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Leonard Schoenberger, Broadcast “I don’t understand why people have a problem with my accent. In Germany everyone could understand me...” Columbia man says Twitter is nothing but a pile of shit Luddite professors explain why they still use typewriters

Speakers Director fails to impress J-School women 04.20.10

Student gets out of absence by lying about a late train

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Student charged with sexual harrassment for making kissing sound @sreenet 04.20.10 David Kessel expelled for sexual harrassment after allegedly making a kissing noise at Dean of Students Sree Sreenivasan. Kessel claims he had just eaten a piece of sour candy. MORE

Train conductor fired for causing tardiness of J-school student

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Student stabs peer for stealing lame story idea 04.20.10

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Students gather in front of steps to smoke cigarettes Students gather in front of clinic for lung cancer treatment

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Brad’s Cafe to raise prices on already overpriced food 04.20.10

Shefali Kulkarni, homeless, now lives in Student Center 04.20.10

Vadim Lavrusik goes to rehab for social networking addiction

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Professors threaten to sing badly in public unless they get a raise 04.20.10

Students debate if Zoom recorder is really ‘All That’

School sets record for speaking events in 2010, but students don’t go to any event because of homework

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Nikon sues J-School for being way too Canon friendly

CUNY students envious of Columbia Students’ mojo, plans to pull prank on ‘Ivy League Assholes’

SPJ meeting canceled after only two people show up for seven weeks in a row Faculty member laughs in student’s face after she asks for letter of recommendation Equipment room to raise late-fees after 100th student in a row asks ‘What late-fee policy?”

Canon announces new model you can use with your feet

Business at 1020 booming thanks to J-School alcoholics

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Prospective student mocked for choosing Print concentration 04.20.10

Carlos Slim saves J-School on heels of NY Times acquisition

Students sign petition, demand Lynda access be replaced with free NetFlix and beer Columbia J-School SPJ passes resolution that prohibits farting in the edit suites, taking a crap on campus

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Sales of Wrestler Masks up after this was posted on Facebook

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Students spend August fiddling with cameras, recorders and Final Cut Pro FIRST POSTED 4-20-10 4:20 AM

Three weeks of intense information absorbing audio and photo skills, our first RW1 meeting and our first encounter with Final Cut Pro. For many, this was the time of the first allnighter to pull that first audio slideshow together. Little did we know that the labs and FCP would soon be the center of our lives. Looking back, this was a peaceful time.

TOP RIGHT: The Scavenger Hunt for international students. BOTTOM RIGHT: Abigail Wendle at Soledad O’Brien’s speech. TOP LEFT: The picnic with rice, beans and fried chicken. BOTTOM LEFT: Maia Efrem poses for Mustafa Mehdi Vural while their class practices taking pictures.

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DANCING BADLY I HATE PINK

Photo Captions BOTTOM RIGHT: Leonard Schoenberger inspects Elif Ince’s costume. TOP LEFT: Chine Labbe, Natania Zevi, Saskya Vandoorne strike a pose at the J-School Halloween Party. TOP RIGHT: Miranda Lin, dressed as Kanye West. RIGHT: Sheikh Omar Kasrawi, seen here dressed as a pimp, poses with the devilish Katarina Valdivieso.

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Photo Captions TOP RIGHT 1: A group of J-school students strike a pose. BELOW: Students perform a dance from the movie “Slumdog Millionare” during the skit portion of Lucille’s Ball.

Photo Captions: TOP LEFT: J-school students break it down on the dance floor at Lucille’s Ball. RIGHT: Sharaf Mowjood gives his best impression of @sreenet. BOTTOM LEFT: Todd Stone and his twin brother Adam Stone perform their stand-up comedy act for the crowd of J-school students, professors and administrators.

Shefali Kulkarni throws her arms in the air on the dance floor. Photos by: Rebecca Castillo

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Photo captions: TOP LEFT: Scott Sell takes a nap in one of the edit suites on the fifth floor during Spring Break. TOP RIGHT: Vadim Lavrusik hands in his master’s project on March 22, 2010. BOTTOM RIGHT: Students having a midnight snack the night before the Master’s Project deadline. Pictured: Bradley Gallo, Misha Rezvi, Winnie Andrews, Sarah Portlock and Jehangir Irani. ABOVE: “Oh! Misha, it will all be just fine! It’s over,” says Chine Labbé.

