] became one of the most distinguished art historians in the world, ending his career as a [[University Professor]] at Columbia. [[Morris Schapiro]] tried his hand at business, and found fame and fortune. Yet, when Columbia's fund raisers approached him either in his or his brother's name, they were continuously rebuffed. The case was referred to Dean of Columbia College Robert Pollack, who dug up the 1924 Columbian yearbook. Dean Pollack noted two facts, that Morris Schapiro was a classic American-dream success story, and that he had been a rather fearsome chess player in his undergraduate days.

Dean Pollack assembled the [[1984]] Columbia chess team, which was a diverse mix of Asians, Russians, Creoles, all young, all idealistic, but most importantly, all just like Morris during his Columbia College (and School of Mines) days. He then paid a visit to Morris Schapiro's house where alumnus and students met, chatted, played chess, talked about Columbia, and the like. The topic of money was never brought up, but when Dean Pollack returned to Columbia, he had a $7 million check to build Schapiro Hall.

===Notable residents===
*[[Molly Murray]], Columbia English professor

== Facilities ==
Each floor has a lounge and kitchen. Schapiro has 17 floors that accommodate 245 singles and 85 doubles. Schapiro also has several music practice rooms, a laundry room, and access to the Schapiro Black Box Theater.

=== Floors ===
* Floor 17: faculty-in-residence penthouse

=== Rooms ===
* 55 doubles
* 245 singles
* 30 walk-through doubles (05 and 07 line)

== Advantages and disadvantages ==

=== Advantages ===
* 04, 20 and 22 lines on floors 10-16 are large singles with south views onto 115th St.
* Nice first floor lounge and skylounge
* Room 1502 has a view of the Empire State Building
* Recently renovated over Summer 2013

=== Disadvantages ===
* North-facing rooms on lower floors are in a shaft so they get little light
* 05-line: ''very'' small walk-through doubles, with noise from elevator, next to the trash chute
* 07-line: small walk-through doubles, again with noise from elevator
* Watch out for room 902
* Nauseating combo of pale fluorescent lighting and peeling pure-white paint
* Malfunctioning heating system
* No modular shelves
* Rat issues - they slip in right under the door
* Hot water supply has been known to fail, forcing students to take cold showers

== Photos ==
<gallery>
Image:Schapirodouble605view1.jpg|Double (room 605), view 1
Image:Schapirodouble605view2.jpg|Double (room 605), view 2
Image:Schapirosingle1622view1.jpg|The largest single, view 1
Image:Schapirosingle1622view2.jpg|The largest single, view 2
Image:Schapirosingle1622view3.jpg|The largest single, view 3
Image:Schapirosingle1622view4.jpg|The largest single, view 4
Image:Schapirofloorlounge16view1.jpg|Floor lounge, view 1
Image:Schapirofloorlounge16view2.jpg|Floor lounge, view 2
Image:Schapirofloorkitchen.jpg|Floor kitchen
Image:Schapiromainlounge1view1.jpg|First floor lounge
Image:Schapiromainlounge1window.jpg|View out of the first floor lounge
Image:Schapiroskylounge1view1.jpg|Skylounge
Image:SchapiroskyloungeN.jpg|View out of the skylounge, north
Image:SchapiroskyloungeNW.jpg|View out of the skylounge, north-west
Image:SchapiroskyloungeS.jpg|View out of the skylounge, south
</gallery>

== Floor plans ==
<gallery>
Image:Schapiro 2001.jpg|Floor 2
Image:Schapiro 3001.jpg|Floor 3
Image:Schapiro 4001.jpg|Floor 4
Image:Schapiro 5001.jpg|Floor 5
Image:Schapiro 6001.jpg|Floor 6
Image:Schapiro 7001.jpg|Floor 7
Image:Schapiro 8001.jpg|Floor 8
Image:Schapiro 9001.jpg|Floor 9
Image:Schapiro 10001.jpg|Floor 10
Image:Schapiro 11001.jpg|Floor 11
Image:Schapiro 12001.jpg|Floor 12
Image:Schapiro 13001.jpg|Floor 13
Image:Schapiro 14001.jpg|Floor 14
Image:Schapiro 15001.jpg|Floor 15
Image:Schapiro 16001.jpg|Floor 16
Image:Schapiro 17001.jpg|Floor 17
</gallery>

== Map ==
<googlemap lat="40.807816" lon="-73.965349" type="map" zoom="16" width="500" height="300" controls="small">
40.807816, -73.965349, Schapiro residence hall
</googlemap>

== Building address ==
605-615 W. 115th St. 
New York, NY 10025

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

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

[[Category:Columbia undergraduate residence halls]]

Riding the subway

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Riding the subway

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[[Image:Subway map.jpg|right|thumb|For your convenience.]]

How to ride the subway like an expert, or, since you're now a Columbia student, how to look like an expert while riding the subway.

==MetroCards ==

MetroCards can be purchased in the station from MetroCard vending machines using cash, credit, or debit. A single ride MetroCard, good for two hours, costs $2.50, though customers can save by purchasing pay-per-ride MetroCards. Pay-per-ride MetroCards can store between $4.50 and $80. Putting on $8 or more on your pay-per-ride MetroCard triggers a 5% bonus. Unlimited MetroCards are also available for one day until the next 3 a.m. ($8.25), for seven days ($27), or for thirty days ($89). Complete MetroCard information is available [http://www.mta.info/metrocard/ here].

== In the station ==

Trains are often rerouted for system maintenance, especially on late nights (commonly between midnight and 5 a.m.), weekends, and holidays. It may be a good idea to check the [http://www.mta.info/ MTA website] for service changes and alerts before leaving. Advisories known in advance specific to individual stations are generally posted throughout fare control and subway platforms. A weekend summary is commonly posted next to the system map on subway platforms. Station attendants, usually located in booths at many points of fare control, should be able to assist with routine questions.

== Trains ==

=== How to get to Columbia ===

Take the (1) train to 116.

If beginning south of 96 on the Broadway IRT (1), (2), and (3), make sure you are on a (1) train before leaving 96. When service is running normally, this means walking across the platform at 96 to the local track. When (2) and (3) trains are running local (late nights and sometimes due to system maintenance), this means detraining at 96 and waiting for a (1) train on the same track. (2) and (3) trains do not run up Broadway north of 96.

=== Advice for going uptown ===

There's a world of New York north of Columbia that's mostly accessible by subway. Boarding an uptown (1) train at 116 means only an 8-10 minute ride to the [[Columbia Medical Center]], exiting at the venerable 168th St station, and a 15 minute ride to the [[Baker Field]] athletic complex, exiting (above ground) at 215th St.

=== Advice for going downtown ===

Beginning on a downtown (1) train at 116, be aware that the option usually exists to transfer to an express train across the platform at 96. The (2) and (3) express trains travel down Broadway on the Upper West Side and 7th Avenue below, making stops (alongside the (1) train) at 72, 42, 34, 14, and Chambers. Intermediate stops are accessible on the (1) train. Remember, express trains only save 5 to 10 minutes, tops, depending on one's destination. An express train that leave 96th at the same time as a local train reaches 72nd Street 2 minutes faster than a local and reaches Times Square-42nd St 5 minutes faster than a local. While time should be saved when traveling south of 34, you don't lose a large amount of time if you remain on the (1) train when traveling only as far as 42 (Times Square, a major transfer hub) or 34 (Penn Station, the next stop). If you are in a rush, as you pull into 96th, take a look at the screens displaying the wait times for the next express train and use the guidelines above to determine if switching is beneficial.

== Crosstown ==

There are a number of ways to get crosstown from 116. The most direct route is not by subway, but rather by bus. The M4 (heading downtown), which can be picked up at 116 and Broadway makes a left on 110 and a right down 5th Avenue (with a stop at 86 for the Metropolitan Museum of Art). The M4 runs back up along Madison Avenue. Be advised that local buses do generally stop, if requested, at every avenue and every couple of blocks. Once on the east side, the subway runs up and down Lexington Avenue.

Crosstown buses are also available at 125 (one of which, the M60, can be boarded at 116 and Broadway), 96, 86, 79, 72, 66, 57, 50, 42, 34, 23, and 14, all north of Houston. Also, the (L) subway runs across 14 (and into Brooklyn), while the (S) subway runs across 42, between Times Square and Grand Central.

==Advanced techniques==

===Pre-walking===
If you're short on time, a good technique is the pre-walk. This involves moving along the platform before your train arrives and serves two main purposes. On a busy day, pre-walking to the front or back of the train can mean a more comfortable ride in a less crowded car. Pre-walking can also minimize time spent in a transfer or exiting the station if you know the layout of your destination. For example, if you are coming uptown to Columbia on the (1), try pre-walking so that you enter the third car on the train. When you exit, you'll be right at the stairs!

===Sub down, Bus back===
This technique takes advantage of the fact that you can tranfer to a bus within one hour of riding the subway. If you are making a short trip, it can save you $2.50. Suppose you're hosting a party, but you need a cable to connect your iPod to your suite's speakers. Take the subway down to 86th street, pop into PC Richards for the cable, then ride the [[M104]] back up to campus.

[[Category:Subway]]
[[Category:How to]]

McBain Hall

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{{Infobox reshall
|Name=McBain
|Image=McBain.jpg
|Built=[[1908]] (Converted [[1964]])
|Renovated=[[2005]]-[[2006]]
|Population=363}}'''McBain''' is a residence hall that mostly houses sophomores in doubles. It is on the south-east corner of 113th St and [[Broadway (avenue)|Broadway]]. It is sometimes known as 'Carman 2' because it is full of sophomores and the social atmosphere is similar to [[Carman Hall|Carman]].

Doubles in the McBain shaft are considered to be among the worst rooms at Columbia. They are typically selected as [[Blind double|'blind' doubles]] in [[General Selection]]. They range from 195 to 209 sq ft. Due to the shaft, they have no views, and are hot, noisy, and dark. The 06 and 25 lines are especially bad because they only have one small window.

