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'''Coursera''' is a massive open online course (MOOC) website created by two [[Stanford]] professors in [[2011]]. In [[2012]], Columbia announced a partnership with Coursera that would result in two courses from [[SEAS]] being offered as pilots for an online program: Financial Engineering & Risk Management and Natural Language Processing.<br />
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This isn't Columbia's first attempt at online education. Coursera is eerily similar to the [[Fathom Knowledge Network]], but perhaps was founded in time more well-suited to such online endeavors. Only time will tell.<br />
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==External Links==<br />
* [http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112731/moocs-will-online-education-ruin-university-experience "MOOCs of Hazard"], Professor [[Andrew Delbanco]] says why this is bad in ''[[The New Republic]]''<br />
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<div>'''Janaki Bakhle''' [[PhD]] '[[2002|02]] is a professor of Indian history. A former graduate student at Columbia working under, among others, [[Edward Said]], [[Partha Chatterjee]], and [[Ayesha Jalal]], she now teaches the popular course [[Gandhi's India]]. She is also director of the [[Southern Asian Institute]]. <br />
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She is married to professor/administrator [[Nick Dirks]]. <br />
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*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/history/faculty/h_faculty_profile_bakhle.htm History Department faculty page]<br />
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<div>The '''President of Columbia University''' is the highest officer of the university. The President is equivalent to a Chief Executive Officer in a corporation, and the [[Trustees]] are equivalent to his or her Board of Directors. The President is a member ''ex officio'', but not the Chairman of the Board of Trustees.<br />
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Since [[Frederick A. P. Barnard]], Presidents have published public [[Annual Reports of the President to the Trustees|reports to the trustees]]. Originally an annual occurrence, the recent trend has been to five-year reports. <br />
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== List of Presidents ==<br />
===King's College===<br />
* [[Samuel Johnson]]<br />
* [[Myles Cooper]]<br />
===Columbia College===<br />
* [[William Samuel Johnson]]<br />
* [[Charles Henry Wharton]]<br />
* [[Benjamin Moore]]<br />
* [[William Harris (President)|William Harris]]<br />
* [[William Duer]]<br />
* [[Nathaniel Fish Moore]]<br />
* [[Charles King]]<br />
* [[Frederick A. P. Barnard]]<br />
* [[Seth Low]]<br />
===Columbia University===<br />
* [[Seth Low]]<br />
* [[Nicholas Murray Butler]]<br />
* [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]<br />
* [[Grayson Kirk]]<br />
* [[Andrew Cordier]]<br />
* [[William McGill]]<br />
* [[Michael Sovern]]<br />
* [[George Rupp]]<br />
* [[Lee C. Bollinger]]<br />
* [[Minouche Shafik]]<br />
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===Acting Presidents===<br />
* [[Benjamin Moore]] - 1775-1776 ([[Myles Cooper]] fled New York)<br />
* [[Henry Drisler]] - 1867, 1888-1889 ([[Frederick Barnard]] leave of absence, and then resignation)<br />
* [[John Howard Van Amringe]] - 1899 ([[Seth Low]] leave of absence)<br />
* [[Frank Diehl Fackenthal]] - 1945-1948 (period between [[Nicholas Murray Butler]] resignation and [[Dwight Eisenhower]] appointment)<br />
* [[Grayson Kirk]] - 1950-1953 (served while [[Eisenhower]] took leave of absence to run NATO)<br />
* [[Andrew Cordier]] - 1969-1970 (appointment retroactively made official)<br />
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'''Lee Caroll Bollinger''' [[Columbia Law School|Law]] '[[1971|71]] was the [[University President|president of the university]] from 2002 to 2023. He is affectionately known as '''PrezBo''' (alt. spelling '''Prezbo'''), a term coined by the [[Varsity Show]].<br />
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Bollinger came to Columbia after serving as president of the [[University of Michigan]], where he did now unthinkable things like host house parties for students. Occasionally, though, he will invite students for cotillions at the [[President's House]], where he will deftly avoid providing substantive answers to any of their questions or critiques. <br />
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His presidency has been marked by the vague goal of making Columbia a "[[global university]]," including the creation of the [[World Leaders Forum]] and the [[Committee on Global Thought]].<br />
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The massive [[Manhattanville campus]] project is another of his brainchilds.<br />
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==Other activities==<br />
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Once, in his spare time, he did something important involving law and [[affirmative action]]. Now, he mostly teaches undergrads how to behave like law students, luring them with a class on free speech, where he exercises Socratic Terror to compel debates that are still 1000 times more interesting than anything most actual lawyers do.<br />
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PrezBo also promotes physical fitness, inaugurating the [[5K Fun Run]]. The event, which occurs in September every fall, features free t-shirts and is led by PrezBo himself.<br />
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==Characteristics and interests==<br />
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He is rarely, if ever, seen walking to and from his official residence at [[116th Street|116th]] and [[Morningside Drive]]. Rumor (though confirmed by many who have actually seen it) has it he is driven the 1.5 blocks from his office in [[Low Library]].<br />
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He is recognizable for his wispy hair, trim physique, and vague, tepid statements about everything and everyone except perhaps [[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]]. <br />
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Bollinger submitted an op-ed (his first and only submission to a campus publication) In response to a Spectator staff editorial which called for the firing of the Athletic Director, [[M. Dianne Murphy]]. This was responded to by CCSC President Daphne Chen, who asked Bollinger to "really speak to us" in a Spectator op-ed.<br />
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He loves the word "global" and uses it about five times in each sentence. <br />
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Asked by The Daily Beast what book everyone must read before graduating college, Bollinger said, "Montaigne’s Essays. Why? Because they teach you how to learn, how to observe the peculiarities of life, how to be a good friend, how to know and be honest about yourself—and how to spend the last years of your life once you have done your part to make the world a slightly better place."<ref>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/04/the-books-everyone-must-read-before-graduating-college.html</ref> Because it would have been pretty embarrassing if he'd mentioned a book that wasn't part of the [[Core]].<br />
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Bollinger's salary was $1.93 million in 2010, which made him the 7th highest-earning college president.<br />
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His favorite TV shows are Mad Men, Saturday Night Live, the Wire, and Curb Your Enthusiasm. He has gone hiking in an area densely populated with grizzly bears to test his endurance. He is a fairly interesting man. <br />
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==Personal Life and Early Career==<br />
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Bollinger was born April 30, 1946 in Santa Rosa, CA, the son of Lee and Pat Bollinger. He received a B.S. in intellectual history from the University of Oregon in 1968, where he met his future wife Jean. They moved east to Columbia University where Lee attended law school and Jean received a masters degree in curriculum and teaching from Teachers College <ref> http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/Fall2002/Bollinger.html </ref>. They were married in 1968.<br />
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After graduating, Bollinger clerked for the Court of Appeals and then for Chief Justice Warren Berger. He taught at University of Michigan's law school in 1978 and became dean of the law school in 1987. He became provost of Dartmouth College in 1994, and then president of University of Michigan in 1997.<br />
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Bollinger has a son and a daughter with [[Jean Magnano Bollinger]], Carey and Lee Carroll. Carey Jean Bollinger graduated from Harvard in 1998 and from Columbia Law. She is on a leave of absence from a doctoral program in research psychology at Teachers College. <ref> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/fashion/weddings/carey-bollinger-benjamin-danielson-weddings.html?_r=0 </ref> Lee Carroll Bollinger graduated from Berkeley, and received his law degree from University of Michigan, and an LLM from New York University. <ref> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/fashion/weddings/carey-bollinger-benjamin-danielson-weddings.html?_r=0 </ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/president/ Office of the President]<br />
* [https://directory.columbia.edu/people/uni?code=lcb50 Lee Bollinger]<br />
* [http://eye.columbiaspectator.com/node/586 Finding Lee Bollinger (Profile in Spectator's The Eye magazine)]<br />
* [http://www.cogmap.com/chart.php?id=2108 Organizational Chart (wiki) for Columbia University]<br />
* [http://www.twitter.com/LEE_BOLLINGER Parody twitter acount, @LEE_BOLLINGER]<br />
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Minouche Shafik is the current president of Columbia University, starting in July 2023. <br />
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Previously, she was an economist, serving in public service roles such as deputy governor of the Bank of England, vice president of the World Bank, and deputy managing director of the IMF. As a result of her public service, she was made a baroness and a member of the House of Lords, leading her to be nicknamed as the Baroness.</div>Reflordhttps://www.wikicu.com/index.php?title=M104&diff=57046M1042024-01-04T04:13:59Z<p>Reflord: </p>
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<div>The '''M104''' bus runs along [[Broadway (avenue)|Broadway]] on the [[Upper West Side]] and in [[Morningside Heights]], making it convenient for shorter trips than one would normally take along the 1 line of the [[subway]]. It is a useful line when using the "sub down, bus back" technique, which allows a student to spend only $2.90 on a short round trip journey.<br />
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'''Dining Services''', sibling of [[Housing Services]]. They handle [[Dining locations]], and the [[meal plan]]. You can sign up for a Halal meal option at their office.<br />
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| [[Blue Java Butler]]<br />
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| [[Cafe East]]<br />
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| [[Ferris Booth Commons]]<br />
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| [[Hewitt Dining Hall]]<br />
|colspan="5"| 8am-10am for breakfast, 11:30am-2pm for lunch, 5pm-7:45pm for dinner<br />
|colspan="2"| 11am-2pm for brunch, 4:30pm-7pm for dinner<br />
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| [[JJ's Place]]<br />
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| [[John Jay Dining Hall]]<br />
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| [http://www.dining.columbia.edu/docs/menus/index.html#Monday Mon]<br />
| [http://www.dining.columbia.edu/docs/menus/index.html#Tuesday Tues]<br />
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| [[Blue Java John Jay]]<br />
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|colspan="5"| 11:30am-9:30pm<br />
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| [[Ferris Booth Commons]]<br />
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| [[Hewitt Dining Hall]]<br />
|colspan="5"| 8am-10am for breakfast, 11:30am-2pm for lunch, 5pm-7:45pm for dinner<br />
|colspan="2"| 11am-2pm for brunch, 4:30pm-7pm for dinner<br />
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| [[JJ's Place]]<br />
|colspan="4"| 12pm-1am<br />
|colspan="2"| 12pm-8pm<br />
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| [[John Jay Dining Hall]]<br />
|colspan="4"| 11am-2pm for brunch, and 5pm-8pm for dinner<br />
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| [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/dining/docs/menus/index.html John Jay menu]<br />
| [http://www.dining.columbia.edu/docs/menus/index.html#Monday Mon]<br />
| [http://www.dining.columbia.edu/docs/menus/index.html#Tuesday Tues]<br />
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<div>The '''Dean of Barnard College''' is the chief student affairs officer at [[Barnard College]]. Similar to the [[Dean of Columbia College]], Barnard's dean is not the head of the faculty. At Barnard, that role is filled by its provost (currently [[Linda A. Bell|Linda Bell]]).<br />
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Initially, the title Dean of Barnard College was given to the chief administrator for the entire school, a position [[Millicent McIntosh]] transformed into the Barnard [[:Category:Barnard College presidents|presidency]] in [[1952]].<br />
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The current dean is Leslie Grinage.<br />
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== See Also ==<br />
*[[:Category:Deans of Barnard College|List of Barnard College Deans]]<br />
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<div>'''Milstein Library''' can refer to:<br />
* The [[Barnard Library]], commonly known as Milstein, located in [[The Cheryl and Philip Milstein Center For Teaching and Learning]]<br />
* [https://www.wikicu.com/Butler_Library#Milstein_Library Phillip L. Milstein Family College Library], within Butler<br />
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<div>The '''Barnard College Library''', commonly known as '''Milstein''' due to its location on the 2nd through 4th floors of [[The Cheryl and Philip Milstein Center For Teaching and Learning]] on [[Barnard College|Barnard]]'s campus, is Barnard's main library.<br />
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It used to be located in Lehman Hall, where it was stinky and unpopular. In 2015, Lehman Hall was demolished to make way for the [[Milstein Center]]. The Barnard Library was temporarily moved to [[Barnard Hall]] before being permanently moved to its new home in Milstein in Fall 2018, where it became the significantly more popular. <br />
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The Barnard Library boasts a Zine Collection, which is considered quite rare. It also houses the Milstein Green Chairs, arguably the best seating option on campus <ref>https://bwog.com/2018/09/an-introduction-to-the-milstein-center/</ref>. It also has large balconies on each of its floors.<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.barnard.edu/library/ Barnard Library homepage]<br />
*[http://www.barnard.edu/library/zines/index.htm Zine Collection at Barnard Library]<br />
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'''Butler Library''' is Columbia's main library for undergraduate study and graduate research. It is named for longtime [[University President]] [[Nicholas Murray Butler]], and holds 2 million volumes in the humanities. Butler has study rooms open 24 hours a day during the school year. Students in Butler tend to either work or procrastinate on their phones and laptops. Among its many facilities, Butler has a [[Blue Java]] outlet, a lounge (often used by students working on group assignments), and several computer labs.<br />
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==History==<br />
[[Image:SouthHallPlan.jpg|thumb|240px|Plans for Butler Library]]<br />
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Construction on Butler was begun in [[1931]] and the dedication ceremony was held in [[1934]]. It was built in response to a space crunch at [[Low Library]], which after 30 years had become too small to hold Columbia's growing collection. Discussions for a new library began in [[1927]] when the university librarian addressed a 13 page letter to President [[Nicholas Murray Butler|Butler]] proposing to build a new library by connecting [[Low Library]] to [[University Hall]]. When that proved unfeasible, [[James Gamble Rogers]] (the favored architect of donor [[Edward S. Harkness]]) was asked to execute a design for the 114th street border of the campus instead. The building was originally named South Hall, before being named in honor of Butler. It is said that there was a move to name the library after Columbia's 10th president, [[Frederick A. P. Barnard]], but Butler put the kibosh on the idea, leaving the building strategically unnamed until his own retirement. This probably worked out well in the end: Columbia's main library being named "Barnard" would have only caused the [[Columbia-Barnard relationship]] to be more confusing than it already is.<br />
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==Names on the facade==<br />
One of the more recognizable features of Butler Library's exterior is the list of names that wrap around the building. A common misconception is that the names represent authors featured in the [[Core Curriculum]]. The names were in fact hand-picked by President [[Nicholas Murray Butler]] when the building was designed<ref>[http://columbiaspectator.com/node/16651 The Writing Is on the Wall: Who Is Demosthenes, Anyway?]</ref>, before there was much of a core curriculum. Besides, college students weren't even allowed in Butler for many years, which was geared to serve the research efforts of graduate students and faculty members. Of the 18 names engraved though, only Demosthenes has never been required reading in the history of the Core.<br />
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*Front: [[Homer]], [[Herodotus]], Sophocles, [[Plato]], Aristotle, Demosthenes, Cicero, [[Vergil]]<br />
*West (opposite [[Carman Hall]]): Horace, Tacitus, [[St. Augustine]], [[Dante]]<br />
*East (opposite [[John Jay Hall]]): Cervantes, Shakespeare, Milton, Voltaire, Goethe<br />
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Read from the Homer all the way around to Goethe, the names are roughly in chronological order.<br />
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In addition to the 18 prominent wrap-around names, each of the main windows on the campus side of the building except for the center three have two names inscribed underneath them. The three middle windows have a version of the [[Columbia Seal|university seal]] underneath them.<br />
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The names to the left of the seal are prominent early American politicians: [[George Washington]], Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, [[Alexander Hamilton]], [[John Jay (person)|John Jay]], James Madison, John Marshall, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln.<br />
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The names to the right of the seal include prominent American writers: Jonathan Edwards, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe<ref>Coincidentally, Columbia's been hiding the mantel from the apartment where Poe wrote The Raven in storage for over 100 years. After scoring it by promising to display it publicly. Currently it's located on the mezzanine of the RBML and you have to ask to see it. Lesson: never donate anything to Columbia.</ref>, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Mark Twain.<br />
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The names have been the subject of protest for much the same reason that students often protest the Core Curriculum: they are almost exclusively old, dead, white males. In the past, student activists have climbed to the Butler roof and unfurled banners covering the names with those of black or female authors instead.<br />
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== Milstein Library ==<br />
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Butler is also home to the '''Phillip L. Milstein Family College Library''' which is the official designation for the 24-hour reading rooms and the collection of books stored within on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors of the library. Since Milstein isn't really distinguishable from Butler itself in any major fashion, no one actually uses the term "Milstein," and most probably don't even know that it "exists". After 11pm, when the other rooms of the library close, graduate students come down from other floors and overcrowd the 24-hour reading rooms.<br />
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|-<br />
| DS 685 - E 185.86C || 2M11A (210 Mezzanine)<br />
|-<br />
| E 185.86 D - E ends || 212<br />
|-<br />
| F - GV || 303<br />
|-<br />
| H - HF 1418 || 303A<br />
|-<br />
| HF 1419 - HZ || 3M04 (303A Mezzanine)<br />
|-<br />
| J - PQ 2081 A || 403<br />
|-<br />
| PQ 2081 B - PQ 6138 || 406A<br />
|-<br />
| PQ 6144 - PS 1855 || 406<br />
|-<br />
| PS 1856 - ZA || 409<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Facilities ==<br />
<br />
* Lockers: enter the lottery every year at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/butler/lockers/.<br />
* [[Photocopiers]]: on every floor.<br />
<br />
=== Floor 2 (exit level) ===<br />
Stacks Level 3<br />
<br />
* [[Blue Java Butler]] coffee bar.<br />
* [[Butler 214|214]]: the [[Butler Lounge|lounge]], the only place you can eat and talk. Colloquially known as ButCaf.<br />
* 213: [[CUIT]] computer lab.<br />
* Butler Reserves Desk<br />
* [[Butler 209|209]]-212: Milstein 24 hour undergraduate reading rooms.<br />
* Undergraduate lockers<br />
<br />
=== Floor 3 ===<br />
Stack Level 6 - the main stacks entrance<br />
* Circulation and Reference desks<br />
* [[Butler 301|301]]: The [[Lawrence A. Wien]] Reference Room<br />
* [[Butler 310|310]]: Old card catalog room, future Digital Humanities Center<br />
* Milstein 24 hour undergraduate reading rooms<br />
* 305: Current Digital Humanities Center. Scanners and such.<br />
<br />
=== Floor 4 ===<br />
Stack Level 8<br />
* 401: Periodicals and Microforms reading room<br />
* 403-409: Group study rooms<br />
* Milstein 24 hour undergraduate reading rooms <br />
<br />
=== Floor 5 ===<br />
Hours are the same as the circulation desk, meaning these reading rooms close!<br />
* Administrative offices<br />
* 502-504: "graduate" reading rooms<br />
* Graduate lockers<br />
<br />
=== Floor 6 ===<br />
Hours are the same as the circulation desk, meaning these reading rooms close!<br />
* Rare Books & Manuscript Library. Including the Columbia Archives.<br />
* CUIT Ninja printers in 606<br />
* Graduate reading rooms, some with a fantastic view of [[Low Plaza]]<br />
<br />
=== Floor 7 ===<br />
* Assigned graduate study carrels.<br />
<br />
=== Floor 8 ===<br />
* Assigned graduate study carrels. Often empty and usable, as long as you stay quiet<br />
* Oral History Collection<br />
<br />
=== Floor 9 ===<br />
* Secret bathrooms<br />
* Assigned graduate study carrels/offices. Generally locked.<br />
<br />
== Butler culture ==<br />
<br />
[[File:409 late.jpg|thumb|A student up so late in Butler 409 that she posed for a photo and deliriously posted it on Reddit <ref>http://www.reddit.com/r/columbia/comments/1c4gng/i_conquered_butler_409_its_4am_on_wednesday_the/</ref>.]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Columbiaproposal.jpg|thumb|While [[Butler Sex]] has yet to be documented, there's at least one known instance of a wedding proposal taking place in Butler - due to the fact that the couple met there.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/fashion/weddings/upon-closer-examination-its-love.html?_r=1&</ref>]]<br />
<br />
*Butler tends to be pretty quiet and studious, with the exception of regularly scheduled events (like [[Orgo Night]]) or pranks like the famous "Library Musical" and "Powerbook Startup" sketches by [[Prangstgrüp]].<br />
* People tend to stick to their own preferred reading rooms, and entire social networks develop around these after a time, particularly on the fourth floor.<br />
* Social connections forged in Butler have sometimes gone so far that students supposedly make out and go so far as to have [[Butler Sex|sex]] in the stacks. No one has ever seen this actually happen, though people talk about it <ref>http://bwog.com/2010/09/01/the-definitive-guide-to-butler-sex-2/</ref>.<br />
* Butler inspired the creation of [[Ref Spotting @ Columbia]], a Facebook group revolving around Butler 301, also known as the Reference Room. Students take pictures of their friends studying in Ref to either shame or encourage them, typically late at night. <br />
* Inspired the notorious anonymous chat room site [[Boredatbutler.com]] for "studying" students to vent online while there.<br />
<br />
=== Camping out in Butler ===<br />
<br />
During midterms and finals many people camp out in Butler. They take up valuable desk space and seats, leaving their books, laptops and other possessions in the library for extended periods. Some people even leave their belongings in the library 24 hours per day, usually to reserve the very best library real estate. A very small number of people literally camp out in Butler, sleeping there. This behavior can get all the crazier at Columbia because, unlike other university libraries, Butler is open 24/7, regardless of whether finals are taking place.<br />
<br />
=== Butler Clearance Task Force ===<br />
Many students believe that people who leave their belongings in Butler for extended periods are making unfair use of the library. As a remedy, objecting students believe that unattended belongings should be confiscated at regular intervals by library staff. The belongings would naturally be made available somewhere else in the library for students to claim. Alternatively, [[CCSC]] and the other class councils could do something useful for students by organizing a "Butler Clearance Task Force".<br />
<br />
== Tunnel/roof connections ==<br />
<br />
===Low Library===<br />
''Main article: [[Butler to Low tunnel]]''<br />
<br />
===Butler Library basement===<br />
Go down to the bottom of the X staircase (NW corner of Butler). It is a large basement which is mostly empty but has storage rooms. It is well lit and all-white. Frequent [[Benoit]] tags here. There are no cameras or alarms here, but there is a security gate in the staircase. It is trivial to open. Bring a screwdriver or the tunneler's friend, the swiss army knife. Beware constant staff intrusions during the daytime since the first floor of the stacks is used for book storage and the 'B' level of the non-stack area is frequented by maintenance workers. There is nevertheless a light security risk and a half-hearted security attempt.<br />
<br />
Note that there is a tag for vecular@yahoo.com in the basement, an email that has been spotted in about 3 places. The email address is non-responsive, but doesn't bounce back.<br />
<br />
