31 CommentsResident photobwogger Sumaiya Ahmed snapped some photos of the mega construction efforts tearing up campus and disrupting summer pick-up soccer games.
Thousands (or 1332 CC and SEAS) eager first-years arrive with parents and tuition dollars in just a week! Will Columbia Facilities make it in time?
More photos after the jump…
Resodding the lawn yet again. Anyone know how many times they’ve sodded this summer?
And as the workmen (and women?) toil under a scorching August sun to give us the high-quality green grass and brick pavement we desire…
…the Columbia student enriches her mind in the shade.
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31 Comments
@hey if you folks are that jealous of avi, maybe you should not bitch about him behind his back about meaningless bwog posts and instead just come out w/it.
no wonder all the enron types and weasel ambulance chasing lawyers all have ivy league degrees
@mort listen shut the fuck up for a second. i have a bit of gossip (?) THEY TOOK THE WEST END SIGNb oFF THE WEST END HOLY HELL
@holy fuck the end is near. rally, columbians! get ferlinghetti! to the barricades!
@and even the eic cannot help but fall victim to his always irritated readership. no one is safe.
@yeah it’s like the editor of a publication has to be accountable to his readers or something… what an unreasonable demand, or at least avi seems to think so. after the “it’s not our fault; you guys are the dumb ones!” post he’s been conspicuously absent from bwog…
@so avi... plan to admit fucking up any time soon? or is that pesky ego going to keep getting in the way?
@i love how bwog endlessly degenerates to personal squabbles/attacks
@zhb I am here among the treetops, practicing my bird calls and Gallic gestures.
@ghost of bwog past zach bendiner, where art thou?
@umm, yeah painfully obvious that bwog people aren’t actually on the campus they supposedly cover. the grass is thicker and more lush than ever before, and I watched them planting it FIVE WEEKS AGO. this picture is a month and a half old. the question of course is whether it’s the photographer or the editors who are the morons here…
@a z Chill the fuck out, man. It’s pretty clear that this was a summary of the summer.
@actually It’s not that clear. The whole “in a week” thing misrepresents these renovations. I’m sorry, but the editors fucked up.
@right sorry avi, but the way the thing is written is “Will Columbia Facilities make it in time?” the point is that they already have made it, and whoever wrote this didn’t know that before trying to report what was going on. plus, the assumption in reading a blog is that the information is current, ya? i mean, you could report that there’s some little shitstorm over mealac, but i’m guessing you wouldn’t because, well, it’s over.
@it is? mealac was resolved? I thought it just petered out when interest turned to the next such scandal
@so... So, a z, Avi, rather than recoiling in reflexive defensiveness and then posing as if it’s just all so obvious and all Bwog readers should easily grasp it, why don’t you, y’know, actually enter the discussion with a reasonable disposition and with the wisdom of a fair editor engaging his publication readership, which in this case happens to be more on top of things than what they’re reading.
@honestly this is bwog, not b&w or spec. you’re expecting hyper-accountable, high-quality journalism from a gossip blog? it’s just a bunch of photos, calm down.
@the last poster was avi. take that bwog.
@agreed instead of getting defensive and pretending everyone was just supposed to KNOW the photos posted as a current event were actually several months old, why doesn’t bwog admit it fucked up and then moved on? in response to #18, i’m pretty sure avi zenilman genuinely believes he is a “hyper-accountable, high-quality journalist,” which is exactly why he gets defensive when someone points out that it’s not the case.
@someone My guess is most people who know Avi would agree with comment 20’s interpretation.
@Avi Zenilman We fucked up, etc etc. Its also NOT THAT BIG A DEAL
@the lawn has been resodded for about a month. that picture is way old, but still great. there really was no reason to tear the whole thing up.
also, the kent thing has been going on since late may and looks nowhere near completed. also seems fairly unnecessary.
get used to the butler scaffolding. it will be there until year’s end.
@i wish that the incoming class had 5 more members
@hahaha I know who 9 is.
@just look at the little signs they put up at each project to see whats going on.
the butler work is to clean the grimy facade i believe, and the kent work is to fix and upgrade the drainage under the plaza.
with greene, it’s a lot easier to build something that’s minor and most likely approved already, than it is to build something entirely new that would require studies and approvals by both the city and the community. besides, greene is ugly enough, and making it 19 stories wouldnt help. to add insult to injury it would blot the sun out from wien, which sucks enough as it is. don’t do that to them.
@shira ewwww. everyone knows columbia facilities could probably mobilize an army and get the whole field sodded in 25 minutes, though.
@what is the sense in building a 9th floor to Jerome Greene? I know that when they first built Greene, they left space for a 9th floor, but that seems retarded. I mean, it’s one floor. Why not build another 10 floors. Idiots.
@wtf are they doing in front of kent?
@note on events re: LOL the movie…
bwog has alumni!?
@haha sumaiya how did that laborer feel about you snapping his sisyphean trial?
@the scaffolding around butler is wanton, hideous blasphemy. already ruining the aesthetic calibre of my senior year…how to properly reminisce!?
@they've already finished the resodding. looks beautiful