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Photo captions: LEFT: Divrina Dhingra rushes to her next interview before the bell rings at the Graduate School of Journalism’s Career Fair. ABOVE: Isabelle Schäfer listens to a recruiter during an interview at the Career Fair. TOP RIGHT: Ayza Omar concentrating during an interview. Photos by: Charles Mostoller

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Photo captions: TOP: Ryan Tracy shoots at Rockefeller Center during fall. BOTTOM RIGHT: Kethevane Gorjestani braving the cold for an assignment. ABOVE: Shefali Kulkarni on her way to write a story. Photo by: Sherisse Pham

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Photo captions: ABOVE: In the ancient city of Petra, Jordan, the covering religion class reported on Christian Evangelicals following the steps of Moses. TOP LEFT: Daniel Johnson-Kim, who designed this entire yearbook, snuck this picture of himself in because he is a self-absorbed jerk. LEFT: Katerina Valdivieso multi-tasking with a digital SLR and a audio recorder.

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Photo captions: RIGHT: Lim Wui Liang press his shutter in the King Hussein Mosque in Amman, Jordan. Photos by: Mamta Badkar and Mariana Cristancho-Ahn. Photo by: Mariana Cristancho-Ahn

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From left to right: Sharaf Mowjood, Saskya Vandoorne, Ryann Blackshere, Solomon Adebayo, Monika Plocienniczak, Elizabeth Bridges, Eno Alfred, Christopher Livesay,Alexandra King, Leslie Hart, Rania Zabaneh, Leslie Adkins, Sherisse Pham, Angela Chen. Sitting to the left is Rhoda Lipton, Rich Schapiro and Elena Cabral.

1st Row: Professor Betsy West, Scott Dodd, Kibby Araya, Amikka Smith, Sara Bertin, Sarah Fitzpatrick, Jane Lee, Nusha Balyan, Edward Chun, Mary Plummer, Professor Ann Cooper.

Not pictured: Amanda Massa, Michelle Schacherer.

2nd Row: (l-r) Zack “Subway” Seward, Jen “Booze” Howard, Kethevane Gorjestani, Bradley Gallo, Olivia Manders, Kiran Moodley, Shehrbano Saiyid, Jehangir Irani

Ari Goldman’s RW1 Top Row: Prof. Joe Hale Cutbirth, Sunil Joshi, Rebecca Hanley, Danny Kanamori Middle Row: Joseph Alexiou, Christian Roman, Heather Higgins, Megan Thompson, Cindy Rodriguez, Sascha Krader, Prof. Ari Goldman Bottom Row: Astrid Baez, Tracy Thompson, Mariah Summers

June Cross’ RW1 Front row kneeling: Ayza Omar, Chao Deng 2nd row: Maria Del Mar Cabra Velero, Angelica Spanos, Courtney Streett, Danielle Bengsch, Janelle Richards, Shreeya Sinha, Diana Markosian, Sanaz Meshkinpour 3rd row: Jenn Carmona, Leonard Schoenberger, Thad Novak, Kirk Klocke, David Collins.

Anthony DePalma’s RW1 Left to right: Joanna Nikas; Melissa Muller; Laura Hedli; Andrew Springer; Katy Olson; Arturo Conde; Amanda Benchley; Lisa Held; Alice Popovici; Cilia Kohn Laura Dodd; Bartram Nason; Cezary Podkul. Missing from action: Katherine Simon and Jill Watanabe.

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Third row (back): Donald Griffin, Alec Johnson, Fred Dryer, Alex Berg, Connor Boals, Alex Abu Atta, Mustafa Mehdi Second row: Matthew Huisman, Jose Leyva, Maia Efrem, Amanda Staab, Carmen Williams

Back (left to right): Sudip Mukherjee, Alice Speri, Micki Steele, Alyson Martin, Barnabe Geisweiller, Tami Luhby, Jeff Dooley, Rawiya El Khidir, Lindsay Dunsmuir, Ronnie Phillips, Lauren Browne, Weilun Soon.