The machine room in the southwest corner of the building is fun. You can get out into an exhaust plenum which has vents opening to the outdoors. Some are large enough to climb through. You'll find yourself under a set of grates which are part of the sidewalk on the 114th street side of Butler.<br />
<br />
*Note* The Security Gate has been altered, and while it can still be opened, it takes considerably more effort. Try pulling the gate back while pushing the deadbolt in with a screwdriver. It may take a few tries, but it is possible.<br />
<br />
===[[Carman Hall]]===<br />
Go down to the basement, and go to the southwest corner. You will see the padlocked double doors. These are normally inaccessible, but as of 6/06, the double doors are unlocked, so the passage between Butler and Carman/Lerner is wide open.<br />
<br />
===[[John Jay Hall]]===<br />
Go to the east edge of the basement. You will see a locked door with sharpie markings on it, possibly welded/hot glued shut. It leads into part of the [[JJ's]] store room.<br />
<br />
The John Jay/Butler/Carman tunnels were once used to transport food from [[John Jay Dining Hall]] to the [[Lion's Den]] cafeteria in [[Ferris Booth Hall]].<br />
<br />
==Alumni access==<br />
<br />
Alumni get free access to Butler for life.<ref>[https://library.columbia.edu/using-libraries/alumni.html Library Access for Alumni]</ref> They'll give you a functioning Columbia alumni ID which last for a ridiculously long time (10 years) before they have to be renewed. Borrowing privileges, on the other hand, are $30 a month.<br />
<br />
== Photos ==<br />
<gallery><br />
Image:Flickr-sciamano-butler.jpg|Butler in winter<br />
Image:Butlersubbasementsmall.jpg|Butler Library basement level, circa 1940. It is still fairly accurate, shows the tunnel to [[John Jay Hall]] and a future tunnel to what will be [[Carman Hall]]. Note there is no tunnel in the direction of [[Low Library]]. You can see the X staircase and the stack staircases/elevators. "Stereoptician" should be spelled "stereopticon", which was a device that was like a slide projector.<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/butler/index.html Butler Library Homepage]<br />
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/butler/renovation/south.html A Library for the Twentieth Century: The Rise of South Hall]<br />
* [http://library.columbia.edu/content/dam/libraryweb/libraries/butler/selfguided.pdf Butler Library Self Guided Tour]<br />
* [http://bwog.com/2010/09/01/the-definitive-guide-to-butler-sex-2/ "The Definitive Guide to Butler Sex"], from the [[The Blue and White]] in [[2006]]<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
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[[Image:Butler.jpg|thumb|240px|Butler Library]]<br />
<br />
'''Butler Library''' is Columbia's main library for undergraduate study and graduate research. It is named for longtime [[University President]] [[Nicholas Murray Butler]], and holds 2 million volumes in the humanities. Butler has study rooms open 24 hours a day during the school year. Students in Butler tend to either work or procrastinate on their phones and laptops. Among its many facilities, Butler has a [[Blue Java]] outlet, a lounge (often used by students working on group assignments), and several computer labs.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
[[Image:SouthHallPlan.jpg|thumb|240px|Plans for Butler Library]]<br />
<br />
Construction on Butler was begun in [[1931]] and the dedication ceremony was held in [[1934]]. It was built in response to a space crunch at [[Low Library]], which after 30 years had become too small to hold Columbia's growing collection. Discussions for a new library began in [[1927]] when the university librarian addressed a 13 page letter to President [[Nicholas Murray Butler|Butler]] proposing to build a new library by connecting [[Low Library]] to [[University Hall]]. When that proved unfeasible, [[James Gamble Rogers]] (the favored architect of donor [[Edward S. Harkness]]) was asked to execute a design for the 114th street border of the campus instead. The building was originally named South Hall, before being named in honor of Butler. It is said that there was a move to name the library after Columbia's 10th president, [[Frederick A. P. Barnard]], but Butler put the kibosh on the idea, leaving the building strategically unnamed until his own retirement. This probably worked out well in the end: Columbia's main library being named "Barnard" would have only caused the [[Columbia-Barnard relationship]] to be more confusing than it already is.<br />
<br />
==Names on the facade==<br />
One of the more recognizable features of Butler Library's exterior is the list of names that wrap around the building. A common misconception is that the names represent authors featured in the [[Core Curriculum]]. The names were in fact hand-picked by President [[Nicholas Murray Butler]] when the building was designed<ref>[http://columbiaspectator.com/node/16651 The Writing Is on the Wall: Who Is Demosthenes, Anyway?]</ref>, before there was much of a core curriculum. Besides, college students weren't even allowed in Butler for many years, which was geared to serve the research efforts of graduate students and faculty members. Of the 18 names engraved though, only Demosthenes has never been required reading in the history of the Core.<br />
<br />
*Front: [[Homer]], [[Herodotus]], Sophocles, [[Plato]], Aristotle, Demosthenes, Cicero, [[Vergil]]<br />
*West (opposite [[Carman Hall]]): Horace, Tacitus, [[St. Augustine]], [[Dante]]<br />
*East (opposite [[John Jay Hall]]): Cervantes, Shakespeare, Milton, Voltaire, Goethe<br />
<br />
Read from the Homer all the way around to Goethe, the names are roughly in chronological order.<br />
<br />
In addition to the 18 prominent wrap-around names, each of the main windows on the campus side of the building except for the center three have two names inscribed underneath them. The three middle windows have a version of the [[Columbia Seal|university seal]] underneath them.<br />
<br />
The names to the left of the seal are prominent early American politicians: [[George Washington]], Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, [[Alexander Hamilton]], [[John Jay (person)|John Jay]], James Madison, John Marshall, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln.<br />
<br />
The names to the right of the seal include prominent American writers: Jonathan Edwards, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe<ref>Coincidentally, Columbia's been hiding the mantel from the apartment where Poe wrote The Raven in storage for over 100 years. After scoring it by promising to display it publicly. Currently it's located on the mezzanine of the RBML and you have to ask to see it. Lesson: never donate anything to Columbia.</ref>, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Mark Twain.<br />
<br />
The names have been the subject of protest for much the same reason that students often protest the Core Curriculum: they are almost exclusively old, dead, white males. In the past, student activists have climbed to the Butler roof and unfurled banners covering the names with those of black or female authors instead.<br />
<br />
== Milstein Library ==<br />
<br />
Butler is also home to the '''Phillip L. Milstein Family College Library''' which is the official designation for the 24-hour reading rooms and the collection of books stored within on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors of the library. Since Milstein isn't really distinguishable from Butler itself in any major fashion, no one actually uses the term "Milstein," and most probably don't even know that it "exists". After 11pm, when the other rooms of the library close, graduate students come down from other floors and overcrowd the 24-hour reading rooms.<br />
<br />
Books in the Milstein Library are organized by the first two letters in their call numbers:<br />
<br />
{| border="1"<br />
! Call Number !! Room Number<br />
|-<br />
| A - BL || 202<br />
|-<br />
|BM - DJK<br />
|209<br />
|-<br />
| DK - DS 684 || 210<br />
|-<br />
| DS 685 - E 185.86C || 2M11A (210 Mezzanine)<br />
|-<br />
| E 185.86 D - E ends || 212<br />
|-<br />
| F - GV || 303<br />
|-<br />
| H - HF 1418 || 303A<br />
|-<br />
| HF 1419 - HZ || 3M04 (303A Mezzanine)<br />
|-<br />
| J - PQ 2081 A || 403<br />
|-<br />
| PQ 2081 B - PQ 6138 || 406A<br />
|-<br />
| PQ 6144 - PS 1855 || 406<br />
|-<br />
| PS 1856 - ZA || 409<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Facilities ==<br />
<br />
* Lockers: enter the lottery every year at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/butler/lockers/.<br />
* [[Photocopiers]]: on every floor.<br />
<br />
=== Floor 2 (exit level) ===<br />
Stacks Level 3<br />
<br />
* [[Blue Java Butler]] coffee bar.<br />
* [[Butler 214|214]]: the [[Butler Lounge|lounge]], the only place you can eat and talk. Colloquially known as ButCaf.<br />
* 213: [[CUIT]] computer lab.<br />
* Butler Reserves Desk<br />
* [[Butler 209|209]]-212: Milstein 24 hour undergraduate reading rooms.<br />
* Undergraduate lockers<br />
<br />
=== Floor 3 ===<br />
Stack Level 6 - the main stacks entrance<br />
* Circulation and Reference desks<br />
* [[Butler 301|301]]: The [[Lawrence A. Wien]] Reference Room<br />
* [[Butler 310|310]]: Old card catalog room, future Digital Humanities Center<br />
* Milstein 24 hour undergraduate reading rooms<br />
* 305: Current Digital Humanities Center. Scanners and such.<br />
<br />
=== Floor 4 ===<br />
Stack Level 8<br />
* 401: Periodicals and Microforms reading room<br />
* 403-409: Group study rooms<br />
* Milstein 24 hour undergraduate reading rooms <br />
<br />
=== Floor 5 ===<br />
Hours are the same as the circulation desk, meaning these reading rooms close!<br />
* Administrative offices<br />
* 502-504: "graduate" reading rooms<br />
* Graduate lockers<br />
<br />
=== Floor 6 ===<br />
Hours are the same as the circulation desk, meaning these reading rooms close!<br />
* Rare Books & Manuscript Library. Including the Columbia Archives.<br />
* CUIT Ninja printers in 606<br />
* Graduate reading rooms, some with a fantastic view of [[Low Plaza]]<br />
<br />
=== Floor 7 ===<br />
* Assigned graduate study carrels.<br />
<br />
=== Floor 8 ===<br />
* Assigned graduate study carrels. Often empty and usable, as long as you stay quiet<br />
* Oral History Collection<br />
<br />
=== Floor 9 ===<br />
* Secret bathrooms<br />
* Assigned graduate study carrels/offices. Generally locked.<br />
<br />
== Butler culture ==<br />
<br />
[[File:409 late.jpg|thumb|A student up so late in Butler 409 that she posed for a photo and deliriously posted it on Reddit <ref>http://www.reddit.com/r/columbia/comments/1c4gng/i_conquered_butler_409_its_4am_on_wednesday_the/</ref>.]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Columbiaproposal.jpg|thumb|While [[Butler Sex]] has yet to be documented, there's at least one known instance of a wedding proposal taking place in Butler - due to the fact that the couple met there.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/fashion/weddings/upon-closer-examination-its-love.html?_r=1&</ref>]]<br />
<br />
*Butler tends to be pretty quiet and studious, with the exception of regularly scheduled events (like [[Orgo Night]]) or pranks like the famous "Library Musical" and "Powerbook Startup" sketches by [[Prangstgrüp]].<br />
* People tend to stick to their own preferred reading rooms, and entire social networks develop around these after a time, particularly on the fourth floor.<br />
* Social connections forged in Butler have sometimes gone so far that students supposedly make out and go so far as to have [[Butler Sex|sex]] in the stacks. No one has ever seen this actually happen, though people talk about it <ref>http://bwog.com/2010/09/01/the-definitive-guide-to-butler-sex-2/</ref>.<br />
* Butler inspired the creation of [[Ref Spotting @ Columbia]], a Facebook group revolving around Butler 301, also known as the Reference Room. Students take pictures of their friends studying in Ref to either shame or encourage them, typically late at night. <br />
* Inspired the notorious anonymous chat room site [[Boredatbutler.com]] for "studying" students to vent online while there.<br />
<br />
=== Camping out in Butler ===<br />
<br />
During midterms and finals many people camp out in Butler. They take up valuable desk space and seats, leaving their books, laptops and other possessions in the library for extended periods. Some people even leave their belongings in the library 24 hours per day, usually to reserve the very best library real estate. A very small number of people literally camp out in Butler, sleeping there. This behavior can get all the crazier at Columbia because, unlike other university libraries, Butler is open 24/7, regardless of whether finals are taking place.<br />
<br />
=== Butler Clearance Task Force ===<br />
Many students believe that people who leave their belongings in Butler for extended periods are making unfair use of the library. As a remedy, objecting students believe that unattended belongings should be confiscated at regular intervals by library staff. The belongings would naturally be made available somewhere else in the library for students to claim. Alternatively, [[CCSC]] and the other class councils could do something useful for students by organizing a "Butler Clearance Task Force".<br />
<br />
== Tunnel/roof connections ==<br />
<br />
===Low Library===<br />
''Main article: [[Butler to Low tunnel]]''<br />
<br />
===Butler Library basement===<br />
Go down to the bottom of the X staircase (NW corner of Butler). It is a large basement which is mostly empty but has storage rooms. It is well lit and all-white. Frequent [[Benoit]] tags here. There are no cameras or alarms here, but there is a security gate in the staircase. It is trivial to open. Bring a screwdriver or the tunneler's friend, the swiss army knife. Beware constant staff intrusions during the daytime since the first floor of the stacks is used for book storage and the 'B' level of the non-stack area is frequented by maintenance workers. There is nevertheless a light security risk and a half-hearted security attempt.<br />
<br />
Note that there is a tag for vecular@yahoo.com in the basement, an email that has been spotted in about 3 places. The email address is non-responsive, but doesn't bounce back.<br />
<br />
The machine room in the southwest corner of the building is fun. You can get out into an exhaust plenum which has vents opening to the outdoors. Some are large enough to climb through. You'll find yourself under a set of grates which are part of the sidewalk on the 114th street side of Butler.<br />
<br />
*Note* The Security Gate has been altered, and while it can still be opened, it takes considerably more effort. Try pulling the gate back while pushing the deadbolt in with a screwdriver. It may take a few tries, but it is possible.<br />
<br />
===[[Carman Hall]]===<br />
Go down to the basement, and go to the southwest corner. You will see the padlocked double doors. These are normally inaccessible, but as of 6/06, the double doors are unlocked, so the passage between Butler and Carman/Lerner is wide open.<br />
<br />
===[[John Jay Hall]]===<br />
Go to the east edge of the basement. You will see a locked door with sharpie markings on it, possibly welded/hot glued shut. It leads into part of the [[JJ's]] store room.<br />
<br />
The John Jay/Butler/Carman tunnels were once used to transport food from [[John Jay Dining Hall]] to the [[Lion's Den]] cafeteria in [[Ferris Booth Hall]].<br />
<br />
==Alumni access==<br />
<br />
Alumni get free access to Butler for life<ref>[https://library.columbia.edu/using-libraries/alumni.html Library Access for Alumni]</ref>. They'll give you a functioning Columbia alumni ID which last for a ridiculously long time (10 years) before they have to be renewed. Borrowing privileges, on the other hand, are $30 a month.<br />
<br />
== Photos ==<br />
<gallery><br />
Image:Flickr-sciamano-butler.jpg|Butler in winter<br />
Image:Butlersubbasementsmall.jpg|Butler Library basement level, circa 1940. It is still fairly accurate, shows the tunnel to [[John Jay Hall]] and a future tunnel to what will be [[Carman Hall]]. Note there is no tunnel in the direction of [[Low Library]]. You can see the X staircase and the stack staircases/elevators. "Stereoptician" should be spelled "stereopticon", which was a device that was like a slide projector.<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/butler/index.html Butler Library Homepage]<br />
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/butler/renovation/south.html A Library for the Twentieth Century: The Rise of South Hall]<br />
* [http://library.columbia.edu/content/dam/libraryweb/libraries/butler/selfguided.pdf Butler Library Self Guided Tour]<br />
* [http://bwog.com/2010/09/01/the-definitive-guide-to-butler-sex-2/ "The Definitive Guide to Butler Sex"], from the [[The Blue and White]] in [[2006]]<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
{{Libraries}}<br />
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[[Category:Buildings]]<br />
[[Category:Morningside Heights campus]]<br />
[[Category:Libraries]]<br />
[[Category:Butler Library|*]]<br />
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<div>:''This article is about the historical development of the Morningside Heights campus. For general information, see [[Morningside Heights campus]].''<br />
<br />
'''Morningside Heights''' was the name given to the area when prominent civic and religious institutions moved here in the 1890s. Morningside Heights, so named because of prominent sunrise on the cliff of [[Morningside Park]], was initially farmland that did not see serious development until the opening of the IRT 1/9 subway station at [[116th Street]] in [[1904]]. The first Columbia institution to open up new quarters was [[Teachers College]] in [[1894]]. [[Barnard College]] and Columbia University (just renamed the previous year from [[Columbia College]]) officially moved in [[1897]].<br />
<br />
==Essential Character==<br />
[[Image:49thcampus.jpg|right|thumb|The [[Midtown campus]] ]]<br />
By the late 1880s, it was clear that the the [[Midtown campus|campus]] at 49th Street and Madison Avenue could not accommodate any more development. Columbia College at that time was crammed into literally one city block - one block downtown from 50th to 49th Street and one block crosstown from Fourth to Madison Avenues. President Barnard's aggressive initiatives to transform Columbia College into a world-class university had forced new construction which could not have even been imagined during the move to the "temporary" site. A Gothic-style six-story library had been built, that also accommodated [[Theodore Dwight]]'s Law School. The School of Mines, formerly assigned an abandoned broom factory, was also the recipient of a new academic facility. Finally, Hamilton Hall, a dormitory complete with statue of [[Alexander Hamilton]] (that stands in front of our present [[Hamilton Hall]]), was erected at the west end of the campus.<br />
[[Image:B-1836.jpg|left|thumb|The [[Midtown campus]] ]]<br />
The campus was not yet cramped, as there were still spacious courtyards and walkways through the campus, but for a school that enrolled ten times the number of students it had two decades before, and had limitless plans to keep on growing, it was readily apparent that the lone city block in what was then far uptown would seriously inhibit further growth.<br />
<br />
The [[Trustees]] of Columbia College at this point convened, and looked to the same question that had plagued them in [[1754]], [[1776]], and then again in [[1857]]: How to operate a college with undetermined space requirements in the middle of a rapidly growing city. Again, they looked at the same options presented in the past: disperse the College's departments and schools throughout the city, move uptown and keep the College together, or relocate to the countryside.<br />
<br />
In [[1891]], the Trustees, led by [[William Schermerhorn]], committed Columbia to "retain its essential character as a university in the heart of New York". Shortly afterwards, Columbia acquired the lands of the [[Bloomingdale Insane Asylum]] (116th to 120th Streets, between [[Broadway (avenue)|Broadway]] and [[Amsterdam Avenue]]) for $2 million.<br />
<br />
With the site decided on, the Trustees, led by [[Seth Low]]'s $3 million gift to fund [[Low Library]], and goaded by other Trustees such as [[William Schermerhorn]] and [[Cornelius Vanderbilt]], dug into their collective pockets and generously gave to the cause, in addition to tacitly encouraging Columbia's first fundraising campaign. The results were odd, as not all the big givers were Columbia Trustees or alumni, but names like [[Avery Hall|Avery]], [[Dodge Hall|Dodge]], [[Havemeyer]], [[Lewisohn]], and [[Fayerweather]] were introduced into the popular Columbia lexicon for the first time.<br />
<br />
The vision affirmed, the new campus selected, the buildings and grounds largely paid for, and the "essential character" retained, the next step, picking the architect, would define to the world what this new Columbia University would be.<br />
<br />
==The Master Plan==<br />
===Guiding Principles===<br />
[[Image:mmw.jpg|left|thumb|Charles Follen McKim, George Mead, Stanford White]]<br />
The task given to the Trustees was formidable. Colleges and universities were the exclusive domain of the countryside, yet Columbia stubbornly remained in the city. There was some precedent from the European universities and the [[University of Chicago]], but the Trustees were flagrantly opposed to anything that might lead to a University of the City of New York (NYU)-style "breaking-up" of the Columbia academic community.<br />
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Although the new campus was a tenfold increase in size over the old, the planning committee realized that space must still be carefully used and economized, if the University was going to reach its potential in the coming decades. Thus, at the same time that the Trustees were creating new inroads in higher education by leaving Columbia in the city, they also sought to redefine how a city university ought to function in terms of building placement, building design space usage, and the like.<br />
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Three architects where invited to take part in the initial campus planning. Two were Richard Morris Hunt, a prominent New York architect, and Charles Coolidge Haight, who had served as Columbia College's architect on 49th Street.<br />
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The third was Charles Follen McKim, of the design firm [[McKim, Mead, and White]]. They were undoubtedly the favorites of American architecture at the time, leading the neoclassical revival. Some of their more notable creations included (or would include) the Boston Public Library, Pennsylvania Station New York (torn down in 1966 to make way for Madison Square Garden), and 30th Street Station Philadelphia.<br />
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The only precedent for an American university inside of an urban fabric was the University of Chicago. It was designed as a series of courtyards, with enclosed rectangles working into the street grid. The three architects basically stood by that ideal in their designs. However, Haight's vision was little more than a glorified recapitulation of the Madison campus, and Hunt's plan was an uninspiring grouping of enclosed squares. As the Trustees were looking for something bold and daring, they had little patience for the decidedly timid submissions from Hunt and Haight. Thus, in 1893, McKim, Mead, and White were designated the chief architects of the new campus.<br />
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===The "City Beautiful"===<br />
[[Image:italian.jpg|right|thumb|The City Beautiful]]<br />
Charles Follen McKim's plan, perpetuated as the Master Plan, and religiously adhered to for almost three-quarters of a century, astounded and impressed the Trustees in two ways. The first, is that though McKim also worked with courtyards and squares, he also introduced the axis. McKim emulated a near-forgotten Italian conception that arose from the Renaissance called the "City Beautiful" approach. Instead of clumping buildings together in courtyards, the City Beautiful approach called for intersecting, perpendicular axes of which the most distinctive and memorable elements of the institution would be placed on or at the intersection of the axes. The two most visible axes today are the [[Uris Hall|Uris]]-[[Low Library|Low]]-[[Butler Library|Butler]] north-south axis, and the [[Earl Hall|Earl]]-[[Low Library|Low]]-[[St. Paul's]] east-west axis. The "City Beautiful" approach also advocated placing the most important building squarely at or near the intersection of the axes, so as to promote a vision of importance and centralism. During the Renaissance, it was the church, with houses and markets lining the streets leading up to it. In the enlightened 20th century, it was the library. In the post-modern 21st century, it is office space for bureaucrats.<br />
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The second way the Master Plan delighted the Trustees was the sheer uniqueness of the architecture. Collegiate architecture, up to this point, had been, by definition, synonymous with Gothic, evoking the monasteries and cathedrals that were the first European universities. It was therefore both refreshing and bold for a Trustee to announce that "in attempting the Gothic we shall at once appear to be imitating the English universities, and shall thereby suggest a comparison which can scarcely fail to be unfavorable to us". New insight in hand, the Trustees quickly decided that the architecture of Greece and Rome "is the style which will appeal most to strongly to educated popular taste, and will be most likely to secure an imposing architectural effect", and who better to carry out that mission than the renowned American neoclassicists McKim, Mead, and White?<br />
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Thus the plans were drawn, and the image of Columbia University was at last fully defined. However, the campus as it stands today cannot be said to have been faithful to the aims of the Master Plan. Even thought McKim pioneered the City Beautiful uses of axes, he didn't want to eliminate the enclosed courtyard entirely. He wanted to strike a balance between what he termed the "atrium" of the campus, designed specifically to highlight its most prominent architecture, and the smaller, more intimate courtyard. Yet, on our campus today, only one such courtyard exists, the [[St. Paul's]]-[[Fayerweather]]-[[Schermerhorn]]-[[Avery Hall|Avery]]. The other courtyards were simply left unbuilt, initially out of financial circumstance rather than changes in campus design. But, as the years progressed, the open spaces in areas like the [[Philosophy Lawn]] and the [[Vam Amringe Quad]] began to be seen as a blessing rather than a waste of space, which, in the City of New York is all but a guarantee that they will never be filled.<br />
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We owe much to McKim, Mead, and White, for they defined the Columbia University of today. They offered a bold vision of what a college in the world city of the west ought to look like, and in doing so, combined power and grace, strength and order, beauty and subtlety in a compelling vision that became the Master Plan. Yet, as much as they are lauded for the ingenious application of axes and atriums as well as the unique brand of architecture, the campus has developed virtually ignoring the other aspect of their vision, namely small, intimate courtyards. Regardless of that, Columbia University would grow and prosper according to the Master Plan, until the [[1968 protests|student riots of 1968]] finally forced the Trustees to evaluate new options.<br />
