Fire alarm!

Update, 1 p.m.: You can go to Lerner now! Fire alarm is over.

On this last crisp autumn Monday, a CC class was proceeding lazily in a Carman classroom situated directly across from Frat Row. Somebody else was presumably having a less than studious morning, because unexpectedly and suddenly the room reeked of weed.

As students snickered, rolled eyes and envied the bold toker, the instructor quick on his feet said: “I’m sorry, excuse me, but someone is smoking some major weed right now… We’re going to try and not get stoned back here.”

Then to a student in AEPi, “If that’s your frat house, maybe you want to have a word with them or something…”

Rejoice that intrepid men and women fight the War on Fun every day of the week, including midterms!

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What is Korilla, you ask?

It is nothing less than a Korean grillmasta serving up a complex combination of classic Korean recipes in contemporary forms. We’re talking burritos, tacos and chompers like you’ve never had before.

And there was this poll to decide where Korilla was headed today. And we won! So head over to 116th and Broadway to get a break from John Jay.

Update, 10:57 a.m.: According to their most recent tweet, they’re under the East Campus bridge as of right now!

Update, 11:20: And we hear there are free donuts in Barnard Hall! What a day!

Image courtesy of korillabbq.com

Bwog's own stuffed mouse, enjoying Bwog's own wine!

Sheen was found drunk and naked in an NYC hotel room–and he was rushed to our very own Columbia Presbyterian Hospital! (People)

Check out this Bhagavad Gita piece by PBS, with our own Professor of Sanskrit Sheldon Pollock and Gadadhara Pandit Dasa, Hindu chaplain the Bhakti Club. (Learner)

Todd Combs, CBS grad, is slated to run a “significant” portion of Berkshire’s portfolio–he must have followed personal hygiene basics. (Bloomberg)

More warnings about the dangers of alcohol–wait no, just Four Loko. (NYT)

Columbia researchers are going to see brains better with fancy IBM software. (eWeek)

Oliver Sacks is on NPR, talking about his own brain for a change. (NPR)

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Got it?

NOMdays, launched yesterday in Lerner. Clients picked up pre-ordered meals, which they had chosen from an option of three vegetarian dishes. Bwog was sort of impressed, sort of not.”>

Same idea, kinda.

Nom^3′s take on Meatless Mondays, NOMdays, launched yesterday in Lerner. Clients picked up pre-ordered meals, which they had chosen from an option of three vegetarian dishes. Bwog was sort of impressed, sort of not.

MENU 1: Quinoa with avocado and pumpkin/marinated cucumber and chickpeas/apple

The ratio of the portions was surprising. A generous helping of quinoa with lots of tasty avocado and pumpkin dwarfed the already-small heap of vegetables and an apple of petite dimensions. While all of the food was perfectly palatable, it was nothing special, and less revelatory than expected for the $8 price tag. The dressing for the quinoa could not be described much beyond “bland.”

But wait! There’s good news. Sitting outside Lerner with a lunchbox, surrounded by the greasy messes everyone else is eating from Ferris, one realizes that there is considerably more at stake here. The food was local, healthy, hearty, and made by earnest kids with a genuine interest in food. The meal was found to be sustaining throughout the day without resulting in bloating or excessive thirst, not uncommon symptoms from Dining Services fare.

MENU 2: Tofu with brown rice/steamed kale/muffin thing

Bwog feels a little guilty calling the pumpkin spice cake/loaf/round thing the most flavorful part of the meal, but it definitely was. The orange ginger tofu was only vaguely flavorful and had a texture much like the tofu found in Ferris: institutional. The sliced almonds in the brown rice gave it some texture, but the kale had absolutely no flavor at all.

On the plus side, everything was perfectly cooked (brown rice cooked in large quantities is often under or overcooked), and the kale was juicy and tender. If NOM^3 wants to expand this program to include people who would otherwise be okay with fried rice and slops, they’re going to need to be a little less stingy with the spices.

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Just in case you needed another reason to hate hipsters.

On a recent gray, midterm-y Wednesday, intrepid Bwoggers Helen Bao and Allie Curry visited “Sightlines,” the first exhibition of the season at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery (that’s the 8th floor of Schermerhorn.) Here, they tell us about it.

First of all: Schermerhorn is confusing. To get there from the stairs: Enter on the fourth floor (yes, the ground floor) and make your way up to floor six. Then climb one more sets of stairs to reach floor eight. (We don’t know either.) From the elevator: Enter on the fourth floor (ground floor) and press the up button to the elevator. Exit on the 9th floor to reach the 8th floor.

“Sightlines” features the work of Nancy Holt, a contemporary American artist famous for environmental and land art. A movement that emerged in the 1960s, land art draws attention to the negative impact humans can have on the environment. Her most famous works are her large-scale permanent works Sun Tunnels and Dark Star Park, which combine sculpture and architecture to form live, experiential landscapes. Read more…

So Barnard has a new Dean, and her name is Avis Hinkson. I mean, that’s a name. We’ve got PrezBo and MiMoo, we had Double D, we’ve got DSpar. Now it’s Hinkson’s turn. Whoever leaves the best suggestion wins some fancy beer from Milano and a Morningside pastry of your choosing (like a dozen Nussbaum black and white cookies). And… go!

President Debora Spar of Barnard College just announced that the College’s next dean will be Avis Hinkson, ’84. She will be taking up her duties starting February 14, 2011. In an email sent to students today, Spar called Hinkson, who has served for the past six years as UC Berkeley’s Director of the Office of Undergraduate Advising, someone who can “[build] on Dean Denburg’s legacy.” DSpar’s full email is after the jump.

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Sean Zimmermann reports on ESC over the roar of airplane engines and the screams of nearby skydivers.

• Go skydiving with Dean Peña-Mora! Newly elected Alumni Affairs and Professional Development representative Logan Donovan, a skydiving coach, spoke about getting a skydiving club started on campus. She said Peña-Mora had agreed to go skydiving with her. During her campaign speech, she proposed holding a “skydiving-with-the-Dean day.”

• VP Policy Heidi Ahmed explained that dining was “pretty responsive” to student concerns, and announced that dining is working on a take out window at JJs; students would be able to place orders online, and pick up items (though take out would be limited to orders placed online). Additionally, the top level of Ferris Booth will be open for studying after Ferris closes—as it has been in previous years. Read more…

The Street Sweets food truck is at 115th and Broadway till 5 p.m. today. The truck is usually parked by the Astor Place 6 train stop—so you know it’s good! Go for coffee, muffins, brioches, croissants, etc. Om nom!

Update (12:55 PM): Now with real pictures!

Update (1:01 PM): Chicken and Rice (prepackaged from 53rd St. and 6th Ave.) is on College Walk!

Billionaire by day, international man of mystery by night.

Todd Combs, a 39-year-old Connecticut hedge fund manager and an alum of the B-School, will manage a “significant portion” of Berkshire Hathaway’s portfolio. (Bloomberg)

Lisa Anderson, formerly the dean of SIPA, has been named the President of the American University in Cairo. (PR Newswire)

The molester of a “Morningside Heights toddler” has been convicted on child pornography charges. (NYP)

More porn news: a Brooklyn assemblyman is calling for public libraries to ban VHS after a grandmother in the borough found porn scenes inserted into a copy of Austin Powers. (NYP)

October 26 is the 299th day of the year (300th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 66 days remaining until the end of the year. (Wikipedia)

Update: Paul, the octopus that correctly predicted each World Cup game it was asked, has died. He was 2 1/2. (WaPo)

Attached to a barnard keychain that has neon pink masking tape around it. Last seen in Hartley.