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Title IX Takes On Science
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- July 15, 2008
Federal agencies are taking stock of sexual discrimination in science and engineering departments.
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Tibet Tops This Week's Protesting Schedule
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- April 11, 2008
Duke, NYU, Columbia, East Carolina, and Southern Mississippi all chimed in.
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Jeffrey Sachs on Beating Global Poverty
By Kirk Shinkle -
Money & Business
- April 11, 2008
The Colombia economist says it can be done with little investing.
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Story AND Newsmaker of the Year: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- February 5, 2008
The Iranian president was so important, he won two categories.
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Best of College Journalism Results Are In
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- February 1, 2008
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is still big news, and the Michigan blog, with its promise of puppies, takes the top prize.
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Story of the Year
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- January 15, 2008
The Virginia Tech shooting was unquestionably 2007's biggest story. Vote on the best of the rest that made national news.
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Newsmaker of the Year
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- January 15, 2008
Choose the higher education mover and shaker of 2007..
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Best Alternative Media Outlet
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- January 15, 2008
Which nontraditional medium do you prefer?
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Hunger Strike Garners Support, Scorn, and Snark
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- November 16, 2007
Columbia University's hunger strike makes some gains, but the student government condemns it.
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Anonymous Evaluations Not That Anonymous
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- October 24, 2007
The University of Georgia went as far as hiring a handwriting analyst to confirm who wrote nasty remarks on teacher evaluations.
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A Hate Symbol Makes Its Way North
By Eddy Ramírez -
The Paper Trail
- October 11, 2007
At Columbia University, a noose found outside an African-American professor's office has sparked campus demonstrations.
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A History of Controversial Campus Speakers
Nation & World
- October 1, 2007
Controversial campus speakers have been strongly protested with everything from petitions to pies.
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An Unwelcome Invitation
By Jay Tolson -
Nation & World
- September 29, 2007
The Iranian leader renews an age-old debate on free speech
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Iranian President Speaks; He’s Kind of a Big Deal
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- September 24, 2007
The circus has descended upon Columbia University this week, as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Monday speech rained controversy, protesters, angry fliers, reporters, and Geraldo Rivera onto the school's New York City campus.
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It's Like Family Feud but With Biz Students
By Alison Go -
The Paper Trail
- August 13, 2007
On CNBC's Fast Money MBA Challenge, teams of business grad students duke it out.
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Trail Mix
The Paper Trail
- January 12, 2007
Identity theft and imposture so good it's "pathological" are ingredients in the story of Esther Elizabeth Reed, who New York authorities say has stolen identities in order to attend California State University at Fullerton, Harvard, and now Columbia, where she enrolled as a graduate student under a missing woman's name for two years before she got caught, the New York Post reports .
Two students from Harvard but none from the University of Chicago are members of this season's Beauty and the Geek cast, a fact that makes one Chicago Maroon editor very unhappy.
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Student Gets Married to Get More Financial Aid
The Paper Trail
- December 4, 2006
Money, not love, was the reason for one Columbia University student's recent marriage. Getting legally married to a woman with whom he shares no romantic relationship--and who is actually in a relationship with another man--helped the Leo, who was not named in the Spectator article, prove he was financially independent from his parents.
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Columbia Builds Breast-Feeding Room...in Freshman Dorm
The Paper Trail
- November 27, 2006
"I don't know of many lactating freshmen," says one student, "but I think it adds a spark to Carman," the freshman dorm that just opened a room dedicated to breast-feeding. "A sink, a soft leather chair, counter space, and a fold-down changing station" are provided for female staff members and students, the Spectator reports.
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It's Too Complicated: Would Vote, if Only They Knew How...
The Paper Trail
- November 8, 2006
Some Columbia University students who registered with their campus addresses had to fill out provisional ballots--because they just couldn't find their polling station, says the Spectator.
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