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===Related Images===<br />
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Image:masterplan.jpg|McKim's Master Plan<br />
Image:masterview1.jpg|View northwest with courtyards<br />
Image:masterview2.jpg|View northwest with courtyards<br />
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==Butler & His Legacy==<br />
===South Field===<br />
Butler was present at the formulation of the Master Plan, but his commitment to it persisted at Columbia for years after he left. One of the first things he did was, after positing the opinion that "the area of the site ... will be entirely insufficient for the work of the University in the very near future", was push for the purchase of the [[South Field]], running from 114th to 116th Streets between Broadway and Amsterdam. Once acquired, the South Field was designated by Butler, in his continuing push to make Columbia University more of a national university that recruited students from outside New York City, to be a residential district. All this stood in stark contrast to President Low's vision of a University "in and of the city", where commuting students would return to their lives in the city after a day of classes at Columbia. All this also figured very neatly into Charles McKim's Master Plan that envisioned courtyards in the fields, providing an intimate residential setting for students. The dormitories - [[Hartley Hall]], Livingston (now [[Wallach Hall]]), and [[Furnald Hall]] - were built as money became available, but the vision of the residential courtyards was never realized.<br />
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===University Hall===<br />
[[Image:uhall.jpg|left|thumb|University Hall]]<br />
One of McKim's vaguest elements would turn into a thorn that would plague Columbia University until the early 1960s. During the planning phase, McKim set aside space behind [[Low Library]] for a building that would combine gymnasium, dining hall, and academic theatre, that would provide a focal point for student life. As the [[Master Plan]] matured, McKim turned his attention to designing this new [[University Hall]]. It was slated to be a magnificent neoclassical structure, complementing Low Library's academic focus with that of student life. The building plan became grander and grander, with additional features added such as the university's power and steam plant as well as a 25-yard pool and gymnasium, the only parts still surviving today. Construction began in 1895 with the University funding the foundations of University Hall (namely the pool, gymnasium, and the power plant), and leaving the upper levels to be built with alumni funds. By the early twentieth century, this was akin to admitting defeat: Columbia College had been more or less permanently relegated, and Columbia never made an effort to cultivate the alumni base at all. Hence, the money never appeared.<br />
[[Image:uhall_lib.jpg|right|thumb|University Hall Library]]<br />
University Hall would be revisited again and again by Butler and his successors as they repeatedly evaluated and re-evaluated the building's purpose and funding in the next few decades. The most notable proposal happened in 1927, when it became clear that [[Low Memorial Library]] simply could not accommodate the needs of the rapidly growing university. Charles Williamson, Director of the [[Columbia University Libraries]], opinioned to Butler that the conception of University Hall might be used to greater purpose as a research library. Given the priorities of the University at this time, it was a very reasonable suggestion. Williamson's proposal was sweeping in its scope, calling for the completion of University Hall and its physical merge with Low Library. The "bridge" that connected the two buildings would serve as a cavernous reading room, and the University Hall side would reach eight stories, with a stack core capable of holding six million books (Butler Library currently holds two million). In the end, the combination of the exorbitant price tag, the radical alterations needed to be made to University Hall, and the physical and technical challenges of storing books in the same facility as a power plant and a swimming pool sunk the grandiose scheme.<br />
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For the library, Butler and his administration looked towards South Field. When Low envisioned the new campus for Columbia, he stressed the necessity of a vista from which a student could look out to the city from whence he came, and would someday return to. As Morningside Heights is on a hill, the south end of the campus provided a perfect vantage point to view the city that was rapidly rising up. But by the 1930s, the row houses on 114th Street effectively blocked views of midtown and downtown. Building a research library on vacant land also provided for a much more palatable $3.5 million price tag to the chief donor, [[Edward Harkness]]. While University Hall - essentially a student center - languished unbuilt, Columbia's research library was finished in [[1934]], and, perhaps to silence any doubters of where the University's priorities lay, undergraduates were not even allowed in.<br />
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What happened to University Hall deserves its own saga. For a time, the University built a temporary structure at campus level to house offices and a makeshift kitchen before [[John Jay Dining Hall]] opened. During the skyscraper-building craze of the 1930s, there was even some talk of finishing University Hall as a thirty-story Art Deco skyscraper, in the style of the towers rising downtown. For the most part, the power plant, gym, and pool functioned as they continued to function today, while the University Hall foundations sat, unbuilt, for 67 years. It was the subject of annual pleas and endless embarrassment. When Percy Uris finally provided funds to finish University Hall in 1962, now renamed [[Uris Hall]], students from the [[Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation]], armed with signs blaring "WE PROTEST BAD DESIGN", "BAN THE BUILDING", and "NO MORE UGLIES", picketed its dedication. It was a sad ending to an even sadder story.<br />
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===The Science Buildings===<br />
[[Image:120th.jpg|left|thumb|The 120th Street Laboratories]]<br />
By the 1920s, it was clear that the University's focus on science could not be realized within the confines of [[Schermerhorn]] and [[Havemeyer Hall]]s. The beginnings of Columbia's dominant strengths in physics and chemistry were hitting the physical constraints of limited lab space. For a while, Butler and his administration contented themselves by believing that extensions to Schermerhorn and Havemeyer Halls could accomodate the lab, office, and classroom space needed for the expanding science departments, and in turn constructed [[Chandler Hall|Chandler Laboratories]] (named after the first School of Mines Dean [[Charles Frederick Chandler]]) and the [[Schermerhorn Extension]]. But a combination of two factors pushed for more development. The first was that the extensions, spacious as they seemed, would inevitably be filled to capacity within a few short years.<br />
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The second was a combination of aesthetic ambition and forward-looking insight. The north end of the campus, primarily 119th to 120th Street from Broadway to Amsterdam was called, at the time, simply "[[The Grove]]". It was largely vacant and the Trustees toyed with several ideas of developing it. Before and after the purchase of South Field, dormitories were broached as a possible use of the Grove. At one point, Olmstead Brothers (the same firm that had designed Central Park) recommended a series of formal plantings and landscaping, to make the Grove a arboretum of sorts, unoccupied by ungainly academic buildings. Common sense won out eventually, and the idea of leaving the Grove vacant was quietly scrapped.<br />
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However, the question on what to do with the Grove still remained. The space was there and available for development, and the McKim Master Plan had not addressed any buildings north of University Hall. Butler, in [[1926]], advanced an ambitious plan, both to provide both generous space to accommodate future growth in the science departments, and, for the first time, to establish an imposing skyline for the Columbia campus. McKim, Mead, and White accommodating his wishes and responded with a plan calling for five buildings fronting 120th Street: two slender, twenty-story skyscrapers at the corners, two twelve-story structures in between, and a seventeens-story tower in the very center. The five buildings would have been dedicated exclusively to physics, chemistry, and the emerging engineering sciences.<br />
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The ambitious plans were unfortunately not realized, for a combination of reasons. The first was that there wasn't a need - yet - of the ambitious scale of the proposed buildings. Second was the difficulty of reconciling the neoclassical construction and detail of the structures with the very real structural and physical demands of a laboratory building. Simply put, the amount of reinforcement and protection required by the laboratories made McKim's trademark cornicing and detail work exorbitantly expensive to implement. Finally, the cost of the plan, which seemed to grow endlessly, combined with the relative lack of need, committed all but one building to remain permanently on the drawing board. The one structure that did get built, [[Pupin Physics Laboratories]], very adequately served the needs of the rapidly rising Department of Physics for the next few decades.<br />
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As for the rest of the skyline, the [[Mudd|Seeley W. Mudd Building]], home of the [[Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science]], was completed at the corner of 120th and Amsterdam in [[1961]], reviled then as now as a glorified cinder block. The space in the center stood vacant for years while the Trustees toyed with the idea of erecting a diminutive art gallery there, before accommodating [[Pegram Laboratories]], a modest structure adjoining Pupin Hall that housed a particle accelerator. That was demolished in 1955 and again stood vacant until 1992 when the [[Schapiro Center for Engineering and Physical Science Research]] was built. In this case, there was at last an attempt (although to what degree of success is still a matter of contention) to use McKim's vision as a guideline, visible in its limestone facade, Harvard brick lining, contextual roofing material, and generally faithful shape, in stark contrast to the banal and uninspiring Mudd Building and Uris Hall that ignored, if not insulted, McKim's Master Plan.<br />
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===The Riverside Park Stadium===<br />
[[Image:stadium.jpg|right|thumb|Riverside Park Stadium]]<br />
Perhaps it is a fortunate thing for Columbia University's leadership that so little is known about the Riverside Park Stadium because the sheer scale of what might have been might provoke riots. Here are the facts, such as they are. McKim, Mead, and White never considered a stadium in their Master Plan, but a widely circulated drawing of a stadium by Palmer and Hornbostel to be placed at the foot of [[116th Street]], fronting the [[Hudson River]] has, time and time again, fired the popular imagination. The structure was a majestic neoclassical creation, reminiscent of the Circus Maximus in Rome, with marble statues and symbols lining the sides. No information on how many people it seated or what sports it could have hosted is given, but the architectural drawing indicates a track, and not one, but two playing fields. Additionally, a boathouse would have been constructed in the vicinity, and due to the fact that it literally fronted the Hudson River, docks were placed at both ends for aquatic sports.<br />
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What happened to this gem of gems is history. Columbia University secured permission from the City of New York to build on that patch of land in [[1906]]. [[Football]] had been banned, ostensibly for "rowdiness", the previous year. The College, which the stadium would have almost exclusively served, made up less than 20% of University enrollments, and did not even have its own building yet (Hamilton Hall would not be built until [[1907]]). For the stadium to have been built with University funds would have been akin to the University renouncing the notion, set in motion by [[President Barnard|Barnard]], and followed up by [[Seth Low|Low]] and [[Nicholas Murray Butler|Butler]], that the University's priorities lay with the graduate and professional faculties. For the stadium to have been built with alumni funds would have been a flight of pure fancy, as University Hall's checkered history of sitting unbuilt for 67 years waiting for alumni funds can more than attest to, combined with the College alumni's general (and justified) mistrust that the University would misappropriate their donations for other purposes.<br />
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With football returning in [[1915]], the University would again and again, in the next decade, look for a venue to place its sports facilities. For the time being, they placed a temporary facility in the middle of [[South Field]], with a track and grandstands running around the edge. Columbia's much lauded legends like [[Lou Gehrig]] played in those temporary facilities. By [[1923]], [[Baker Field]] Stadium was up and running, but it was not until the mid-1960s that the last aspects of the South Field athletic facilities were finally torn down. However, the idea of a stadium that wasn't five miles away continued to fire the popular and professional imagination. In [[1931]], [[Max Abramovitz]], who would later go on to design the [[International Affairs Building]], the [[Law School]], and the United Nations, submitted what was possibly the last gasp for a Riverside Park Stadium. It was located near the site of Palmer and Hornbostel's stadium, but scaled back in size (one field only), scope (as it did not front the river, crew was not accommodated), and aesthetics (much less detailed than Palmer and Hornbostel's creation). Again, it based the same problems as did Palmer and Hornbostel, with the additional challenge that a fully functional stadium for Columbia University's athletics, albeit five miles away, already existed.<br />
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The Riverside Park Stadium is, like University Hall, another great missed opportunity that we only recognize with the 20/20 vision that comes with regretful hindsight. But, in those days, the University's priorities clearly lay elsewhere. Instead of the twenty-minute trip to [[Baker Field]] and the monolithic eyesore that is [[Uris Hall]], the grandiose yet unrealized plans for improving student life, such as the stadii and buildings that never (or partially) got off the drawing board, are perhaps the most painful reminder of what might have been and the clearest indicator of how different from our present Alma Mater was the Columbia University of yesteryear.<br />
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===Related Images===<br />
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Image:ulib_plan.jpg|University Hall Library<br />
Image:uplans.jpg|University Hall plans<br />
Image:usky.jpg|Uris skyscraper proposal<br />
Image:usky2.jpg|Uris skyscraper proposal<br />
Image:picketers.jpg|Architecture students protest Uris<br />
Image:stadiumplans1.jpg|Palmer and Hornbostel Stadium<br />
Image:stadiumplans2.jpg|Abramovitz stadium<br />
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==The Kirk Empire==<br />
===A New World===<br />
The departure of [[Nicholas Murray Butler]] left the University headless and flailing. The [[Trustees]], all of whom became Trustees under Butler's reign, were suddenly thrust into a power vacuum that they never experienced before - the domineering, micromanaging Butler had led the University in setting policy, pursuing agendas, hiring faculty, and the like for over forty years. Their next choice of President, [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], is pointed by some to be an indication that the Trustees needed a breather to learn and perform their functions again. Indeed, Dwight Eisenhower did not disappoint as even the most generous observers labeled his tenure a "part-time" Presidency.<br />
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When the ascension of [[Grayson Kirk]] to the Presidency, Columbia was once again under visionary, academic, and activist leadership. Kirk joined Columbia during the closing years of the Butler imperium and served as Provost under Eisenhower. Although Kirk was not present during Columbia's Golden Age in the early twentieth century, he certainly felt the full effects that World War II had upon academia. No longer the cloistered Ivory Tower of bespectacled academics, universities were now called upon to contribute to the scientific, economic, and technological needs of the nation. Hence, bigger was better. The biggest universities, the biggest labs, the biggest faculties, the biggest research grants. Public universities experienced their first take-off, as did institutional behemoths-to-be like [[Stanford]].<br />
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===Post-War Buildup===<br />
Back on Morningside Heights, Grayson Kirk, recognizing the inadequacies of thirty-six acres on Morningside Heights as well as the new face of academia that was defined by the Cold War, began to formulate a new plan to revitalize and expand Columbia's physical plant. The last building, [[Butler Library]], completed in [[1934]], served its function, but the burgeoning spate of new demands and new roles taken up by universities after World War II necessitated an even greater expansion, intellectually and physically.<br />
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The first vestiges of a wide-scale government-academic partnership grew out of the Second World War, where Columbia was the fourth-largest recipient of Federal funds. But the looming threat of a Soviet Union cemented this partnership, one that survives and thrives to this very day. During the war, aesthetics fell by the wayside as functionality determined the order of the day. After the war, with the threat of an even greater war, that sentiment remained.<br />
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The [[International Affairs Building]] and the [[Law School]] (now [[Jerome Greene Hall]]) were the first buildings to rise on the area known as [[East Campus]], which the Trustees and the President ignored for the past twenty years. The IAB took in Columbia's expanding [[SIPA|School of International Affairs]], and the Law School finally allowed the Law Faculty to evacuate the crowded and restrictive [[Kent Hall]] for more spacious quarters.<br />
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In the mid-1950s, with the acceleration of the Cold War and the beginning of the space race, the [[SEAS|Engineering School]], restricted for years in [[Mathematics Hall]], was suddenly subjected to new attention both from Low Library and from Washington. To compete with the Soviet Union in technological revolution that was to come, it needed far more space than McKim could have possibly imagined. For some time, it considered relocating to [[Riverside Drive]] and starting a separate complex of buildings. By [[1958]], the proponents of physical compactness won out, and Voorhees, Walker, Smith, & Smith submitted drawings for the [[Mudd|Seeley W. Mudd Engineering Building]]. It was, in the spirit of the 1950s, and like any other engineering building at any other university campus, cold, utilitarian, but extremely functional, and was designed with only two purposes in mind: to create as much lab space to carry out the research work against the Soviet threat as possible, and to create as much lecture space to train the engineers who would carry out the research work against the Soviet threat as possible.<br />
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Meanwhile, on the south end of campus, the first undergraduate structure to be erected since [[John Jay Hall]] was coming to fruition. It wasn't built, however, out of a desire to house students. Columbia had a somewhat justified reputation as a commuter college, and undergraduates, for the most part, contented themselves with living in the area, off campus (it was not until the late 1980s that Columbia could offer four years' worth of housing to all undergraduates). It was built because Columbia had the good fortune to recieve a donation from the Booth family for a student center at the same time as it was approved to recieve a loan from the Federal Housing and Home Agency for dormitory housing. Thus, Columbia built the [[Carman Hall]]/[[Ferris Booth Hall]] complex, but as a stipulation of the loan to construct Ferris Booth, the FHHA strictly forbade a link between the dorm and the student center, a condition adhered to even today in [[Alfred Lerner Hall]].<br />
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The results of Kirk's building frenzy, which finished with the picketed [[Uris Hall]] in [[1961]], are generally disdained. In all of the structures, there was no attempt made to imitate or even to respect McKim's themes, or to consider what impact their scale, shapes, and angles would have on the rest of the campus. Commentary was likewise acerbic: the Law School was promptly labeled a "toaster", [[Carman Hall]]'s corridor-style living arrangements were referred to as a "Victorian reformatory", Mudd was "a brick". As for [[Uris Hall]], donor (and Trustee) [[Percy Uris]] called it a "fine building, completely suitable". Everyone else saw it as the "final assassination of McKim's ambitions".<br />
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Perhaps nothing is more telling as to general student, faculty, and public attitudes to this period than an event that occurred in 1961. Radio station [[WKCR]] invited Architecture Professor Percival Goodman to comment on the recent surge of building. What he said to this day remains a mystery, because the Columbia administration promptly confiscated those tapes.<br />
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===Remaking Morningside Heights===<br />
While Kirk led the Trustees to building after building, he knew that the rapidly filling campus would not be able to keep pace with his institutional ambitions. As early as 1960, he began looking off campus in one of the most wide-ranging expansions ever considered in Columbia's history to that point. Perhaps he was also goaded on by a oft-told failed opportunity in the annals of Columbia history, where financier J. Pierpont Morgan advised Butler that there was no need to buy up all the land around Columbia in the early 1900s because the land would, presumably, always be there for the taking. While he built on-campus, he never took his eye off the big picture of when it was no longer desirable to crowd the thirty-six acre patch any further.<br />
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By 1961, the University subscribed to a plan set forth by the city for urban renewal in the Morningside Heights area. Its objectives were vague, but it could already be seen that the University's actions would be like nothing it had ever attempted before. The tittering grew louder as Columbia, through the early to mid-1960s, purchased every inch of real estate it could in the area. When the University, for the first time, launched a largest-in-academic-history [[Campaign for Columbia (1966)|capital campaign with the goal of $200 million]], it was no longer deniable that Kirk's brainchild would be nothing short of revolutionary.<br />
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Under pressure from an increasingly nervous community and an increasingly curious student body, the Trustees released a preliminary map of the goals of the $200 million campaign. In it, the University would have annexed every city block (and closed off to traffic) south to 111th Street. It was the ultimate culmination of McKim's ambitions and Butler's legacy.<br />
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[[Image:1966plan.jpg|center|thumb|The 1966 Plan]]<br />
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Information on what this expansion would have entailed is sketchy at best, as no definite architectural plans or renderings were drawn up for any of the buildings - the map was an early conception of a project lasting a decade or more. The only publication put forth by the administration was a lengthy pamphlet describing the needs and goals of such an expansion, written for fundraising purposes, with little in the way of specifics. The pamphlet itself focused on two aspects of expansion that would, presumably, garner the most attention. The first is undergraduate life; the second is science.<br />
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Even though it ostensibly focuses much attention on undergraduate needs, that too must be qualified. The justification for expanding [[Columbia College]], as laid out in the pamphlet, was simply to "enlarge the reservoir of potential Ph.D.'s and professional men". The Butler-era conception of the College as a feeder gymnasium into the professional schools was still largely at work.<br />
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====The Columbia College Library====<br />
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At this point in time, Butler Library was still a closed-stack library, and still geared almost exclusively to the graduate and professional schools. The one part Columbia College students were allowed to use is today's Room 209, the long reading room with the stained-glass portrait of Peter Stuyvesant. All other parts were simply off-limits.<br />
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Recognizing that the Columbia College Library was operating over capacity, the plan envisioned an extension of Butler Library across 114th Street that would accommodate undergraduates, undergraduates doing advanced research work, as well as, of course, first-year graduate students. The map suggests a 75% increase in the size of Butler Library, but actual architectural plans were never drawn up.<br />
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The Columbia College Library, as envisioned, would have accommodated 300,000 volumes in open stacks, and hosted 2,000 individual study spaces. The facility would have been air conditioned and made provisions for "individualized electronic equipment".<br />
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====The Undergraduate Residential College====<br />
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Recognizing the reality of having not nearly enough housing to accommodate all undergraduates (and perhaps also goaded by Low Library to increase enrollments to keep pace with the rest of the Ivy League), the plans also showed a residential college arrangement of buildings stretching from 114th to 111th Street. Details on this are even scantier than on the Library, but the new structures would have housed at least 2,000 students - the entire incoming freshmen and sophomore class of the projected expansion to 4,000 students from 2,700. They would have also included "dining halls, guest quarters, library studies, exercise rooms, and rooms for music and art".<br />
