Dear Ineffable Columbia College,

From the Cinder Block Walls of Carman, to the Glorious Shaft of McBain, to the Wondrous Suites of Ruggles (with really tiny bathrooms in some of them), to the First-Year Filled Foyers of Furnald, to the Limitless Corridors of Schapiro, to the Narrow but Coveted Singles of Broadway, to the Spacious Confines of Senior Housing (much of which is found in dear EC), and every corner of the campus where Columbia College students currently reside, I have the great privilege of presenting (an abridged, major-highlights-focused, though finely selected version of):

The State of the College Address

In order to facilitate your most efficient navigation of this report (and to make it easier for those who merely want to get the rundown on the free food / t-shirt opportunities of College Days), our selected accomplishments are enumerated below.

Here we have described our progress on a number of campus issues and we have compiled reports from each CCSC position. If you are interested in what your student council has been doing this year, I encourage you to read (or at least skim through) the below material. To add your voice to student council in any form, please attend our Town Hall meeting tonight at 8:30PM in Earl Hall -- see more below.

College Days

College Days is a week long celebration of Columbia College, beginning today and lasting through Saturday. Every event promises to be fantastic and every event will have free food (!!). The theme is 'Admit One' and each day will reference a special movie as we come together under this theme. A detailed description of each day can be found below, but here is a brief overview:

Monday: 2,000 awesome T-shirts will be given away after our CCSC Town Hall
Tuesday: Comedy Night
Wednesday: Dance Off and Royals Pageant
Thursday: Kings Ball! (Make sure you get your tickets soon)
Friday: Dean's Tea

Town Hall Tonight! 8:30PM, Earl Hall
If you have ideas about the direction of CCSC, about our College, or any facet of campus life, come to our Town Hall tonight. We would like to hear your impassioned ideas, your critiques, your criticisms, and your proposals. Help shape the direction of our council. If there are things we're not doing right, if there are other avenues of policy we should be pursuing, if we're not representing students as effectively as we should, please let us know! Do not be shy. We would like to gather your feedback and suggestions.

To entice you, we will provide a free pizza dinner with an alternative option for those observing Passover. Further, by coming to our CCSC Town Hall, you will receive a College Days t-shirt before the mass giveaway begins at 10PM and you will have the opportunity to win a pair of tickets to King's Ball on Thursday. What a magnificent deal in exchange for your two cents on CCSC / the College.

We look forward to seeing you tonight and throughout the week!

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1) COLLEGE DAYS -- Monday through Saturday
State of the College
2) Columbia 311
3) Columbia Portal
4) Dean's Discipline
5) Noise / Residence Hall Parties / 'War on Fun'
6) Flex Off Campus
7) Outreach
8) Transparency
9) Administrative Hiring Interviews
10) Vice President of Campus Life
11) Vice President of Policy
12) Vice President of Funding
13) Class of 2009
14) Class of 2010
15) Class of 2011
16) Class of 2012
17) University Senators
18) Academic Affairs Representative
19) Student Services
20) Preprofessional Representative
21) CCSC Debates

A Bit Outside CCSC
22) CU Search 2009
23) EcoReps' "Do It In the Dark" Energy Challenge
24) Take Back the Night
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College Days: (on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=33875102791 and on twitter: http://twitter.com/CCcouncil)

Monday:
College Days will kick-off at 10pm with the annual T-Shirt Giveaway immediately following the CCSC Town Hall. With free candy, 2,000 t-shirts, and a chance to win free tickets to King's Ball we encourage students from across Columbia College to meet us at the Sundial to find out more about College Days.

Tuesday:
The College Days Comedy Night begins at 8pm in the Roone Arledge Auditorium of Lerner hall. Headlined by one of VH1 Best Week Ever's resident comedians, John Mulaney, we invite students to join with this free Napoleon Dyanamite-themed event with tater-tots and corn dogs. The event will also feature a performance by Tony Gong and a special preview of the 115th Annual Varsity Show.

Wednesday:
The first-ever Columbia Royals Pageant will take place in conjunction with the annual Dance-off at 9pm in the Roone Arledge Auditorium. A West Side Story-themed event, students will compete for prizes and the chance to be named 'Columbia Royals' as student dance groups battle to be named the best at Columbia. With free food and excellent entertainment all students are invited to come and cheer their friends and teams to victory.

