The school's fencing team is one of the largest in the nation, having over 100 freshmen join the team in the last year alone. The boys' team is consistently ranked among the top in the state, while the girls' team has won the state championship 8 out of 10 years. The girls' team record for the combined 1999-2005 seasons was 94−4. In 2006, the girls' fencing team defeated Bernards High School 19−8 to win the NJSIAA 2006 Girls' team fencing state tournament. Columbia won the 2007 Boys' Team Fencing state championship with a 16-11 win over Voorhees High School. The team's head coach, Dr. Arthur Paulina, won his milestone 300th victory during the 06-07 season. In the 2008−09 season, the boys' fencing team took home the épée state title. In the 2009−10 season, the girls' team won District III, but finished 5th in the state, losing in the quarterfinals to Governor Livingston High School. The boys' team won the Cetrulo Tournament and the NJSIAA/Bollinger District 3 championships, earning them a top seed going into the NJSIAA state championship Tournament. The boys' team won state championships for the first time since 2007 in a 15−12 win over Bernards High School. In the 2010−11 season, the girls placed No. 3 in the team state championships after defeating Governor Livingston High School in the consolation meet. The boys won their second consecutive state championship defeating Montclair High School (New Jersey) in the final by a 14-13 score. In the 2012 NJSIAA/Bollinger tournament, Columbia lost in the final to second-seeded West Morris Mendham High School by a score of 14−13, ending the school's 49-match winning streak.

All National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in the Athens Games, as was the case in 1996. Two new NOCs had been created since 1996, and made their debut at these Games (Kiribati, and Timor-Leste), therefore along with the re-appearance of Afghanistan (missing the 2000 Summer Olympics) the total number of participating nations increased from 199 to 202. Also since 2000, Yugoslavia had changed its name to Serbia and Montenegro and its code from YUG to SCG. The number in parentheses indicates the number of participants that NOC contributed.

Omer Caha, ""The Death of Feminism as an Antisystemic Movement or the Success of Feminism to Change the System from Within?""; Takis Fotopoulos, ""Takis Fotopoulos' reply to Omer Caha's Dialogue Article"", Democracy & Nature, Vol.9, No.2, (July 2003).

Mark Rudd (born 1947, class of 1965), activist who led student war protests at CHS and later at Columbia University, and went on to help found The Weathermen.

Given Bassel's urgent situation and the resulting tight schedule, we ask everyone to get involved with the poll and the discussion to the widest possible extent, and to promote it among your communities as soon as possible.

The US Open[a][b] is an annual tennis tournament that women started playing in 1887. The tournament is played on outdoor hard courts[c] at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows – Corona Park, New York City.