Posts Tagged ‘gs class day’
Update on General Studies travel fund from Dean Awn
GS Dean Peter Awn sent an email to graduating seniors with an update about the travel fund that was created to help students. In short, there is some more money available for those who haven’t yet submitted a request for financial compensation. Check after the jump for the full message.
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ESC creates ‘Couch Exchange’ for GS families
Update 9:59 p.m.: The Couch Exchange is live.
Update 5:23 p.m.: The site is currently “under construction.”
Through petitions and statements by their student councils, all of Columbia’s undergraduate schools have expressed disappointment with the University’s handling of GS Class Day. But SEAS, it seems, wasn’t content to stop at mere words. Instead, ESC has come up with a nifty “Couch Exchange” website.
The program, created by SEAS seniors Mailing Wu and James Huang, is a modification of ESC’s Commencement Ticket Exchange website and allows students to offer up a couch (or other sleeping area) for GS families to stay during GS Class Day. According to the site’s FAQ, the project is “an effort to alleviate housing issues some GS students may have for their guests.”
Anyone — from any school — can offer up a couch. GS students can go to the site to find a place for their loved ones to spend the night. So if you want to help, or if you’re a GSer with guests who could use a couch, check out the website and sign up!
UPDATE: In other (related) news, incoming GSSC president Jennifer Wisdom and incoming CCSC president Karishma Habbu have thrown some updates out on Facebook. The gist of these: There is no chance of changing the date of Class Day, but the administration is working on creating an additional reception for seniors on Monday afternoon.
Also, the councils are looking at the possibility of donating to the Travel Fund. Full updates from Wisdom and Habbu after the jump.
Watch President Obama slow jam the news
It’s late! You’re up! There’s not much actual news today, so we’re just going straight into Columbia news! I don’t know what we’re yelling about!
Columbia news:
We’re famous: Today, the GS debacle made it on Channel 1 News. Who knew commencement ceremonies could cause so much drama?
Location, location: At a public hearing of The City Planning Commission, President Bollinger spoke out in favor of the NYU expansion.
Well this is awkward: There are two Gareth Williams. One is the head of Columbia’s classics department; the other was an MI6 spy discovered in a sex game that led to his death. More »