Thursday:
Roone Arledge will be completely transformed for the annual King's Ball: Bollywood Adventure. With a special performance by Dhoom, delicious Indian fare, henna tattoo artists, and a great DJ this is certainly an occasion to get all dressed up for. Eleven dollars cheaper than last year and the only ticketed event of the year hosted by the Campus Life Committee, this Bollywood Adventure will certainly not disappoint. Beverage tickets (2 IDs to Drink): $10, Non-Beverage tickets: $7. Tickets are available at the CUArts TIC.

Friday:
The Deans and Young Alumni have been invited to join us for our annual tea. With the flair of Breakfast at Tiffany's, the event will feature Magnolia cupcakes as we network to close out the week in true Columbia College spirit. The event will be on the Van Am Plaza from 12 noon until 2pm.

Saturday:
Bacchanal concert featuring Vampire Weekend and Talib Kweli. Presented by Bacchanal, CCSC and the Arts Initiative. 3-5PM, Low Plaza. More details to come throughout the week.

State of the College:

Columbia 311:
CCSC implemented the Columbia 311 liaison system in the Fall Semester. Columbia 311 assigned every CC student to an elected CCSC member who they were encouraged to contact with any and all issues pertaining to life at Columbia. CCSC liaisons were responsible for addressing the students' concerns in a timely manner (within 48 hours) and directing them to the appropriate resources at Columbia. In an effort to make the 311 system more effective, CCSC is teaming up with Columbia University's "Ask Us" Program (http://askus.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cu.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php?p_sid=y1o56ruj). CCSC will create a similar archive with questions and answers that directly concern undergraduate student life at Columbia. When a CCSC 311 liaison receives a question from a student that would be useful to the entire undergraduate population, that CCSC member will then upload that question and its answer to the CCSC "Ask Us" archive. The first version of this system should be implemented by the end of this semester and it should be fully functional by the fall semester.

Columbia Portal:
CCSC worked with CUIT, CCIT, and SDA to start the first phase of the Portal project. The Portal is an online resource that will be a centralized location for various sources of undergraduate - related information. In the latter phases, we hope to integrate CourseWorks, certain parts of SSOL (like Flex balance), printer quota, student events, and many other things. The first phase will have a subset of these features. CCSC also developed an online joint co-sponsorship form with the other councils to streamline applications for funding.

Dean's Discipline:
Say in a last minute effort to produce a masterful paper, you attempt to 'borrow,' without citing, a paragraph or so from Shakespeare in your class on 16th century British literature. Or say at a heated Columbia fencing tournament you get irate as an annoying Princeton fan-boy continues to obnoxiously cheer on his Tigers, and in a fit of rage, you knock him on his tail end. The administrative disciplinary process you would go through (should you be chastised) is called "Dean's Discipline." Many students who have gone through the process in the past years have noted its unfair nature. This is a problem that we, and countless RAs, administrators, and student council members over the years, have sought to address. Last Spring, a committee was put together to revise and improve Dean's Discipline. Specifically we were concerned with making the process more transparent, in getting rid of the draconian names associated with some offenses, and in creating an independent support structure for those unfamiliar to the process.

In past years, many students who have faced Dean's Discipline did not know that they can review their file -- the same exact file that the administrator who makes the decision sees. Now and in the past, every bit of material, each documentation, and name (except in the cases of violence and harassment) is included in the file for your review. The letter that is now sent to you informing you of the alleged infraction clearly provides the link to the Student Affairs website where you can read the rules governing Dean's Discipline and your offense. More students are taking advantage of this now than they ever had before. We are constantly attempting to figure out more ways to make the process more transparent and make students aware of these resources available.

Secondly, a number of students were concerned that Dean's Discipline used draconian titles when an offense was alleged (e.g. if a student is caught with marijuana, the letter read that you were "Manufacturing, producing and distributing"). Now, the specific alleged infraction is cited beneath that title (which is the university policy heading), such as "Specifically, you were caught smoking marijuana in your Furnald room." If you are found not culpable for the infraction, the charge of course goes away. If you are found culpable, the finding against you -- on your record -- is the specific citation ("...in your Furnald room"), rather than the scary sounding, draconian, broad, and all encompassing one. Further, students self-report to graduate schools any disciplinary issues they encounter. Columbia will not send them the letter with your infraction, they merely confirm or deny your self reporting.

Perhaps most importantly, many students went into Dean's Discipline hearings unfamiliar with the process, unsure of what to expect, and alone. This last summer, Class Deans in the Center for Student Advising were trained for this purpose. There are now several Deans that are available as resources for those going through Dean's Discipline. They can tell you a bit more about how the Office of Judicial Affairs typically handles cases like yours, they can help your through the matter and they can generally guide you. We are looking to add students as resources for Dean's Discipline in the coming semesters.