First row: Wanda Hellmund, Sarah Wali, Shefali Kulkarni, Leslie Minora, Mamta Badkar.

Front (left to right): Jill Grossman, Amanda Julius, Van Tieu, Sara Hamdan, Sam Fellman

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Middle Row (left to right): Della Hasselle, Rachel Stern, Amanda Chan, Jenn Brookland, Rebecca Thomas. Front Row (left to right): Denver Nicks, Laura Kusisto.

Judith Matloff’s RW1 From left to right: Meredith Melnick, Emily Miller, Shiori Okazaki, Omar Kasrawi, Sierra Brown, Vinnie Rotondaro, Michelle Castillo, Natasha Lennard, Dean Myers, Bridget O’Brian (Adjunct), Judith Matloff, Ali Gharib, Noha El-Hennawy, Ruchika Tulshyan, Michael Ratliff, Evan Wexler, and Sruthi Gottipati.

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Standing: Ruth Padawer, Scott Sell, Susanna Poppick, Victor Li, Ian Thomson, Derek Simons, John Martin.

Middle row: Candice Chan, Carolyn Phenicie, Jeannette Neumann, Elif Ince, Hamid Razak, Lim Wui Liang

At the desk: Zachary Sniderman, Paula Neudorf, Jonathan Shia, Sommer Saadi, Diego Aparicio.

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Standing: Yoav Sivan, Zoe So, Sarveen Abubaker, Frances McInnis, Franziska Scheven, Robert Sgobbo, Ashlee Fairey, Andrew Lampard, Emma Silvers, Darius Dixon, and Alan Neuhauser.

From left to right: Ryan Tracy, Alizah Salario, Sasha Chavkin, Stephanie Marcus, Chris Geier, Nikolia Apostolou, Lauren Sausser, Sonia Dasgupta, Daniel Johnson-Kim, Delphine Reuter, Shanti Venkataraman, Ashley R. Harris, David Kessel.

Seated: Diya Chacko, Thorsten Schier, Lauren Kirchner, Colin J. Fleming, Chine Labbe, and Victoria Rossi.

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Back row: Clare O’Connor, Lynsey Chutel, Sujay Kumar, Prof. Chip Scanlan, Radhika Marya, Spencer Bailey, Pam Frederick, Alexandra Waldhorn, Misha Rezvi, Marlow Stern, Artis Henderson. Front row: Michael Martin, Wadzanai Mhute, Amy Brittain, Paulina Villegas, Jeremy White, Ruth Schneider, Alexander Hotz.

Miranda Lin; Stephanos Chen; Terry Baynes; Jack Mirkinson; Meredith Kennedy; Sarah Portlock; Leah Finnegan; Curtis Brainard; Daniel Roberts; Rob Anderson; Alessia Pirolo Mara Zepeda; Chris Alessi; Prof. Michael Shapiro; Jake Shapiro, Derrick Taylor and Nathania Zevi, Katerina Valdivieso; Nikhil K.S. Kumar and Prof. Hoyt.

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J-School student Bradley Gallo demanded more pizza even though he had six slices already. Gallo reportedly said he doesn’t care if anyone else eats because he’s got “grad-school bills” to pay. He said he will also take leftover crust.

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Depression among J-School students sees rise As graduation approaches more and more J-School students are becoming horribly depressed. With student loan debts piling up and their time at Columbia quickly coming to a close, the depressed students can usually be spotted at the bar drowning their sorrows.

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Professor makes angry face after J-Schooler asks ‘Whats a nut graph?’ for the 8th time Journalism professor Addie Rimmer stared angrily at a J-School student when he asked the definition of a nut graph. Rimmer, who declined to comment, reportedly has the best blank stare among the faculty.

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J-Schooler told to ‘Cry me a River,’ after failing because his master’s project was late One student at the Columbia Graduate School of journalism was told to “Go Cry me a River” after failing to turn in his Master’s Project on time. The student was 30 seconds late and misspelled his advisor’s name.

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