A [[McBain Cat|cat]] (cats?) lives here. McBain also goes by the names of McBizz, McBizzle, and McPain.

== History ==
Built in [[1908]] to a design by Naville and Bagge, the building operated as the Yorkshire Hotel and then the Yorkshire Residence Club. In [[1964]], it was bought by Columbia and converted into a [[:Category:Residence halls|residence hall]].

In [[2011]], [[The Penthouse Club]], the most epic party in both McBain and Columbia's history, was thrown. A revival of the Penthouse Party is rumored for the spring of 2013.

==Famous residents==
*[[Meghan McCain]]

== Facilities ==
* Computer lab
* Laundry rooms on floors 2, 3, 4, and 5
* RA Rooms: 213, 301, 419, 514, 519, 619, 719, 819
* Rider Rooms 216, 334, 429, 529, 629, 729, 829

=== Rooms ===
* 43 singles (17 available in general selection)
* 174 doubles

== Advantages and disadvantages==

=== Advantages ===
* Many exterior doubles are large and have nice views
* Great walk-through doubles in the corners of the building
* Located near the Broadway restaurants and shops
* <s>19 line is a 174 sq ft single</s> This is usually the RA room
* <s>04 line is a 140 sq ft single</s> Converted to doubles
* <s>10 line is a 331 sq ft corner double</s> No longer true because of remodeling. This line is now a 210 sq ft double
* 22 line is a 269 sq ft double
* Exercise machines in the lounge are open for use 24-7
* Computer lab with 6 computers is likely to meet all of your IT needs
* 2nd floor is renovated and is on par with Broadway

=== Disadvantages ===
* Two elevators, but both are very slow.
* Noisy
* The rooms on the shaft often have no light or fresh air, and have terrifyingly close views of one another
* Computer lab printer almost never works (but CUIT has evidently been more diligent, because the printer service has been improving). Rumors exist that CUIT will install another printer over the summer in 2012.
* Mice can slip under the door into room.
*cockroaches and other bed bugs

== Photos ==
Warning: These photos are old and outdated. Some parts of McBain have been renovated in recent years.
<gallery>
Image:McBaindouble1view1.jpg|Double, view 1
Image:McBaindouble1view2.jpg|Double, view 2
Image:McBaindouble1view3.jpg|Double, view 3
Image:McBainsingle1view1.jpg|Single, view 1
Image:McBainsingle1view2.jpg|Single, view 2
Image:McBainfloorbathroomshowers.jpg|Floor bathroom, view of showers
Image:McBainfloorbathroomsinks.jpg|Floor bathroom, view of sinks
Image:McBainfloorkitchen.jpg|Floor kitchen
Image:McBainfloorlaundryroom.jpg|Floor laundry room
</gallery>

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

== Map ==
<googlemap lat="40.805837" lon="-73.964958" type="map" zoom="16" width="500" height="300" controls="small">
40.805837, -73.964958, McBain residence hall
</googlemap>

== Building address ==
562 W. 113th St. 
New York, NY 10025

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

[[Category:Columbia undergraduate residence halls]]

Living-Learning Center

2012-10-12T19:22:37Z

TheFeynmanParticle: /* Advantages */

The '''Living-Learning Center''' (LLC) comprises [[Hartley Hall|Hartley]] and [[Wallach Hall|Wallach]] residence halls. The LLC generally has more community programming and floor events than other dorms, although these are seldom (if ever) mandatory. It houses a portion of first year students, as well as sophomores, juniors and seniors. Few student actually comply with these requirements, as the [[Resident Adviser]]s don't really want to do it either, let alone force others to participate. LLC administration has attempted to crack down on this by making the LLC application ridiculously long to discourage students who just want the room. As a result, applications have plunged in the last two years. Some say that the residents are actually more dedicated now, but many residents say otherwise. The LLC tends to be short on freshman who want to live there, and is sometimes the university is forced to place freshman there who would rather live somewhere else.

== Advantages and disadvantages of living in the LLC ==

=== Advantages ===
* Great suite lounges that feel like a real living room.
* Kitchen and bathroom are in the suite, so you can cook and don't have to traipse down a long corridor in a bathrobe.
* About half of the rooms for freshmen are singles.
* The LLC is more sociable than [[John Jay Hall]] and [[Furnald Hall]] (but less than [[Carman Hall]]).
* The elevator is reliable (but damn slow).
* Best chance to get a single if you're a sophomore.

=== Disadvantages ===
* Bathrooms are co-ed, but you get used to it.
* Suite common areas end up pretty dirty because not everyone in the suite are friends.
* There's more "community programming" events and stuff than in other dorms, since it's supposed to be the "Living-Learning Center". Nobody takes it seriously, not even the RAs.

== External links ==
* [http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/resprograms/llc/ Living Learning Center website]

[[Category:Residence halls]]

Living-Learning Center

2012-10-12T19:21:24Z

TheFeynmanParticle: Alcohol can be brought to freshman dorms by students of age as of AY 2012-13

The '''Living-Learning Center''' (LLC) comprises [[Hartley Hall|Hartley]] and [[Wallach Hall|Wallach]] residence halls. The LLC generally has more community programming and floor events than other dorms, although these are seldom (if ever) mandatory. It houses a portion of first year students, as well as sophomores, juniors and seniors. Few student actually comply with these requirements, as the [[Resident Adviser]]s don't really want to do it either, let alone force others to participate. LLC administration has attempted to crack down on this by making the LLC application ridiculously long to discourage students who just want the room. As a result, applications have plunged in the last two years. Some say that the residents are actually more dedicated now, but many residents say otherwise. The LLC tends to be short on freshman who want to live there, and is sometimes the university is forced to place freshman there who would rather live somewhere else.

== Advantages and disadvantages of living in the LLC ==

=== Advantages ===
* Great suite lounges that feel like a real living room.
* Kitchen and bathroom are in the suite, so you can cook and don't have to traipse down a long corridor in a bathrobe.
* About half of the rooms for freshmen are singles.
* The LLC is more sociable than [[John Jay Hall]] and [[Furnald Hall]] (but less than [[Carman Hall]]).
* The elevator is reliable (but damn slow).

=== Disadvantages ===
* Bathrooms are co-ed, but you get used to it.
* Suite common areas end up pretty dirty because not everyone in the suite are friends.
* There's more "community programming" events and stuff than in other dorms, since it's supposed to be the "Living-Learning Center". Nobody takes it seriously, not even the RAs.

== External links ==
* [http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/resprograms/llc/ Living Learning Center website]

[[Category:Residence halls]]

Cafe East

2012-09-14T20:00:32Z

TheFeynmanParticle:

'''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 began 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]]

File sharing

2012-09-14T19:52:05Z

TheFeynmanParticle: /* Bandwidth limitations */

'''File sharing''' is as ubiquitous at Columbia as almost any other university. File sharing of copyrighted content is illegal. However, you are of course allowed to share copyright-free content.

== File sharing methods ==

=== P2P programs ===
File sharing kicked off through computer programs like Napster and Kazaa. These were either shut down or became clogged up with falsely named files. Many students then turned to DC++, but this was shut down by [[AcIS]]. After that, people turned to i2hub, which was based on the DC++ protocol. The i2hub network ran on the high-speed Abilene Network, which was created by the Internet2 consortium. This also restricted the network to university students and therefore there were few falsely named files. The most popular P2P program is now Limewire.

=== BitTorrent ===
BitTorrent is a revolutionary file sharing protocol whereby files are split into much smaller components. All the users sharing a file collaborate to share these components as rapidly as possible. This makes BitTorrent an excellent way to rapidly download movies, music, and other large file-size content. When sharing a file using BitTorrent, the user's IP address is visible to all the other users sharing that file. Many students get caught violating copyrights when an organization acting on behalf of the RIAA or MPAA connects to the file and makes a note of all the IP addresses.

=== Ruckus ===
Columbia.edu [[email]] address holders are able to use [http://www.ruckus.com/ Ruckus] to download a large selection of copyrighted files perfectly legitimately. However, the selection of songs is rather limited. Ruckus only works on Windows computers, not Macs. And there are heavy DRM restrictions. For example, you can't play Ruckus files on your portable audio device.

=== Other file acquisition methods ===
These methods do not involve uploading files and are therefore not file sharing methods. That said, even just downloading copyrighted files is illegal. The only difference is that it's harder to trace and harder to prosecute.
* [http://www.g2p.org/ G2P Beta: Using Google to locate MP3s]
* [http://www.alluc.org/ AllUC]

== Bandwidth limitations ==
Almost every node on the Columbia network is restricted to downloading 2000 MB per hour and uploading 700 MB per hour. A 700 MB movie would take 45 minutes to download going at maximum speed on the Columbia network, or about 2.5 hours at throttled speed. Users who exceed the above limits are restricted to a severely throttled bandwidth for between 20 minutes and 4 hours depending on how much they went over the limits. The throttled bandwidth is extremely slow; only fast enough for slowly surfing basic web pages. Thus, if you plan to download a large file, you may want to limit your download speed to 570 KB/s and your upload speed to 200 KB/s.

Bandwidth limits are currently only applied from 10am to midnight. So from midnight to 10am, you can download at unrestricted speeds, up to four times faster than the restricted speeds mentioned above. In practical terms, this means you can download up to 3.5 GB per hour, equivalent to about 1 MB/s. You can also upload at similar speeds.

== Legal risks ==

=== RIAA legal action ===
The Recording Industry Association of America is the main threat to students who download MP3s. It typically targets students who have violated many copyrights. Before issuing a lawsuit, the RIAA sometimes allows students to settle for a payment between $3,500 and $5,000.

=== MPAA legal action ===
The Motion Picture Association of America takes a more graduated approach than the RIAA. It will issue notices under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to file sharers who have violated a small number of copyrights. It will then issue a second notice, and only after that will it take legal action.

=== Detection ===
Organizations like the RIAA and MPAA hire specialized detection firms to track down students who illegally upload and download files. Such firms log on to file sharing networks and BitTorrent, and connect to users on these networks to obtain their IP addresses.

