" To help one person is to save the whole community."

"Academic freedom is critical, the exchange of ideas, but academic freedom in an unfree world cannot exist."

- from Wednesday's symposium on academic freedom

"The EU should play a role beyond economics... should be guarantor of honoring responsibilities."

- Slovenian President Danilo Turk at Columbia

"Ralph Nader is a consumer advocate, lawyer, author, and has been named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential Americans in the Twentieth Century."

-VoteNader.org

“Not a chance. If the Democrats can’t landslide the Republicans this year, they ought to just wrap up, close down, and emerge in a different form.”

-Ralph Nader on whether he will prevent a Democratic win in the 08 election. (NYTimes)

The Most Frequently Heard Answer: McCain supports states rights and believes that communities should be the ones to make that decision.

-- In a debate between the College Democrats and Republican. Read on for the full recap.

On Oct 24, Senator Chuck Hagel from Nebraska spoke at Roone Arledge Cinema about the changing world and how politics for young people today has changed from when he was young.

"I told Barack Obama to pick Joe Biden [as vice president nominee]."

"A nation has no friends, only interests."

CubPub reporters staked out the polling place at Wien Hall this morning to get a sense of how the election is panning out here at Columbia. As expected, most of the voters were supporting Obama, but we did find a few surprises for you. Voting at Wien seemed to be going very smoothly over the course of the morning, and we didn't get any reports of overly long waits or trouble with the voting machines. We here at Columbia can consider ourselves lucky - voting is much less convenient in other parts of the city. We also have interesting snippets of our interviews with voters as they came out of Wien Hall.

Our favorite quotes?

"That said, I think the Naval Academy is a fine institution but didn’t he (John McCain) graduate bottom of his class?"

-Dexter, freshman at Columbia College, in response to what he thought of Obama and McCain's educational backgrounds.

"I voted for Obama. I agree with all of his policies except his policies on gay marriage... I feel like Sarah Palin is a mockery of the Clinton candidacy for the Democrats. I supported Obama from the start but I wouldn't have been completely devastated if she (Clinton) had been the nominee."

-Annie (Westchester, NY), senior at Columbia, first time voter

The Iraq war has ended!

Bush is indicted of high treason!

Nation sets its sights on building a sane economy!

Check it out! http://www.nytimes-se.com/

Just NOT Married With signs and heart-shaped balloons, more than 100 people rallied at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau to push marriage rights for same-sex couples. State Dems are hesitant on thisl issue for fear of their small majority in the state legislate.

GRILLING A House Committee blamed CEOs of the top banks for the "economy's trip to the brink of catastrophe." And Treasury Secretary Geithner was grilled in the senate about his new bail-out plan.

ETHANOL INDUSTRY IN JEOPARDY The once much-loved ethanol industry is suffering with the rest of the economy.