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Excerpt from Columbia News, June 6th, 2006:

Plenty of Columbians are contributing their knowledge and skills to the wider world, but a few are also doing the reverse–bringing the fruits of their outside adventures back to the campus for others to enjoy.

Janet Youngblood is one such example. Five years ago, while studying for a doctorate in adult education at Teacher’s College (TC), she founded the Teacher’s College Taiko Society, a welcome addition, she hoped, to Columbia as well as the wider New York City community.

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Looking back on the five years since she started the society, Youngblood admits she has one more ambition: to solve the problem of limited space. The TC classroom can accommodate no more than 15 students. With the TC’s Student Activity Board and Columbia’s Japan Club supporting her, she hopes to affiliate next with the University’s music department, which would give students a larger space to practice and store the drums. She also foresees the day when, following the example of Stanford and UCLA, the classes will be open to students for credit and to people in the community.

To learn more about Taiko Society, please visit http://www.tc.columbia.edu/students/taiko.