Noise, Party Policy, 'War on Fun':
CCSC has broadly pursued what has been commonly known as the "War on Fun." We have narrowed the issue down to the Noise Policy. The vast majority of parties and other social activities in residence halls are broken up because someone has called in a noise complaint. However, the guidelines for noise violations are quite vague and state that there are quiet hours on weekdays after 11PM and weekends after 1AM, but 24 hour courtesy hours. Thus, if a neighbor believes you are making too much noise at any point, they can call public safety who, with an RA, will tell you to keep it down.

This semester, the CCSC Policy Committee has collected numerous stories and we have met with both Dean Cristen Scully-Kromm of the Office of Residential Programs and Student Affairs Dean Shollenberger about addressing the specificity of the noise policy and encouraging neighbors to communicate with one another rather than going through university channels. We are looking to put in a "warning system" for those suites deemed too loud, rather than shutting down the function immediately.

There is also a rule in place which states that any common spaces, whether they be in East Campus townhouses or McBain lounges, are not allowed to have alcohol in them. Students over 21 may only drink in their room. We are in the process of changing this rule so that students of age, who live in suites that require a key card to enter, will be permitted to have alcohol in their suites. In general, we are looking at the residential regulations that are causing social functions in dorms to be shut down and that are impeding our having a good time. We are in College, the rules should be reflect this fact and treat us as reasonable young adults. We will continue to pursue these ends.

Flex Off Campus:
Flex is now accepted at nearly 50 locations around Columbia. Several restaurants, grocery stores, and vendors in the area have card readers to accept flex on site and additionally, campusfoods.com takes Flex as payment and has a listing of 42 area restaurants which will deliver to your door. We have worked hard to listen to your recommendations and work with the administration to expand the available selection. For a convenient map with locations that accept Off Campus Flex, visit: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/dining/pdfs/off_campus_flex_map.pdf.

Outreach:
Being a presence for the students of Columbia College means we need to come to where you are, not only expect that you will come to our events and get in touch with us. To that end, each week CCSC -- both the overarching Executive Board which covers all four classes and your individual class council -- emails you with news, event info, and goings on around campus and the city. This year we have taken our outreach a step further. We are a presence at CCSC study breaks and events as well as at Heritage Month Opening Receptions, student group performances, cultural shows, and all varieties of campus programs.

Your student council has embraced new media and carved out an online presence for CCSC. We now have an account on Twitter (follow us at http://www.twitter.com/CCcouncil) and a Youtube channel (http://www.youtube.com/CCcouncil). We are doing our best to be proactive in reaching out to where you are.

Transparency:
This year we have made a concerted effort to be as transparent as possible and explain what we are doing to those we serve. This email is certainly part of that effort, but we have been actively pursuing a more transparent council all year. Every part of every one of our meetings has been on-the-record, open to students and press alike. Our minutes our published online weekly in a timely manner, as well as updates from every CCSC position to give you an idea of what we're working on that week. Minutes and updates can be found at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccsc/communication.html.

Administrative Hiring Interviews:
This year has seen the departure of several administrators, has witnessed several administrative openings, and has seen several new positions created. Members of CCSC have sat on hiring committees for each of these hiring decisions to represent the student perspective. Most notably, we were involved in the hiring of the new Columbia College dean, Michele Moody-Adams, as well as the hiring of the Dean of Financial Aid, and the Dean for the new Center for Student Advising, among others. We have constantly sought to bring to campus administrators who will interact with students, will be available, and will partner with us to bring a perspective that serves CC students best. The slate of new hires reflects this approach and they are all people who will bring a beneficial voice and vigor to the College.

Vice President of Campus Life:
The CCSC Campus Life Committee under the direction of the VP of Campus Life, Robyn Burgess, has been extremely active this year with nearly twenty events planned between the 2 terms. Opening with the Passport to Columbia event which drew a crowd of more than 600 students while collaborating with many student groups to represent the cultural diversity of Columbia through food and performance, the Campus Life Committee has focused a number of its events throughout the year towards uniting people with similar interests. The Jam Session featured a networking session and open mic for student artists, the Iron Chef Competition for student chefs, and the Trashion Show will bring together eco-conscious students and fashion hobbyists in a competition to design outfits of recycled materials. With the creation of an enticing Facebook group, "Tell Me Where to Get Free Food [CCSC]" the Campus Life Committee has moved to produce less waste in flyering while boosting participation in events such as the Homecoming Carnival and Tree-lighting Ceremony which promote greater university and college spirit. Finally, with careful attention to detail in budgeting each event, the Campus Life Committee has made almost every one of its events throughout the year free to all students.

