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'''2008''' in Columbia history:
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==Spring==
 
*February: plagiarism scandal involving Professor [[Madonna Constantine]] at [[Teachers College]]
 
*[[April 4]]: Stats PhD student [[Minghui Yu]] is killed by an SUV on Broadway while fleeing muggers
 
*Alumni mark 40th anniversairy of the [[1968 protests]]
 
 
 
==Summer==
 
*June: The [[Housing SSN security breach]] was discovered.
 
 
 
==Fall==
 
 
 
* [[Judith Shapiro]] steps down from her post as President of [[Barnard College|Barnard]] and is succeeded by [[Debora Spar]].
 
*[[September 11]]: Presidential candidates [[Barack Obama]] and [[John McCain]] made a joint campus appearance as part of the [[ServiceNation Presidential Candidates Forum]]
 
*[[October 8]]: Bio chair [[Martin Chalfie]] wins the [[Nobel Prize]] in Chemistry
 
*[[November 4]]: Senator [[Barack Obama]] (D-IL) [[CC]] '[[1983|83]] wins the U.S. presidential election, and will be the first Columbia graduate to occupy the White House. Among his competitors were fellow CC '83 classmate  [[Wayne Allen Root]] (VP nominee for the Libertarians) and CC '87 alum [[Matt Gonzalez]], an independent VP candidate running with Ralph Nader. [[GS]] '56 alum [[Mike Gravel]] (Democrat) was a competitor during the Democratic primaries.
 
*November: Student survey on [[ROTC]] appears to result in a narrow vote for keeping the organization banned from campus, but there is controversy over the number of votes thrown away.  
 
*[[December 12]]: The [[Columbia University War Memorial]] is unveiled in [[Butler Library]]
 
 
 
{{succession|preceded=[[2007]]|succeeded=[[2009]]|office=History of Columbia University|years=2008}}
 
 
 
[[Category:21st century]]
 

Revision as of 01:36, 31 March 2010

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