Six Wrestlers Seeded For This Weekend's 2012 EIWA Championships - GoColumbiaLions.com—Official Web Site of Columbia University Athletics. EIWA Championships Central | Tickets | Video Stream NEW YORK – The Columbia wrestling team returns to Princeton, N.J., this Saturday and Sunday to compete in the 2012 EIWA Championships at Princeton’s Jadwin Gym.
Each Lions wrestler is vying for one of the EIWA’s 46 NCAA auto-qualifying spots. The Lions boast six seeded wrestlers in the EIWA brackets. At 149 pounds, junior Steve Santos (19-7) is the No. 4 seed. Junior Jake O'Hara (25-12) received the No. 6 seed at 157 and senior Eren Civan (8-10) was picked as the 165-pound No. 7 seed. On Saturday, Session I opens with the round of 16 at 9 a.m., followed by the quarferfinals and consolation rounds at 11 a.m. For ticket information, go here. The EIWA Championships will feature a live video stream through GoPrincetonTigers.tv. The 14-school Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association features American, Army, Brown, Bucknell, Columbia, Cornell, Franklin & Marshall, Harvard, Lehigh, Navy, Penn, Princeton, Rutgers and Sacred Heart.
Columbia University. Columbia University in the City of New York. Columbia University to Investigate NYPD's Muslim Spy Scheme. Columbia University plans on investigating reports that the New York Police Department, which spied on Muslims at Northeastern universities, targeted students at the Ivy League institution, according to The Associated Press (via Wall Street Journal.)
At a university meeting Tuesday, Provost John H. Coatsworth said that Columbia and the college's own police department were working to figure out the extent of the NYPD's spy scheme. They weren't sure how much the NYPD investigated Columbia, the AP says. Previous AP reports indicate that a 2006 police brief named Columbia as one of the universities included in the NYPD's investigation of American Muslims. The AP recently released an investigative report chronicling the NYPD's extensive surveillance of Muslim student associations. Some Columbia students are dismayed, however, that the university President Lee C.
Another recent AP report has revealed that the NYPD got some spy money from a little-monitored White House anti-drug program. Many students could skip remedial classes, studies find - College, Inc. Remedial education, catch-up coursework for the not-quite-college-ready, is a massive bottleneck in higher education.
What if some students could get by without it? Here, in that vein, is a guest post written by Jon Marcus for the Hechinger Report, a nonprofit based at Teachers College, Columbia University that produces in-depth education journalism. Even as policymakers struggle to reform remedial-education requirements blamed for derailing the aspirations of countless community-college students, two new studies suggest that many of those students would do fine without them. President Obama on a recent visit to Northern Virginia Community College. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)The studies, both by the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University, found that as many as a third of students sidetracked into remedial classes because of their scores on standardized tests would have earned a B or better if they had simply proceeded directly to college-level courses.