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Columbia Football Makes Baker a Blast

Sept 21 Today at 1 PM at Baker Field (218th St. & Broadway) Columbia Football plays Harvard in the season opener, and the first 500 students will receive free t-shirts and food in the annual Baker Blast celebration.
"As an athlete, I know the extra motivation you have when people are behind you; subconsciously you play better," said Cristina Bonaldes, CC'97, student organizer of the Baker Blast. [See Full Story from Athletics.]

Rory Wilfork, senior co-captain

Congressional Budgets

Sept 20 The Federal fiscal year '96 ends on Sept. 30; Ellen Smith reviews the potential impact of new spending bills. [See Full Story from Record.]

Research Talks: Day 2

Sept 21 Provost Jonathan Cole gives the closing remarks at 5:50 PM today in Low Rotunda to conclude two days of discussions on the future of research. [See Full Story from OVP.]

Social Work Experts Assess Welfare Reform

Sept 20 Three experts from the School of Social Work review the welfare reform bill signed into law last month.
"This legislation represents ... the remoralization of the problem of poverty, going back to 19th-century America and Victorian England, in which poverty was viewed as a problem of individuals and their personal inadequacies rather than a consequence of external economic and social changes. [See Full Story from Record.]

Prof. Sheila B. Kamerman

HEADLINES OF THE MONTH

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