Memories tagged “Carman Hall”

A Perfect Match Made in the Dormitory Back in 1960, the Carman Hall dormitory had just opened and was still known as New Hall. The college and the dormitories were all male and the rules did not allow unchaperoned women...

Columbia College 1964, College of Physicians and Surgeons 1968

Calling Cambridge One day in the late 1960s the folks in Carman Hall, Suite 604–the suite right behind the open area in front of the elevators–got a private phone connected. Later that day someone came to use the campus phone,...

Columbia College 1969

Carman and the Freshman Line The first memory that I have of Columbia is getting into a long, snakelike line on the sidewalk of 114th Street outside Carman Hall with my parents after grabbing a parking spot somewhere in the...

Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science 1988

Carman’s Wall of Sound As a freshman member of Columbia College’s last class to be admitted as an all-men cohort (women transfers graduated with us), we who lived in Carman Hall were likely also the last to experience a certain...

Columbia College 1986

Freshman Week Hosting: Opening a Door At the start of my senior year, my Freshman Week host duties mainly involved meeting each night with several dozen fresh-faced denizens of an upper floor of Carman Hall. At 11:30 p.m. they were...

Columbia College 1972, School of Law 1977

Geiger Counters One moment from my four years in the Columbia dormitories that I will never forget was during my freshman year (1986-1987 academic year). Campus security, who had discovered that radioactive material had been stolen from the physics department,...

Columbia College 1990

My Favorite Campus My favorite times to hang out on the Columbia campus were in the summers. From the times when the South Field was slippery with the dew of the humid mornings to the times when the night sky...

Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science 1978

Stakes Is High to the Red Headed Stranger The first thing I heard when I stepped into my suite at Carman Hall was the album Stakes Is High by De La Soul. The last thing I heard at Columbia, leaving...

Columbia College 2001

Up on the Roof Carman Hall was horrible: a cinderblock high-rise. But its roof was one of the finest spots in New York City, with views of the Hudson, the midtown skyline, and–on a clear day–the Statue of Liberty.

Columbia College 1973