Vice President of Policy:
I think government is a place where we should just 'do' and not take credit for our accomplishments. We are not perfect, but I really do believe I have tried to make decisions with as much input as possible from the student body. It was a year that I started with high expectations, am ending with high expectations, and am not so sure we have met them. Nevertheless, here are my two cents: I think student government is a great way to be involved and affect change through policy proposals; however, we need more people involved from a wide array of campus. The more perspectives we have, the better off our work will be for it. Here's a list of the work I was personally responsible for:

1. Creating and Distributing the Naval ROTC survey
2. Establishing a new protocol for undergraduate polling
3. Funding and publicizing more events within the communities of color and faith
4. Launching a research project to investigate the priorities and needs of the 13 different stakeholders involved with space in Morningside Heights
5. Re-writing the Alcohol / Noise policies for residence halls and group events
6. Writing the requirements for all class representatives to have voting rights
7. Establishing a closer relationship with CUIT and undergraduate population

Vice President of Funding:
Working with the CCSC Director of Technology, the VPs of Funding from each of the four undergraduate councils have developed an online joint co-sponsorship form. Starting this upcoming Fall, student groups applying for co-sponsorship funds from multiple student councils will only need to submit one form, rather than four, which streamlines the process for club leaders. Additionally, we have worked extensively on refining the guidelines for the Facilities and Securities Funds to ensure that these funds are sustainable and will be available to student groups next year. We have also developed an inter-council agreement, which clearly defines the responsibilities and contributions of each council to joint-council events, such as Glass House Rocks and the Backyard BBQ. Finally, CCSC has continued to spend down the surplus we inherited from previous years' budgets in a fiscally responsible manner by contributing crucial funding to events that benefit the entire student body, such as the Bacchanal concert with Talib Kweli and Vampire Weekend.

Class of 2009:
Our year has been packed full of great programming to help you along in your last year as Columbia College students. In the fall we pushed you to take advantage of the city with our Senior Excursion series taking you to the movies, a NY Knicks Game, and to see Spamalot - continued in the spring with another NY Kicks Game and soon to come the Tribeca Film Festival. We brought you great study breaks to help you get some downtime between working. In the fall we gave you at BBQ for your Final Football Home Game, and in the spring we celebrated with you at the Senior Basketball Game Pre-Game. Getting you ready for graduation there was the "Apply for Your Degree" Event and then you had the Senior Series for all your post graduation questions. I'm sure you had a great time and our Winter Gala and you'll have even more fun with Senior Ball, a part of Senior Week (we've got a great committee). And of course, all year has been littered with our monthly Lerner Pubs.

At the Senior Faculty Reception you got to say thanks to your favorite professors. With our Class Day Speaker Selection your voices were heard, and we soon got the good news about Eric Holder, CC'73. Coming up you've got Class Day to look forward to, but in the mean time also keep an eye out for our Swim Test Party, Varsity Show Party, and Senior Playpen. We'll keep working for you, and thanks for all your support!

Class of 2010:
This past year, CC 2010 has organized events and established programs to benefit exclusively members of the junior class. We have arranged internship boot camps, interview boot camps, and alumni networking dinners to help prepare our classmates for a career. We have led community service trips and provided free Broadway tickets to help our students explore New York City. We have also programmed study breaks, planned a class semi-formal, and later this month, will host our first-ever class dinner to bring our classmates closer together. We are also currently investigating Class Day speaker selection policy in preparation for our final year in the College. All together, we are both motivated and proud to pursue initiatives pertaining directly to CC 2010.

Class of 2011:
CCSC 2011 began the semester with a panel and workshop designed to help sophomores begin thinking about the internship process. Columnist and author Lindsey Pollack led a workshop, and our panel included employers from arts, city government, not-for-profit and finance organizations. We also promoted community service on Columbia's campus, and participated in both Columbia Community Outreach and the Columbia University Dance Marathon. Along with SEAS 2011, CCSC 2011 held a Charity Faculty Auction. We asked professors to donate goods (including a signed football jersey from Professor Gulati, several books, and private lunches with students), and then asked students to bid on the items. We raised hundreds of dollars to donate to Community Impact.

