Well, easy come easy go. With just one day left before the end of the semester, the tarp-less streak has come to an end as the South Lawn waved the white flag of surrender. Before we could get a response from Facilities regarding their absence, several tipsters informed us that the tarps were brought out this morning.

While a bleak sight, perhaps it is simply part of Facilities’ scheme to make it snow in time for a white Christmas. With one day of finals left, never forget the power of positive thinking.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

On this eerily warm, moist afternoon, if South Field has ever gone the entire first semester without being covered by ghastly (ghostly?) white tarps? Bwog has actually reached out to Facilities to ask this question, and will update with the answer.

The weather this semester has been awfully strange. Today’s tropical jungle climate certainly doesn’t encourage a cheery holiday spirit. On the other hand, this season has been a probably unprecedented victory for lawn (grassroots) activists, and that’s something worth celebrating.

Perhaps someone needs to perform the ancient snow-dick ritual to get the snow this season deserves?

Yes this is a commercial but it’s still freaking awesome

These guys will probably be there, too

Make your way over to the Sundial, folks, College Days is back!

What’s that, you ask?

College Days… that time when we pretend we have school spirit they try to trick the prospies into believing we have school spirit (one of their many ruses including a magical weather machine that mysteriously turns the temperature up around the time of Days on Campus)… when they don’t forget, they sometimes kick the week off with King’s Ball…

Still not sounding familiar? That’s okay. Pizza, pretzels and American Apparel t-shirts are promised, alongside a capella, the marching band playing, and CCSC President Learned Foote giving an ironic speech, so head on over to the Sundial between 12 and 2 pm.

Photographs by Lucy Sun & Mahrah Taufique

It’s Friday! Need even more incentive to blow off working ahead on that big paper? One of the Butler lawns is open!

Quick, before the sun sets! Then again, temperatures are supposed to be in the 80s until Tuesday, so you’ve got plenty of time to enjoy the heat.

  - Photo by JCD

How else to explain the forty degree swing in five days? Yes, Bwog’s weather meter currently reads 67 degrees out. But without much sun, the steps are sadly somewhat less than crowded.

If you’re still wavering on whether to venture out, just remember: it’s back into the 40s after Sunday.

- JCD

Photo by Kate Linthicum

March is coming in like a Columbia lion, says Bwog’s personal meteorologist, albeit more like a Lion that actually wins once in a while.

Those sad suits at local TV stations are predicting one last whopper of a snowstorm for us in Manhattan.  8-12 inches of snow by 6:00 PM tomorrow, and perhaps a fair share of sleet, too.

So enjoy that little bit of hope when, tomorrow morning, bright-eyed and shaggy-haired for your 9:00 AM seminar, you think, just for a moment, that classes are canceled.

And since they won’t be, you can tell your folks over spring break how you trudged through the snow while PrezBo rode a sleigh a block and a half.

Good afternoon! My, it is raining quite consistently today. So, we’re inviting all amateur photographers, no matter just how amateur, to take some photos of the weather and its effects. Send us pictures of puddles, colorful umbrellas, children in galoshes (especially children in galoshes), etc. and we’ll add them to this post. 

Hawk photos by Ruqayyah Abdul-Karim

More photos, including another of Hawkmadinejad weathering the storm, after the jump.

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As the school year comes to a close, free time, along with Bwog’s Guide to the Weekend, makes a triumphant return. We’ll continue keeping you updated every Thursday throughout the summer about concerts, movies, special events, and lectures. 

All Weekend/Continuing: 

The Films of Kenji Mizoguchi

IFC Center

Friday-Sunday; 11 AM

$11.50

Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan

International Center for Photography

May 16 th-  Sep 7; Tuesdays-Thursdays (10am-6pm); Fridays (10am-8pm); Saturdays-Sundays (10am-6pm)

This Friday, several of the artists will appear in person to sign exhibition catalogs

$12

No Fun Fest

Three days of noise-rock featuring Religious Knives, Thurston Moore, Tony Conrad, and Hair Police.

The Knitting Factory

Friday May 16 (7pm); Saturday May 17 (7pm); Sunday May 18 (6:30pm)

$20 – 22 daily / $50 three-day pass

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Things are looking up! The treachery of finals week is drawing to a close—despite some Butler settlements indicating the contrary. Plus, tipster Keith Leung just emailed to let us know that Haagen Dasz is giving away free scoops of their new ice-cream flavor (Vanilla Honey Bee) from now until 8 PM. Leung has also assuaged any worries of hellishly long waits, explaining that “the line was around 10 people, but they’re basically just scooping ice-cream for people without asking any questions, so the wait was like 2 minutes.”

Tipster/photographer Jason Patinkin just sent the following photos Bwog’s way. “Well bwog, I hope you enjoyed the last week of sitting on the steps, because once again Columbia taketh our favorite midday hangout.  Indeed the construction of wooden posts and metal bleachers across the steps begins today (or maybe yesterday),” he writes.

It’s that time of year again when graduation preparation coincides with the most beautiful week of the year. Gather ye steptime while ye may/Old Time is still a-flying/And this same flower that smiles to-day/To-morrow will be dying.

More of Patinkin’s photos after the jump.

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If you’re not at the WBAR-B-Q right now, you’re missing seeing… approximately thirty thousand bands. While Bwog was only able to get out there briefly and is now safely locked up in class, there’s no excuse for you not being there. It’s free! (Except the food.)

Now playing: Wizards of the Coast, featuring Bwog’s own Justin Goncalves. Be there. 

The young at heart (and the fearless of motion-sickness) take note: There are currently two moon-bounces—one features two basketball hoops and basketballs for competitive gamesmanship—stationed on Low. (There is also a dunking tank for the masochistic.)

The Anti-Iraq War Demonstration Bell is still ringing strong, though its sounds are slightly muffled by the screams of the unlucky who have been fated to splash into the icy waters of the dunking tank. Bwog suggests you head out to Low to get your last bits of fun in before final paper crunch time begins. 

Another picture of all the fun you should be having after the jump.

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Demonstrations against the war in Iraq continue today with a walk-out happening right now at the sundial, in the middle of a sea of sunbathers, who have splayed themselves out on South Lawn and and on the Low Steps. Check back for continuing coverage of the walkout plus the rumored “dramatic political statement” occurring at 2 PM by Alma Mater.