by Aelan Mosden
In 1993, Columbia University received royalties totaling $21,088,217 from 206 licenses. Columbia ranked third in royalty income for universities. Massachusetts Institute of Technology ranked eighth with $5,808,000 in royalty revenues.
Michael I. Sovern's salary as Columbia's president for the 1992-93 academic year was $449,744.
Columbia University and Allan H. Goldman tie for second in the number of addresses held in Manhattan; each have about 250 addresses. New York City has the most addresses with about 3500.
Stanford University paid Columbia University one million dollars for a 300,000 piece archive of Allen Ginsberg's possessions. The archive included beard clippings, pieces of hallucinogenic vines, high school report cards and a pair of backstage passes to Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Review.
Columbia researchers found that 17 % of children (12 - 17 years old) who use marijuana , 5 % of children who drink, and 6 % of children who smoke try cocaine. For those children who do not smoke, drink, or use marijuana less then 1 % try cocaine.
Columbia's football team had an undefeated season and beat Stanford 7-to-0 in the Rose Bowl they became national champions. The year was 1934.
Who was Buried in Grant's Tomb? Former President Ulysses S. Grant and his wife Julia D. Grant. The tomb is located a few blocks away from the Morningside Heights campus.
In 1884, there was an earthquake in New York City with a magnitude of 5 on the Richter scale.
Source: Columbia in the News