Columbia (through ColumbiaWeb) is the first educational institution linked to the White House site on the WorldWideWeb.

Both Columbia's Bartleby Library's Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States as well as material that relates to the Presidents in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations can be found at "A Glimpse into the Past," the Presidential Web site.

Alycia Riccobono, CC'98, has become the fastest woman sprinter in Columbia history. Competing at the North Carolina-Wilmington Track & Field Invitational on March 16, Riccobono ran the 100m in 12.38 seconds and the 200m in 25.11 seconds.

That same day another Columbia record was broken by the women's 4x100 relay team, which finished in a time of 49.33 seconds.

Hundreds of Columbia graduates are working in America's most powerful news organizations. At least 50 alumni of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism are employed by each of the following organizations: The Associated Press, Capital Cities/ABC Inc., CBS News, Gannett Co. Inc., The Hearst Corp., Knight Ridder Inc., McGraw Hill, NBC News, Time Warner Inc., The New York Times, The Times-Mirror Co., The Washington Post/Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones & Co. Inc.

The generosity of Columbia's donors continues to set records. Gift income for February, 1996 ($17.6 million), as well as for December, 1995 and January, 1996, were all-time highs, respectively. To date, total gift income for FY 1995-96 is $100 million.

Columbia University Record -- March 29, 1996 -- Vol. 21, No. 21