This week’s ESC meeting was especially eventful with a surprise Varsity Show ambush. The ever ebullient engineer Aparajita Maitra gives you the lowdown. Yesterday’s ESC meeting had some exciting hidden surprises, starting with an appearance by the Varsity Show. No wonder ESC looked unusually enthusiastic in their SEAS gear. ESC was told to stand in one […]

Every week, CCSC meets and talks about very important things.  This week, those thing included reforms to their constitution—particularly about the sections dealing with the filling of vacated seats. Much talk was had about transparency, efficiency, and fraternity, all of which our Satow Room Bureau Chief Joe Milholland was present to cover. On Sunday night’s Columbia College Student […]

CCSC has recently granted the the Lion Credit Union Initiative (LCUI), a group working to build a credit union for the Columbia community, placement of an initiative on the next ballot. The group hopes to work with individual student councils, graduate schools, faculty and staff, and students to demonstrate support for the creation of a not-for-profit, […]

We started hearing about this Lion Credit Union Initiative (LCUI) and sent Credit Caper Sanat Kapur to investigate. To start with, what is a credit union? It’s a bank, except it’s not run by a bunch of profit hungry executives who don’t care about usually broke college students; it’s run by usually broke college students […]