AROUND THE QUADS
Campus News
APPLICATIONS: Columbia has set a record for undergraduate
applications for the 10th consecutive year, receiving more than
18,000 applications for the College and SEAS Classes of 2009, about
1,000 more than last year.
Applications to the College increased by 4.8 percent, with 15,730
applications received for just more than 1,000 places in the Class
of 2009, up from 15,004 a year ago.
Early decision applications also reached a record high at 1,891,
of which 438 were admitted — 44 percent of the entering class,
roughly the same percentage as recent years.
The Engineering School had a 15 percent increase in applications
for a total of 2,570. Early decision applicants also set a record
with 265, of whom 132 were admitted, 43 percent of the entering
class.
Students admitted early decision represent 43 states and 25 foreign
countries.
BROOK: The Columbia University Arts Initiative
has awarded renowned director Peter Brook a residency
with his company, the International Center of Theatre Creation.
The troupe’s month-long stay will culminate in the U.S. premiere
of Tierno Bokar on March 30. Tierno Bokar is a
theatrical exploration of the power of tolerance, which President
Lee C. Bollinger has said “exemplifies the unique power of
artistic expression to illuminate the most enduring social questions
of our times.”
The company aims to engage students, faculty and the community
in an ongoing dialogue about the play’s themes. The group
will work closely with the Harlem Arts Alliance and a variety of
academic and cultural activities related to the play are planned.
To facilitate the performances, Barnard will transform LeFrak Gymnasium
into a 500-seat theater.
Having established his reputation in the 1960s at the Royal Shakespeare
Company, Brook is known as a leading director of Shakespeare; he
also has written numerous books and worked in opera and film. Tierno
Bokar, named for a Sufi mystic embroiled in a dispute between
rival religious factions in 1930s French-ruled Africa, will run
at Columbia from March 30–April 26; tickets are available
through the Miller Theatre Box Office or Telecharge.com.
CCW AWARD: Columbia College Women will honor
Dina Kotkin Feivelson ’91 with its annual
Alumna Achievement Award at a reception in Alfred Lerner Hall on
March 30. Feivelson, who is battling multiple myeloma, an incurable
blood cancer, has been a volunteer peer counselor and fund raiser
for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society for more than two years.
She also travels the country meeting with patients, doctors and
pharmaceutical companies on behalf of the Multiple Myeloma Research
Foundation, where she serves as a mentor.
COLLOQUIUM: Columbia hosted the first Global
Colloquium of University Presidents, chaired by United Nations Secretary-General
Kofi Annan, on January 18–19. Designed to address international
public policy issues, the colloquium featured a lecture by U.N.
Global Commission on International Migration co-chair Jan. O. Karlsson
as well as question-and-answer and discussion sessions. More than
40 leaders from major U.S. universities attended and discussed issues
of global migration and academic freedom.
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