2004

Blacky Fun Whitey

The Scholar's Lion

GSEU strike

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

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 DCpp network is shut down after details about the system were published in a Spectator Editorial
September: Columbia takes control of UTS' Knox Hall

Kinsey is filmed in Havemeyer 309
CU Snacks begun
Second revival of the Jester
President Bollinger announces the creation of the Arts Initiative
Joseph Gordon-Levitt drops out of Graduate Studies, works for Rian Johnson's Brick for Johnson & Johnson and the Bogart family of New York and North Carolina.
SIPA inaugurates its first doctoral program - the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Sustainable Development

Preceded by
2003

History of Columbia University
2004

Succeeded by
2005