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===Developing [[the Grove]]===<br />
It's easy to assume that the buildings on the north end of campus have always been there. But the truth is, the majority of those structures did not exist until 1980. When Kirk looked north from Low Library, he only saw [[Pupin Hall]] and the monolithic [[Mudd]] Building. The possibilities and needs for expansion were tantalizing.<br />
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====Biological Sciences====<br />
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Columbia's strengths in the life sciences faltered somewhat during the afternoon on the Hudson, but the field itself, neglected in favor of war-time research, was excellently positioned to take part in the wide-scale flowering of academia as the world returned to normal. The Biology and Chemistry departments, cramped into [[Havemeyer]] and [[Schermerhorn Hall]]s (barely abetted by extensions), found themselves competing for space with newly-prominent interdisciplinary studies. Proper laboratory facilities for the new era of life science research were simply not to be had in the venerable but aging McKim creations.<br />
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The plans made room for a new Biological Sciences building, which would house Biology, Psychology, and the emerging interdisciplinary studies. It would have stood in where is now the Schapiro CEPSR (which is dedicated to physical, rather than life sciences). By the time it was finally built as the [[Fairchild|Sherman Fairchild Center for Life Sciences]] in [[1977]], it was ingeniously moved in front of Mudd to provide the bland facade with a modicum of respectability.<br />
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A very interesting proposal put forth was the Science Auditorium. The justification for such an auditorium was that as the University increased enrollments, it would become prohibitively expensive to duplicate scientific demonstrations in science lectures. The auditorium would have been one facility, designed to accommodate physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering lectures. It would have also provided laboratory space. The hall would have seated at least 400 students and would have been located in what is now the [[Levien Gym]].<br />
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====Science Library====<br />
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A unified science library, then, as now, was and is long overdue. Because the bulk of Columbia's holdings in history and the humanities are housed in Butler, the science departments had to make do with departmental libraries. Over time, periodical literature overlapped, and finding what one needed before the age of computers often necessitated traveling to half a dozen or more libraries. Moreover, a growing debate arose over where to store journals that weren't in the traditional fields of science, such as biochemistry.<br />
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The new science library would have combined the University's holdings in science journals under one roof - serving as, in effect, as the science counterpart to Butler. It would have eliminated needless duplication, and freed up much-needed space to the respective departments, as well as provided a single destination for science researchers. It also would have been the first wide-scale application of "the new computer technology" to be put to use for the "rapid retrieval of information" in a Columbia library system.<br />
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The location for the new library would have been where the Pupin tennis courts now stand. However, the need for a unified science (and now engineering) hasn't decreased; on the contrary, it has been exacerbated by the rapidly changing nature of science. Fortunately, the new unified science library will still be built. Groundbreaking is tentatively scheduled for 2008.<br />
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===The Morningside Park Gymnasium===<br />
[[Image:morningsidegym.jpg|left|thumb|The Morningside Park Gymnasium]]<br />
Perhaps no building has generated as much fame and infamy as Columbia's ill-fated [[Morningside Park Gymnasium]]. Issue was first raised by Trustee [[Harold G. McGuire]], a genuine College Believer, over the inadequacies of the University Hall Gym, which at that time consisted of the Blue Gym and the [[Uris Pool]]. On the south end of the campus, the Trustees hesitated at encroaching on any of the treasured open space. On the north end of campus, what little space remained was promised to the science and engineering departments.<br />
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[[Morningside Park]] was not so much the logical choice as it was the only choice. The planning process went without a hitch at first, but the traditionally undergraduate-unfriendly and fiscally cautious Trustees refused to commit to building a gymnasium until all the funds had been raised by alumni - a tactic used by Butler to endlessly defer University Hall. Community groups, welcoming the prospect of a gym in Morningside Park at first, gradually cooled their enthusiasms and upped their demands as seven long years dragged by with no progress in sight.<br />
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The Gym itself was built off the cliff formed by Morningside Drive and Morningside Park at 113th Street, designed by Eggers & Higgins, was a $9 million structure that was, in reality, two gyms. On top would be the gym for Columbia College (and only Columbia College) undergraduates. On the bottom was a gym for the community. Columbia was no stranger in Morningside Park - it had previously coordinated summer baseball games. But the gym was not without its flaws. Faculty and College administration united in deciding that College funds would be better put to use elsewhere. Many of the athletic coaches even labeled the gym's layout as unsuitable.<br />
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As the delays wore on and on, mainly because of administrative fiscal caution and student apathy, the permit to build in the Park, hailed as a pioneering public-private partnership when it was granted, became an embarassment to the city, as city officials quietly urged Columbia to build the gym, and opposition politicians quickly found a sticking point from which to oppose the establishment. And as the permit came up for review each time, the community groups tacked on more and more stringent demands, finally exacting an Olympic-sized pool and a vastly expanded basketball arena out of the increasingly frustrated Trustees.<br />
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When the Trustees finally authorized the construction of the gymnasium, largely under tremendous pressure from all directions, it was already February of 1968. Two months later, [[1968 protests|student protests]] shut down the campus.<br />
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===Related Images===<br />
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Image:specplan.jpg|Columbia Spectator Overview<br />
Image:campuswithgym.jpg|Campus with built gym<br />
Image:southfieldgym-eggers.jpg|Variant of gym after 1968 riots<br />
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==Aftershocks of '68==<br />
===Unwelcome Positions===<br />
To characterize the aftershocks of [[1968]] as only recently exorcised is accurate in terms of architectural, and for a large part, institutional standing. The effects of 1968 deeply wounded the University as star faculty took flight, alumni tightened their purse strings, and the idea of conducting research on a campus taken over by radicals like [[Mark Rudd]] seemed less than palatable. Columbia would not restore its academic standing, establish its financial strength, or recover its institutional profile for over two decades. It's campus and architectural endeavors, however, have only been recovered this past year.<br />
===I. M. Pei===<br />
Why Trustees hired Pei is a something of a mystery - the architect was had not yet reached the level of prominence he holds today, and had never worked with neoclassical design before. There are two explanations for this: one is the compelling explanation, and the other is the cynical explanation which I have learned through informal interviews.<br />
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The compelling explanation is that Pei was hired out of a genuine and pressing need to re-evaluate the McKim, Mead, and White Master Plan. Columbia University, to McKim, was simply a study in building placement and construction. By the late 1960s, it had become a question of land usage, land zoning, affordable housing, community boards, and many other local and city-level concerns that simply didn't exist when Morningside Heights was rural farmland.<br />
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The cynical explanation is that the Trustees hired I. M. Pei because they knew of his eclectic tastes and surmised that his designs would not be greeted with enthusiasm. They needed someone to shield them from the still-simmering community and alumni backlash. Finally, they needed to illustrate why expanding off campus, while momentarily undesirable, was the only choice left. The cynics point to facts like the budget the Trustees saddled Pei with, the autonomy they granted him in dealing with the community, their failure to support him when community group and student alike began expressing their contempt for his plan, his rather indignant resignation, and his refusal, to this day, to talk about or to Columbia University.<br />
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From the outset, Pei was forced into a difficult position. As an architect, he was tasked by the University to talk to community groups and solicit input over what would be appropriate architectural planning. Pei was quite unprepared for the many additional layers of meaning that had in Morningside Heights. The problems were exacerbated by Pei's reluctance to take a stand on issues outside of architecture, such as zoning, gentrification, and the Morningside Gym.<br />
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In any case, it is universally agreed that his plans, carried through to fruition, would have fundamentally altered the face of the campus. <br />
===The Pei Master Plan===<br />
The I. M. Pei Master Plan, eschewing McKim's conceptions of atria and openness, opted for what he called "intensive use of the land", meaning precisely that. The campus would be built on and developed to its maximum appropriate usage. It also made no attempt whatsoever to contextualize within the McKim plan, preferring a coherent series of well-designed (e.g. as opposed to Uris) contrasts.<br />
====The South Campus====<br />
[[Image:southfieldtower.jpg|right|thumb|South Field tower from John Jay]]<br />
Pei's plans for South Field are the most memorable parts of his plan. The picture of the slender twin towers rising out of where McKim's planned inner rank of dormitories would have stood are circulated far and wide. The buildings, at twenty-three stories each, would have housed faculty and administrative offices, not student quarters, and would have faced each other across from South Field. Pei also suggested the unpopular notion of curtailing the width of the South Field, implying, of all things, that it was too big!<br />
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The usages of the twin towers mirrored Pei's sense of purpose and utility. Faculty and administrative offices had been spread throughout the McKim pavilions depriving them of their proper usage, namely to serve as classroom space. Pei wanted to concentrate faculty and administration into the two towers. Two notions, that faculty preferred having offices close to where they taught, and that students, especially those of the inebriated variety, might not take kindly to hundreds of administrators and professors just steps from their dormitories were not considered.<br />
[[Image:peiconcourse.jpg|left|thumb|South Field underground concourse]]<br />
The second aspect of Pei's plans for South Field was to literally hollow it out. Part of the April Fool's cover for the [[1967]] ''[[Spectator]]'' was a headline blaring that the University intended to hollow out South Field for use as a gymnasium. It became reality in Pei's plan. It wasn't the first, however. Eggers & Higgins, after the Morningside Park fiasco, hurriedly prepared plans for a multi-level gymnasium underground near South Field. However, the aftereffects of the 1968 protests had rendered Kirk, Eggers & Higgins, and for a time, the very concept of a Columbia gymnasium (there is a reason our present gymnasium is called a "Physical Fitness Center"), politically and practically impossible.<br />
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Pei did not want to devote the South Field exclusively to a gym. It would be a five-level underground facility that would house a Columbia College Library, a gymnasium complete with pool, running track, and multiple basketball courts, a bookstore, lounges, meeting rooms, a post office, and a student center. The idea of connecting the underground facility with the 116th Street subway station was even floated.<br />
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On the north end of the campus, in what remained of the Grove, Pei's plans remained no less startling. Pei, committed to his ideas about density, suggested a radical approach to constructing the still-unbuilt, yet much-needed laboratories. Engineering at Columbia, having been hit hard by the take-offs of institutions like MIT, Caltech, Stanford, and Berkeley, sooner found even the spacious Mudd to be limiting. Pei proposed that the Engineering School to be expanded to fill in the space between Mudd and Schermerhorn along Amsterdam, in effect, turning Mudd into an L-shape building and forming an airshaft by Mudd, Schermerhorn, and Fairchild.<br />
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Immediately north of [[Uris Hall]], however, was Pei's most radical creation of all. A new chemistry facility, which would house the department (and leave [[Havemeyer Hall]] to less lab-based academic work) would rise, overhanging the circular [[Uris Library]]. The new building would be shaped like a long rectangular box, and rest on a shorter box of lesser proportions. In it's length, it would almost reach entirely cross-campus. Pei also revisited the idea of a science library on the site of the present site of the Pupin tennis courts but his design there is much more conventional.<br />
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===Breakdown===<br />
The breakdown of the University's working relationship with Pei can be attributed to a variety of factors, most of all communication. Pei insisted on complete autonomy, but that autonomy led him to experience, first hand, the wrath and frustration of neighborhood groups. The University's reluctance to back him made these problems so bad that Pei soon referred to them as "embarrassing". Moreover, and this is where the cynics draw their biggest arguments, Pei's plans were pretty pictures but shockingly unrealistic.<br />
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The concentrated presence of faculty and administrators in the twin towers on South Field would have negatively affected student dynamics. The scale of the towers and the size of the new chemistry facility would have casted many unwanted shadows on campus and would have only succeeded in fencing off the student population more. Furthermore, the extravagant cost of the South Field scheme, estimated at $35 million, was greater than Columbia's total debt at a time when the University was running regular deficits. It simply could not have been paid for.<br />
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Finally, what made Pei's plans ultimately unacceptable were not just that they were unrealistic, but that they were not Columbia. A city like New York is not conducive to physically integrous entities like Columbia University. Witness the spate of colleges forced to decentralize and spread out: [[NYU]], [[Fordham]], [[Pace]], and the like. Yet Columbia's governing authorities, in [[1755]], in [[1784]], in [[1787]], in [[1857]], in [[1894]], again, again, and again rejected the idea that Columbia would operate as anything but an academic community, intellectually and physically.<br />
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One of Pei's loudest and most persistent calls was for Columbia to decentralize move units of the University to other parts of the city, "in order to permit growth of those with must remain on the Heights". As late as 1970, the members of the University Senate were considering even moving the College outside of the city. On June 30, [[1970]], Pei, completely fed up with waffling on behalf of the administration, increasingly hostile receptions at community functions, the general lack of enthusiasm for his creations, as well as the just-uncovered news of the state of University finances which almost certainly relegated his creations to the drafting board, resigned, stating, "Columbia must now weigh priorities".<br />
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Pei's visions could not have become reality. Pei was unsuited to deal with the unique demands of New York City real estate. Pei's architecture was a drastic, albeit consistent, contrast to McKim's neoclassical wonders. Pei's creations soon became synonymous with financial suicide. Finally, Pei's vision of Columbia was not the Columbia of the ages. An interesting partnership and many interesting ideas were floated, but it was one doomed from the start. Perhaps it is fitting that the only one of Pei's ideas to become reality was also the least visible one: the underground extension of the [[Avery Architectural Library]] and the underground facility holding the [[Avery Fine Arts Library]].<br />
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===Return to Sanity===<br />
Following Pei's resignation, and the ascension of [[McGill]] to the Presidency, Columbia could finally begin to look forward. The lessons of 1968 had been ingrained on a University that, previously, could expand at will. But [[I. M. Pei]]'s plans also impressed upon the apocryphal naysayers of the impracticality of remaining permanently fenced in. Something had to be done, but Columbia's institutional house had to first be put in order.<br />
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McGill put the finances back on track, and the following President, [[Michael Sovern]], had firsthand experience of 1968, having served as Chair of the Executive Committee of the Faculty. Sovern established the financial strength by finally selling off [[Rockefeller Center]]. Sovern also began the unpalatable task of filling in what few spaces were left of the campus. To his credit, the buildings erected were deemed to be, if not completely acceptable, then at least far better than what went up during Kirk's building frenzy. Some, like both the [[Schapiro Hall|Schapiro]] dormitory and the [[Schapiro CEPSR]] and the Computer Science Building, even garnered praise. Others, like the Uris Extension, sought to soften the blow of Kirk's rather banal legacy.<br />
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By 1994, it was universally agreed that Columbia had made huge strides and had largely exorcised the ghosts of 1968. Yet the with the recovery of the University's academic, financial, and institutional standing, the need to expand became pressing once more. The task would fall to a new President with a bold new vision for what Columbia University could be.<br />
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Image:pei-plan.jpg|The I. M. Pei Master Plan<br />
Image:towers.jpg|The infamous towers<br />
Image:pei-underground.jpg|Detail of underground<br />
Image:pei-aerial.jpg|Aerial view of campus<br />
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==Manhattanville==<br />
See [[Manhattanville campus]].<br />
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==Significant contributors==<br />
* [[Tao Tan]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2007/10/26/online-article-covers-campus-past-may-hint-future Article about this article]<br />
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The '''Geology Library''' was located on the sixth floor of [[Schermerhorn Hall]]. It was one of the smaller libraries on campus, but some considered it a hidden gem in the library system for its relative quiet. It shared some books with the [[Geoscience Library]], and you could have requested for books to be delivered to either the next business day. As of May 21, 2018, the Geology Library permanently closed. Its space was replaced with the Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics.<br />
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<div>'''The Journalism "Library"''' is located on the first floor of the journalism school. It's a small room filled with books by journalists and books about journalism.<br />
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<div>The '''M60''' is the [[bus]] that conveniently runs from Columbia to [[LaGuardia Airport]], for which purpose there are luggage racks. It can be rough going if a lot of riders wind up getting on and off as the bus traverses [[125th Street]] in [[Harlem]], but is otherwise one of the best deals in town.<br />
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The M60 is a Select Bus Service route since 2014, meaning that the 125th Street stretch makes fewer stops and that the buses have all-door boarding; one either pays at the bus station with a MetroCard or uses OMNY at any one of the doors. This conversion was initially scrapped in 2013 over unspecific community concerns<ref>http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2013/07/16/plan-for-a-faster-bus-route-to-laguardia-is-dropped/</ref>.<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [http://spectrum.columbiaspectator.com/spectrum/oh-the-people-youll-meet-on-the-m60 A Spectrum daily took the M60 once.]<br />
* [http://www.nyc.gov/html/brt/html/routes/m60-sbs.shtml SBS presentation]<br />
* [http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2013/04/11/select-bus-service-will-quicken-m60-service-locals-divided-over-outreach Spec on SBS for the M60]<br />
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<div>The '''M104''' bus runs along [[Broadway (avenue)|Broadway]] on the [[Upper West Side]] and in [[Morningside Heights]], making it convenient for shorter trips than one would normally take along the 1 line of the [[subway]]. It is a useful line when using the "sub down, bus back" technique, which allows a student to spend only $2.75 on a short round trip journey.<br />
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The '''96th Street subway station''' is a station on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line (i.e. the 1/2/3). It is the last station before Columbia on the express 2/3 trains, so students coming from downtown transfer at 96th street to take the [[1]] to [[116th Street-Columbia University subway station|116]]. If transferring from the express 2/3 to the 1 at a common time, do not be surprised if you run into a friend or a classmate on the platform.<br />
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<div>'''Tasti D-Lite''' was found in [[Lerner Hall]]. It was one of the [[Dining Services|dining]] options at Columbia.<br />
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==Anti-TDL==<br />
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It is disgusting. The ice cream apparently tastes like air?! <br />
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Two Bwog writers once tried to eat there for 3 days and nearly died while showing this off on [[Bwog]]. To be fair, they did smoke some cigarettes, so they probably wouldn't have died.<br />
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==Pro-TDL==<br />
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On a more rational note... It actually isn't disgusting at all. It's a huge chain in the city, so this isn't some home-made Columbian concoction that tastes like crap. It's no Haagen Dazs, but it's perfectly fine - and the toppings help.<br />
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==TDL Closing==<br />
Tasti D-Lite has closed and is no longer in Lerner Hall. The date of when it closed or if it will open again is unknown.<br />
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[[Category:Ice cream]]</div>Reflordhttps://www.wikicu.com/index.php?title=Chef_Don%27s_Pizza_Pi&diff=56953Chef Don's Pizza Pi2023-05-03T05:06:24Z<p>Reflord: category update</p>
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<div>'''Chef Don's Pizza Pi''' is a dining location in [[Mudd]] by the [[Carleton Lounge]] that serves a personal pizza (or occasionally hot sandwich), one dessert, a side salad, and a drink (no refills) for a swipe. It was opened in the beginning Spring 2023, shortly after [[Chef Mike's Sub Shop]]. There is much speculation about the nature of the relationship between Chef Don and Chef Mike.<br />
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As a result of its existence, the Carleton Lounge permanently smells of pizza and is full of eating students, much to the consternation of the engineers for whom Carleton was a meeting place and occasional study spot.<br />
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<div>'''Chef Don's Pizza Pi''' is a dining location in [[Mudd]] by the [[Carleton Lounge]] that serves a personal pizza (or occasionally hot sandwich), one dessert, a side salad, and a drink (no refills) for a swipe. It was opened in the beginning Spring 2023, shortly after [[Chef Mike's Sub Shop]]. There is much speculation about the nature of the relationship between Chef Don and Chef Mike.<br />
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As a result of its existence, the Carleton Lounge permanently smells of pizza and is full of eating students, much to the consternation of the engineers for whom Carleton was a meeting place and occasional study spot.<br />
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The first two weeks of the school year were online.<br />
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A '''small-c conservative''' is anyone who believes in the philosophy of conservatism but does not necessarily identify with an official Conservative Party. The word "conservative" is used in lower case as the word refers to general conservatism principles and not as a proper noun, as in a political Conservative Party.</div>Reflordhttps://www.wikicu.com/index.php?title=Stan_Liao&diff=56860Stan Liao2023-02-28T23:23:43Z<p>Reflord: adding columbia confessions lol</p>
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<div>'''Stan Liao''' ([[SEAS]] '[[2021|21]]) is an Applied Math major. He has been a prominent poster and meme creator on [[Columbia buy sell memes|columbia buy sell memes]] since Fall 2017. He also is an admin of [[Ref Spotting @ Columbia]], the main Butler-related Facebook group. He also co-founded [[Columbia Confessions]] <ref> https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2021/11/19/students-find-community-through-columbia-confessions/</ref>.<br />
