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How Obama Won Me Over With a Single Speech

Holly Robinson | Posted 05.21.2012

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I don't know how to explain this bizarre transformation. The closest I can come is to say that the president emanated an energy that was so generous and good in spirit that I swear I could almost see the halo.

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Shift On Marriage Energizes Immigration Activists

AP | JERI CLAUSING | Posted 05.15.2012

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — President Barack Obama's shift to support gay marriage is energizing young Hispanic voters who have been working side-by-sid...

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Obama On Gay Marriage: It 'Doesn't Weaken Families;' It 'Strengthens Families'

AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 05.15.2012

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NEW YORK -- President Barack Obama on Monday defended his view that gay couples should have the right to marry, saying that the country has never gone...

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Obama's Barnard Remarks Fall Flat With Some Students

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 05.14.2012

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NEW YORK -- President Barack Obama's commencement address Monday at Barnard College was filled with moments reminiscent of the 2008 presidential camp...

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Romney Campaign Targeting Online Ads To Obama's Barnard Speech

The Huffington Post | Jon Ward | Posted 05.14.2012

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Mitt Romney's campaign is running Google search ads targeted to New York City users who go online looking for information about the commencement cerem...

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Welcoming President Obama

Alexandra Fields | Posted 05.14.2012

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I look back on that night that we all sat in the lobby of the dorm waiting to see if our country would actually elect Barack Obama and realize that there is no person better suited to speak at our graduation.

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Obama Delivering Commencement Address

AP | Posted 05.15.2012

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will spend Monday in New York City, and his comments in support of same-sex marriage appear likely to be a p...

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More Green, Less Red

Emma Goss | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Columbia University, Salary Negotiation, Economic Inequality, Barnard College, Women and Money, Equal Pay Day, Junaid Chaudhry, Lee Bollinger, Career Advice for Women, College News

On Equal Pay Day on April 17, we are reminded that discrimination and inequality still pervade our society.

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What It's REALLY Like At A Women's College

| Rachel Peck | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: College Admissions, College Prep, Columbia University, Hercampus, Women's College, Barnard College, College Applications, High School News

When I say that I attend a women’s college, I’m usually met with a mixture of palpable confusion and mild disgust. Follow-up questions include: ...

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The Resurrection of Seneca Village

Alan Singer | Posted 10.25.2011

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Seneca Village was a pre-Civil War African-American community located between 82nd and 89th Streets and Seventh and Eighth Avenues in Manhattan.

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New York's "Women's College" Offers First Gender-Neutral Dorms

Womens eNews | Posted 10.16.2011

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NEW YORK -- Gender-neutral or "open" dorms may be increasingly commonplace on U.S. campuses, but they aren't expected at women's colleges, a presumabl...

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Closing the Ambition Gap

Nell Merlino | Posted 08.30.2011

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Why aim to run existing companies rather than start our own? Women need to stop waiting for things to happen to them and make things happen for themselves.

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Barnard College Commencement 2011

Sheryl Sandberg | Posted 08.13.2011

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If you ask men why they succeeded, men attribute that success to themselves. Ask a woman why she did well on something, and she'll say, "I got lucky. Women need to take a page from men and own their success.

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Chronicling Black Panthers, Award-Winning Director Knows Where Night Catches Us

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tanya Hamilton made Night Catches Us as both a personal exploration and as an examination of the other side of the civil rights struggle -- the black power movement.

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Meryl Streep Barnard Graduation: 'You Just Have To Make Your Mother And Father Proud' (FULL TEXT) (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Multi-academy award winning actress Meryl Streep spoke to Barnard's graduating class Monday, humbly relaying to grads her own success story and though...

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Memorial for Social Activist Betty Millard (1911-2010)

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Betty Millard of Chicago, a long-time social activist had danced with Zhou Enlai after the Chinese Revolution and then was called to testify as a host...

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COLUMN: The Death Of Women's History Month

The Columbia Spectator | Posted 05.25.2011

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The boxes that line the shelves of the Barnard Center for Research on Women's humble library are filled with colorful posters, periodicals, pamphlets,...

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Meryl Streep To Speak At Barnard Commencement

columbiaspectator.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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She had to choose which of her children she would save in the Holocaust, she was the editor of a major fashion magazine, and recently she mastered the...

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Women Changing China and the World: Modern-Day Lessons from a Foot-Binding Foe

Debora L. Spar | Posted 05.25.2011

From my perch at Barnard College, I see an extraordinary generation of young women grappling with new ideas about feminism and new views of women's power and leadership.

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There's No Place Like Home

Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011

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Not only is being a female CEO an advantage (in my opinion) but for the first year and a half of our existence, all employees of Great Performances

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