We have also worked to forge a link between other alumni and deans. We held a special lunch to honor out-going Dean Austin Quigley, where he took the time to meet several 2011 students and hear about their experiences. We also scheduled trips off of campus by offering a tour of the American Museum of Natural History, led by Mrs. Kathleen Kinne and her husband, Dr. David Kinne CC '57. We also invited students to a free pizza dinner at V&Ts, along with CCSC 2010, and the classes of CC '60, CC'61, CC'85 and CC'86 (count them, that's six classes!).

Aside from our alumni events, we have made use of the city in other ways. We sent several students to watch a David Letterman show being taped, and we are looking forward to 2011 visits to Central Park and a Yankees game.

CCSC 2011 continues its partying tradition with a semi-formal in Havana Central: Dirty Nights in Havana. We are also looking forward to our last dance of the year, Highlight IV: Freakshow. This will be our fourth Highlight dance, which celebrates the last week of classes, and has been held every semester since freshman year.

In the coming weeks, we will hold a workshop on study abroad programs in English-speaking countries, or programs conducted in English. Dean Karin Bonello and Dean Scott Carpenter will join us, along with students who have studied in places such as the United Kingdom, Australia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Ghana, Singapore, Indonesia, and South Africa.

All these activities aside, CCSC 2011 continues to hold study breaks, whether it be doughnuts on a Sunday morning or cereal on a Tuesday night. Our last study break takes place after the Contemporary Civilization exam, and we will give away free pizza.

Class of 2012:
In the past semester and a half, CCSC '12 has hosted three study breaks with average estimated attendance of 150 freshman. We've also had several class events such as Non-Senior Night with CC '11, Dorm Wars and Winter Wonderland. We launched our regularly scheduled Give Back In 10 Minutes program with great success. We've worked with the administration and student groups to encourage the use of non-traditional study spaces and bike programs. Finally we're in the process of creating the Freshman Academic Connection, a help program for first-years. CCSC '12 looks forward to the Great Gatsby Party and our Class Dinner.

University Senate:
(Billy Freeland:)
Through the Senate Libraries Committee, I worked to ensure that the Kim's Video Store collection of over 27,000 DVDs and videos, now in the possession of the libraries, will be circulated through Butler so that students can take out films just as they would take out a book. I also worked with the Senate IT Committee and CUIT to explore installing wireless Internet in John Jay Dining Hall, with the possibility of wireless for the hall being budgetted for next year. Lastly, I have been worked through the Senate, and with Karen Woodin at the undergraduate level, to require professors to post either syllabi or reading lists on Courseworks by a set number of weeks before a semester begins. This will give students a better sense of what a class is like, while also providing greater flexibility to purchase used books and save students money.

(Rishika Samant:) I serve on the education and external relations committee. Some of the projects I have worked on this year include the finalization of the Manhattanville expansion proposal. I have also planned and facilitated the annual world leaders forum. On the CCSC level, I have worked with Butler library administrators to resolve camping and space issues as well as met with Uris library
administrators to try to open the study rooms to undergraduates.

Academic Affairs:
Worked on an A+ Policy Report, detailing student opinions about grading disparities across departments and how to address them
Conducted a survey about Summer Research Opportunities at Columbia to increase research opportunities on Campus
Worked with Dean Yatrakis and the Teaching Evaluation Advisory Committee to get course evaluations and course syllabi online

Student Services:
Student services reps meet regularly with the administration to discuss and improve issues that revolve around Housing, Dining, and Health Services. The following changes have occurred in the 2008-2009 school year.

* Approved changes made to the shuttle routes and the new shuttle pamphlets
* Began conversations to implement a trial period for online machine sign-ups at dodge fitness center over the summer
* Developed the "@ Your Service" campaign which informs students of the the little know facts about columbia and services the university has to offer in the areas a
* Passed resolutions that created the sophomore regroup, eliminated same room/same suit rights, and established a new ranking system that ensures groups of 5 seniors are able to pick before exclusion suit groups which include 2 sophomores.
* Conducted bathroom inspections for John Jay, Mcbain, Wein, and Broadway. The following was completed as a result
* Fixed broken stalls in the mens and womens bathrooms, added partitions between urinals in the mens bathrooms, and added sensibles disposal bags in the stalls in McBain
* Assisted in locating problem areas that needed to be refurbished in John Jay. These changes included paint, shower curtains, and old flooring which were refurbished over winter break
* Revised the upperclassmen meal plan making it more cost effective for upperclassmen
* Revised the Freshman meal plan (this change is happening before the end of the year and has not been finalized, so George it is up to you how you would like to word this, maybe working on revising the meal plan for freshman)
* Re-established the healthy choice program which informs students of healthy foods at John Jay
* Created a recipe section on the dining website which gives students recipes for meals they can make at home
* Assisting with the revamping of the Health Services Website
* Developed health packets for RA's to use to distribute to their floors throughout the year

Preprofessional Representative:
During the 2008-2009, the main focus of the Pre-professional representative is increasing the communication between students and the Center for Career Education. As a result, CCE will be hosting more events in high traffic student areas that will help increase the visibility of the Career Center. One of their initiatives is holding Power-Half hours on Lerner Ramps instead of their East Campus location.