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<div>'''One for the World Columbia''' is the Columbia chapter of an organization that encourages students to pledge to give at least one percent of their income post-graduation to the most effective charities addressing global poverty. It partners with GiveWell, the charity evaluator, and orients giving to non-profits working in the developing world such as the Against Malaria Foundation and GiveDirectly. <br />
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[https://www.1fortheworld.org/ The global One for the World website]<br />
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<div>'''2021''' in Columbia's future...<br />
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<div>'''Blue Java Lerner''' refers to the Blue Java coffee bar in [[Lerner Hall]]. The coffee bar is operated by [[Dining Services]]. It is next to Café East.<br />
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Blue Java can refer to:<br />
* [[Blue Java Butler]]<br />
* [[Blue Java Dodge]]<br />
* [[Blue Java Lerner]]<br />
* [[Blue Java John Jay]]<br />
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All three locations serve 100% Columbian coffee. Clever, huh?<br />
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[[Image:10 27 0.JPEG|thumb|300px|Alfred Lerner Hall, with [[Carman Hall|Carman]] rising in the background]] <br />
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'''Alfred Lerner Hall''' is the student center. It was built from [[1996]]-[[1999]], replacing [[Ferris Booth Hall]], and is named for donor [[Alfred Lerner]] CC'55. <br />
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Lerner is notorious for its infuriating system of space-wasting and inefficient upward-spiralling ramps. The stairs in the 'exit' stairwells are actually the quickest way to navigate Lerner.<br />
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== History ==<br />
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[[Image:Cct1999.jpg|thumb|left|A 1999 issue of ''[[CCT]]'' heralds the opening of Lerner Hall]]<br />
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Lerner Hall came into existence when students began finding that Ferris Booth Hall didn't offer them enough space for their activities. As [[George Rupp]] had made investing in undergraduate resources a priority, the administration pursued a major gift as part of its [[Campaign for Columbia (1990)|ongoing capital campaign]]. With a $25 million donation in hand, the administation called in then-[[GSAPP]] dean [[Bernard Tschumi]] to choose an architect to design a new building. Tschumi's choice? Bernard Tschumi.<br />
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The design has been widely criticized for its slanted ramp structures, which are an inefficient means of moving about within the building and take up vital space - the very extra space that had been lacking in Ferris Booth. Tschumi and others justified the ramps as a social space that were supposed to respond and function just like the [[Low Steps]]. They don't. <br />
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After several years in which student groups had been exiled to a [[Lion's Court|corrugated shack]] outside [[John Jay Hall]], Lerner Hall opened. The administration wasted no time beginning a propaganda drive, distributing free T-shirts and other goodies with "CU on the Ramps" written on them. These were somehow supposed to encourage disinterested students to congregate on the ramps. They didn't.<br />
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Since, at least one student has proposed (successfully) on the ramps.<ref>http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/may03/features6.php</ref><br />
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More recently, then [[CCSC]] president [[Matthew Harrison]] tried to make Lerner cool with [[Glass House Rocks]]. This proved moderately successful - Lerner is packed, on one night. Harrison also wrote his [[senior thesis]] on the building, becoming the first known Lerner historian. <br />
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In later years, Lerner has been the focus of a tug-o-war between students and administration over the use of rooms. Spaces like the [[Satow Room]] and the [[Roone Arledge Auditorium]] are frequently taken up by admin meetings and conferences, exiling students to dorm rooms and classrooms. Lerner's empty sixth floor has become a particular bone of contention. After years of wrangling, during which the space was nearly converted into a temporary fitness center, among other uses, it was announced that the space would become...administrative offices. In 2009, the 6th floor was opened as the new office of the Dean of Students, as well as the Office of Judicial Affairs & Community Standards and the Office of Financial Aid. The space on the 4th floor vacated by the Financial Aid office is being renovated to create the [[Center for Student Advising]].<ref>[http://bwog.net/2010/05/06/lerner-2010-a-place-for-students Lerner 2010: A Place for Students!], Bwog, 6 May 2010</ref><br />
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Despite such contention, the ramps have come to be a place for students to study as well as a place for organizations to advertise. Beware on weekdays if you are heading to Ferris Booth for lunch or a snack! There will be people selling baked goods. They will approach you. They will yell at you, no matter how uncomfortable you look. Avoid their gaze and make a run for it.<br />
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=== Funding ===<br />
Lerner Hall's approximately $85 million price tag was only partially covered by donors, who raised $35 million for the center ($25 million from Alfred Lerner, $6 million from Roone Arledge, and over $1 million each from the Booth and Satow families). Barnes & Noble and Dining Services contributed $6 million to build out their spaces. The $44 million balance was covered by 24-year bonds at 6 percent interest. The debt is being repaid through a combination of [[Student Life Fee|student life fees]] on all university students (25%), a tax on every school other than Barnard (30%), and the university central administration's budget.<ref>[http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19991104-01.2.5 Funding a Student Center: A University-Wide Debt], Columbia Spectator, 4 Nov 1999</ref><br />
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== Rooms ==<br />
* [[Roone Arledge Auditorium]]<br />
* Roone Arledge Cinema<br />
* Black Box Theater<br />
* Satow Conference Room<br />
* [[Lerner Party Space]]<br />
* 2 music practice rooms<br />
* 5 conference rooms<br />
* 2 ramp lounges<br />
* 2 multi-purpose rooms<br />
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===Reprogrammed spaces===<br />
Since Lerner's opening, a number spaces have been reprogrammed after the rooms either outlasted their initial purpose or were found not serve them at all. These included a game room that was converted in the Broadway Room when no one used it, an outpost of [[STA Travel]] on the first floor that's been converted into computer kiosks, a Dark Room for film development on the 5th floor that was converted into a computer publishing station<ref>[http://old.columbiaspectator.com/2006/10/06/lights-go-out-darkroom Lights Go Out on Dark Room], Columbia Spectator, 6 October 2006</ref>, student group offices on the 5th floor that were converted into space for SDA and open area for meetings (that were later partially swallowed for more Student Affairs related offices) when the offices turned out to be too small to be useful, and a Credit Union teller's room that was never used, also on the fifth floor.<br />
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===Finding quiet space===<br />
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The piano lounge's name comes from the giant grand piano located next to the entrance. Because people are welcome to play, the lounge can sometimes be a noisy place to study. If you want peace and quiet, you could head up to some of the seating littered around the building, or down to the seating outside the Party Space entrance. Also try the Satow Room on the 5th floor, and the ramp lounges on the 2nd floor.<br />
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== Dining locations ==<br />
* [[Blue Java]]<br />
* [[Ferris Booth Commons]]<br />
* [[Cafe East]]<br />
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== Facilities ==<br />
* [[Mail Services]]<br />
* [[Columbia Bookstore]]<br />
* Citibank [[ATM]]<br />
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== Offices ==<br />
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=== [[Health Services]] offices ===<br />
* [[Alice!]] Health Promotion Program<br />
* Office of [[Counseling and Psychological Services]]<br />
* Office of [[Disability Services]]<br />
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=== Administrative offices ===<br />
* Columbia Catering<br />
* [[Dining Services]]<br />
* [[Double Discovery Center]]<br />
* Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Program<br />
* Disciplinary Procedure for Sexual Misconduct (DPSM)<br />
* Office of the Dean of [[Student Affairs]]<br />
* Office of [[Financial Aid]] and Educational Financing<br />
* [[First Year Sophomore Advising Center]]<br />
* [[Office of Multicultural Affairs]] (OMA)<br />
* Office of [[Student Development and Activities]]<br />
*[[Center for Student Advising]]<br />
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== Opening hours ==<br />
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|width="50"|'''Tues'''<br />
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|width="80"|'''Fri'''<br />
|width="80"|'''Sat'''<br />
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| Lerner Hall<br />
|colspan="3"| 7am-1am<br />
|colspan="3"| 7am-3am<br />
| 7am-1am<br />
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| [[Cafe 212]]<br />
|colspan="4"| 8am-2am<br />
| 8am-9pm || 9am-9pm || 9am-2am<br />
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| [[Ferris Booth Commons]]<br />
|colspan="4"| 7:30am-8pm<br />
| 11am-5pm<br />
|colspan="2"| closed<br />
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| [[Columbia Bookstore]]<br />
|colspan="5"| 9am-9pm<br />
|colspan="2"| 11am-6pm<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mail Services]]<br />
|colspan="4"| 9am-8pm<br />
|colspan="2"| 9am-5pm<br />
| closed<br />
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Note: Building hours are extended to 24 hours during final exam periods. The computer lab on the second floor (campus level) remains open 24 hours at all times, though requires swipe.<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lernerhall/ Alfred Lerner Hall website]<br />
* [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19991108-01.2.28 Rants Raves and Ramps], Columbia Spectator, 8 November 1999. Spec feature examining the vast discrepancy between architectural critics' reception of Lerner Hall (positive) and that of its users (negative).<br />
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<div>The '''Ambrose Monell Engineering Library''' was located on the fourth floor of [[Mudd]]. It was permanently closed at the end of the spring semester in 2014. <ref>[https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/news/engineering-library-set-close SEAS online announcement] </ref> The collection included [[Civil]], [[Mechanical]], [[Electrical]], and [[Chemical Engineering]]; [[Computer Science]]; metallurgy; mining; [[Operations Research]]; [[Applied Physics]]; [[Applied Mathematics]]; and nuclear engineering. The library was usually sparsely populated, but tended to draw crowds of engineers during midterm and final exam time. The library was not a quiet place to study, as most students in the library were working on problem sets together.<br />
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Note that this is distinct from the newer [[Science and Engineering Library]] in the [[Northwest Corner Building]].<br />
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[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/eng/index.html Engineering Library Website]<br />
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The Cheryl and Philip Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning was opened in Fall of 2018. The Milstein Center, otherwise known as Millie or Milstein, sits between Barnard Hall and Altschul Hall. This building houses Barnard's library as well as classrooms and faculty offices. It also houses the Milstein Green Chairs, arguably the best seating option on campus <ref>https://bwog.com/2018/09/an-introduction-to-the-milstein-center/</ref>.<br />
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The Cheryl and Philip Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning was opened in Fall of 2018. The Milstein Center, otherwise known as Millie or Milstein, sits between Barnard Hall and Altschul Hall. This building houses Barnard's library as well as classrooms and faculty offices. It also houses the Milstein Green Chairs, arguably the best seating option on campus <ref>https://bwog.com/2018/09/an-introduction-to-the-milstein-center/</ref>.<br />
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The '''Geology Library''' was located on the sixth floor of [[Schermerhorn Hall]]. It's one of the smaller libraries on campus, but some considered it a hidden gem in the library system for its relative quiet. It shared some books with the [[Geoscience Library]], and you could have requested for books to be delivered to either the next business day. As of May 21, 2018, the Geology Library permanently closed. Its space was replaced with the Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics.<br />
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<div>The '''Ambrose Monell Engineering Library''' was located on the fourth floor of [[Mudd]]. It was permanently closed at the end of the spring semester in 2014. <ref>[https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/news/engineering-library-set-close SEAS online announcement] </ref> The collection included [[Civil]], [[Mechanical]], [[Electrical]], and [[Chemical Engineering]]; [[Computer Science]]; metallurgy; mining; [[Operations Research]]; [[Applied Physics]]; [[Applied Mathematics]]; and nuclear engineering. The library was usually sparsely populated, but tended to draw crowds of engineers during midterm and final exam time. The library was not a quiet place to study, as most students in the library were working on problem sets together.<br />
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Note that this is distinct from the newer [[Science and Engineering Library]] in the [[Northwest Corner Building]].<br />
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|Dining=2F — [[Joe Columbia University|Joe Coffee]]<br />
|Vending=2F — Snacks, Drinks<br />
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[[Image:NWSRenderingFromCEPS.jpg|thumb|300px|'''Plan''': a rendering of the Northwest Science Building looks sinister but contextual, blending the gray of the new structure with a grayed trim on Pupin to make it look as if it fits in well]]<br />
[[Image:Moneo.jpg|thumb|300px|'''Reality''': Moneo and what has metamorphosized into a bluish, glassy monstrosity both attempt to tower over poor, increasingly antiquarian [[Pupin Hall]]]]<br />
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The '''Northwest Corner Building''' (known previously as the '''Interdisciplinary Science Building''', and '''Northwest Science Building''' before that, and casually as '''NoCo''') was destined by Columbia to fill the last remaining plot on the [[Morningside Heights campus]]. It was built over the [[Levien Gym]], between [[Pupin Hall]] and the [[Havemeyer Hall|Havemeyer]] extension ([[Chandler Hall]]), as well as the last undeveloped portion of [[The Grove|the Grove]] just north of Levien and west of Pupin. The project started on 19 March [[2007]] and first occupancy began in [[2009]].<br />
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== Building description ==<br />
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The building is on the southeast corner of Broadway and 120th St, opposite [[Barnard College|Barnard]]'s [[Diana Center]]. It is considerably taller than neighboring [[Pupin Hall|Pupin]] and [[Chandler Hall|Chandler]] Halls, though it still connects to them via pedestrian bridges at multiple levels, similar to those connecting [[Pupin Hall|Pupin]], [[CEPSR]], and [[Seeley Mudd Hall|Mudd]].<br />
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The 188,000 square foot building features a campus lobby, entrance to [[Levien Gym]], [[Joe Columbia University|Joe Coffee]] cafe, the [[Science and Engineering Library]], a large lecture hall, several classrooms, faculty and administrative offices, and 7 floors of science and engineering laboratories. <br />
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== Design ==<br />
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The lead architect was José Rafael Moneo, selected by [[Bollinger]] for his "extreme sensitivity to context". To that end, Moneo designed a building shorter than would have been allowed at the site and hid mechanicals that would have otherwise been stored on the roof. <br />
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The Northwest Corner Building was designed by Moneo along with New York-based Davis Brody Bond. Upon its opening, it was certified as LEED Gold.<br />
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The building announced a departure from the McKim, Mead and White architecture that dominates many of the original campus buildings, and which served as the master plan for the campus since 1896. It does not, however, operate as a quick-fix in the architectural vein of Uris, Mudd or even CEPSR that lacked a significant architectural statement in hopes of placating a need for space. <br />
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A significant hurdle in the design was attempting not to interrupt with Levien Gym. As noted in an article in the [[New York Times]], the design consists of "three enormous parallel trusses in the lower part of the building. These take the weight of the laboratories, classrooms and offices above and distribute the load — almost as a tabletop would — to columns that flank, but do not penetrate, the basketball court."<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/15/nyregion/15columbia.html</ref><br />
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This approach has created a column-free space directly under the trusses, which is occupied by the library. The room is almost transparent, with window walls overlooking the campus and Broadway. “For the first time, actual academic life will be visible from the street,” said Mark Wigley, dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.<br />
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Diagonal elements in the truss work and other structural bracing are expressed clearly on the facade, giving the building its overall character.<br />
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In other words, it does not look like the red-brick buildings that have dominated since McKim, Mead, and White drew up the master plan in the 1890s. But with so much steel in the science building, any brickwork would merely have been a thin cladding.<br />
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It should be noted that the [[Astronomy Department]] lodged significant complaints about the building, as it now blocks out 2/3 of the nighttime sky, rendering the observatory atop Pupin more or less useless.<br />
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== Construction challenges ==<br />
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Bollinger also stipulated that the building show a commitment to embracing interdisciplinary science. In this vein, the building is insulated to reduce the impact of vibrations from the [[subway]] on the laboratory spaces. This has proven especially useful in some of the labs working on nanotechnology (like graphene), where even the slightest vibrations can disrupt experiments.<br />
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The greatest challenge facing the building's construction was the mandate it be built atop the school's underground gym, with no interruption in the gym's usability. In the 1970s, when [[Dodge Fitness Center]] was built, the [[Levien Gym]] was fitted with 4 super-columns at its corners, which would allow a building to be constructed above it without pesky additional columns. The Northwest Science Building was constructed on these super-columns, thus placing no weight on the Levien Gym roof, allowing it to remain open. Nevertheless, Moneo still had to employ truss construction to keep the building "floating" over the gym rather than resting on top of it, ensuring the basketball season could continue through construction.<br />
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In a lecture on campus in June [[2012]], lead architect Jeffrey Brock joked that with enough people, one could have "pushed" the building onto Broadway due to this "floating" construction. Probably not something you say aloud.<br />
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== History of the site ==<br />
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Tennis courts occupied the site for decades prior to construction. At one point in the 1960s, it was proposed as the home of a new Life Sciences Building, but was abandoned in favor of the other side of campus, where [[Fairchild]] was built.<br />
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The Northwest Corner Building was the source of the [[Athletics Facilities Scandal]]. In the early 1990s, the [[Athletics Department]] proposed an extension of Dodge for the site that would hold a teaching swimming pool, racquetball courts, and an international squash court. When the [[Athletics Director]] at the time, [[John Reeves]], was unable to raise any money for construction, it was decided to use the site for a science building with a few floors for athletics. But when President Bollinger took office, Reeves's boss, [[Provost]] [[Jonathan Cole]], "forgot" to tell PrezBo about the the plans. Cole decided to build a science-only building instead, without informing Reeves of the change in plan. Reeves found out when the Spectator broke the news about the building in 2004.<br />
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== Building Name ==<br />
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When news of the building broke in [[2004]], the project was referred to as the Northwest Science Building. Shortly thereafter Interdisciplinary Science Building was adopted as the name for the project in order to reflect the building's purpose and function. However, in Fall [[2009]] the school renamed the project yet again to Northwest Corner Building, "in the hopes of attracting a wider array of donors."<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [http://bwog.com/2012/11/02/how-noco-was-born/ A ''Blue and White'' article exploring some flubs regarding the planning process]<br />
* [http://www.bwog.net/index.php?page=post&article_id=3340 Reactions on The Bwog]<br />
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/senate/annual_reports/06-07/PDannual.htm February 23, 2007 statement from the Senate's physical development committee]<br />
* [http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2009/09/17/after-name-confusion-northwest-corner-building-construction-proceeds-schedule After name confusion, Northwest Corner Building construction proceeds on schedule]<br />
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/arts/design/13moneo.html NYT article on the challenges of the building's construction]<br />
* [http://www.archpaper.com/e-board_rev.asp?News_ID=3545&PagePosition=5 In Detail: Columbia U.'s Northwest Corner Building], The Architect's Newspaper, 3 June 2009 <br />
* [http://blip.tv/file/4489804 Construction Timelapse Video], February 2008 - August 2010<br />
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/09/arts/design/09moneo.html?src=dayp Glowing NYT Review of the Completed Building] - Feb 2011<br />
* [http://facilities.columbia.edu/node/1328/1331 Current Construction Projects] - Aug 2011<br />
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'''Joe Columbia University''', is a cafe located in the second floor of the [[Northwest Corner Building]]. The cafe is staffed and run by an outside vendor, known as <br />
'''[https://joecoffeecompany.com/ Joe Coffee]''', a NY coffee chain. Joe offers high end coffee drinks and pre-made food and baked goods. It's widely considered the best coffee on campus<ref>Bwog: http://bwog.com/2012/02/24/coffee-contest-the-end-of-round-1/</ref>.<br />
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The cafe has become a popular study space, due to its high ceilings, abundance of natural light, picturesque views of [[Teacher's College]], [[Union Theological Seminary]], and [[Riverside Church]], tasty coffee, and beautiful Portuguese marble design. <br />
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== External Links ==<br />
*[https://joecoffeecompany.com/ Joe Website]<br />
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'''Joe Columbia University''', is a cafe located in the second floor of the [[Northwest Corner Building]]. The cafe is staffed and run by an outside vendor, known as <br />
'''[https://joecoffeecompany.com/ Joe Coffee]''', a NY coffee chain. Joe offers high end coffee drinks and pre-made food and baked goods. It's widely considered the best coffee on campus<ref>Bwog: http://bwog.com/2012/02/24/coffee-contest-the-end-of-round-1/</ref>.<br />
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The cafe has become a popular study space, due to its high ceilings, abundance of natural light, picturesque views of [[Teacher's College]], [[Union Theological Seminary]], and [[Riverside Church]], tasty coffee, and beautiful Portuguese marble design. <br />
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== External Links ==<br />
*[http://www.joetheartofcoffee.com/index.htm Joe Website]<br />
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<div>[[Image:NoCoLibrary.jpg|thumb|300px|Main level of the Science and Engineering Library. Additional study space and stacks are located on the upper level]]<br />
The '''Science & Engineering Library''' is the newest library on campus, having opened in [[2011]] in the [[Northwest Corner Building]]. It is sometimes known as just '''NoCo'''. The library primarily focuses on research support in natural sciences and engineering. It's not to be confused with the now-defunct [[Engineering Library|Monell Engineering Library]] in [[Mudd]].<br />
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The library is known as a great study space, as it has individual desks with flatscreen monitors, cubicle-esque spaces with benches for working in groups, powerful computers with multiple monitors, copious outlets, WiFi and ethernet jacks readily available. During the day, large windows let in an abundance of natural light and provide a great view of Barnard. At night, the library is illuminated by white lights that have an almost sterile quality to them, guaranteeing that one will not fall asleep completing homework. To top it all off, a prime location near many buildings where classes are held makes this library the ideal spot for finishing up work in between lectures. <br />
