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A handshake symbolic of the cooperation between our schools
On Monday’s SGA meeting, we learned some stuff about GS that was news to everyone and vowed to help out. Barnard Bearoness Lauren Beltrone fills you in.
As you probably already know, a lot of students in GS get funding from the G.I. Bill. There are also students using G.I. funds in 17 of Columbia’s grad programs. What you maybe don’t already know is that the G.I. Bill gets capped at state tuition, which in NY is around $21,000. If you put two and two together, you see the need for the Yellow Ribbon Program. The Yellow Ribbon Program takes care of the gap between state tuition and private school tuition for many students at Columbia. All of the schools within Columbia are pretty hunky-dory about this, except SEAS. For some reason, SEAS doesn’t accept G.I. funding for students in the 3-2 program. After the Milvets explained the situation to SGA, there was a vote and Barnard became the fourth undergrad college to vow support in urging SEAS to let these engineers get funded.
Next on the docket was our Representative to the Board of Trustees, Ashiana Jivraj (BC ‘15), reporting back on an important meeting with, unsurprisingly, the Board of Trustees. She said that gender-based misconduct procedures, Barnard’s 125th anniversary, the new transgender admissions policy, and our new library were all among the topics discussed.
Last but not least, SGA and Q House will be co-hosting a “Got Gender?” lunch on October 16th in the Altschul Atrium from 12-1pm. The event will focus on transgender issues on campus and is part of a monthly lunch series.
Handshake of symbolic value via Shutterstock
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@Embarrassed … you are a face of Columbia University… both of you! Your conduct is shameful.
@Dark Universe Barnard fucks GS!
@Henry Krinkle I certainly hope so!
@BSGS Yeah, maybe that’s why we should have universal financial aid decrees for the school in some form so people of all sorts don’t get pushed under the rug . I know we can do it.
@Milvet Grad The post-9/11 GI Bill changed in 2010. It used to be that the cap was equal to the highest in-state tuition, which for New York was $1,010 per credit. Now, the rules have changed so that the cap is about $21,000 for the whole year. This new cap is nationwide, not just in New York.
@J Barnard and GS, trying hard to fit into Columbia
@Gary Chang Buddy, why don’t you just reveal your name? I’m trying hard to fit into your mother.
@Gary Chang, GS'14 The literal mother. “Oy, oy, oy, too fast, Gary Chang, too hard, oy, oy, oy”
Neither Barnard nor GS need to “try to fit in.” We already are in. Look at the students next to you in class, the GS flag, GS membership in Columbia Elections Board.
It’s people like your contemptuous self that gets too stuck on pessimism. It’s also people like you who thought savage of Native Americans, raped their women, enslaved Blacks because they did not have the technology at the time to fight your ass back. Thank God not all Americans are like you, that there are good Americans who til this day fight for equity and stand up for the principles of our founding fathers.
Show me who you are, face me in person, so we know who each other are. I will kick your @ss.
@Gary Chang, GS'14 Oh yeah, don’t even try the bs with pointing out my grammatical errors–I already had 3 beers, obviously not here to write a journal.
@Tom Sietsema Yeah, sorry we don’t all have aspergers (which is probably the only reason you got into the college Mr. Anonymous).
Here’s a news flash for you. While you were getting talked off a ledge for the one B you got in high school we were getting trashed, living life to the fullest, and learning about the real world in our prime. You will inevitably leave your undergraduate experience probably more neurotic than when you got here and with no real social skills (unless your mommy and daddy bought your way into the school in which case you should look into the sobering statistics about how dynastic wealth usually ends in tragedy). Yes, there are kids from the college who are stand-up people and well rounded individuals. You are not one of them.
To everyone else at the college, do your best to avoid having the narrow view on life this POS has demonstrated. You’re more than capable of doing so.