The firm then sends letters to Columbia to forward to the violating IP addresses. IP addresses on the Columbia residence halls network are static and can be tied to a particular user (except for the public network jacks). CUIT is therefore able to identify the user and pass on the letter.

If the user was logged on in a [[computer lab]], CUIT compares the IP to a time log and can therefore still identify the particular user.

=== Avoiding detection ===
Some file sharers try to avoid detection by connecting to file-sharing networks via another computer (a proxy). The user can then connect to file-sharing networks and use the internet as normal, except that the IP address by which their computer is visible to these networks is that of the other computer (the proxy). This way, if the RIAA or MPAA or some other organization wants to make a claim, they will address it to the proxy rather than the end-user file-sharer. This is useful if the proxy is in a jurisdiction with lax copyright laws like Sweden. By connecting to file-sharing networks via a Swedish proxy, it is almost impossible for any such organization mentioned above to make a claim against the user.

Some file sharers also avoid detection on the Columbia [[wifi]] network by changing or "spoofing" their MAC address once their previous MAC address has been identified as violating copyright.<ref>http://www.klcconsulting.net/change_mac_w2k.htm</ref> It is unclear whether this is legal. However, students who do it generally don't care because there is no easy way for CUIT to learn whether your MAC address is genuine or spoofed.

Others use public network jacks in the libraries and classrooms. These cannot be traced to individual users unless CUIT tries to match UNI login records (eg, for [[Cubmail]], [[Courseworks]], or [[SSOL]]) with connection records.

=== Columbia policy ===
Columbia blocks file sharers from accessing its network upon receiving a notice from the RIAA or MPAA. Students are generally able to reactivate their network access upon affirming that they do not hold any content in violation of copyrights, and that they promise not to illegally share files in the future. Columbia does not monitor this promise. If Columbia receives a second notice from the RIAA or MPAA, the student's internet access may be permanently disabled, and the student is subjected to [[Dean's Discipline]].

== Effects on Columbia students ==
* Columbia gets a few hundred DMCA notices per year.
* The RIAA has so far sued 47 Columbia file sharers, of whom 39 settled out of court.
* 39 of the 47 lawsuits arose from RIAA targetting of i2hub.
* On Wednesday 21 March 2007, a further 20 students were issued threats of lawsuits by the RIAA unless they settle.
* Some students have formed a club called [[Free Culture at Columbia]] to protest against copyright and the RIAA and MPAA's legal actions.
* Columbia was recently honored by the MPAA <ref>http://www.901am.com/2007/the-mpaa-lists-the-top-25-movie-piracy-schools.html</ref> as the #1 school for movie piracy. However, Columbia was snubbed by the RIAA and did not even break the top 25 worst offenders list.
== References ==
<references />

== External links ==

[[Category:IT]]

Homecoming

2012-09-13T21:07:54Z

TheFeynmanParticle:

'''Homecoming''' takes place each October at the [[Baker Field | Baker Field Athletic Complex]] and celebrates the [[football | football team's]] loss to either [[Penn]] or [[Princeton]]. Seriously, who in the world decided to schedule homecoming against either Penn or Princeton? At any rate, it exists as the culmination of mostly alumni events throughout the prior week and results in the one time each season that the stands are considerably full at [[Wien Stadium]]. Numerous [[Fraternities]] can be found tailgating boisterously in the parking lot during the course of the day. Most revelers don't even enter the stadium.

[[PrezBo]] usually shows up for photos.

The next homecoming is scheduled for October 20, [[2012]] against [[Dartmouth]].

[[Category:Athletics]]
[[Category:Traditions]]

Dean

2012-07-05T19:22:15Z

TheFeynmanParticle:

'''Dean''' is a title within the university that can have several different meanings, depending on the school or department in which the title is given. Historically, the title has been associated with academic oversight, such the dean of a particular school or the dean of students (who was originally responsible for the academic well-being of his students). The word "dean" derives from the Latin ''decanus'' (literally "chief of ten"), the same root from which the ecclesiastical office of ''deacon'' is drawn.

At Columbia, deans are broadly separated into "faculty deans" and "administrative deans". [[Faculty]] deans oversee a faculty body. Faculty deans evaluate faculty members, recommend them for tenure, set research priorities, hire and fire faculty, and create their faculty budget. Most faculties are also schools, such as the Faculty of the [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]], or the Faculty of [[Columbia Business School|Business]]. Two faculties are "unified constructs" that serve multiple schools: for example, [[Columbia College]], the [[School of General Studies]], the [[School of Continuing Education]], the [[Graduate School of Arts and Sciences]], and the [[School of the Arts]] are served by the [[Faculty of Arts and Sciences]], and the [[College of Physicians and Surgeons]], the [[Mailman School of Public Health]], the [[School of Nursing]], and the [[College of Dental Medicine]] are served by the [[Faculty of Health Sciences]]. Although separate faculties of the respective schools, such as the "Faculty of Columbia College", once existed and still do exist on paper, they were folded into the construct of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1991.

When considering faculties that serve more than one school (as opposed to where faculty and school are synonymous), the dean of a faculty oversees faculty affairs and is considered the faculty dean, not the dean of the respective school. For example, the [[Dean of Columbia College]] is considered an administrative dean and has no oversight in faculty affairs. However, the incumbent Dean of Columbia College is also separately and equally the Vice President of Undergraduate Education for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in a [[w:personal union|personal union]] which gives her some oversight into faculty affairs within the arts and sciences.

Administrative deans are those administrators who hold the title of "dean" but otherwise have no oversight into faculty affairs. Examples include advising deans, deans of student affairs, and deans of specific programs and centers. Broadly speaking, faculty deans are known as "deans" or "vice deans" and interact primarily with faculty, while administrative deans are deans of specific programs or centers, or associate deans, and interact primarily with students.

It is unclear if the newly appointed "divisional deans" in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, such as [[Amber Miller]], [[Dean of Science]], are to be considered faculty or administrative deans.

==Notable Deans==

'''Faculty Deans'''
* [[Nicholas Dirks|Nicholas Bernard Dirks]], Executive Vice President for Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
* [[Donald Goldfarb]], Dean of the Faculty of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
* [[Morton Friedman]], Senior Vice Dean of the Faculty of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
* [[Kathleen McKeown]], Vice Dean for Research of the Faculty of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
* [[Patricia Culligan]], Vice Dean of Academic Affairs of the Faculty of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
* [[Soulaymane Kachani]], Vice Dean for Professional and Executive Programs of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
* [[Glenn Hubbard|Robert Glenn Hubbard]], Dean of the Faculty of Business

'''Administrative Deans'''
* [[James Valentini]], Dean of Columbia College
* [[Kathryn Yatrakis]], Dean of Academic Affairs for Columbia College
* [[Roosevelt Montas]], Dean of the Center for the [[Core Curriculum]]
* [[Kevin Shollenberger]], Dean of Student Affairs for CC/SEAS and Associate Vice President for Undergraduate Student Life
* [[Kathryn Wittner]], Senior Associate Dean of Student Affairs for CC/SEAS
* [[Kavita Sharma]], Dean of the Center for Career Education

[[Category:University components]]

Feniosky Peña-Mora

2012-07-03T17:28:07Z

TheFeynmanParticle:

[[Image:Penamora.jpg|thumb|Feniosky Peña-Mora]]
'''Feniosky Peña-Mora''' is the fourteenth and current Dean of [[SEAS]] and the Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor in the Faculty of Engineering. He is affectionately referred to as '''Feni''' by [[PrezBo]].<ref>http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2009/09/01/who-runs-columbia-find-out-who-large-and-charge</ref>

At his [[September 1]], [[2009]] welcome address to incoming students, Peña-Mora reinstated the Columbia tradition of handing out the beanies to 300 first-year engineering students, a tradition which he has continued each year.

In [[2011]], Peña-Mora's reputation suffered in the wake of a faculty letter of no confidence expressing extreme discontent with his leadership with the school.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/nyregion/feniosky-pena-mora-columbia-engineering-school-dean-is-criticized.html</ref>. In the summer of 2012, Peña-Mora resigned as the dean of SEAS, and Professor Donald Goldfarb will serve as interim dean.

==Background==

Professor Peña-Mora spent the previous six years at the University of Illinois, where he was the Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, a Center Affiliate at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and a Faculty Affiliate at the Beckman Institute. He earned a Master of Science (MS) degree in Civil Engineering and a Doctor of Science (ScD) in Civil Engineering Systems from [[MIT]]. Before joining the University of Illinois in 2003, Professor Peña-Mora worked at MIT as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor of information technology and project management in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. He has also served as a visiting professor at Loughborough University in Great Britain and at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland.

Professor Peña-Mora’s research interests include information technology support for collaboration in preparedness, response, and recovery during disasters involving critical physical infrastructures, such as the 9/11 terrorist attack and Hurricane Katrina. He has also worked on problems of management of large-scale civil engineering systems.

Professor Peña-Mora is the author of more than one-hundred publications in refereed journals, conference proceedings, book chapters, and textbooks on computer-supported design, computer-supported engineering design and construction, as well as project control and management of large-scale engineering systems. His publication, “Design Rationale for Computer Supported Conflict Mitigation,” received the [[1995]] award for best paper published in the American Society Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) ''Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering''. He is also the author of an influential textbook, ''Introduction to Construction Dispute Resolution'' (2002).

Professor Peña-Mora is the holder of the [[1999]] National Science Foundation CAREER Award and the White House Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). More recently, he has won the 2007 ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize. In [[2008]], he was recognized with the ASCE Computing in Civil Engineering Award for outstanding achievement and contribution in the use of computers in the practice of civil engineering.

Professor Peña-Mora also has extensive practical experience in the fields of engineering and applied science. He is a professional engineer registered in the Dominican Republic and has been a key figure in a variety of international projects. He has founded high-tech startup and consulting companies and has worked with both the construction industry and governments in various countries, including Argentina, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Japan.

