The Earth Institute attributed the decision to a high level of student interest in the existing concentration. The addition of the major thus stands in sharp contrast to the bureaucratic lethargy that bogs down many potentially positive progressions at Columbia: A research institution, largely isolated from the undergraduate population, took students’ considerations into account.
In yesterday’s staff editorial, the current CCSC executive board’s former party was identified as the “Clear Party,” when, in actuality, it was the “Action Potential Party.” We apologize and regret the error.
The frustrating part of this announcement, the reason we’re adding our voices to the chorus which has decried this development, is because it is evidence not of a desire to weigh two competing arguments, but of supreme cowardice.
The intractable problem here lies not with the content, but with the irrational rationality that underpins graduate admissions requirements for international students in this country.
