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...undergraduates. Although the joint curriculum is still tiny, it may well be an answer to the prayers of Harvard musicians who have struggled to obtain institutional support for their performance training.A LONG TIME COMINGYale College currently offers a joint program with Yale’s Graduate School of Music. Columbia University’s undergraduates have long been able to receive training at the Juilliard School. Many other schools give academic credit for concert training. Tufts undergraduates have the option of enrolling in classes at NEC. Even MIT offers credit for private lessons. But for years, undergraduate musicians have bemoaned...
...Columbia athletic department announced the end of its search and introduced its new head football coach at a press conference Monday. Norries Wilson, formerly the offensive coordinator at the University of Connecticut, was announced Sunday as the replacement for former Lions coach Bob Shoop. “We are convinced that the man we have selected is the best person to be the head football coach at Columbia,” said Columbia Athletic Director Dr. M. Dianne Murphy at the press conference. Wilson, under whom the Husky offense averaged 30 points and 399 yards per game, is the first...
...Student Tasha Amezcua alleged shortly after the incident that “this university has a racist history and we need that to be gone.” She added: “We have issues with the Columbia curriculum and our core classes in terms of them just being about dead white men; that’s not what the world is any more, that’s not what New York is…it’s very alienating in the classroom...
...Aside from their factual inaccuracy—Columbia requires a minimum of two non-Western culture courses, four terms of foreign language, and includes female and minority authors in its required Western Civilization classes—her statements foolishly give weight and power to dolts who still engage in prejudiced behavior...
...only the students at Columbia had realized that the vast majority are so opposed to racism that it is easy to calmly snuff out the few places where it remains. Instead, they chose to risk rekindling the flame with their unnecessary fury...