{{succession|preceded=[[Gerald Navratil]]|succeeded=Donald Goldfarb|office=Dean of [[SEAS]]|years=[[2009]] - [[2012]] }}

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Deans of SEAS|Peña-Mora]]

Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

2012-07-03T17:22:44Z

TheFeynmanParticle:

{{Infobox school
|Name=School of Engineering and Applied Science
|Image=SEAS_new_logo.jpg
|Established=1864
|Dean=Donald Goldfarb
|Degrees=[[BSE]], [[MSE]], [[Eng.Sc.D]], [[Prof. Degree]]
|Enrollment=1,425 Undergraduate, 2,267 Graduate students (2011)
|Research Expenditure=$110 million (2011)
|Website=[http://www.engineering.columbia.edu/ http://www.engineering.columbia.edu/]
}}
'''The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science''' (referred to by the Dean as '''Columbia Engineering''', but almost always informally referred to as '''SEAS'''), is the engineering school of Columbia. No one calls it Fu. Ever. It awards degrees in engineering, applied physics and applied mathematics. SEAS was founded as the ''School of Mines'' in 1863 and then the ''School of Mines, Engineering and Chemistry'' before becoming the ''School of Engineering and Applied Science''. It was the country's first such institution. In [[1997]], the school was renamed in honor of Chinese businessman [[Z. Y. Fu]], who had donated $26 million.

The school was founded in [[1864]] by [[Thomas Egleston Jr.]] as the School of Mines. The school was originally located in [[Lewisohn Hall]] and [[Mathematics Hall]], which then known as Engineering and Mines. The construction of the [[Seeley W. Mudd Building]] in the 60's allowed the school to move into more spacious quarters on the northeast corner of the main campus. Due to the growth of the school in the past four decades, further expansion was determined necessary, leading to the planning of the [[Northwest Science Building]], which opened in the spring of 2011.

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

== Departments ==

* [[Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Department]]
* [[Biomedical Engineering Department]]
* [[Chemical Engineering Department]]
* [[Civil Engineering Department]]
* [[Computer Science Department]]
* [[Earth and Environmental Engineering Department]]
* [[Electrical Engineering Department]]
* [[Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department]]
* [[Mechanical Engineering Department]]

[[Category:SEAS]]

{{Schools}}

Feniosky Peña-Mora

2012-07-03T17:16:42Z

TheFeynmanParticle: Added information about Pena Mora's resignation sent in a e-mail today on July 3, 2012

[[Image:Penamora.jpg|thumb|Feniosky Peña-Mora]]
'''Feniosky Peña-Mora''' is the fourteenth and current Dean of [[SEAS]] and the Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor in the Faculty of Engineering. He is affectionately referred to as '''Feni''' by [[PrezBo]].<ref>http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2009/09/01/who-runs-columbia-find-out-who-large-and-charge</ref>

At his [[September 1]], [[2009]] welcome address to incoming students, Peña-Mora reinstated the Columbia tradition of handing out the beanies to 300 first-year engineering students, a tradition which he has continued each year.

In [[2011]], Peña-Mora's reputation suffered in the wake of a faculty letter of no confidence expressing extreme discontent with his leadership with the school.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/08/nyregion/feniosky-pena-mora-columbia-engineering-school-dean-is-criticized.html</ref>. In the summer of 2012, Peña-Mora resigned as the dean of SEAS, and Professor Donald Goldfarb will serve as interim dean.

==Background==

Professor Peña-Mora spent the previous six years at the University of Illinois, where he was the Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, a Center Affiliate at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and a Faculty Affiliate at the Beckman Institute. He earned a Master of Science (MS) degree in Civil Engineering and a Doctor of Science (ScD) in Civil Engineering Systems from [[MIT]]. Before joining the University of Illinois in 2003, Professor Peña-Mora worked at MIT as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor of information technology and project management in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. He has also served as a visiting professor at Loughborough University in Great Britain and at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland.

Professor Peña-Mora’s research interests include information technology support for collaboration in preparedness, response, and recovery during disasters involving critical physical infrastructures, such as the 9/11 terrorist attack and Hurricane Katrina. He has also worked on problems of management of large-scale civil engineering systems.

Professor Peña-Mora is the author of more than one-hundred publications in refereed journals, conference proceedings, book chapters, and textbooks on computer-supported design, computer-supported engineering design and construction, as well as project control and management of large-scale engineering systems. His publication, “Design Rationale for Computer Supported Conflict Mitigation,” received the [[1995]] award for best paper published in the American Society Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) ''Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering''. He is also the author of an influential textbook, ''Introduction to Construction Dispute Resolution'' (2002).

Professor Peña-Mora is the holder of the [[1999]] National Science Foundation CAREER Award and the White House Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). More recently, he has won the 2007 ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize. In [[2008]], he was recognized with the ASCE Computing in Civil Engineering Award for outstanding achievement and contribution in the use of computers in the practice of civil engineering.

Professor Peña-Mora also has extensive practical experience in the fields of engineering and applied science. He is a professional engineer registered in the Dominican Republic and has been a key figure in a variety of international projects. He has founded high-tech startup and consulting companies and has worked with both the construction industry and governments in various countries, including Argentina, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Japan.

{{succession|preceded=[[Gerald Navratil]]|succeeded=Incumbent|office=Dean of [[SEAS]]|years=[[2009]] - }}

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Deans of SEAS|Peña-Mora]]

File sharing

2012-04-29T00:55:52Z

TheFeynmanParticle: /* Bandwidth limitations */ Bandwidth quotas were raised some time ago

'''File sharing''' is as ubiquitous at Columbia as almost any other university. File sharing of copyrighted content is illegal. However, you are of course allowed to share copyright-free content.

== File sharing methods ==

=== P2P programs ===
File sharing kicked off through computer programs like Napster and Kazaa. These were either shut down or became clogged up with falsely named files. Many students then turned to DC++, but this was shut down by [[AcIS]]. After that, people turned to i2hub, which was based on the DC++ protocol. The i2hub network ran on the high-speed Abilene Network, which was created by the Internet2 consortium. This also restricted the network to university students and therefore there were few falsely named files. The most popular P2P program is now Limewire.

=== BitTorrent ===
BitTorrent is a revolutionary file sharing protocol whereby files are split into much smaller components. All the users sharing a file collaborate to share these components as rapidly as possible. This makes BitTorrent an excellent way to rapidly download movies, music, and other large file-size content. When sharing a file using BitTorrent, the user's IP address is visible to all the other users sharing that file. Many students get caught violating copyrights when an organization acting on behalf of the RIAA or MPAA connects to the file and makes a note of all the IP addresses.

=== Ruckus ===
Columbia.edu [[email]] address holders are able to use [http://www.ruckus.com/ Ruckus] to download a large selection of copyrighted files perfectly legitimately. However, the selection of songs is rather limited. Ruckus only works on Windows computers, not Macs. And there are heavy DRM restrictions. For example, you can't play Ruckus files on your portable audio device.

=== Other file acquisition methods ===
These methods do not involve uploading files and are therefore not file sharing methods. That said, even just downloading copyrighted files is illegal. The only difference is that it's harder to trace and harder to prosecute.
* [http://www.g2p.org/ G2P Beta: Using Google to locate MP3s]
* [http://www.alluc.org/ AllUC]

== Bandwidth limitations ==
Almost every node on the Columbia network is restricted to downloading 2000 MB per hour and uploading 700 MB per hour. A 700 MB movie would take 45 minutes to download going at maximum speed on the Columbia network, or about 2.5 hours at throttled speed. Users who exceed the above limits are restricted to a severely throttled bandwidth for between 20 minutes and 4 hours depending on how much they went over the limits. The throttled bandwidth is extremely slow; only fast enough for slowly surfing basic web pages. Thus, if you plan to download a large file, you may want to limit your download speed to 275 KB/s and your upload speed to 95 KB/s.

Bandwidth limits are currently only applied from 10am to midnight. So from midnight to 10am, you can download at unrestricted speeds, up to four times faster than the restricted speeds mentioned above. In practical terms, this means you can download up to 3.5 GB per hour, equivalent to about 1 MB/s. You can also upload at similar speeds.

== Legal risks ==

=== RIAA legal action ===
The Recording Industry Association of America is the main threat to students who download MP3s. It typically targets students who have violated many copyrights. Before issuing a lawsuit, the RIAA sometimes allows students to settle for a payment between $3,500 and $5,000.

=== MPAA legal action ===
The Motion Picture Association of America takes a more graduated approach than the RIAA. It will issue notices under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to file sharers who have violated a small number of copyrights. It will then issue a second notice, and only after that will it take legal action.

=== Detection ===
Organizations like the RIAA and MPAA hire specialized detection firms to track down students who illegally upload and download files. Such firms log on to file sharing networks and BitTorrent, and connect to users on these networks to obtain their IP addresses.

The firm then sends letters to Columbia to forward to the violating IP addresses. IP addresses on the Columbia residence halls network are static and can be tied to a particular user (except for the public network jacks). CUIT is therefore able to identify the user and pass on the letter.

If the user was logged on in a [[computer lab]], CUIT compares the IP to a time log and can therefore still identify the particular user.

=== Avoiding detection ===
Some file sharers try to avoid detection by connecting to file-sharing networks via another computer (a proxy). The user can then connect to file-sharing networks and use the internet as normal, except that the IP address by which their computer is visible to these networks is that of the other computer (the proxy). This way, if the RIAA or MPAA or some other organization wants to make a claim, they will address it to the proxy rather than the end-user file-sharer. This is useful if the proxy is in a jurisdiction with lax copyright laws like Sweden. By connecting to file-sharing networks via a Swedish proxy, it is almost impossible for any such organization mentioned above to make a claim against the user.

Some file sharers also avoid detection on the Columbia [[wifi]] network by changing or "spoofing" their MAC address once their previous MAC address has been identified as violating copyright.<ref>http://www.klcconsulting.net/change_mac_w2k.htm</ref> It is unclear whether this is legal. However, students who do it generally don't care because there is no easy way for CUIT to learn whether your MAC address is genuine or spoofed.

