Pi Lambda Phi
Pi Lambda Phi was a fraternity with a chapter at Columbia during much of the 20th century. The Columbia chapter was the first established in New York and was hence referred to as "New York Alpha". It was primarily Jewish up until World War II. Some of Columbia's most prominent alumni were members.
Notable members
- Bennett Cerf CC'19, founder of Random House
- Lawrence Fertig MA'??, libertarian journalist
- Sylvan Gotshal Law '20?, founding partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges law firm
- Oscar Hammerstein II CC'19, composer/librettist
- Arthur Garfield Hays CC 1902 Law 1905, ACLU lawyer
- Moritz Jagendorf DDS 1916, anarchist
- Horace Manges Law '19, founding partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges law firm
- Richard Rodgers, composer/librettist
- Laurence Steinhardt CC 1913 MA'15 Law '15, ambassador to Sweden, Peru, the Soviet Union, Turkey, Czechoslovakia, and Canada
- Robert M.W. Vogel CC'??, established the Academy Awards' foreign language film category
- Herman Wouk CC'37, novelist