CCSC Debates:

Funding for clubs, food around campus (and off campus), school wide events, raffles, study breaks, academic policy - it's all covered by your Student Council. And they're ready to field your questions! Please join us for FREE JJ's and some talk about the future at the 2009 CCSC Debates brought to you by the CCSC Elections Board! The remaining dates and times are:
April 13, Lerner 501, 8-10pm, Academic Affairs Debate
April 16, Satow Room, 6-8pm, Uncontested Candidates' Town Hall"

CUSearch 2009!
Interested in winning over $1500 in prize money? Interested in touring the city, snapping photos at some of the City's most famous sites, and perhaps some of the city's less-known sites? Like solving riddles? Form a group of 3 or more cc/seas students and sign up at www.cusearch09.com and come to the opening event at Furnald Lounge on Thursday April 16, from 4pm-8pm to pick up FREE REDBULL and your TASK LIST! The group with the most points at the end will win $500 CASH PRIZE! The search will go from April 16 - April 24 and pictures can be uploaded ONLINE!

EcoReps' "Do It In the Dark" Energy Challenge:
This week, take the 2-minute Energy Challenge Quiz to win a $200 study break! http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=uvy2bDiOOu8TnktsUqS91g_3d_3d
Each question you get right earns your dorm one point, and the dorm with the most points PER BUILDING RESIDENT (whether they took the quiz
or not) wins this week's fully stocked study break. So tell your friends, suite mates, and floor mates to take the quiz by this Friday, April 17th, and turn off those lights!

Take Back the Night:
April 16th
March starts at 9pm, Barnard Gates
Speakout starts at 11pm, LeFrak Gym

The mission of Take Back the Night March and Speakout is to break the silence about sexual violence by inviting the Morningside Heights community to gather together, as survivors, allies, family, friends, neighbors and strangers, to support each other and protest the violence that affects all of us. The march is an opportunity to re-claim the streets of New York City, the neighborhood of Morningside Heights, and the Columbia campus as safe spaces. After the march, we host a Speakout, during which community members speak anonymously about their experiences. The march is wheelchair accessible. Free childcare will be provided. ASL signer will be present during pre-march rally. For more information contact TBTN.at.Columbia@gmail.com
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I hope this gives you a better sense of what we on CCSC have been working on this year. If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact ccsc@columbia.edu or to contact me directly (gak2105@columbia.edu).

We hope to see you at a number of College Days events this week and at the Bacchanal Concert this Saturday!

Yours,
George, Adil, Laura, Robyn and Ian

Dear Engaged Columbia College,

In our first large scale initiative of the year, CCSC is launching Columbia 311. Columbia 311 is your personalized, comprehensive connection to Columbia University. Modeled after and similar to NYC's 311 service, every student, part of student group or not, can feel comfortable contributing their ideas to our campus and engaging the council. Want your favorite area restaurant to accept Flex? Columbia 311. Need a fellowship or internship for the summer? Columbia 311. Wondering how to check if campus printers are functioning? Columbia 311. Disappointed they took away the Chicken Club at 212 or Spicy Chicken strips at JJ's? Columbia 311. An idea or an issue that once seemed completely out of your hands will be in the hands of a student council that can get things done.

Within the next week, you will receive an email from member of CCSC. They will lay out the program for you and tell you how to get in touch with them. This person will be your pathway to Columbia's daunting structure.

All Columbia College students should look forward to forming semi-meaningful bonds with their assigned member of our Student Council. These bonds should translate into productive, tangible benefits for students on our campus. However - and I've already received three inquiries to this effect - Columbia 311 will not be used as a dating service or to find you a party on a weekend night.

We look forward to serving you through Columbia 311, to seeing you at the Homecoming Carnival and the Homecoming Game vs. Princeton (but not for several days on end at Butler Library).

And Happy Rosh Hashanah, Ramadan, Queer Awareness & Latino Heritage Month!

Your Starting Varsity Lineup,

George, Adil, Laura, Ian & Robyn