They like turkey, too

Though your peers’ talk of travel plans and turkey dinners may have you in a homesick slump, there are ways for you to get your fill of Thanksgiving goodness without even going south of 110th Street.

In Lerner’s Broadway Room from 6 to 7:30 pm this evening, Bhakti Club and Columbia Students for Animal Protection will be hosting a free, vegan Thanksgiving dinner. We’re told they’ll be serving breaded seitan nuggets, BBQ baked tofu, a glazed root veggie roast, cumin mashed potatoes, vegan gravy, a carrot and golden beet salad with cilantro-mint dressing, and a pear and cranberry green salad with raspberry vinaigrette. Nomz!

For Thanksgiving Day meal options, the Office of Residential Programs has got your back. All Columbia students staying in NY for the break are invited to attend a “traditional” Thanksgiving Dinner in Wien Lounge from 4 to 5:30. The menu will feature all the classics: turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, roasted vegetables, candied yams, roasted potatoes, assorted holiday pies and beverages. If the thought of these edibles tickles your fancy, make sure to RSVP by 3 pm today. Seats are limited to 100 attendees, so be quick about it! Email Asha Bartley if the pesky Sundial calendar system gives ya any trouble.

And last, but certainly not least, SIP (of all places!) will be holding an all-day, all-night Potluck Thanksgiving event. In keeping with its six-year tradition of free turkey, they’ll be serving dinner with all the trimmings to anyone who shows up, though they do encourage food contributions of any kind.

If you’re having a free Thanksgiving event that you’d like other Columbia students to attend, let us know in the comments!

Thanksgiving at the Trolls from Flickr/martha_chapa95

Let’s face it: we don’t exactly make life easy for our RAs (or Community Advisers, or Graduate Hall Directors). So let’s appreciate them–with a Day of Staff Appreciation! From an email from Residential Programs:

The Office of Residential Programs would like to invite you to join us in giving a shout-out to our Resident Advisers, Community Advisers, and Graduate Hall Directors tomorrow, March 31st! On Wednesday, we will be taking some time out as a campus to acknowledge the hard work of these staff members. We encourage you to write a note, say an encouraging word, or find some other meaningful way to appreciate your own RA, CA, and GHD on that day.

Thanks for helping us appreciate our student staff. Your positive feedback means a lot to them!

Sincerely,

The Residential Programs Staff

Seriously, though: go say thanks!

It’s not another M2M night; it’s a night of choice at Columbia.

There are two dinner options this evening.  First, from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM, ResLife will be hosting a “Block Party” for first-years on the Van Am Quad (translation: in front of the LLC). 

If you’re not a first-year, bring your rolling backpack and no one will ask.  Hot dogs, hamburgers, veggie burgers, and indigestion are on the menu.  Come out for a good time and, says one organizer, “we won’t even try to recruit [you] for anything.”

If you’d prefer your dinner with some good old-fashioned guilt, the Cambodia Project Club is hosting a study break (and general interest meeting) in the West Ramp Lounge in Lerner at 9:00 PM. 

If the delicately-described “southeast Asian” cuisine doesn’t pique your curiosity, perhaps the promise of “warm lumpia” will.

On November 12, Bwog received an anonymous email with the subject line: “Exorcism on Broadway 9.” The email detailed an incident that occurred between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. on October 25th, that involved several students who the sender identified as Christian Koreans — despite our attempts to reach various groups, there’s been no way of verifying this. There was also a Barnard student present who had been signed in earlier that evening.

According to the email’s sender, the Barnard student had expressed concern for her  health, and so an “exorcism” was performed. Details about the procedure remain scant, though the girl’s repeated shrieking eventually caught the attention of a Broadway RA, who stopped by the scene in an attempt to break up the gathering. The RA’s attempts to interfere were brushed off, and another ResLife staff member, who was described as being a part of the group, told the RA to allow the students to continue with what they were doing. RAs for Broadway and Ruggles have confirmed that the incident occurred in the early morning hours of Oct. 25th, but few know the details of what happened, and none are willing to discuss it on record.

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Oh happy day for John Jay, Hartley and Wallach residents, who now can indulge in that most modern of luxuries: hot running water.

After two days of freezing hell waters, the situation has been resolved, and students can engage in their regularly scheduled showers. 

Emails of relief after the jump.

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We were dismayed to receive the following Concerned Email from Nussbaum resident Allon Brann this afternoon.

Brann, like so many unsuspecting students, attended the Nussbaum incarnation of ResLife’s Thanksgiving free-food giveaway. But “the holiday offering of cider, pie, whipped cream, and candy is merely a front for a sinister aim:  the indoctrination and eventual conversion of the non-believers among us,” he said.

You see, the candy corn distributed by ResLife is not candy corn at all! Nay, it’s Scripture Candy (“Reaching the World on Piece at a Time!”), and every package includes a Biblical quotation. (See above for two examples from Corinthians and Romans.) Brann’s package featured the following: “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” It’s Romans 5.8, and Allon Brann is not pleased.

Also of note: the Scripture Candy Company labels the candy corn “Harvest Seeds,” when they are abosutely not.

The ladies (and gentlemen) of Barnard ResLife are looking for input from BC students in the form of a new online survey. The survey comes on the brink of a recent Town Hall meeting, at which several *significant* changes [emphasis theirs] to this spring’s room selection process were proposed. 

Barnard’s put up an enormous PowerPoint presentation to highlight some of these proposed changes. For instance, instead of receiving a joint lottery number, suite mates would be able to register as individuals with individual lottery numbers. To combine as a suite at registration time, a student would have to “pull-in” the other members. Confused? See preppy, well-coiffed Lego figures act out the scenario above for clarification.

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