Others use public network jacks in the libraries and classrooms. These cannot be traced to individual users unless CUIT tries to match UNI login records (eg, for [[Cubmail]], [[Courseworks]], or [[SSOL]]) with connection records.

=== Columbia policy ===
Columbia blocks file sharers from accessing its network upon receiving a notice from the RIAA or MPAA. Students are generally able to reactivate their network access upon affirming that they do not hold any content in violation of copyrights, and that they promise not to illegally share files in the future. Columbia does not monitor this promise. If Columbia receives a second notice from the RIAA or MPAA, the student's internet access may be permanently disabled, and the student is subjected to [[Dean's Discipline]].

== Effects on Columbia students ==
* Columbia gets a few hundred DMCA notices per year.
* The RIAA has so far sued 47 Columbia file sharers, of whom 39 settled out of court.
* 39 of the 47 lawsuits arose from RIAA targetting of i2hub.
* On Wednesday 21 March 2007, a further 20 students were issued threats of lawsuits by the RIAA unless they settle.
* Some students have formed a club called [[Free Culture at Columbia]] to protest against copyright and the RIAA and MPAA's legal actions.
* Columbia was recently honored by the MPAA <ref>http://www.901am.com/2007/the-mpaa-lists-the-top-25-movie-piracy-schools.html</ref> as the #1 school for movie piracy. However, Columbia was snubbed by the RIAA and did not even break the top 25 worst offenders list.
== References ==
<references />

== External links ==

[[Category:IT]]

Computer graveyard

2012-04-25T03:52:10Z

TheFeynmanParticle: /* What's Good */

The '''computer graveyard''' is a [[recycling]] area used by [[CUIT]] to dispose of broken and/or old computers, monitors, [[printers]], and various other computer components. An electronics recycling service comes regularly to clear it out.

== Location ==

The graveyard can be found below the [[Marcellus Hartley Dodge Physical Fitness Center|Dodge Fitness Center]] and can be found by continuing downward on the stairway connecting Dodge to campus level. Continue through [[The Grove|the Grove]] tunnel towards Amsterdam and the computer parts are located in large cardboard bins on the right, just past the old power plant entrance.

== Taking Stuff ==

Anyone's allowed to grab whatever they want, since the items are being thrown away. Useful if you want to grab a few crappy computers and build a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_cluster cluster].

== What's Good ==

*Monitors - said to be usually broken
*Motherboards - said to be often functional, just old
*CPUs - said to be often functional, just old
*RAM - very functional, but often old
*Hard Drives - also very functional, usually SATA, usually ~60GB
*Other stuff - ???

== Spookiness ==

There have been many sightings of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/360 IBM OS/360], which according to legend wanders the graveyard during the night, looking for souls to which it can add complicated and unnecessary features.

There is also a copy of the E.T. video game for Atari somewhere in there. Probably.

[[Category:Freebies]]
[[Category:IT]]

User:TheFeynmanParticle

2012-04-25T03:51:29Z

TheFeynmanParticle:

[[SEAS]] '15

NINJa

2012-04-25T03:50:24Z

TheFeynmanParticle:

'''NINJa''' refers to the [[CUIT]]-developed printing system that powers 100 printers throughout the Morningside Heights campus. The precursor to NINJa was called JAKE. No one has any idea why it was called that, and everyone at AcIS agreed that it didn't sound very bad ass at all. Therefore, the new name: "Ninja Is Not Jake." Seriously. Some of the graduate schools opt out of NINJa and provide their own system.

Undergraduate students get 100 pages per week of free black and white printing on NINJa, plus an extra 100 per semester. You can print to NINJa from any CUIT campus computer. Specific NINJa printers can be added to your personal computer and printed to directly from anywhere in the world. In addition the handy website [https://printatcu.com/ Print@CU], develoepd by [[Sam Aarons]] allows users to upload PDFs and other documents for easy printing. Once you've printed you must walk to the printer and authenticate with your UNI and password to retrieve the print job.

NINJa is one of the unsung gems of the CUIT world, with generous quotas and generally decent, if imperfect, reliability.

 Brotip: If you hit Alt + Ctrl + Backspace on the printer immediately after your printing job is done, then the terminal shuts off before the printed pages are deducted from your quota. This can be helpful if you're printing a really long document or if you're running low on print quota.

== External links ==
*[http://www.columbia.edu/acis/facilities/printers/ninja.html Ninja Printing System]
*https://printatcu.com/

[[Category:IT]]

Gateway Lab

2012-04-05T19:08:11Z

TheFeynmanParticle:

'''ENGI E1102: Design Fundamentals Using Advanced Computer Technologies''' or '''Gateway Lab''', informally renamed '''The Joy of Engineering''' by Professor [[David Vallancourt]] is an introductory engineering course. Engineering students are required to take Gateway Lab one semester of their first year, and [[University Writing]] the other semester.

The previous course was developed by [[Jack McGourty]]. The course can be divided into two parts: the community service project and the Maya/MATLAB tutorials. Many engineers feel that this class would be better served if the community service projects were more explicitly engineering-focused or if a larger percentage of the course material was focused on Maya or MATLAB and not on MacGourty trying to justify the course.

However, beginning in the 2011-2012 school year, when [[David Vallancourt]] began teaching this class, major improvements were made. Maya was completely eliminated from the curriculum, and the dreaded community service projects were replaced by engineering design projects led by professors in each of the [[SEAS]] departments.

[[Category:Engineering courses]]

David Vallancourt

2012-04-05T19:02:58Z

TheFeynmanParticle: Created page with "David Vallancourt '''David Vallancourt''' SEAS '81 MS '84 PhD '87 is a Senior Lecturer in Circuit..."

[[Image:Vallancourt.jpg|thumb|right|David Vallancourt]]

'''David Vallancourt''' [[SEAS]] '[[1981|81]] [[MS]] '[[1984|84]] [[PhD]] '[[1987|87]] is a Senior Lecturer in Circuits and Systems in the [[Electrical Engineering Department|Electrical Engineering]] department. His began teaching the formerly hated [[Gateway]] in the 2011-2012 school year and has made significant improvements to it with demos such as fermenting hard cider in class and replacing the sensor bar of a Nintendo Wii with two candles. As a result, Gateway doesn't suck anymore, and [[Columbia College]] students are left to sulk away in [[Frontiers of Science]].

[[Category:Electrical engineering professors]]

File:Vallancourt.jpg

2012-04-05T18:36:08Z

TheFeynmanParticle:

McBain Hall

2012-03-28T05:04:39Z

TheFeynmanParticle: /* Facilities */

{{Infobox reshall
|Name=McBain
|Image=McBain.jpg
|Built=[[1908]] (Converted [[1964]])
|Renovated=[[2005]]-[[2006]]
|Population=363}}'''McBain''' is a residence hall that mostly houses sophomores in doubles. It is on the south-east corner of 113th St and [[Broadway]]. It is sometimes known as 'Carman 2' because it is full of sophomores and the social atmosphere is similar to [[Carman Hall|Carman]].

Doubles in the McBain shaft are considered to be among the worst rooms at Columbia. They are typically selected as [[Blind double|'blind' doubles]] in [[General Selection]]. They range from 195 to 209 sq ft. Due to the shaft, they have no views, and are hot, noisy, and dark. The 06 and 25 lines are especially bad because they only have one small window.

A [[McBain Cat|cat]] (cats?) lives here.

== History ==
Built in [[1908]], and operated as the Yorkshire Hotel and then the Yorkshire Residence Club. In [[1964]], it was bought by Columbia and converted into a [[:Category:Residence halls|residence hall]].

In [[2011]], [[The Penthouse Club]], the most epic party in both McBain and Columbia's history, was thrown.

==Famous residents==
*[[Meghan McCain]]

== Facilities ==
* Computer lab
* Laundry rooms on floors 2, 3, 4, and 5
* RA Rooms: 213, 301, 419, 514, 519, 619, 719, 819
* Rider Rooms 216, 334, 429, 529, 629, 729, 829

=== Rooms ===
* 43 singles
* 174 doubles

== Advantages and disadvantages==

=== Advantages ===
* Many exterior doubles are large and have nice views
* Great walk-through doubles in the corners of the building
* Located near the Broadway restaurants and shops
* <s>19 line is a 174 sq ft single</s> This is usually the RA room
* <s>04 line is a 140 sq ft single</s> Converted to doubles
* <s>10 line is a 331 sq ft corner double</s> No longer true because of remodeling. This line is now a 210 sq ft double
* 22 line is a 269 sq ft double
* Exercise machines in the lounge are open for use 24-7
* Computer lab with 6 computers is likely to meet all of your IT needs

=== Disadvantages ===
* Two elevators, but both are very slow.
* Noisy
* The rooms on the shaft often have no light or fresh air, and have terrifyingly close views of one another
* Computer lab printer almost never works (but CUIT has evidently been more diligent, because the printer service has been improving). Rumors exist that CUIT will install another printer over the summer in 2012.
* Mice can slip under the door into room.
*cockroaches and other bed bugs

== Photos ==
Warning: These photos are old and outdated. Some parts of McBain have been renovated in recent years.
<gallery>
Image:McBaindouble1view1.jpg|Double, view 1
Image:McBaindouble1view2.jpg|Double, view 2
Image:McBaindouble1view3.jpg|Double, view 3
Image:McBainsingle1view1.jpg|Single, view 1
Image:McBainsingle1view2.jpg|Single, view 2
Image:McBainfloorbathroomshowers.jpg|Floor bathroom, view of showers
Image:McBainfloorbathroomsinks.jpg|Floor bathroom, view of sinks
Image:McBainfloorkitchen.jpg|Floor kitchen
Image:McBainfloorlaundryroom.jpg|Floor laundry room
</gallery>

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

== Map ==
<googlemap lat="40.805837" lon="-73.964958" type="map" zoom="16" width="500" height="300" controls="small">
40.805837, -73.964958, McBain residence hall
</googlemap>

== Building address ==
562 W. 113th St. 
New York, NY 10025

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

[[Category:Columbia undergraduate residence halls]]

McBain Hall

2012-03-28T05:01:49Z

TheFeynmanParticle: /* Rooms */

{{Infobox reshall
|Name=McBain
|Image=McBain.jpg
|Built=[[1908]] (Converted [[1964]])
|Renovated=[[2005]]-[[2006]]
|Population=363}}'''McBain''' is a residence hall that mostly houses sophomores in doubles. It is on the south-east corner of 113th St and [[Broadway]]. It is sometimes known as 'Carman 2' because it is full of sophomores and the social atmosphere is similar to [[Carman Hall|Carman]].

