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*Administration begins providing free beer at [[football]] games, in response to [[Bakergate]] | *Administration begins providing free beer at [[football]] games, in response to [[Bakergate]] | ||
*"[[Stop Being a Pussy]]" fliers advertising men's club hockey team lead to the team's suspension | *"[[Stop Being a Pussy]]" fliers advertising men's club hockey team lead to the team's suspension | ||
| − | *Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad invited to speak during the [[World Leaders Forum]] by SIPA dean [[Lisa Anderson]], but is de-invited following (officially) security concerns and (unofficially) because she may not have told President [[Bollinger]] beforehand, and some vocal students were outraged | + | *Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad invited to speak during the [[World Leaders Forum]] by [[SIPA]] dean [[Lisa Anderson]], but is de-invited following (officially) security concerns and (unofficially) because she may not have told President [[Bollinger]] beforehand, and some vocal students were outraged |
===October=== | ===October=== | ||
Revision as of 17:44, 3 April 2007
2006 in Columbia history:
- ACIS and AIS merge to form CUIT
- Foundation of the CU Artist Society
Spring
- Ruggles vandalization incident
- Launch of The Bwog
- SHOCC protests
- Seth Flaxman elected president of the CCSC
- 10th anniversairy of Austin Quigley's deanship of Columbia College honored during Columbia College Days
- John McCain speaks at Columbia College Class Day; students protest with orange "Not in My Name" buttons and umbrellas
Fall
September
- Launch of The Eye as the latest of many attempts at a Spectator magazine insert
- Administration begins providing free beer at football games, in response to Bakergate
- "Stop Being a Pussy" fliers advertising men's club hockey team lead to the team's suspension
- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad invited to speak during the World Leaders Forum by SIPA dean Lisa Anderson, but is de-invited following (officially) security concerns and (unofficially) because she may not have told President Bollinger beforehand, and some vocal students were outraged
October
- Minuteman stage-rush incident
- Debate between Chris Kulawik and Avi Zvi Zenilman on The O'Reilly Factor
- Awarding of the Nobel Prize to Edmund Phelps and Orhan Pamuk
November
- Ex-Czech President and playwright Václav Havel spends two months at Columbia as artist-in residence; Lit Hum syllabus temporarily altered to include one of his works
- November: Journalism School students cheat on an ethics exam
- November: Vandals decapitate the statue of George Washington on the facade of St. John the Divine
- Columbia Political Review editor Paul Sonne wins Columbia's first Marshall Scholarship in a long time
- The women's soccer team wins the Ivy League championship against Harvard