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The first floor is a collaborative space where talking is encouraged while the second and third floors are quiet areas with mostly individual seating. A lesser-known study spot is an area located next to the staircase leading to the second floor of the library, which contains a couple of small sofa chairs perfect for completing long reading assignments and taking naps. The library is considered "a library for the 21st century" because it houses very few books. One floor down in the [[Northwest Corner Building]] is the popular cafe [[Joe Columbia University|Joe Coffee]], although only spill-proof drinks are allowed in. <br />
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The '''Science & Engineering Library''' is the newest library on campus, having opened in [[2011]] in the [[Northwest Corner Building]]. It is sometimes known as just '''NoCo'''. The library primarily focuses on research support in natural sciences and engineering. It's not to be confused with the now-defunct [[Engineering Library|Monell Engineering Library]] in [[Mudd]].<br />
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The library is known as a great study space, as it has individual desks with flatscreen monitors, cubicle-esque spaces with benches for working in groups, powerful computers with multiple monitors, copious outlets, WiFi and ethernet jacks readily available. During the day, large windows let in an abundance of natural light and provide a great view of Barnard. At night, the library is illuminated by white lights that have an almost sterile quality to them, guaranteeing that one will not fall asleep completing homework. To top it all off, a prime location near many buildings where classes are held makes this library the ideal spot for finishing up work in between lectures. <br />
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The first floor is a collaborative space where talking is encouraged while the second and third floors are quiet areas with mostly individual seating. A lesser-known study spot is an area located next to the staircase leading to the second floor of the library, which contains a couple of small sofa chairs perfect for completing long reading assignments and taking naps. The library is considered "a library for the 21st century" because it houses very few books. One floor down in the [[Northwest Corner Building]] is the popular cafe [[Joe Coffee|Joe Columbia University]], although only spill-proof drinks are allowed in. <br />
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The '''Science & Engineering Library''' is the newest library on campus, having opened in [[2011]] in the [[Northwest Corner Building]]. It is sometimes known as just '''NoCo'''. The library primarily focuses on research support in natural sciences and engineering. It's not to be confused with the now-defunct [[Engineering Library|Monell Engineering Library]] in [[Mudd]].<br />
<br />
The library is known as a great study space, as it has individual desks with flatscreen monitors, cubicle-esque spaces with benches for working in groups, powerful computers with multiple monitors, copious outlets, WiFi and ethernet jacks readily available. During the day, large windows let in an abundance of natural light and provide a great view of Barnard. At night, the library is illuminated by white lights that have an almost sterile quality to them, guaranteeing that one will not fall asleep completing homework. To top it all off, a prime location near many buildings where classes are held makes this library the ideal spot for finishing up work in between lectures. <br />
<br />
The first floor is a collaborative space where talking is encouraged while the second and third floors are quiet areas with mostly individual seating. A lesser-known study spot is an area located next to the staircase leading to the second floor of the library, which contains a couple of small sofa chairs perfect for completing long reading assignments and taking naps. The library is considered "a library for the 21st century" because it houses very few books. One floor down in the [[Northwest Corner Building]] is the popular cafe [[Joe Coffee | Joe Columbia University]], although only spill-proof drinks are allowed in. <br />
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'''Butler Library''' is Columbia's main library for undergraduate study and graduate research. It is named for longtime [[University President]] [[Nicholas Murray Butler]], and holds 2 million volumes in the humanities. Butler has study rooms open 24 hours a day during the school year. Students in Butler tend to either work or procrastinate on their phones and laptops. Among its many facilities, Butler has a [[Blue Java]] outlet, a lounge (often used by students working on group assignments), and several computer labs.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
[[Image:SouthHallPlan.jpg|thumb|240px|Plans for Butler Library]]<br />
<br />
Construction on Butler was begun in [[1931]] and the dedication ceremony was held in [[1934]]. It was built in response to a space crunch at [[Low Library]], which after 30 years had become too small to hold Columbia's growing collection. Discussions for a new library began in [[1927]] when the university librarian addressed a 13 page letter to President [[Nicholas Murray Butler|Butler]] proposing to build a new library by connecting [[Low Library]] to [[University Hall]]. When that proved unfeasible, [[James Gamble Rogers]] (the favored architect of donor [[Edward S. Harkness]]) was asked to execute a design for the 114th street border of the campus instead. The building was originally named South Hall, before being named in honor of Butler. It is said that there was a move to name the library after Columbia's 10th president, [[Frederick A. P. Barnard]], but Butler put the kibosh on the idea, leaving the building strategically unnamed until his own retirement. This probably worked out well in the end: Columbia's main library being named "Barnard" would have only caused the [[Columbia-Barnard relationship]] to be more confusing than it already is.<br />
<br />
==Names on the facade==<br />
One of the more recognizable features of Butler Library's exterior is the list of names that wrap around the building. A common misconception is that the names represent authors featured in the [[Core Curriculum]]. The names were in fact hand-picked by President [[Nicholas Murray Butler]] when the building was designed<ref>[http://columbiaspectator.com/node/16651 The Writing Is on the Wall: Who Is Demosthenes, Anyway?]</ref>, before there was much of a core curriculum. Besides, college students weren't even allowed in Butler for many years, which was geared to serve the research efforts of graduate students and faculty members. Of the 18 names engraved though, only Demosthenes has never been required reading in the history of the Core.<br />
<br />
*Front: [[Homer]], [[Herodotus]], Sophocles, [[Plato]], Aristotle, Demosthenes, Cicero, [[Vergil]]<br />
*West (opposite [[Carman Hall]]): Horace, Tacitus, [[St. Augustine]], [[Dante]]<br />
*East (opposite [[John Jay Hall]]): Cervantes, Shakespeare, Milton, Voltaire, Goethe<br />
<br />
Read from the Homer all the way around to Goethe, the names are roughly in chronological order.<br />
<br />
In addition to the 18 prominent wrap-around names, each of the main windows on the campus side of the building except for the center three have two names inscribed underneath them. The three middle windows have a version of the [[Columbia Seal|university seal]] underneath them.<br />
<br />
The names to the left of the seal are prominent early American politicians: [[George Washington]], Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, [[Alexander Hamilton]], [[John Jay (person)|John Jay]], James Madison, John Marshall, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln.<br />
<br />
The names to the right of the seal include prominent American writers: Jonathan Edwards, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe<ref>Coincidentally, Columbia's been hiding the mantel from the apartment where Poe wrote The Raven in storage for over 100 years. After scoring it by promising to display it publicly. Currently it's located on the mezzanine of the RBML and you have to ask to see it. Lesson: never donate anything to Columbia.</ref>, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Mark Twain.<br />
<br />
The names have been the subject of protest for much the same reason that students often protest the Core Curriculum: they are almost exclusively old, dead, white males. In the past, student activists have climbed to the Butler roof and unfurled banners covering the names with those of black or female authors instead.<br />
<br />
== Milstein Library ==<br />
<br />
Butler is also home to the '''Phillip L. Milstein Family College Library''' which is the official designation for the 24-hour reading rooms and the collection of books stored within on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors of the library. Since Milstein isn't really distinguishable from Butler itself in any major fashion, no one actually uses the term "Milstein," and most probably don't even know that it "exists". After 11pm, when the other rooms of the library close, graduate students come down from other floors and overcrowd the 24-hour reading rooms.<br />
<br />
Books in the Milstein Library are organized by the first two letters in their call numbers:<br />
<br />
{| border="1"<br />
! Call Number !! Room Number<br />
|-<br />
| A - BL || 202<br />
|-<br />
|BM - DJK<br />
|209<br />
|-<br />
| DK - DS 684 || 210<br />
|-<br />
| DS 685 - E 185.86C || 2M11A (210 Mezzanine)<br />
|-<br />
| E 185.86 D - E ends || 212<br />
|-<br />
| F - GV || 303<br />
|-<br />
| H - HF 1418 || 303A<br />
|-<br />
| HF 1419 - HZ || 3M04 (303A Mezzanine)<br />
|-<br />
| J - PQ 2081 A || 403<br />
|-<br />
| PQ 2081 B - PQ 6138 || 406A<br />
|-<br />
| PQ 6144 - PS 1855 || 406<br />
|-<br />
| PS 1856 - ZA || 409<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Facilities ==<br />
<br />
* Lockers: enter the lottery every year at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/butler/lockers/.<br />
* [[Photocopiers]]: on every floor.<br />
<br />
=== Floor 2 (exit level) ===<br />
Stacks Level 3<br />
<br />
* [[Blue Java Butler]] coffee bar.<br />
* [[Butler 214|214]]: the [[Butler Lounge|lounge]], the only place you can eat and talk. Colloquially known as ButCaf.<br />
* 213: [[CUIT]] computer lab.<br />
* Butler Reserves Desk<br />
* [[Butler 209|209]]-212: Milstein 24 hour undergraduate reading rooms.<br />
* Undergraduate lockers<br />
<br />
=== Floor 3 ===<br />
Stack Level 6 - the main stacks entrance<br />
* Circulation and Reference desks<br />
* [[Butler 301|301]]: The [[Lawrence A. Wien]] Reference Room<br />
* [[Butler 310|310]]: Old card catalog room, future Digital Humanities Center<br />
* Milstein 24 hour undergraduate reading rooms<br />
* 305: Current Digital Humanities Center. Scanners and such.<br />
<br />
=== Floor 4 ===<br />
Stack Level 8<br />
* 401: Periodicals and Microforms reading room<br />
* 403-409: Group study rooms<br />
* Milstein 24 hour undergraduate reading rooms <br />
<br />
=== Floor 5 ===<br />
Hours are the same as the circulation desk, meaning these reading rooms close!<br />
* Administrative offices<br />
* 502-504: "graduate" reading rooms<br />
* Graduate lockers<br />
<br />
=== Floor 6 ===<br />
Hours are the same as the circulation desk, meaning these reading rooms close!<br />
* Rare Books & Manuscript Library. Including the Columbia Archives.<br />
* CUIT Ninja printers in 606<br />
* Graduate reading rooms, some with a fantastic view of [[Low Plaza]]<br />
<br />
=== Floor 7 ===<br />
* Assigned graduate study carrels.<br />
<br />
=== Floor 8 ===<br />
* Assigned graduate study carrels. Often empty and usable, as long as you stay quiet<br />
* Oral History Collection<br />
<br />
=== Floor 9 ===<br />
* Secret bathrooms<br />
* Assigned graduate study carrels/offices. Generally locked.<br />
<br />
== Butler culture ==<br />
<br />
[[File:409 late.jpg|thumb|A student up so late in Butler 409 that she posed for a photo and deliriously posted it on Reddit <ref>http://www.reddit.com/r/columbia/comments/1c4gng/i_conquered_butler_409_its_4am_on_wednesday_the/</ref>.]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Columbiaproposal.jpg|thumb|While [[Butler Sex]] has yet to be documented, there's at least one known instance of a wedding proposal taking place in Butler - due to the fact that the couple met there.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/fashion/weddings/upon-closer-examination-its-love.html?_r=1&</ref>]]<br />
<br />
*Butler tends to be pretty quiet and studious, with the exception of regularly scheduled events (like [[Orgo Night]]) or pranks like the famous "Library Musical" and "Powerbook Startup" sketches by [[Prangstgrüp]].<br />
* People tend to stick to their own preferred reading rooms, and entire social networks develop around these after a time, particularly on the fourth floor.<br />
* Social connections forged in Butler have sometimes gone so far that students supposedly make out and go so far as to have [[Butler Sex|sex]] in the stacks. No one has ever seen this actually happen, though people talk about it <ref>http://bwog.com/2010/09/01/the-definitive-guide-to-butler-sex-2/</ref>.<br />
* Butler inspired the creation of [[Ref Spotting @ Columbia]], a Facebook group revolving around Butler 301, also known as the Reference Room. Students take pictures of their friends studying in Ref to either shame or encourage them, typically late at night. <br />
* Inspired the notorious anonymous chat room site [[Boredatbutler.com]] for "studying" students to vent online while there.<br />
<br />
=== Camping out in Butler ===<br />
<br />
During midterms and finals many people camp out in Butler. They take up valuable desk space and seats, leaving their books, laptops and other possessions in the library for extended periods. Some people even leave their belongings in the library 24 hours per day, usually to reserve the very best library real estate. A very small number of people literally camp out in Butler, sleeping there. This behavior can get all the crazier at Columbia because, unlike other university libraries, Butler is open 24/7, regardless of whether finals are taking place.<br />
<br />
=== Butler Clearance Task Force ===<br />
Many students believe that people who leave their belongings in Butler for extended periods are making unfair use of the library. As a remedy, objecting students believe that unattended belongings should be confiscated at regular intervals by library staff. The belongings would naturally be made available somewhere else in the library for students to claim. Alternatively, [[CCSC]] and the other class councils could do something useful for students by organizing a "Butler Clearance Task Force".<br />
<br />
== Tunnel/roof connections ==<br />
<br />
===Low Library===<br />
''Main article: [[Butler to Low tunnel]]''<br />
<br />
===Butler Library basement===<br />
Go down to the bottom of the X staircase (NW corner of Butler). It is a large basement which is mostly empty but has storage rooms. It is well lit and all-white. Frequent [[Benoit]] tags here. There are no cameras or alarms here, but there is a security gate in the staircase. It is trivial to open. Bring a screwdriver or the tunneler's friend, the swiss army knife. Beware constant staff intrusions during the daytime since the first floor of the stacks is used for book storage and the 'B' level of the non-stack area is frequented by maintenance workers. There is nevertheless a light security risk and a half-hearted security attempt.<br />
<br />
Note that there is a tag for vecular@yahoo.com in the basement, an email that has been spotted in about 3 places. The email address is non-responsive, but doesn't bounce back.<br />
<br />
The machine room in the southwest corner of the building is fun. You can get out into an exhaust plenum which has vents opening to the outdoors. Some are large enough to climb through. You'll find yourself under a set of grates which are part of the sidewalk on the 114th street side of Butler.<br />
<br />
*Note* The Security Gate has been altered, and while it can still be opened, it takes considerably more effort. Try pulling the gate back while pushing the deadbolt in with a screwdriver. It may take a few tries, but it is possible.<br />
<br />
===[[Carman Hall]]===<br />
Go down to the basement, and go to the southwest corner. You will see the padlocked double doors. These are normally inaccessible, but as of 6/06, the double doors are unlocked, so the passage between Butler and Carman/Lerner is wide open.<br />
<br />
===[[John Jay Hall]]===<br />
Go to the east edge of the basement. You will see a locked door with sharpie markings on it, possibly welded/hot glued shut. It leads into part of the [[JJ's]] store room.<br />
<br />
The John Jay/Butler/Carman tunnels were once used to transport food from [[John Jay Dining Hall]] to the [[Lion's Den]] cafeteria in [[Ferris Booth Hall]].<br />
<br />
==Alumni access==<br />
<br />
Alumni of [[Columbia College]] get access to Butler for life. There's a nominal fee, but they'll give you a functioning Columbia ID that you can use to con your way into student discounts. The IDs last for a ridiculously long time before they have to be renewed though (something like 15 years), so you may not want to try this con on someone who sees a [[CUID]] regularly. Oh, and it'll get you into Butler. Just don't think you'll be able to check anything out.<br />
<br />
== Photos ==<br />
<gallery><br />
Image:Flickr-sciamano-butler.jpg|Butler in winter<br />
Image:Butlersubbasementsmall.jpg|Butler Library basement level, circa 1940. It is still fairly accurate, shows the tunnel to [[John Jay Hall]] and a future tunnel to what will be [[Carman Hall]]. Note there is no tunnel in the direction of [[Low Library]]. You can see the X staircase and the stack staircases/elevators. "Stereoptician" should be spelled "stereopticon", which was a device that was like a slide projector.<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/butler/index.html Butler Library Homepage]<br />
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/butler/renovation/south.html A Library for the Twentieth Century: The Rise of South Hall]<br />
* [http://library.columbia.edu/content/dam/libraryweb/libraries/butler/selfguided.pdf Butler Library Self Guided Tour]<br />
* [http://bwog.com/2010/09/01/the-definitive-guide-to-butler-sex-2/ "The Definitive Guide to Butler Sex"], from the [[The Blue and White]] in [[2006]]<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
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The computers in this room rarely work.<br />
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[[Image:Butler.jpg|thumb|240px|Butler Library]]<br />
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'''Butler Library''' is Columbia's main library for undergraduate study and graduate research. It is named for longtime [[University President]] [[Nicholas Murray Butler]], and holds 2 million volumes in the humanities. Butler has study rooms open 24 hours a day during the school year. Students in Butler tend to either work or procrastinate on their phones and laptops. Among its many facilities, Butler has a [[Blue Java]] outlet, a lounge (often used by students working on group assignments), and several computer labs.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
[[Image:SouthHallPlan.jpg|thumb|240px|Plans for Butler Library]]<br />
<br />
Construction on Butler was begun in [[1931]] and the dedication ceremony was held in [[1934]]. It was built in response to a space crunch at [[Low Library]], which after 30 years had become too small to hold Columbia's growing collection. Discussions for a new library began in [[1927]] when the university librarian addressed a 13 page letter to President [[Nicholas Murray Butler|Butler]] proposing to build a new library by connecting [[Low Library]] to [[University Hall]]. When that proved unfeasible, [[James Gamble Rogers]] (the favored architect of donor [[Edward S. Harkness]]) was asked to execute a design for the 114th street border of the campus instead. The building was originally named South Hall, before being named in honor of Butler. It is said that there was a move to name the library after Columbia's 10th president, [[Frederick A. P. Barnard]], but Butler put the kibosh on the idea, leaving the building strategically unnamed until his own retirement. This probably worked out well in the end: Columbia's main library being named "Barnard" would have only caused the [[Columbia-Barnard relationship]] to be more confusing than it already is.<br />
<br />
==Names on the facade==<br />
One of the more recognizable features of Butler Library's exterior is the list of names that wrap around the building. A common misconception is that the names represent authors featured in the [[Core Curriculum]]. The names were in fact hand-picked by President [[Nicholas Murray Butler]] when the building was designed<ref>[http://columbiaspectator.com/node/16651 The Writing Is on the Wall: Who Is Demosthenes, Anyway?]</ref>, before there was much of a core curriculum. Besides, college students weren't even allowed in Butler for many years, which was geared to serve the research efforts of graduate students and faculty members. Of the 18 names engraved though, only Demosthenes has never been required reading in the history of the Core.<br />
<br />
*Front: [[Homer]], [[Herodotus]], Sophocles, [[Plato]], Aristotle, Demosthenes, Cicero, [[Vergil]]<br />
*West (opposite [[Carman Hall]]): Horace, Tacitus, [[St. Augustine]], [[Dante]]<br />
*East (opposite [[John Jay Hall]]): Cervantes, Shakespeare, Milton, Voltaire, Goethe<br />
<br />
Read from the Homer all the way around to Goethe, the names are roughly in chronological order.<br />
<br />
In addition to the 18 prominent wrap-around names, each of the main windows on the campus side of the building except for the center three have two names inscribed underneath them. The three middle windows have a version of the [[Columbia Seal|university seal]] underneath them.<br />
<br />
The names to the left of the seal are prominent early American politicians: [[George Washington]], Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, [[Alexander Hamilton]], [[John Jay (person)|John Jay]], James Madison, John Marshall, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln.<br />
<br />
The names to the right of the seal include prominent American writers: Jonathan Edwards, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe<ref>Coincidentally, Columbia's been hiding the mantel from the apartment where Poe wrote The Raven in storage for over 100 years. After scoring it by promising to display it publicly. Currently it's located on the mezzanine of the RBML and you have to ask to see it. Lesson: never donate anything to Columbia.</ref>, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Mark Twain.<br />
<br />
The names have been the subject of protest for much the same reason that students often protest the Core Curriculum: they are almost exclusively old, dead, white males. In the past, student activists have climbed to the Butler roof and unfurled banners covering the names with those of black or female authors instead.<br />
<br />
== Milstein Library ==<br />
<br />
Butler is also home to the '''Phillip L. Milstein Family College Library''' which is the official designation for the 24-hour reading rooms and the collection of books stored within on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors of the library. Since Milstein isn't really distinguishable from Butler itself in any major fashion, no one actually uses the term "Milstein," and most probably don't even know that it "exists". After 11pm, when the other rooms of the library close, graduate students come down from other floors and overcrowd the 24-hour reading rooms.<br />
<br />
Books in the Milstein Library are organized by the first two letters in their call numbers:<br />
<br />
{| border="1"<br />
! Call Number !! Room Number<br />
|-<br />
| A - BL || 202<br />
|-<br />
|BM - DJK<br />
|209<br />
|-<br />
| DK - DS 684 || 210<br />
|-<br />
| DS 685 - E 185.86C || 2M11A (210 Mezzanine)<br />
|-<br />
| E 185.86 D - E ends || 212<br />
|-<br />
| F - GV || 303<br />
|-<br />
| H - HF 1418 || 303A<br />
|-<br />
| HF 1419 - HZ || 3M04 (303A Mezzanine)<br />
|-<br />
| J - PQ 2081 A || 403<br />
|-<br />
| PQ 2081 B - PQ 6138 || 406A<br />
|-<br />
| PQ 6144 - PS 1855 || 406<br />
|-<br />
| PS 1856 - ZA || 409<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Facilities ==<br />
<br />
* Lockers: enter the lottery every year at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/butler/lockers/.<br />
* [[Photocopiers]]: on every floor.<br />
<br />
=== Floor 2 (exit level) ===<br />
Stacks Level 3<br />
<br />
* [[Blue Java Butler]] coffee bar.<br />
* [[Butler 214|214]]: the [[Butler Lounge|lounge]], the only place you can eat and talk.<br />
* 213: [[CUIT]] computer lab.<br />
* Butler Reserves Desk<br />
* [[Butler 209|209]]-212: Milstein 24 hour undergraduate reading rooms.<br />
* Undergraduate lockers<br />
<br />
=== Floor 3 ===<br />
Stack Level 6 - the main stacks entrance<br />
* Circulation and Reference desks<br />
* [[Butler 301|301]]: The [[Lawrence A. Wien]] Reference Room<br />
* [[Butler 310|310]]: Old card catalog room, future Digital Humanities Center<br />
* Milstein 24 hour undergraduate reading rooms<br />
* 305: Current Digital Humanities Center. Scanners and such.<br />
<br />
=== Floor 4 ===<br />
Stack Level 8<br />
* 401: Periodicals and Microforms reading room<br />
* 403-409: Group study rooms<br />
* Milstein 24 hour undergraduate reading rooms <br />
<br />
=== Floor 5 ===<br />
Hours are the same as the circulation desk, meaning these reading rooms close!<br />
* Administrative offices<br />
* 502-504: "graduate" reading rooms<br />
* Graduate lockers<br />
<br />
=== Floor 6 ===<br />
Hours are the same as the circulation desk, meaning these reading rooms close!<br />
* Rare Books & Manuscript Library. Including the Columbia Archives.<br />
* CUIT Ninja printers in 606<br />
* Graduate reading rooms, some with a fantastic view of [[Low Plaza]]<br />
<br />
=== Floor 7 ===<br />
* Assigned graduate study carrels.<br />
<br />
=== Floor 8 ===<br />
* Assigned graduate study carrels. Often empty and usable, as long as you stay quiet<br />
* Oral History Collection<br />
<br />
=== Floor 9 ===<br />
* Secret bathrooms<br />
* Assigned graduate study carrels/offices. Generally locked.<br />
<br />
== Butler culture ==<br />
<br />
[[File:409 late.jpg|thumb|A student up so late in Butler 409 that she posed for a photo and deliriously posted it on Reddit <ref>http://www.reddit.com/r/columbia/comments/1c4gng/i_conquered_butler_409_its_4am_on_wednesday_the/</ref>.]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Columbiaproposal.jpg|thumb|While [[Butler Sex]] has yet to be documented, there's at least one known instance of a wedding proposal taking place in Butler - due to the fact that the couple met there.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/fashion/weddings/upon-closer-examination-its-love.html?_r=1&</ref>]]<br />
<br />
*Butler tends to be pretty quiet and studious, with the exception of regularly scheduled events (like [[Orgo Night]]) or pranks like the famous "Library Musical" and "Powerbook Startup" sketches by [[Prangstgrüp]].<br />