Doubles in the McBain shaft are considered to be among the worst rooms at Columbia. They are typically selected as [[Blind double|'blind' doubles]] in [[General Selection]]. They range from 195 to 209 sq ft. Due to the shaft, they have no views, and are hot, noisy, and dark. The 06 and 25 lines are especially bad because they only have one small window.

A [[McBain Cat|cat]] (cats?) lives here.

== History ==
Built in [[1908]], and operated as the Yorkshire Hotel and then the Yorkshire Residence Club. In [[1964]], it was bought by Columbia and converted into a [[:Category:Residence halls|residence hall]].

In [[2011]], [[The Penthouse Club]], the most epic party in both McBain and Columbia's history, was thrown.

==Famous residents==
*[[Meghan McCain]]

== Facilities ==
* Computer lab
* Laundry rooms on floors 2, 3, 4, and 5
* RA Rooms: 103, 213, 320, 419, 514, 519, 619, 719, 819

=== Rooms ===
* 43 singles
* 174 doubles

== Advantages and disadvantages==

=== Advantages ===
* Many exterior doubles are large and have nice views
* Great walk-through doubles in the corners of the building
* Located near the Broadway restaurants and shops
* <s>19 line is a 174 sq ft single</s> This is usually the RA room
* <s>04 line is a 140 sq ft single</s> Converted to doubles
* <s>10 line is a 331 sq ft corner double</s> No longer true because of remodeling. This line is now a 210 sq ft double
* 22 line is a 269 sq ft double
* Exercise machines in the lounge are open for use 24-7
* Computer lab with 6 computers is likely to meet all of your IT needs

=== Disadvantages ===
* Two elevators, but both are very slow.
* Noisy
* The rooms on the shaft often have no light or fresh air, and have terrifyingly close views of one another
* Computer lab printer almost never works (but CUIT has evidently been more diligent, because the printer service has been improving). Rumors exist that CUIT will install another printer over the summer in 2012.
* Mice can slip under the door into room.
*cockroaches and other bed bugs

== Photos ==
Warning: These photos are old and outdated. Some parts of McBain have been renovated in recent years.
<gallery>
Image:McBaindouble1view1.jpg|Double, view 1
Image:McBaindouble1view2.jpg|Double, view 2
Image:McBaindouble1view3.jpg|Double, view 3
Image:McBainsingle1view1.jpg|Single, view 1
Image:McBainsingle1view2.jpg|Single, view 2
Image:McBainfloorbathroomshowers.jpg|Floor bathroom, view of showers
Image:McBainfloorbathroomsinks.jpg|Floor bathroom, view of sinks
Image:McBainfloorkitchen.jpg|Floor kitchen
Image:McBainfloorlaundryroom.jpg|Floor laundry room
</gallery>

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

== Map ==
<googlemap lat="40.805837" lon="-73.964958" type="map" zoom="16" width="500" height="300" controls="small">
40.805837, -73.964958, McBain residence hall
</googlemap>

== Building address ==
562 W. 113th St. 
New York, NY 10025

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

[[Category:Columbia undergraduate residence halls]]

Boredatcolumbia

2012-03-28T04:56:00Z

TheFeynmanParticle:

[[Image:Bored.png|thumb|200px|Former B@B logo]]

'''Boredatcolumbia''', formerly known as '''Bored at Butler''' or '''B@B''' (with various capitalization schemes, a choice of "at" or "@", and various domain name suffixes), is a hangout for bored people. Think of it as Columbia's version of [[w:4chan:|4chan]]. It is "the last resort, when there's no one on aim, no one on fb, nothing new on the net." The most common word is "sex."

The website was set up by [[Jonathan Pappas]] CC '06, a [[Sigma Phi Epsilon]] brother from West Virginia. He said that the site "illustrates what many college students would say if they weren’t culturally pressured to be socially acceptable. That was the idea to it. Take a college student, strip them of their identity and see what they have to say."

Originally set up to entertain procrastinating students at [[Butler Library]], the website soon spread to other universities. After Columbia asked Pappas to stop using its [[Columbia crown|crown]] logo due to the controversial language that often appeared on the site, Pappas used it as an opportunity to transform what had become a growing "boredat" empire.

== Demographic analysis ==

Anyone accessing the site from a Columbia I.P. address can post comments anonymously.

* Many B@B visitors happen to be fucking idiots. And some aren't fucking idiots. They're just idiots themselves. Just good old, plain jane idiots. Damn straight.

* The larger majority of B@B visitors are Columbia gay men, looking to hook up with each other in [[the stacks]] or equally sketchy areas. It has been suggested that, while straight couples nearly never hook up, more than a few gay students have found temporary love thanks to the anonymous message board.

* B@B access requires a valid columbia email address or a location on the Columbia network in order to be able to post.

* As in all chat rooms, most of the "women" are men.

== Frequent discussions ==

* Words like "fuck," "dick," "pussy," and oddly enough "shaving"

=== Life at Columbia ===
* [[Barnard]] jokes
* [[GS]] students (they're old, they smell, and they're annoying)
* Midterms (midterms are a bitch; I don't want to study for midterms; I'm going to fail all of my midterms)
* What's the average GPA?
* Is my GPA high or low? (answer: low, ha ha)
* Manhattanville (Should Columbia buy all of Harlem and build a huge student center + park + new dorms there?)
* I don't want [[Matthew Fox]], I want George Bush
* Barnard girls are ugly/fat/lesbians vs. Columbia girls are ugly/fat/lesbians

=== "Self help" ===
* I have no life! / You have no life!
* I'm fucked! / You're fucked!
* I hate my life! (there's a good chance I'll jump under a moving car next week)
* What's the best way to kill yourself?

=== Sex and relationships ===
* Sex with ugly people vs. no sex at all
* Should I ask the girl opposite from me out?
* Talking to girls (has anyone tried yet?)
* Who wants to have sex in the stacks (answer: nobody, ever)
* Relationship advice (why do you guys always go for the boobs first?)
* Should I shave? How?
:* Should I trim? Oh shit I accidentally cut off my balls!

==The December 2009 Hiatus==
As of December 2009, the entire Boredat Empire has been shut down. In an [http://www.boredatbutler.com/down.html open letter], Pappas explained that a recent slew of racist and homophobic comments pushed the content on the website beyond tolerable. Pappas hinted that he would like to "build" the empire again with the help of coders from various Ivy League schools, and that the shutdown was "temporary", he offered no guarantees.

Boredat went back online January 3, 2009. It is currently in beta and still has a few bugs.

== External links ==
* [http://www.boredatbutler.com/ Bored@Butler]
* [http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2007/03/05/070305ta_talk_widdicombe The New Yorker, "The New Bathroom Wall"]
* [http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2007030501040 The Dartmouth, "Bored at Baker lets students opine on anything, anon."]
* [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/tools/papertrail/061208/tired_of_writing_stupid_papers.htm U.S.News, "Tired of Writing Stupid Papers? Post Something Stupid to a Website..."]
* [http://lamp.dailypennsylvanian.com/blogs/index.php?page=post&section=2&id=619 Daily Pennsylvanian, How BoredatVanPelt Are You?]
* [http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=516236 Harvard Crimson, "He Was Pretty Bored, Too"]
* [http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2006/12/04/News/Sex-In.The.Stacks.Message.Site.Attracts.The.Distracted-2519989.shtml?norewrite200612071510&sourcedomain=www.dailypennsylvanian.com Daily Pennsylvanian, "Sex in the stacks? Message site attracts the distracted"]
* [http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/12/04/news/16832.shtml Daily Princetonian, "Students alleviate boredom on blog"]
* [http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=515684 Harvard Crimson, "Bored at Lamont"]
* [http://www.yaleherald.com/article.php?Article=5003 Yale Herald, "Around the Ivies"]
* [http://www.cornellsun.com/node/19733 Cornell Daily Sun, "Blog Fights Library Boredom"]
* [http://www.ivygateblog.com/blog/2006/10/students_united_by_internet_soul-crippling_boredom.html IvyGateBlog.com, "Students United by Internet, Soul-Crippling Boredom"]
* [http://www.observer.com/20060306/20060306___thecity_newyorkworld-3.asp The New York Observer, "Ivy League Logs"]

[[Category:Websites]]
[[Category:Butler Library]]

Schermerhorn Hall

2012-03-28T04:51:44Z

TheFeynmanParticle: /* Schermerhorn Extension */

[[Image:Schermerhorn.jpg|thumb|300px|Schermerhorn Hall]]

'''Schermerhorn Hall''' (pronounced sker-mer-horn) was built in [[1896]] to house the "natural sciences." An inscription above the doorway reads "For the advancement of natural science. Speak to the earth and it shall teach thee."

The building was a gift of William C. Schermerhorn, [[Columbia College]] Class of [[1840]].<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=ZvAKAAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA143&ots=XuNFdVGi8O&dq=columbia%20schermerhorn%20alumnus&pg=PA162#v=onepage&q=schermerhorn&f=false A history of Columbia University, 1754-1904, p. 162]</ref> The chairman of the [[trustees]] at the time and an enthusiast for Columbia's move to [[Morningside Heights]], he offered $300,000 for a building of whatever purpose the university saw fit.<ref>[http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/schermerhorn/chronicles/3b.html Schermerhorn Geneaology and Family Chronicles - see William Colford Schermerhorn]</ref>

[[Thomas Hunt Morgan]] conducted his Drosophila experiment in his Schermerhorn "Fly Room" in 1900, leading to his [[Nobel Prize]] in Medicine, the first for genetics. During the Second World War, some initial [[Manhattan Project]] research occurred here, though most of Columbia's efforts on the project were concentrated in [[Pupin]].

