March/April 2010
Around the Quads
Campus News
RELAY FOR LIFE: The seventh annual Relay For Life, a walk-a-thon style fundraiser held by Columbia’s Colleges Against Cancer chapter to benefit the American Cancer Society, will take place on April 17 from 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. in the Blue Gym in the Dodge Physical Fitness Center. Members of the Columbia and Morningside communities as well as cancer survivors will once again come together to celebrate those who are surviving, remember those who have been lost, and fight back against the disease that affects one in every three people worldwide.
After six years of being held on the Low Libary steps, this year’s relay will take place indoors. As a result, this year’s traditional luminaria ceremony will feature colored glowsticks instead of candles.
For more information about this event or how you can contrib-ute to the fight against cancer, please visit www.relayforlife.org/columbiauniversity.
LIBRARIES: Columbia University Libraries has joined HathiTrust, a shared repository for the digitized content from academic and research libraries. Columbia plans to contribute public domain volumes digitized through its partnerships with Google, Microsoft and the Internet Archive. HathiTrust’s repository currently includes the member libraries of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California system and the University of Virginia.