* People tend to stick to their own preferred reading rooms, and entire social networks develop around these after a time, particularly on the fourth floor.<br />
* Social connections forged in Butler have sometimes gone so far that students supposedly make out and go so far as to have [[Butler Sex|sex]] in the stacks. No one has ever seen this actually happen, though people talk about it <ref>http://bwog.com/2010/09/01/the-definitive-guide-to-butler-sex-2/</ref>.<br />
* Butler inspired the creation of [[Ref Spotting @ Columbia]], a Facebook group revolving around Butler 301, also known as the Reference Room. Students take pictures of their friends studying in Ref to either shame or encourage them, typically late at night. <br />
* Inspired the notorious anonymous chat room site [[Boredatbutler.com]] for "studying" students to vent online while there.<br />
<br />
=== Camping out in Butler ===<br />
<br />
During midterms and finals many people camp out in Butler. They take up valuable desk space and seats, leaving their books, laptops and other possessions in the library for extended periods. Some people even leave their belongings in the library 24 hours per day, usually to reserve the very best library real estate. A very small number of people literally camp out in Butler, sleeping there. This behavior can get all the crazier at Columbia because, unlike other university libraries, Butler is open 24/7, regardless of whether finals are taking place.<br />
<br />
=== Butler Clearance Task Force ===<br />
Many students believe that people who leave their belongings in Butler for extended periods are making unfair use of the library. As a remedy, objecting students believe that unattended belongings should be confiscated at regular intervals by library staff. The belongings would naturally be made available somewhere else in the library for students to claim. Alternatively, [[CCSC]] and the other class councils could do something useful for students by organizing a "Butler Clearance Task Force".<br />
<br />
== Tunnel/roof connections ==<br />
<br />
===Low Library===<br />
''Main article: [[Butler to Low tunnel]]''<br />
<br />
===Butler Library basement===<br />
Go down to the bottom of the X staircase (NW corner of Butler). It is a large basement which is mostly empty but has storage rooms. It is well lit and all-white. Frequent [[Benoit]] tags here. There are no cameras or alarms here, but there is a security gate in the staircase. It is trivial to open. Bring a screwdriver or the tunneler's friend, the swiss army knife. Beware constant staff intrusions during the daytime since the first floor of the stacks is used for book storage and the 'B' level of the non-stack area is frequented by maintenance workers. There is nevertheless a light security risk and a half-hearted security attempt.<br />
<br />
Note that there is a tag for vecular@yahoo.com in the basement, an email that has been spotted in about 3 places. The email address is non-responsive, but doesn't bounce back.<br />
<br />
The machine room in the southwest corner of the building is fun. You can get out into an exhaust plenum which has vents opening to the outdoors. Some are large enough to climb through. You'll find yourself under a set of grates which are part of the sidewalk on the 114th street side of Butler.<br />
<br />
*Note* The Security Gate has been altered, and while it can still be opened, it takes considerably more effort. Try pulling the gate back while pushing the deadbolt in with a screwdriver. It may take a few tries, but it is possible.<br />
<br />
===[[Carman Hall]]===<br />
Go down to the basement, and go to the southwest corner. You will see the padlocked double doors. These are normally inaccessible, but as of 6/06, the double doors are unlocked, so the passage between Butler and Carman/Lerner is wide open.<br />
<br />
===[[John Jay Hall]]===<br />
Go to the east edge of the basement. You will see a locked door with sharpie markings on it, possibly welded/hot glued shut. It leads into part of the [[JJ's]] store room.<br />
<br />
The John Jay/Butler/Carman tunnels were once used to transport food from [[John Jay Dining Hall]] to the [[Lion's Den]] cafeteria in [[Ferris Booth Hall]].<br />
<br />
==Alumni access==<br />
<br />
Alumni of [[Columbia College]] get access to Butler for life. There's a nominal fee, but they'll give you a functioning Columbia ID that you can use to con your way into student discounts. The IDs last for a ridiculously long time before they have to be renewed though (something like 15 years), so you may not want to try this con on someone who sees a [[CUID]] regularly. Oh, and it'll get you into Butler. Just don't think you'll be able to check anything out.<br />
<br />
== Photos ==<br />
<gallery><br />
Image:Flickr-sciamano-butler.jpg|Butler in winter<br />
Image:Butlersubbasementsmall.jpg|Butler Library basement level, circa 1940. It is still fairly accurate, shows the tunnel to [[John Jay Hall]] and a future tunnel to what will be [[Carman Hall]]. Note there is no tunnel in the direction of [[Low Library]]. You can see the X staircase and the stack staircases/elevators. "Stereoptician" should be spelled "stereopticon", which was a device that was like a slide projector.<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/butler/index.html Butler Library Homepage]<br />
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/butler/renovation/south.html A Library for the Twentieth Century: The Rise of South Hall]<br />
* [http://library.columbia.edu/content/dam/libraryweb/libraries/butler/selfguided.pdf Butler Library Self Guided Tour]<br />
* [http://bwog.com/2010/09/01/the-definitive-guide-to-butler-sex-2/ "The Definitive Guide to Butler Sex"], from the [[The Blue and White]] in [[2006]]<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
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[[Category:Buildings]]<br />
[[Category:Morningside Heights campus]]<br />
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[[Category:Butler Library|*]]<br />
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[[Image:Butler.jpg|thumb|240px|Butler Library]]<br />
<br />
'''Butler Library''' is Columbia's main library for undergraduate study and graduate research. It is named for longtime [[University President]] [[Nicholas Murray Butler]], and holds 2 million volumes in the humanities. Butler has study rooms open 24 hours a day during the school year. Students in Butler tend to either work or spend time on [[Boredatbutler.com]]. Among its many facilities, Butler has a [[Blue Java]] outlet, a lounge (often used by students working on group assignments), and several computer labs.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
[[Image:SouthHallPlan.jpg|thumb|240px|Plans for Butler Library]]<br />
<br />
Construction on Butler was begun in [[1931]] and the dedication ceremony was held in [[1934]]. It was built in response to a space crunch at [[Low Library]], which after 30 years had become too small to hold Columbia's growing collection. Discussions for a new library began in [[1927]] when the university librarian addressed a 13 page letter to President [[Nicholas Murray Butler|Butler]] proposing to build a new library by connecting [[Low Library]] to [[University Hall]]. When that proved unfeasible, [[James Gamble Rogers]] (the favored architect of donor [[Edward S. Harkness]]) was asked to execute a design for the 114th street border of the campus instead. The building was originally named South Hall, before being named in honor of Butler. It is said that there was a move to name the library after Columbia's 10th president, [[Frederick A. P. Barnard]], but Butler put the kibosh on the idea, leaving the building strategically unnamed until his own retirement. This probably worked out well in the end: Columbia's main library being named "Barnard" would have only caused the [[Columbia-Barnard relationship]] to be more confusing than it already is.<br />
<br />
==Names on the facade==<br />
One of the more recognizable features of Butler Library's exterior is the list of names that wrap around the building. A common misconception is that the names represent authors featured in the [[Core Curriculum]]. The names were in fact hand-picked by President [[Nicholas Murray Butler]] when the building was designed<ref>[http://columbiaspectator.com/node/16651 The Writing Is on the Wall: Who Is Demosthenes, Anyway?]</ref>, before there was much of a core curriculum. Besides, college students weren't even allowed in Butler for many years, which was geared to serve the research efforts of graduate students and faculty members. Of the 18 names engraved though, only Demosthenes has never been required reading in the history of the Core.<br />
<br />
*Front: [[Homer]], [[Herodotus]], Sophocles, [[Plato]], Aristotle, Demosthenes, Cicero, [[Vergil]]<br />
*West (opposite [[Carman Hall]]): Horace, Tacitus, [[St. Augustine]], [[Dante]]<br />
*East (opposite [[John Jay Hall]]): Cervantes, Shakespeare, Milton, Voltaire, Goethe<br />
<br />
Read from the Homer all the way around to Goethe, the names are roughly in chronological order.<br />
<br />
In addition to the 18 prominent wrap-around names, each of the main windows on the campus side of the building except for the center three have two names inscribed underneath them. The three middle windows have a version of the [[Columbia Seal|university seal]] underneath them.<br />
<br />
The names to the left of the seal are prominent early American politicians: [[George Washington]], Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, [[Alexander Hamilton]], [[John Jay (person)|John Jay]], James Madison, John Marshall, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln.<br />
<br />
The names to the right of the seal include prominent American writers: Jonathan Edwards, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe<ref>Coincidentally, Columbia's been hiding the mantel from the apartment where Poe wrote The Raven in storage for over 100 years. After scoring it by promising to display it publicly. Currently it's located on the mezzanine of the RBML and you have to ask to see it. Lesson: never donate anything to Columbia.</ref>, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Mark Twain.<br />
<br />
The names have been the subject of protest for much the same reason that students often protest the Core Curriculum: they are almost exclusively old, dead, white males. In the past, student activists have climbed to the Butler roof and unfurled banners covering the names with those of black or female authors instead.<br />
<br />
== Milstein Library ==<br />
<br />
Butler is also home to the '''Phillip L. Milstein Family College Library''' which is the official designation for the 24-hour reading rooms and the collection of books stored within on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors of the library. Since Milstein isn't really distinguishable from Butler itself in any major fashion, no one actually uses the term "Milstein," and most probably don't even know that it "exists". After 11pm, when the other rooms of the library close, graduate students come down from other floors and overcrowd the 24-hour reading rooms.<br />
<br />
Books in the Milstein Library are organized by the first two letters in their call numbers:<br />
<br />
{| border="1"<br />
! Call Number !! Room Number<br />
|-<br />
| A - BL || 202<br />
|-<br />
|BM - DJK<br />
|209<br />
|-<br />
| DK - DS 684 || 210<br />
|-<br />
| DS 685 - E 185.86C || 2M11A (210 Mezzanine)<br />
|-<br />
| E 185.86 D - E ends || 212<br />
|-<br />
| F - GV || 303<br />
|-<br />
| H - HF 1418 || 303A<br />
|-<br />
| HF 1419 - HZ || 3M04 (303A Mezzanine)<br />
|-<br />
| J - PQ 2081 A || 403<br />
|-<br />
| PQ 2081 B - PQ 6138 || 406A<br />
|-<br />
| PQ 6144 - PS 1855 || 406<br />
|-<br />
| PS 1856 - ZA || 409<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Facilities ==<br />
<br />
* Lockers: enter the lottery every year at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/butler/lockers/.<br />
* [[Photocopiers]]: on every floor.<br />
<br />
=== Floor 2 (exit level) ===<br />
Stacks Level 3<br />
<br />
* [[Blue Java Butler]] coffee bar.<br />
* [[Butler 214|214]]: the [[Butler Lounge|lounge]], the only place you can eat and talk.<br />
* 213: [[CUIT]] computer lab.<br />
* Butler Reserves Desk<br />
* [[Butler 209|209]]-212: Milstein 24 hour undergraduate reading rooms.<br />
* Undergraduate lockers<br />
<br />
=== Floor 3 ===<br />
Stack Level 6 - the main stacks entrance<br />
* Circulation and Reference desks<br />
* [[Butler 301|301]]: The [[Lawrence A. Wien]] Reference Room<br />
* [[Butler 310|310]]: Old card catalog room, future Digital Humanities Center<br />
* Milstein 24 hour undergraduate reading rooms<br />
* 305: Current Digital Humanities Center. Scanners and such.<br />
<br />
=== Floor 4 ===<br />
Stack Level 8<br />
* 401: Periodicals and Microforms reading room<br />
* 403-409: Group study rooms<br />
* Milstein 24 hour undergraduate reading rooms <br />
<br />
=== Floor 5 ===<br />
Hours are the same as the circulation desk, meaning these reading rooms close!<br />
* Administrative offices<br />
* 502-504: "graduate" reading rooms<br />
* Graduate lockers<br />
<br />
=== Floor 6 ===<br />
Hours are the same as the circulation desk, meaning these reading rooms close!<br />
* Rare Books & Manuscript Library. Including the Columbia Archives.<br />
* CUIT Ninja printers in 606<br />
* Graduate reading rooms, some with a fantastic view of [[Low Plaza]]<br />
<br />
=== Floor 7 ===<br />
* Assigned graduate study carrels.<br />
<br />
=== Floor 8 ===<br />
* Assigned graduate study carrels. Often empty and usable, as long as you stay quiet<br />
* Oral History Collection<br />
<br />
=== Floor 9 ===<br />
* Secret bathrooms<br />
* Assigned graduate study carrels/offices. Generally locked.<br />
<br />
== Butler culture ==<br />
<br />
[[File:409 late.jpg|thumb|A student up so late in Butler 409 that she posed for a photo and deliriously posted it on Reddit <ref>http://www.reddit.com/r/columbia/comments/1c4gng/i_conquered_butler_409_its_4am_on_wednesday_the/</ref>.]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Columbiaproposal.jpg|thumb|While [[Butler Sex]] has yet to be documented, there's at least one known instance of a wedding proposal taking place in Butler - due to the fact that the couple met there.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/fashion/weddings/upon-closer-examination-its-love.html?_r=1&</ref>]]<br />
<br />
*Butler tends to be pretty quiet and studious, with the exception of regularly scheduled events (like [[Orgo Night]]) or pranks like the famous "Library Musical" and "Powerbook Startup" sketches by [[Prangstgrüp]].<br />
* People tend to stick to their own preferred reading rooms, and entire social networks develop around these after a time, particularly on the fourth floor.<br />
* Social connections forged in Butler have sometimes gone so far that students supposedly make out and go so far as to have [[Butler Sex|sex]] in the stacks. No one has ever seen this actually happen, though people talk about it <ref>http://bwog.com/2010/09/01/the-definitive-guide-to-butler-sex-2/</ref>.<br />
* Butler inspired the creation of [[Ref Spotting @ Columbia]], a Facebook group revolving around Butler 301, also known as the Reference Room. Students take pictures of their friends studying in Ref to either shame or encourage them, typically late at night. <br />
* Inspired the notorious anonymous chat room site [[Boredatbutler.com]] for "studying" students to vent online while there.<br />
<br />
=== Camping out in Butler ===<br />
<br />
During midterms and finals many people camp out in Butler. They take up valuable desk space and seats, leaving their books, laptops and other possessions in the library for extended periods. Some people even leave their belongings in the library 24 hours per day, usually to reserve the very best library real estate. A very small number of people literally camp out in Butler, sleeping there. This behavior can get all the crazier at Columbia because, unlike other university libraries, Butler is open 24/7, regardless of whether finals are taking place.<br />
<br />
=== Butler Clearance Task Force ===<br />
Many students believe that people who leave their belongings in Butler for extended periods are making unfair use of the library. As a remedy, objecting students believe that unattended belongings should be confiscated at regular intervals by library staff. The belongings would naturally be made available somewhere else in the library for students to claim. Alternatively, [[CCSC]] and the other class councils could do something useful for students by organizing a "Butler Clearance Task Force".<br />
<br />
== Tunnel/roof connections ==<br />
<br />
===Low Library===<br />
''Main article: [[Butler to Low tunnel]]''<br />
<br />
===Butler Library basement===<br />
Go down to the bottom of the X staircase (NW corner of Butler). It is a large basement which is mostly empty but has storage rooms. It is well lit and all-white. Frequent [[Benoit]] tags here. There are no cameras or alarms here, but there is a security gate in the staircase. It is trivial to open. Bring a screwdriver or the tunneler's friend, the swiss army knife. Beware constant staff intrusions during the daytime since the first floor of the stacks is used for book storage and the 'B' level of the non-stack area is frequented by maintenance workers. There is nevertheless a light security risk and a half-hearted security attempt.<br />
<br />
Note that there is a tag for vecular@yahoo.com in the basement, an email that has been spotted in about 3 places. The email address is non-responsive, but doesn't bounce back.<br />
<br />
The machine room in the southwest corner of the building is fun. You can get out into an exhaust plenum which has vents opening to the outdoors. Some are large enough to climb through. You'll find yourself under a set of grates which are part of the sidewalk on the 114th street side of Butler.<br />
<br />
*Note* The Security Gate has been altered, and while it can still be opened, it takes considerably more effort. Try pulling the gate back while pushing the deadbolt in with a screwdriver. It may take a few tries, but it is possible.<br />
<br />
===[[Carman Hall]]===<br />
Go down to the basement, and go to the southwest corner. You will see the padlocked double doors. These are normally inaccessible, but as of 6/06, the double doors are unlocked, so the passage between Butler and Carman/Lerner is wide open.<br />
<br />
===[[John Jay Hall]]===<br />
Go to the east edge of the basement. You will see a locked door with sharpie markings on it, possibly welded/hot glued shut. It leads into part of the [[JJ's]] store room.<br />
<br />
The John Jay/Butler/Carman tunnels were once used to transport food from [[John Jay Dining Hall]] to the [[Lion's Den]] cafeteria in [[Ferris Booth Hall]].<br />
<br />
==Alumni access==<br />
<br />
Alumni of [[Columbia College]] get access to Butler for life. There's a nominal fee, but they'll give you a functioning Columbia ID that you can use to con your way into student discounts. The IDs last for a ridiculously long time before they have to be renewed though (something like 15 years), so you may not want to try this con on someone who sees a [[CUID]] regularly. Oh, and it'll get you into Butler. Just don't think you'll be able to check anything out.<br />
<br />
== Photos ==<br />
<gallery><br />
Image:Flickr-sciamano-butler.jpg|Butler in winter<br />
Image:Butlersubbasementsmall.jpg|Butler Library basement level, circa 1940. It is still fairly accurate, shows the tunnel to [[John Jay Hall]] and a future tunnel to what will be [[Carman Hall]]. Note there is no tunnel in the direction of [[Low Library]]. You can see the X staircase and the stack staircases/elevators. "Stereoptician" should be spelled "stereopticon", which was a device that was like a slide projector.<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/butler/index.html Butler Library Homepage]<br />
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/butler/renovation/south.html A Library for the Twentieth Century: The Rise of South Hall]<br />
* [http://library.columbia.edu/content/dam/libraryweb/libraries/butler/selfguided.pdf Butler Library Self Guided Tour]<br />
* [http://bwog.com/2010/09/01/the-definitive-guide-to-butler-sex-2/ "The Definitive Guide to Butler Sex"], from the [[The Blue and White]] in [[2006]]<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
{{Libraries}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Buildings]]<br />
[[Category:Morningside Heights campus]]<br />
[[Category:Libraries]]<br />
[[Category:Butler Library|*]]<br />
[[Category:Renamed buildings and facilities]]</div>Reflordhttps://www.wikicu.com/index.php?title=Butler_Library&diff=56556Butler Library2021-08-02T01:10:07Z<p>Reflord: /* Butler culture */</p>
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[[Image:Butler.jpg|thumb|240px|Butler Library]]<br />
<br />
'''Butler Library''' is Columbia's main library for undergraduate study and graduate research. It is named for longtime [[University President]] [[Nicholas Murray Butler]], and holds 2 million volumes in the humanities. Butler has study rooms open 24 hours a day during the school year. Students in Butler tend to either work or spend time on [[Boredatbutler.com]]. Among its many facilities, Butler has a [[Blue Java]] outlet, a lounge (often used by students working on group assignments), and several computer labs.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
[[Image:SouthHallPlan.jpg|thumb|240px|Plans for Butler Library]]<br />
<br />
Construction on Butler was begun in [[1931]] and the dedication ceremony was held in [[1934]]. It was built in response to a space crunch at [[Low Library]], which after 30 years had become too small to hold Columbia's growing collection. Discussions for a new library began in [[1927]] when the university librarian addressed a 13 page letter to President [[Nicholas Murray Butler|Butler]] proposing to build a new library by connecting [[Low Library]] to [[University Hall]]. When that proved unfeasible, [[James Gamble Rogers]] (the favored architect of donor [[Edward S. Harkness]]) was asked to execute a design for the 114th street border of the campus instead. The building was originally named South Hall, before being named in honor of Butler. It is said that there was a move to name the library after Columbia's 10th president, [[Frederick A. P. Barnard]], but Butler put the kibosh on the idea, leaving the building strategically unnamed until his own retirement. This probably worked out well in the end: Columbia's main library being named "Barnard" would have only caused the [[Columbia-Barnard relationship]] to be more confusing than it already is.<br />
<br />
==Names on the facade==<br />
One of the more recognizable features of Butler Library's exterior is the list of names that wrap around the building. A common misconception is that the names represent authors featured in the [[Core Curriculum]]. The names were in fact hand-picked by President [[Nicholas Murray Butler]] when the building was designed<ref>[http://columbiaspectator.com/node/16651 The Writing Is on the Wall: Who Is Demosthenes, Anyway?]</ref>, before there was much of a core curriculum. Besides, college students weren't even allowed in Butler for many years, which was geared to serve the research efforts of graduate students and faculty members. Of the 18 names engraved though, only Demosthenes has never been required reading in the history of the Core.<br />
<br />
*Front: [[Homer]], [[Herodotus]], Sophocles, [[Plato]], Aristotle, Demosthenes, Cicero, [[Vergil]]<br />
*West (opposite [[Carman Hall]]): Horace, Tacitus, [[St. Augustine]], [[Dante]]<br />
*East (opposite [[John Jay Hall]]): Cervantes, Shakespeare, Milton, Voltaire, Goethe<br />
<br />
Read from the Homer all the way around to Goethe, the names are roughly in chronological order.<br />
<br />
In addition to the 18 prominent wrap-around names, each of the main windows on the campus side of the building except for the center three have two names inscribed underneath them. The three middle windows have a version of the [[Columbia Seal|university seal]] underneath them.<br />
<br />
The names to the left of the seal are prominent early American politicians: [[George Washington]], Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, [[Alexander Hamilton]], [[John Jay (person)|John Jay]], James Madison, John Marshall, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln.<br />
<br />
The names to the right of the seal include prominent American writers: Jonathan Edwards, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe<ref>Coincidentally, Columbia's been hiding the mantel from the apartment where Poe wrote The Raven in storage for over 100 years. After scoring it by promising to display it publicly. Currently it's located on the mezzanine of the RBML and you have to ask to see it. Lesson: never donate anything to Columbia.</ref>, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Mark Twain.<br />
<br />
The names have been the subject of protest for much the same reason that students often protest the Core Curriculum: they are almost exclusively old, dead, white males. In the past, student activists have climbed to the Butler roof and unfurled banners covering the names with those of black or female authors instead.<br />
<br />
== Milstein Library ==<br />
<br />
Butler is also home to the '''Phillip L. Milstein Family College Library''' which is the official designation for the 24-hour reading rooms and the collection of books stored within on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors of the library. Since Milstein isn't really distinguishable from Butler itself in any major fashion, no one actually uses the term "Milstein," and most probably don't even know that it "exists". After 11pm, when the other rooms of the library close, graduate students come down from other floors and overcrowd the 24-hour reading rooms.<br />
<br />
Books in the Milstein Library are organized by the first two letters in their call numbers:<br />
<br />
{| border="1"<br />
! Call Number !! Room Number<br />
|-<br />
| A - BL || 202<br />
|-<br />
|BM - DJK<br />
|209<br />
|-<br />
| DK - DS 684 || 210<br />
|-<br />
| DS 685 - E 185.86C || 2M11A (210 Mezzanine)<br />
|-<br />
| E 185.86 D - E ends || 212<br />
|-<br />
| F - GV || 303<br />
|-<br />
| H - HF 1418 || 303A<br />
|-<br />
| HF 1419 - HZ || 3M04 (303A Mezzanine)<br />
|-<br />
| J - PQ 2081 A || 403<br />
|-<br />
| PQ 2081 B - PQ 6138 || 406A<br />
|-<br />
| PQ 6144 - PS 1855 || 406<br />
|-<br />
| PS 1856 - ZA || 409<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Facilities ==<br />
<br />
* Lockers: enter the lottery every year at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/butler/lockers/.<br />
* [[Photocopiers]]: on every floor.<br />
<br />
=== Floor 2 (exit level) ===<br />
Stacks Level 3<br />
<br />
* [[Blue Java Butler]] coffee bar.<br />
* [[Butler 214|214]]: the [[Butler Lounge|lounge]], the only place you can eat and talk.<br />
* 213: [[CUIT]] computer lab.<br />
* Butler Reserves Desk<br />
* [[Butler 209|209]]-212: Milstein 24 hour undergraduate reading rooms.<br />
* Undergraduate lockers<br />
<br />
=== Floor 3 ===<br />
Stack Level 6 - the main stacks entrance<br />
* Circulation and Reference desks<br />
* [[Butler 301|301]]: The [[Lawrence A. Wien]] Reference Room<br />
* [[Butler 310|310]]: Old card catalog room, future Digital Humanities Center<br />
* Milstein 24 hour undergraduate reading rooms<br />
* 305: Current Digital Humanities Center. Scanners and such.<br />
<br />
=== Floor 4 ===<br />
