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AROUND THE QUADS

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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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