23 CommentsBwog received multiple tips this morning about an ashy disturbance looming over Barnard and Columbia’s campus. Public Safety stated that they haven’t heard anything about ash raining down around 116th, but Housing suggested that it might just be from the newly lit heating unit in that building. All we do know is that black ash is scattered widely over streets and campus, and that it’s probably not he-who-must-not-be-named. If you have more information, let us know: tips@bwog.com
Anonymous tip: "It was raining ash on the south end of Barnard’s campus this morning at about 10 30. It was extremely weird."
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@Anonymous The airborn toxic event
@Anonymous Don Delillo’s at it again.
@ENROLLMENT POLICY a little pre-protest teaser??
@a little pre-protest teaser?? http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=258546660855246&ref=ts
@Um Of course, Housing WOULD decide to light the heating unit on the warmest, most pleasant day in weeks…
@what happens when 1200 women share the same kitchen simultaneously?
…this.
@Anonymous I thought the Fire Nation was coming …
@calm down liberal environmental freaks
@A. Resident That’s not coming from Barnard, it’s coming from the building it’s over on the corner of Claremont and 116th, which i believe is a Columbia residential building (with a very strange beauty shop in its lobby, like something from the 1950s, as apparently is their boiler). I have seen that same building emit that same cloud of smoke regularly for years in the colder months, as one of the offices in which I often work has a view in that direction. The building clearly needs a modern boiler.
And yeah the smoke free thing is funny. Every car on Broadway, and every building Columbia owns, is pumping out more toxic smoke than any smoker. It’s so much about policing other people’s habits, isn’t it now? Second hand smoke, my azz. You’re soaking in it.
@Anonymous … the difference being that most pollutants have time to dissipate into the air, lowering concentrations and therefore being less carcinogenic. Campus is a very enclosed space and smokers tend to stand close to buildings (pre-20 foot rule, at least), meaning that it’s very possible to walk into a huge plume of smoke just walking around campus.
It’s essentially the difference between standing 20 feet away from a car’s tailpipe and putting your face right next to it. I imagine you’d be comfortable with one and not the other…
@Anonymous That’s actually not supported by science. You have to stand 2ft downwind of a lit cigarette to have any measurable increase in air toxicity. Honestly, the issue is way overblown, and of anyone on campus really cares about air quality, then they should have gone to another school.
@Anonymous Fair enough. :) I guess the thing is that I typically don’t stand any closer than two feet from someone with a lit cigarette (just because of personal space) anyway. And this is also disregarding the fact that many find the cigarette smell just plain unpleasant. I would mind car pollution a lot more if I could smell it, but since for the most part I can’t…
@Anonymous thank you for being openminded on an internet comment thread. That’s actually rare!
@Fun Fact I am a non-smoker, and I enjoy the smell of cigarettes. If banning something because we don’t like the smell is how things work now, then we should ban Halal carts and fresh flowers.
@Anonymous seriously! Fucking Halal carts are the worst!
@LSAT guy That response sounds like an LSAT logical reasoning argument.
@arparp That’s the Paterno, which is still a luxury condo building with apartments owned by individual owners. Not a Columbia residence. It was featured in Enchanted, so maybe that’d be a better tie-in than Harry Potter.
@Anonymous Barnard’s having trouble electing a new pope i guess
@Anonymous This is hilarious. Please favorite this Bwog!
@pope? or kitchen supervisor?
@it's the airborne toxic event. run.
@... apparently they didn’t get the memo. barnard’s campus is smoke free.
@OMG you guys I could have died out there. oh noeeeeesss. im so glad im alivvvvvveeeeee. jjeeeeezzzzzuzzzz.