Today Schermerhorn is home to the [[African-American Studies]], [[Anthropology]], [[Art History and Archaeology]], [[Geology]], [[Psychology]], [[Women's Studies]], and the [[E3B]] departments. It also houses the [[Wallach Art Gallery|Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery]] and the [[Center for Environmental Research and Conservation]] (CERC).

== Schermerhorn Extension ==

Directly behind and connected to Schermerhorn and is Schermerhorn Extension. The easiest way to get to a room in the extension is to enter Schermerhorn, make a right, walk until the end of the hallway, make a left, go all the way forward and down a few stairs and make a right, then another left. You're now in the Extension. On your right are a bank of elevators that will get you to the rest of the floors. Alternatively, enter the service gate on 118th St and [[Amsterdam Ave]] during the daytime and use the door immediately on the left if it's still open.

Also, your chances of finding a bathroom here are as high as the chances of [[Barack Obama]] speaking at campus.

If the above instructions were too complicated to read, let alone follow, you're best off not majoring in one of the subjects listed above.

== Photos ==
<gallery>
Image:SchermerhornFront.jpg|Front of building
Image:Flickr-jasonhe-schermerhorn.jpg|South-west corner
</gallery>

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Buildings on the Morningside Heights campus]]

NINJa

2012-03-24T23:38:27Z

TheFeynmanParticle:

'''NINJa''' refers to the [[CUIT]]-developed printing system. The precursor to NINJa was called JAKE. No one has any idea why it was called that, and everyone at AcIS agreed that it didn't sound very bad ass at all. Therefore, the new name: "Ninja Is Not Jake." Seriously.

== External links ==
[http://www.columbia.edu/acis/facilities/printers/ninja.html Ninja Printing System]
[[Category:IT]]

NINJa

2012-03-24T23:37:39Z

TheFeynmanParticle: /* External links */

NINJa

2012-03-24T23:37:20Z

TheFeynmanParticle: /* External links */

Improve Columbia

2012-03-24T23:28:48Z

TheFeynmanParticle: /* Housing and dining */

This page is a comprehensive plan to '''improve Columbia''' for its students. It is currently based on an article published in the ''[[Columbia Spectator]]'' on April 30, [[2007]].<ref>[http://media.www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2007/04/30/Opinion/Staff.Editorial.The.Little.Things-2887893.shtml Columbia Daily Spectator: Editorial: The Little Things]</ref>

== Campus and buildings ==

=== Campus and outdoor spaces ===
* <del>Replace aging bricks on [[College Walk]]</del> - old bricks have been replaced by asphalt pavers
* <del>Improve the drainage on campus, especially College Walk</del> - drainage was improved during brick replacement
* Keep one field on [[South Lawn]] open at all times for recreation
* Improve campus wheelchair accessibility
* Provide dedicated distribution racks for all campus publications
* Keep 117th Street gates (at Broadway and Amsterdam) open until 9 pm

=== Buildings ===
* Provide more electrical outlets in all libraries and classrooms
* Design future buildings without grossly violating the campus aesthetic
* Extend hours of classroom buildings with study space

=== Bathrooms ===
* Install motion-sensitive sinks in all public bathrooms
* Install paper-towel dispensers in all campus bathrooms

=== [[Lerner Hall]] ===
* Bring the comfortable chairs and computers back to Lerner's lobby
* Extend Lerner's hours
* Provide USPS services in Lerner
* <del>Make Lerner 6 available for student use</del> - 2009 renovations created office space for Judicial Services, Dean's Office, and Financial Aid. Discussions about use of now vacant 4th floor spaces underway as of fall 09.

=== All libraries ===
* Allow students to bring water into all libraries

=== [[Butler Library]] ===
* Move ashtrays away from the Butler doors to the Butler steps
* Allow outside food and drinks in Butler, especially after [[Blue Java]] closes
* Open the sixth floor of Butler, and the third floor reference and card catalog rooms 24/7
* Open Butler stacks 24/7
* Put [[vending machines]] in Butler
* <del>Remove unattended belongings in Butler at specified times</del> - Scheduled cleaning of 24/7 rooms moves unattended belongings to Butler's Lost and Found.

== Technology ==

=== General IT ===
* Provide consistent wireless coverage across campus, especially in dorms
* Include Barnard on the University-wide e-mail listserv

=== Network storage space ===
* Implement mappable SMB file shares so users can save and access their work anywhere on the network, instead of having to carry memory sticks, or obsessively emailing files to themselves

=== Printing ===
* Replace aging printers in computer labs around campus
* Allow print quotas to roll over from week to week (like cell phone minutes)
* Install color printers around campus
* Regularly replace toner in printers

=== CUIDs ===
* Allow complete swipe access between [[Barnard]] and Columbia
* <del>Remove Social Security Numbers from [[CUID]]s</del> - project completed in 2008.
* Add a second card-swiper in [[EC]], especially on weekends

=== ROLM phones ===
* Provide free local calls and inter-school calls on [[ROLM]] phones

== Academics ==

=== Departments ===
* Expand the human rights, sustainable development, and ethnic studies programs.
* Revive the African Institute
* Improve inter-departmental communication
* Create a home economics course, or a variety of home economics courses (like cooking, family management - how to not be a part of the divorced population, household management, crafts, sewing, etc.)

=== Bookstore ===
* Stock course books in the bookstore according to the number of students registered
* Sell or provide electronic copies of textbooks

=== Course registration and technology ===
* Combine the [[Course Bulletin]] and [[Directory of Classes]]
* Update all department and campus Web sites regularly and implement a common content management system, such as [[w:Drupal|Drupal]]
* Update online listings for [[Major Cultures]] and the science requirement based on available courses
* Allow students to see professors' names when registering for [[Core Curriculum]] classes
* Release course evaluation data
* Create more sections of [[Art Humanities|Art]] and [[Music Humanities]] and set some aside specifically for sophomores and first-years
* Make course [[syllabus|syllabi]] available online for all students

=== Seminars ===
* Standardize seminar registration processes across schools and implement online registration
* Allot seminar times before registration

=== Advising ===
* Standardize departmental advising

===Study abroad===
* Better facilitate the transfer of credits from institutions abroad to Columbia majors and transcript in general

== Housing and dining ==

=== Housing ===
* Provide cheaper interim housing between the spring and summer sessions

=== Residence halls ===
* Regularly clean laundry rooms and install change machines
* Provide air conditioning in all dorms, and turn it on before May 15
* Install thermostats in dorms
* Renovate aging dorms
* Install bigger kitchen sinks and more counter space in all dorm kitchens

=== [[Dining Dollars]] and [[Flex]] ===
* Allow all first-year [[John Jay Dining Hall|John Jay]] meals to roll over into sophomore year
* Do not require [[meal plan]] for non first-year Barnard students living on the quad
* <del>Implement off-campus Flex, especially at [[Labyrinth]] and [[Village Copier]]</del> - Completed in 2009.
* Accept Flex dollars at all campus eateries

=== All dining locations ===
* Provide more vegetarian and vegan options at all campus eateries
* Provide a spinach option at the [[Cafe 212|212]] salad bar
* Extend [[Ferris Booth Commons|Ferris Booth]]'s breakfast options to later in the morning
* <s>Keep [[JJ's Place|JJ's]] open on weekends 24/7 and extend weekday hours</s> EDIT: [[Jj's Place|JJ's]] is now open on the weekends, though not 24/7

=== Dining halls ===
* Provide more-varied and better-quality fruit in John Jay
* <del>Install a soy milk dispenser in John Jay</del> - dispenser added in summer 2007
* Extend the hours of John Jay and [[Hewitt]] dining halls
* <del>Install a deli bar in John Jay</del> - added in summer 2007

== Student life ==

=== General student life ===
* Hold monthly fireside chats with administrators other than [[PrezBo]]
* Emulate the [[Barnard Babysitting]] program at Columbia

=== Student government and clubs ===
* <del>Allow students to vote online in [[CCSC]] elections</del> - Online voting began in 2008.
* Increase funding for [[student clubs]]
* Allow students to determine, at least in part, which groups get the funds from their student activity fees

=== Events ===
* Sell [[Miller Theater]] and discounted New York theater tickets at Lerner's box office
* Devise better programming for campus events such as [[Bacchanal]]
* Allow students to drink more than one beer per hour at campus events

=== Student jobs ===
* Provide more on-campus [[jobs]] for students who don't have work study

== Student facilities ==

=== CCE ===
* Expand [[CCE]]'s alumni networking
* Increase CCE's resources and improve its offerings, particularly outside finance

=== CPS ===
* Move [[Counseling and Psychological Services]] to a more accessible location
* Allow students to make CPS appointments online

=== Gyms ===
* Allow students to sign up for [[Dodge Gym]]'s aerobics machines online
* Put satellite gyms in more dorms
* Reinstate equipment rentals in Dodge

== References ==
<references />

[[Category:Student life]]

John Jay Dining Hall

2012-03-24T23:19:00Z

TheFeynmanParticle: John Jay is now closed Fridays and Saturdays

'''John Jay Dining Hall''' is located in [[John Jay]] residence hall. It is open Sunday to Thursday, 10:00am-1:30pm for brunch and 5pm-8pm for dinner. All first year students must have a meal plan, which they can use at John Jay.

John Jay has good vegan and vegetarian options - and edible kosher and halal options.

John Jay is divided into three sections: the front dining hall, the kitchen in the middle, and the rear dining room (known as King's Table).

