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AROUND THE QUADS

STUDENT NEWS

Klezmer at Kraft Center

The Columbia Klezmer Band teams up with the Strauss-Warschauer Duo PHOTO: Jane Hoffer

The Columbia Klezmer Band teamed with the Strauss-Warschauer Duo for a performance and dance party on December 8 at the Kraft Center. Emceed by Jeremy Dauber, Atran Assistant Professor of Yiddish Language, the event promoted Jewish arts programming at Columbia/Barnard Hillel. The concert was a multi-generational affair that drew more than 200 alumni, parents, faculty, administrators, students, neighbors and friends. The Columbia Klezmer Band is a group of student musicians, under the sponsorship of Columbia/Barnard Hillel, who perform throughout the Northeast at festivals, concerts and other celebrations.

APPLICATIONS UP

The College received a record 14,909 applications for the Class of 2008, a 2 percent increase from last year’s total and the ninth consecutive year in which applications have increased. The number of early decision applicants was down slightly, possibly because of changes by Yale and Stanford from binding early decision policies to non-binding early action.

Applications to the Engineering School were virtually static, increasing by nine over a year ago to 2,231. This is the first year in which more than 17,000 students have applied to the College and SEAS.

Barnard expects its applications to total about 4,320, an increase of 7 percent over a year ago.

FED CHALLENGE

A team of students from the College, Barnard and General Studies won this year’s College Fed Challenge, sponsored by the New York Federal Reserve Bank. The winning team of DeVaughn Fowles ’04, Ken Harada ’05, Victoria Shenderovich ’04 GS, Melissa Thompson ’04 Barnard and Jenny Tolochko ’04 Barnard earned a prize of $50,000 from the Moody’s Foundation, which will be shared by the Barnard and Columbia economics departments, faculty advisers and the students.

The College Fed Challenge, now in its third year, is an economic competition organized by the New York Federal Reserve Bank. The Columbia team, coached by Steve Malin, a senior economist at the Fed, competed against teams from 12 schools in the tri-state area. Each team created a 20-minute presentation about the status of current economic conditions and forecast how the economic and financial conditions will affect monetary policy. The competition was initiated in 2001 by Barnard student Parastu Malik.

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