Stack Level 8<br />
* 401: Periodicals and Microforms reading room<br />
* 403-409: Group study rooms<br />
* Milstein 24 hour undergraduate reading rooms <br />
<br />
=== Floor 5 ===<br />
Hours are the same as the circulation desk, meaning these reading rooms close!<br />
* Administrative offices<br />
* 502-504: "graduate" reading rooms<br />
* Graduate lockers<br />
<br />
=== Floor 6 ===<br />
Hours are the same as the circulation desk, meaning these reading rooms close!<br />
* Rare Books & Manuscript Library. Including the Columbia Archives.<br />
* CUIT Ninja printers in 606<br />
* Graduate reading rooms, some with a fantastic view of [[Low Plaza]]<br />
<br />
=== Floor 7 ===<br />
* Assigned graduate study carrels.<br />
<br />
=== Floor 8 ===<br />
* Assigned graduate study carrels. Often empty and usable, as long as you stay quiet<br />
* Oral History Collection<br />
<br />
=== Floor 9 ===<br />
* Secret bathrooms<br />
* Assigned graduate study carrels/offices. Generally locked.<br />
<br />
== Butler culture ==<br />
<br />
[[File:409 late.jpg|thumb|A student up so late in Butler 409 that she posed for a photo and deliriously posted it on Reddit <ref>http://www.reddit.com/r/columbia/comments/1c4gng/i_conquered_butler_409_its_4am_on_wednesday_the/</ref>.]]<br />
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[[File:Columbiaproposal.jpg|thumb|While [[Butler Sex]] has yet to be documented, there's at least one known instance of a wedding proposal taking place in Butler - due to the fact that the couple met there.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/fashion/weddings/upon-closer-examination-its-love.html?_r=1&</ref>]]<br />
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*Butler tends to be pretty quiet and studious, with the exception of regularly scheduled events (like [[Orgo Night]]) or pranks like the famous "Library Musical" and "Powerbook Startup" sketches by [[Prangstgrüp]].<br />
* People tend to stick to their own preferred reading rooms, and entire social networks develop around these after a time, particularly on the fourth floor.<br />
* Social connections forged in Butler have sometimes gone so far that students supposedly make out and go so far as to have [[Butler Sex|sex]] in the stacks. No one has ever seen this actually happen, though people talk about it <ref>http://bwog.com/2010/09/01/the-definitive-guide-to-butler-sex-2/</ref>.<br />
* Butler inspired the creation of [[Ref Spotting @ Columbia]], a Facebook group revolving around Butler 301, also known as the Reference Room. Students take pictures of their friends studying in Ref to either shame or encourage them, typically late at night. <br />
* Inspired the notorious anonymous chat room site [[Boredatbutler.com]] for "studying" students to vent online while there.<br />
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=== Camping out in Butler ===<br />
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During midterms and finals many people camp out in Butler. They take up valuable desk space and seats, leaving their books, laptops and other possessions in the library for extended periods. Some people even leave their belongings in the library 24 hours per day, usually to reserve the very best library real estate. A very small number of people literally camp out in Butler, sleeping there. This behavior can get all the crazier at Columbia because, unlike other university libraries, Butler is open 24/7, regardless of whether finals are taking place.<br />
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=== Butler Clearance Task Force ===<br />
Many students believe that people who leave their belongings in Butler for extended periods are making unfair use of the library. As a remedy, objecting students believe that unattended belongings should be confiscated at regular intervals by library staff. The belongings would naturally be made available somewhere else in the library for students to claim. Alternatively, [[CCSC]] and the other class councils could do something useful for students by organizing a "Butler Clearance Task Force".<br />
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== Tunnel/roof connections ==<br />
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===Low Library===<br />
''Main article: [[Butler to Low tunnel]]''<br />
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===Butler Library basement===<br />
Go down to the bottom of the X staircase (NW corner of Butler). It is a large basement which is mostly empty but has storage rooms. It is well lit and all-white. Frequent [[Benoit]] tags here. There are no cameras or alarms here, but there is a security gate in the staircase. It is trivial to open. Bring a screwdriver or the tunneler's friend, the swiss army knife. Beware constant staff intrusions during the daytime since the first floor of the stacks is used for book storage and the 'B' level of the non-stack area is frequented by maintenance workers. There is nevertheless a light security risk and a half-hearted security attempt.<br />
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Note that there is a tag for vecular@yahoo.com in the basement, an email that has been spotted in about 3 places. The email address is non-responsive, but doesn't bounce back.<br />
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The machine room in the southwest corner of the building is fun. You can get out into an exhaust plenum which has vents opening to the outdoors. Some are large enough to climb through. You'll find yourself under a set of grates which are part of the sidewalk on the 114th street side of Butler.<br />
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*Note* The Security Gate has been altered, and while it can still be opened, it takes considerably more effort. Try pulling the gate back while pushing the deadbolt in with a screwdriver. It may take a few tries, but it is possible.<br />
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===[[Carman Hall]]===<br />
Go down to the basement, and go to the southwest corner. You will see the padlocked double doors. These are normally inaccessible, but as of 6/06, the double doors are unlocked, so the passage between Butler and Carman/Lerner is wide open.<br />
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===[[John Jay Hall]]===<br />
Go to the east edge of the basement. You will see a locked door with sharpie markings on it, possibly welded/hot glued shut. It leads into part of the [[JJ's]] store room.<br />
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The John Jay/Butler/Carman tunnels were once used to transport food from [[John Jay Dining Hall]] to the [[Lion's Den]] cafeteria in [[Ferris Booth Hall]].<br />
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==Alumni access==<br />
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Alumni of [[Columbia College]] get access to Butler for life. There's a nominal fee, but they'll give you a functioning Columbia ID that you can use to con your way into student discounts. The IDs last for a ridiculously long time before they have to be renewed though (something like 15 years), so you may not want to try this con on someone who sees a [[CUID]] regularly. Oh, and it'll get you into Butler. Just don't think you'll be able to check anything out.<br />
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== Photos ==<br />
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Image:Flickr-sciamano-butler.jpg|Butler in winter<br />
Image:Butlersubbasementsmall.jpg|Butler Library basement level, circa 1940. It is still fairly accurate, shows the tunnel to [[John Jay Hall]] and a future tunnel to what will be [[Carman Hall]]. Note there is no tunnel in the direction of [[Low Library]]. You can see the X staircase and the stack staircases/elevators. "Stereoptician" should be spelled "stereopticon", which was a device that was like a slide projector.<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/butler/index.html Butler Library Homepage]<br />
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/butler/renovation/south.html A Library for the Twentieth Century: The Rise of South Hall]<br />
* [http://library.columbia.edu/content/dam/libraryweb/libraries/butler/selfguided.pdf Butler Library Self Guided Tour]<br />
* [http://bwog.com/2010/09/01/the-definitive-guide-to-butler-sex-2/ "The Definitive Guide to Butler Sex"], from the [[The Blue and White]] in [[2006]]<br />
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'''Columbia University Marching Band''' (CUMB), also known as ''The Cleverest Band the World (tm)'' was formed in [[1904]] and was one of the oldest student groups on campus, and the perpetrator of one of Columbia's only traditions, [[Orgo Night]]. During games, they tend to please the crowd by playing songs and [[Marching Band Chants|cheers]]. During halftime, when everyone is attentively engaged, they perform the [http://cumb.tumblr.com/archive witty scripts] that they write. They also like to make [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL18ADAA834D9EBD29 ridiculous Youtube videos] and [[#Controversies|get into trouble]]. <br />
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== History ==<br />
[[Image:fascistband.jpg|300px|thumb|The CUMB of yore appearing on Johnny Carson]]<br />
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We used to have a real "rah-rah-let's-go-team" band. That broke up sometime around the early 60s, when fascism became decidedly uncool, and now we have a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramble_band '''scramble band'''], which prides itself upon its witty scripts, edgy humor, and a definite lack of marching. As [[War on Fun|fascism grows more popular]], some fear that we'll develop a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Marching_Band lamer, more traditional marching band]. This new band will destroy the environment and offer no-bid contracts to multinational corporations.<br />
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In [[2011]], the Band was performed during a marriage proposal on College Walk. It was as adorable as you'd expect.<ref>[http://bwog.com/2011/04/29/storybook-romances-in-london-and-morningside-heights/ "Storybook Romance in London—and Morningside Heights], Bwog 4/29/11</ref> Later that year, they played at an exclusive party for LeBron James. But they also brought their unique brand of humor to the masses, performing for [[Occupy Wall Street]].<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC84FCECD36EBBEDF Occupy Wall Street performance]</ref><br />
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In September [[2020]], over a few short weeks, the CUMB suffered what appeared to be a fatal publicity blow. After the first anonymous confession, a slew of submissions on the Facebook page [[Columbia Confessions]] accused the band of promoting stealing, sexual misconduct, binge drinking, and other storied sins. This resulted in the band ultimately announcing its dissolution.<br />
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== Slogans ==<br />
* G(tb)²<br />
* The Cleverest Band in the World™<br />
* If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the band.<br />
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==Traditions==<br />
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=== Orgo Night ===<br />
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''Lisa Birnbach's College Book'' named the CUMB's [[Orgo Night]] performances as the University's most popular campus tradition. Since at least the mid-1970s, the Band has performed at 11:59 p.m. on the night before each Organic Chemistry final exam. The course is notorious as one of the most challenging undergraduate subjects. In an effort to relieve pre-exam jitters and lower the exam's curve in general, the CUMB interrupts studies at the main reading room of [[Butler Library]]. Several hundred students gather for the show, often standing on desks and bookshelves. Orgo Night performances are presented in a style similar to their halftime shows, and have sometimes included comedy banned from those shows by the university's censors.<br />
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===Tax Night===<br />
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Every year (since the mid 1980s on the final due date for filing income tax returns with the [[w:IRS|IRS]] (usually April 15th unless it falls on a weekend), the Band [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL93952776DACC6D66 plays on the steps] of the [[w:James Farley Post Office|James Farley Post Office]], which stays open until midnight on Tax Day, until closing time to entertain last-minute tax filers. <br />
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Fittingly, the Farley building was designed by [[McKim, Mead, and White]], the same firm that designed the original plan for Columbia's [[Morningside Heights campus]]. Its architects adorned the building with the now-famous inscription "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds", which is often mistakenly assumed to be the USPS motto (it has none.) Good Columbia students know it's actually an adaptation from Herodotus' "Histories" because they read it in [[Lit Hum]].<br />
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===Underground Tour===<br />
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During Orientation Week the Band takes recently-arrived freshmen on a tour of what it calls "the side of Columbia that the admissions office never dared nor cared to tell you about." The tour also may or may not involve actually taking tour groups underground.<br />
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===Days on Campus===<br />
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During [[Days on Campus]], the Band plays "Roar Lion Roar" for prospies as they return to campus from their nighttime bus tour of the city.<br />
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== Controversies ==<br />
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Due to its irreverent humor, some of the band's halftime shows have caused controversy. The CUMB prides itself on evading university censorship:<br />
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*In [[1964]], the band performed a "Salute to Moral Decay," featuring a formation of "the upper part of a topless bathing suit" (all marchers left the field except for two sousaphones, while the band played "My Favorite Things") and a typically heavy-handed reference to Walter Jenkins, an aide to President Lyndon Johnson, who had been caught ''in flagrante delicto'' in a men's room. Columbia's president had to fend off angry letters from several notables, including conductor Leonard Bernstein.<br />
*In [[1966]], the band was suspended for several games for the infamous "birth control" show where they formed a Combined oral contraceptive pill, a calendar (for the Rhythm Method), and a chastity belt.<br />
*In [[1968]], at West Point, the band formed what it called a "burning Cambodian village" on the field. CUMB has yet to be invited back to West Point. The football team hasn't actually played any games at West Point in recent years, but the band feels it should be invited to perform at the occasional halftime show anyway.<br />
*In [[1973]], a brawl broke out between the CUMB and the [[Harvard]] University Band over the alleged attempted theft of the giant Harvard Bass Drum.<br />
*The band's theme for a [[1981]] halftime show at Holy Cross was "The Lions vs. The Christians". Holy Cross administrators subsequently dis-invited the band from any future games played in Worcester, much to the band's relief. Columbia's next road game against Holy Cross, in [[1983]], marked the beginning of what became an NCAA-record winless streak.<br />
*The band's script for the [[1982]] season-opening road game against Harvard mysteriously turned out to be identical to the script the Harvard band was set to use moments later. The Columbia band subsequently denied that this astonishing and inexplicable coincidence had anything to do with the fact that two of its members had spent the previous week posing as new freshmen at Harvard's undergraduate orientation. Faculty of Columbia's statistics department refused to support the band's claim.<br />
*In [[1990]], the band received a bomb threat over its symbolic formation of a burning American Flag accompanied by The Doors' "Light My Fire". This performance happened shortly after a controversial United States Supreme Court ruling that actual flag burnings are legal.<br />
*In [[1992]], at the Halloween show, the band performed in costume or drag, including one member dressed as Jesus, with cross. This was also the homecoming game. Two alumni took the field and attempted to charge Jesus, but were thwarted by drummers clad in snare drums. Quoth the alumni: "Don't you know that's fucking sacrilegious?!?"<br />
*In 1992, at the [[Yale]] Bowl the band pantomimed the consummation of a same-sex marriage on the field, while the couple was held aloft on a CAVA stretcher while the band did the hora and played Hava Nagila. The occasion was Youth Day and hundreds of local children from community groups were in attendance. The first words of the halftime show: "We swear, we didn't know it was youth day."<br />
*In [[1993]], the band drew parallels between the Holocaust and policies for management of [[New York City]]'s homeless population proposed by newly-elected mayor Rudolph Giuliani. The Anti-Defamation League demanded an apology.<br />
*In 1993, at [[Princeton]], the band recreated the Magic Bullet Theory as put forth by the Warren Commission on the John F. Kennedy assassination, complete with band members as scattering skull fragments.<br />
*Not really a controversy, but on October 7, [[1994]] the Marching Band [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_s-N4ikDds showed up] outside of David Letterman's ''Late Show with David Letterman''. They were soon invited for an impromptu performance.<br />
*In [[1998]], at the Yale Bowl, the band performed a show featuring a homosexual, pot-smoking Jesus Christ in a homage to the Terrence McNally play ''Corpus Christi''. Angry Yale fans demanded their money back.<br />
*During a game against [[Fordham University]] in 2002, soon after the Catholic church was rocked by disclosures about pedophile priests, the band claimed that Fordham tuition was "going down like an altar boy" in a joke improvised minutes before the start of the pre-game show. In the ensuing media frenzy, band Poet Laureate Andy Hao was featured on MSNBC's Phil Donahue Show in a debate with Catholic League President William Donohue. The ''[[New York Times]]'' profiled the CUMB. Columbia University President [[Lee Bollinger]] ended the controversy in one of his first official acts as University President when he apologized to Fordham president, the Reverend Joseph O'Hare. They were banned from playing at Fordham for ten years.<br />
*In [[2011]], [[Athletics]] administrators banned the band from performing at the final football game of the season, following an incident in which the "banned" sang a modified rendition of [[School songs#Roar, Lion, Roar|Roar, Lion, Roar]] with the lyrics "We always lose" during the football team's ninth straight defeat of the season. Two days later, the ban was reversed.<ref>Amusingly, this led to an absolute torrent of news coverage: [http://espn.go.com/new-york/ncf/story/_/id/7246291/columbia-lions-band-banned-home-football-finale ESPN]; [http://deadspin.com/5860382/columbia-bans-marching-band-from-0+9-football-teams-finale-because-the-band-made-fun-of-the-team DeadSpin]; [http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2011/11/16/athletics-bans-marching-band-football-finale Spec]; [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/18/sports/ncaafootball/columbia-band-banned-after-changing-lyrics-of-fight-song.html New York Times]; [http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/columbia-band-taunts-its-own-team-and-gets-banned-from-the-home-finale?urn=ncaaf,wp10060 Rivals.com (Yahoo!)]; [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-17/columbia-band-banned-from-football-finale-after-mocking-its-own-0-9-team.html Bloomberg]; [http://boston.barstoolsports.com/m/sports-page/columbia-band-banned-from-last-game-of-the-season-for-hurting-the-winless-football-teams-feelings/ Boston Barstool Sports]; [http://ftrsports.com/columbia-band-banned-for-making-fun-of-football-team/ FTR Sports]; [http://larrybrownsports.com/college-football/columbia-band-banned-mocking-team/99471 Larry Brown Sports]; [http://www.safetysign.com/blog/?p=1132 SafetySign.com]; [http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/11/columbia_marchi.php Village Voice]; [http://www.newsday.com/sports/college/college-football/columbia-s-irreverent-band-banned-1.3330022 Newsday]; [http://www.hawkeyenation.com/forum/general-college-football/37610-columbia-band-banned-final-home-game.html Hawkeye Nation]; [http://espn.go.com/new-york/ncf/story/_/id/7250019/columbia-university-lions-reverses-one-game-ban-band ESPN]; [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062933/Marching-band-0-9-Columbia-University-football-team-banned-final-game-changed-fight-song-lyrics.html Daily Mail (UK)]; [http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/story/2011-11-17/columbia-bans-its-own-band-from-playing-in-season-finale SportingNews (AOL)]; [http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2011/11/columbias-band-was-mean-to-the-football-team.html New York Magazine]; [http://www.npr.org/2011/11/18/142497422/marching-band-banned-from-final-football-game NPR]; [http://observer.com/2011/11/columbia-marching-band-unbanned-after-prank/ New York Observer]; [http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/columbia_bans_band_from_final_home_hIaVkDsEOjtn5TnRmccrYO New York Post]; [http://deadspin.com/5860887/that-mean-columbia-marching-band-has-been-un+banned-from-performing-at-the-0+9-football-teams-last-game DeadSpin]; [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/columbia-marching-band-sidelined-mocking-struggling-team-article-1.979615 New York Daily News]; [http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/11/18/columbia_fight_song_parody_gets_marching_band_a_brief_ban_.html Slate]</ref><br />
*After being allowed to play at Fordham in [[2012]] following their ten-year ban, the band made posters referencing the death of Christians at the hands of lions in the Bible. For this they were banned again for an unspecified period of time.<br />
*In December [[2012]], one of CUMB's Orgo Night posters featured a pun on "Gaza Strip", i.e. "Everyone Wants a Piece"<ref>http://www.wikicu.com/File:Gaza_strip.jpg</ref>. This provoked a scolding from Kevin Shollenberger via a student-wide email. There were lots of Bwog comments about it, some against the band, most in favor of the band<ref>http://bwog.com/2012/12/13/administrators-scold-the-band/</ref>. Some students protested Orgo Night, where the band made fun of the protesters and Shollenberger.<br />
*After Butler Library Administrator Ann Thornton banned CUMB from performing in 209 in 2016, using extremely facile arguments such as "it bothers the students who work in that room" and "safety issues," (despite no student in 50 years being in Butler 209 for anything except Orgo Night during a single hour period on one night in the entire semester) CUMB acquiesced and performed directly outside the front doors of Butler. They hoped internal alumni pressure and their own forms of protest would eventually come to bear on Thornton and convince her that her machinations were wrong. Of course, no administrator thought about having 100s of students outside in the extreme cold (during Fall) instead of inside. And shockingly, the noise outside the front of the library actually traveled to more rooms within Butler than it would have if CUMB performed inside 209. Big. Surprise. In Fall of 2017, fed up with the intractability of the university, CUMB organized a covert operation to hide instruments throughout 209 and lead an impromptu and against-the-rules performance back in their ancestral homeland. The response of the university is still yet to have come down, although rumors of suppressed involvement of CUMB with activities such as Days on Campus have filtered down.<br />
*In fall of 2019, the band was banned from performing at Columbia Athletics events due to failure to register as an official Undergraduate campus club <ref>https://bwog.com/2019/09/breaking-columbia-university-marching-band-prohibited-from-performing-at-athletic-events/ </ref>. After rallying cries from alumni, and the story being picked up by national news<ref> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/sports/columbia-silences-its-marching-band.html</ref>, the university held meetings to resolve the conflict, and re-instated the band.<ref> https://bwog.com/2019/10/breaking-columbia-university-marching-band-to-resume-playing-at-athletic-events/</ref><br />
*In fall of 2020, a flood of [https://www.facebook.com/columbiaconfessionz/posts/marching-band-confessions-tw-mentions-of-assault6038-thanks-6006-i-guess-its-my-/335279194487701/ anonymous confessions] on the popular confessional Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/columbiaconfessionz/ Columbia Confessions] surfaced, exposing racism, antisemitism, theft, rampant sexual misconduct, and other problematic traditions. On September 2nd, CUMB issued a statement they were aware of the allegations and were discussing possible solutions. Two weeks later, on September 14th, CUMB issued another statement stating "The Band has unanimously and enthusiastically decided to dissolve".<ref>https://bwog.com/2020/09/columbia-university-marching-band-to-dissolve-following-anonymous-confessions/</ref> This decision sparked campus-wide debate over accountability within campus clubs, and was even picked up by national news.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/nyregion/columbia-marching-band-shutdown.html</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[School songs]]<br />
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*[http://www.cuband.org The Columbia University Marching Band]<br />
:*The Band on [http://twitter.com/cumb Twitter], [http://facebook.com/theCUMB Facebook], and [http://youtube.com/theCUMB YouTube].<br />
*[http://cuband.org/news/ CUMB's pre-2005 news and media appearances]<br />
*[http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1741746 ''Editor and Publisher''] criticizes censored ''New York Times'' and ''Associated Press'' coverage of the Fordham halftime show. 2002<br />
*[http://cumb.org/news/092902.html New York Times CUMB profile] '' Sunday Styles section, [[The New York Times]]'', 2002.<br />
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/uscc/archives/news/spectator022504a.htm Student Coalition Calls for Systematic Changes to Address Issues of Racism, Discrimination; Fed, CCCC, CUMB Offer Apologies], ''[[Columbia Daily Spectator]]'', February 25, 2004<br />
*[http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2011/11/16/athletics-bans-marching-band-football-finale Athletics bans marching band from football finale], ''[[Columbia Daily Spectator]]'', November 16, 2011<br />
*[http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2011/11/18/athletics-reverses-band-ban Athletics reverses band ban], ''[[Columbia Daily Spectator]]'', November 18, 2011<br />
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== Bibliography ==<br />
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''Lisa Birnbach's New and Improved College Book'', by Lisa Birnbach (1992) ISBN 0-671-79289-X<br />
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