John Jay is Columbia's only full-service dining facility, in contrast to the many on-campus cafes. Despite its important role in (first-year) student life, the facility is unfortunately in very poor condition and long overdue for a renovation. The wood paneling in the main dining room has extensive damage and paint is flaking off the ceiling. The kitchen lacks an adequate ventilation system, resulting in suffocating heat in the summer.

== Photos ==
<gallery>
Image:JJdininghallentrance.jpg|Entrance area, from a couple of years ago
Image:JJdininghallseating.jpg|Seating
</gallery>

== Map ==
<googlemap lat="40.806005" lon="-73.962313" type="map" zoom="16" width="500" height="300" controls="small">
40.806005, -73.962313, John Jay Dining Hall
</googlemap>

== External links ==
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/dining/docs/menus/index.html John Jay Dining Hall Menu]

[[Category:On-campus dining locations]]

JJ's Place

2012-03-24T23:15:01Z

TheFeynmanParticle: /* Opening hours */

'''JJ's Place''' is the late-night [[dining]] location at Columbia, open until 1am on Sunday to Thursday. JJ's is located in the basement of [[John Jay Hall]]. As of this year, you do need to use a meal swipe to access it. The location also houses a student cooperative organic market. It was at one time an on-campus bar, serving alcohol to upperclassmen.

JJ's menu features chicken fingers, burgers, smoothies, fries, and other artery-clogging options. There's also a candy-by-the-pound rack and a small "mini-mart" section with lots of junk food and basic groceries (chips, cookies, cereals, dried pasta, etc). All purchases can be paid for using [[Flex]] or [[Dining Dollars]] as well as cash.

JJ's has OK seating with lots of tacky timber. A pool table arrived in 2007, LCD televisions were installed in [[2006]] at each booth, and there's a television at the far end of the room which primarily features [[w:ESPN|ESPN]], though can be changed to different channels using the handy channel up/down buttons on the front. It also has wifi.

The facility was originally designed to resemble a German ''[[w:rathskeller|rathskeller]]'', which explains the roof beams. A heaving stone hearth off to one side bears an inscription memorializing Columbians who lost their lives in the [[First World War]].

== History ==
Previous tenants of JJ's Place included an iteration of the '[[Lion's Den]]' and a pub that closed down in the summer 0f 1985 after New York raised its minimum drinking age to 21, effectively killing off its business.<ref>[http://www.eye.columbiaspectator.com/2002/02/27/our-pages In Our Pages: Higher Drinking Age Cited in Closing of John Jay Pub], Columbia Spectator, 27 February 2002</ref>

== Opening hours ==

Some students believe JJ's should open on weekend nights as well as weekday nights.
EDIT: Starting in Fall 2011, JJ's Place is now open on weekend nights

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|-
|'''Location'''
|width="50"|'''Mon'''
|width="50"|'''Tues'''
|width="50"|'''Wed'''
|width="50"|'''Thurs'''
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|-
| [[JJ's Place]]
|colspan="4"| 8pm-1am
|colspan="2"| 12pm-8pm
| 8pm-1am
|}

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:On-campus dining locations]]

JJ's Place

2012-03-24T23:12:42Z

TheFeynmanParticle: /* Opening hours */ Updated JJ's place opening hours

'''JJ's Place''' is the late-night [[dining]] location at Columbia, open until 1am on Sunday to Thursday. JJ's is located in the basement of [[John Jay Hall]]. As of this year, you do need to use a meal swipe to access it. The location also houses a student cooperative organic market. It was at one time an on-campus bar, serving alcohol to upperclassmen.

JJ's menu features chicken fingers, burgers, smoothies, fries, and other artery-clogging options. There's also a candy-by-the-pound rack and a small "mini-mart" section with lots of junk food and basic groceries (chips, cookies, cereals, dried pasta, etc). All purchases can be paid for using [[Flex]] or [[Dining Dollars]] as well as cash.

JJ's has OK seating with lots of tacky timber. A pool table arrived in 2007, LCD televisions were installed in [[2006]] at each booth, and there's a television at the far end of the room which primarily features [[w:ESPN|ESPN]], though can be changed to different channels using the handy channel up/down buttons on the front. It also has wifi.

The facility was originally designed to resemble a German ''[[w:rathskeller|rathskeller]]'', which explains the roof beams. A heaving stone hearth off to one side bears an inscription memorializing Columbians who lost their lives in the [[First World War]].

== History ==
Previous tenants of JJ's Place included an iteration of the '[[Lion's Den]]' and a pub that closed down in the summer 0f 1985 after New York raised its minimum drinking age to 21, effectively killing off its business.<ref>[http://www.eye.columbiaspectator.com/2002/02/27/our-pages In Our Pages: Higher Drinking Age Cited in Closing of John Jay Pub], Columbia Spectator, 27 February 2002</ref>

== Opening hours ==

Some students believe JJ's should open on weekend nights as well as weekday nights.

{| 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'''
|-
| [[JJ's Place]]
|colspan="4"| 8pm-1am
|colspan="2"| 12pm-8pm
| 8pm-1am
|}

== References ==
<references/>

[[Category:On-campus dining locations]]

Harmony Hall

2012-03-24T01:33:02Z

TheFeynmanParticle:

{{Infobox reshall
|Name=Harmony Hall
|Image=Harmonyhall.jpeg
|Built=[[1928]] (Converted [[2009]])
|Renovated=
|Population=90}}

'''Harmony Hall''' is an undergraduate dormitory located at 544 W. 110th Street. It holds the distinction of being the undergraduate dormitory furthest from campus (apart from some [[Barnard]]-specific dorms). Until [[2009]], Harmony was a [[Law School]] and [[GSAS]]-only dormitory, offering dirt cheap corridor living to budget conscious students as an alternative to the more expensive [[University Apartment Housing]]. While [[Housing Services]] has compared the building's layout to [[River Hall]], the two buildings differ in one very important respect- River was the recipient of a $10 million gut renovation in 2000 making it one of the most modern and desirable dormitories at the school. Harmony, by contrast, will merely receive a fresh coat of paint when it is converted to undergraduate housing.

==History==
The building was originally built in [[1928]] as a clubhouse for [[W:The Explorers Club|The Explorers Club]]. However, the Great Depression scuttled the club's plans to finance their building through steady rental income from subletting the upper 5 stories of bedrooms in the building, and they left in [[1932]]. The building eventually came into the possession of Columbia. One can still see the heritage of the building in the allegorical portraits representing the continents on its façade.

==Facilities==
76 singles and 7 doubles of varying size are located corridor-style on 8 floors in the building. There are separate men’s and women’s bathrooms on most floors and co-ed bathrooms on floors 5 and 6. Each floor has a kitchen with a full-sized refrigerator, sink, and stove, and a common area with a flat-screen television attached to the kitchen.There is a laundry room in the basement, and 2 printing stations in the main lobby. There is bicycle storage in the basement.

A significant number of the singles are under 100 sq. ft and go as low as 76 sq ft. This makes it likely that Harmony Hall will be a dormitory of last resort for sophomores desperate for singles.

Savvy students will observe that Harmony Hall is 9 stories tall, taller than the buildings immediately adjacent to, and behind it, meaning opportunities for well lit rooms in the building do exist.

==Advantages and Disadvantages==

===Advantages===
* A few large singles (some up to 150 sq. ft.).
* High floors have a fair amount of light.
* Fresh coat of paint on walls.
* Flat screen TVs in lounges.
* Pre-war building façade.
* Closest dorm to [[Koronet's]] and [[Westside|Westside Market]]

===Disadvantages===
* Far from campus. The schlep to Pupin and Mudd is more than half a mile and to EC, roughly 7/10 a mile. If you're a person who runs late, this might not be the best choice for you (you always have the option of paying $2.25 to take the subway). Some previous residents wondered if this housing option was worth the walk to and from campus. Expect a long walk for anything social - as most dorms are several blocks away.
* There is no air conditioning, so expect a fair amount of street noise from 110th Street and Broadway intersection when opening windows.
* Many inhumane tiny singles, some as small as 76 sq. ft. (about 30% smaller than most John Jay singles).
* Lounge areas are very small.
* Only one elevator. It's old-style and slow, so many would take the stairs to the eighth floor rooms because of impatience.
* Cockroach, rat, and other vermin problems (including bed bugs and sink-inhabiting water bugs) have been reported by previous residents, especially on lower floors and basement areas.
* As a pre-war building, expect all the problems you would with a non-renovated pre-war building: hot water running out periodically, heating on too high, lack of full soundproofing.

== Floor plans ==
<gallery>
Image:Harmony 1001.jpg|Floor 1
Image:Harmony 2001.jpg|Floor 2
Image:Harmony 3001.jpg|Floor 3
Image:Harmony 4001.jpg|Floor 4
Image:Harmony 5001.jpg|Floor 5
Image:Harmony 6001.jpg|Floor 6
Image:Harmony 7001.jpg|Floor 7
Image:Harmony 8001.jpg|Floor 8
Image:Harmony mezz001.jpg|Mezzanine

</gallery>

==External links==
[http://housingservices.columbia.edu/content/harmony Columbia Housing - Harmony]

== Map ==
<googlemap lat="40.80365" lon="-73.965843" type="map" zoom="16" width="500" height="300" controls="small">
40.80365, -73.965843, [[Harmony Hall]]
</googlemap>

[[Category:Columbia undergraduate residence halls]]

User talk:TheFeynmanParticle

2012-03-24T01:26:22Z

TheFeynmanParticle: /* Housing Fixes */

==Housing Fixes==
Thanks for all the res hall updates. That'd been on my to-do list for quite some time. [[User:Cam2171|-|- cam2171 -|-]] 21:18, 23 March 2012 (EDT)
:No problem. I noticed that a bunch of the floor plans were outdated (45 line on John Jay was still a single) so I figured I would step up and do something about it. Also, it's housing season, so people could definitely use the updated info.--[[User:TheFeynmanParticle|TheFeynmanParticle]] 21:26, 23 March 2012 (EDT)