A Columbia University custodian who could not speak English when he fled worn-torn Yugoslavia in 1992 will graduate from the Ivy League school with honors this weekend after working toward his degree in classics for 12 years. full story ![]()
Columbia University is seeking to alter the 1920 charter of one of its graduate school fellowships which is still limited "to persons of the Caucasian race," though the fellowship has not been granted in years.
cnn.com (1 month and 3 days ago)

The Lydia C. Roberts Graduate Fellowship hasn't been used in years because it contains restrictions from a bygone era – including the requirement that recipients be white.In 1920, Columbia University received a gift of more than half a million dollars from a longtime resident of Des Moines.
latimes.com (13 days ago)
NEW YORK - Columbia University is seeking to change the terms of a fellowship that can only be awarded to white students from Iowa. The Lydia C. Roberts Graduate Fellowship stipulates that money be given only to "a person of the Caucasian race." Roberts left Columbia most of her $509,000 estate when she died in 1920 and created the highly restrictive fellowship. In addition...
bostonherald.com (1 month and 4 days ago)

NEW YORK -- Columbia University is seeking to change the terms of a fellowship that can only be awarded to white students from Iowa. The Lydia C. Roberts Graduate Fellowship stipulates that money be given only to "a person of the Caucasian race." Roberts left Columbia most of her $509,000 estate when she died in 1920 and created the highly restrictive fellowship. In addition...
huffingtonpost.com (1 month and 4 days ago)
Columbia University is seeking to change the terms of a fellowship that can only be awarded to white students from Iowa. The Lydia C. Roberts Graduate Fellowship stipulates that money be given only to "a person of the Caucasian race." Roberts left Columbia most of her $509,000 estate when she died in 1920 and created the highly restrictive fellowship. In addition to the...
foxnews.com (1 month and 4 days ago)
NEW YORK - Columbia University is seeking to change the terms of a 93-year-old trust earmarked for white students from Iowa. The Lydia C. Roberts Graduate Fellowship stipulates that money be given only to "a person of the Caucasian race" from Iowa. Roberts left Columbia most of her $509,000 estate when she died in 1920 and created the highly restrictive fellowship. It also...
bostonherald.com (1 month and 4 days ago)
At Columbia University a scholarship for whites only has created outrage. Ironically, 50 years after the Civil Rights Act, a movement is underway to change the Lydia C. Roberts Graduate Fellowship as the Jim Crow-esque fellowship conflicts incites...
examiner.com (1 month and 4 days ago)
The Lydia C. Roberts Graduate Fellowship stipulates that money be given only to "a person of the Caucasian race."In addition to the "whites only" rule, Roberts fellows must be from Iowa, must not study law or several other fields, and must return to Iowa for two years after graduating.
oregonlive.com (1 month and 4 days ago)
Columbia University students are obsessed with Nutella. How obsessed? Columbia College Student Council representative Peter Bailinson told the Col... Read more: Columbia Nutella, Nutella Craze, Columbia University, Nutella Columbia Dining Center, Nutella, Columbia, Nutella Columbia, Columbia University Nutella, Crazy for Nutella, College News
huffingtonpost.com (3 months and 14 days ago)

Astoria graduate Reynaldo Goicochea has earned the Rackham Master’s Fellowship Award for full-time study at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.
dailyastorian.com (2 months and 16 days ago)
New laws go into effect next week
Panel restores some pay for lawmakers,...
Restored medevac chopper being dedicated...
Fluffy cows: Old beauty practice gains...
Blackhawks beat Bruins 6-5 in OT, even...
Dissenting voices need to be heard in...
Hail, flash floods hit southeast Alberta
Burglar hands himself in after finding...
Japanese Women at Work? Conservatives...
Blackhawks pull even in Stanley Cup...
China jails 19 Uighurs for religious...
SocialRadar collects $12.75M from investors
Asia Markets: Asia stocks take double...
PNG funeral home 'burns bodies in pit'
PM's Indonesia visit a 'cover-up': Abbott
Vic Black Saturday buy-back complete
NSW hunting paper 'not kept from minister'
Chicago Blackhawks even series with...
Rangers give starter a win for first...
Blackhawks beat Bruins 6-5 in OT, tie...
Weeks, Ramirez Homer Later, Brewers Top...
Bruce's HR Ties It, Reds Beat Pirates...
Rangers Give Starter a Win for First...
Sony Shareholders Press CEO on Proposed...
HBO Paying Tribute to James Gandolfini
Stevie Van Zandt On James Gandolfini: ‘I...
U.S. celebrity chef explains use of...
Gilles Marini "Heartbroken" Over James...
James Gandolfini Dies, Restaurant Where...
National Briefing | New England: Condoms...
Virus sickens 200 at Yellowstone, Grand...
Project turns Addams into 37-mile...
Gandolfini Redefined the Mobster Role
Singapore demands action from Indonesia...
Storm Barry heads for Mexico Gulf coast...
A body found in Lake Michigan has been identified as missing Chicago student Austin LaPore,...
Retailer Men's Wearhouse announced that it "terminated" founder and executive chairman George...
The Emmy Award-winning actor who shot to fame on the HBO drama “The Sopranos” as a hard-living...
James Gandolfini, the star of hit US television show The Sopranos, has died in Italy aged 51.