2004

Logo of Columbia 250

Blacky Fun Whitey

The Scholar's Lion

Weston Plaza

2004 in Columbia history:

• 2004 was the 250th anniversairy of the foundation of King's College, prompting a year of celebratory events

Spring

• February 5: Affirmative Action Bake Sale
• February 20: The Fed publishes the cartoon, "Blacky Fun Whitey", bringing on campus tensions over racial tolerance to a head
• February 25: Facebook debuts at Columbia
• Columbia University Concerned Students of Color Protest
• Matthew Harrison elected President of the CCSC
• April: Unveiling of the Scholar's Lion on Dean's Day
• April 27: Chowdah sketch comedy group makes its debut performance at The West End
• First King's Ball held during Columbia College Days
• Graduate students strike during finals for better pay and the right to create a union
• Tony Kushner gives a well-received address at the Columbia College Class Day

Summer

• August: The new School of Social Work Building opens

Fall

• The Columbia Spectator becomes a broadsheet and includes color photos
• CUCommunity relaunches as CampusNetwork
• Entering Columbia College freshmen of the Class of 2008 are the first to face Frontiers of Science as a mandatory Core Curriculum requirement
• Airing of the controversial documentary Columbia Unbecoming, prompting the outbreak of the MEALAC scandal.
• Richard Axel awarded the Nobel Prize
• Dedication of Weston Plaza on the Morningside Heights campus
• Columbia's DC++ network is shut down after details about the system were published in a Spectator Editorial

Undated

• Kinsey is filmed in Havemeyer 309
• CU Snacks begun
• Second revival of the Jester
• President Bollinger announces the creation of the Arts Initiative

Preceded by 2003

History of Columbia University  2004

Succeeded by 2005