Yesterday, Morningside Heights got five-ish minutes of rain. Other parts of the country got tornadoes and October snow. (USNews, Chicago Tribune)

a don't-panic button to get you through these strange times

a don’t-panic button to get you through these strange times

The Columbia men’s XC team (ranked #27 in the nation) beat Tulsa (#7) and Princeton (#9) at the Notre Dame Invitational yesterday. This development should cause us to not be number 27 when rankings come out later this week. (FloTrack)

The government is still shut down. For someone, somewhere, that means free food. (BBC)

And in case you weren’t already mad at/scared of the nation’s capital after this week, a man set himself on fire  at the National Mall yesterday. (NPR)

 

 

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