Outgoing Dean of Columbia College Austin Quigley has just issued a goodbye letter to the students of Columbia College. He wants us to know what an impact we have all made, “individually and collectively,” on his life in the past fourteen years, and so he has copied and pasted his own statements from a previous […]

Today, LionPAC will celebrate Israel’s 61st birthday with an event called “Peace of Cake.” As the title suggests, the cake is doubly symbolic – it says Happy Birthday Israel, how old are you now? while at the same time promoting peace in the region. Bwog didn’t know cake could be used as a tactic to […]

This place sucks, I wanna go back to 4th grade. Go off campus to smoke? Nah, I’d rather take those free nicotine patches and secretly smoke out of my window at 3am. Hell no, I’m not going in that little space. That’s even more depressing than my John Jay single! I’m graduating from Co-Lame-Bia. NOOOOOOO!

One day after voting to impeach University Senator Rajat Roy, ESC Executive Board released the following statement through council president Peter Valeiras: “On Monday (April 27), the Engineering Student Council voted to impeach Senator Rajat Roy from council due to his negligence in fulfilling his responsibilities as outlined in the constitution. The move to call […]

Tomorrow you will wish each other a happy Yom Ha’atzmaut with lots of dignity and layers of clothes, but tonight you will celebrate Israel’s Independence Day in full out “Tel Aviv Beach Style.” Hillel’s celebration begins at 8:45 in Lerner Party Space. The free food has a Mediterranean theme, naturally – feast on falafel, hummus, and Israeli […]

The porcine pathogen may have arrived in Morningside: in an email to all Teachers College students, TC President Susan Fuhrman wrote, “late yesterday afternoon we received a response from a TC student to our communitywide email on swine flu. The student was diagnosed this past Sunday with Type A Influenza, which has been linked to […]

  The May issue of the Blue and White is imminent! For the last issue of the year, Lydia DePillis investigates the skies with Columbia’s Rutherford Conservatory. Or tries to. In Venice in 1609, Galileo created the first known telescope. It was a great leap outward in man’s expanding sphere of knowledge. Four hundred years […]

Ahmadine-who? There’s a new controversial speaker in town. You can now pick up your tickets at the Lerner Ticket Center for the upcoming Ann Coulter talk.  CUCR Executive Director Lauren Salz informs us that students must buy the tickets in person (meaning no online ordering – suck it up and put on some pants), and that […]

Free food is nice. But during the last week of classes, free alcohol can seem more appropriate. Village Pourhouse to the rescue! This week the Amsterdam eatery will be sending out coupons for one free Bud Light. Here’s the twist – it’s via text message. An electronic coupon! How did we ever get trashed without […]

Barnard wrestles with its god(dess) complex. Why would you anger the people in charge of your security? Are you immune to the Cassandra complex? Stop trying to force an inferiority complex onto the music majors. There is nothing complex about our dependence on the tubes. Just disheartening.

Last night, the Engineering Student Council voted to impeach Senator Rajat Roy. Roy was up on impeachment charges for allegedly having hurt ESC’s relationship with other senators and schools by actions including using improper language with a Business School senator.  The impeachment proceedings, according to ESC sources, were initiated by outgoing ESC President Peter Valeiras, […]

Mark Taylor, Chair of the CC Religion Department, published an Op-Ed in the Times today urging us to, “End the University As We Know It.” He focuses on the problem of the graduate school system, calling graduate education the “Detroit of higher education.” Oof. He also condemns the trends of early specialization in the university system […]

The New York Post knows what’s up. Yesterday, the Post featured on their website entitled, not-so-subtly, “Student Bodies”, featuring the 50 hottest college students in New York City. We found two of our own among this jumble of PYTs: Anthony Castellanos, CC ’09, and Sabina Barbulea, BC ’10.  In order to stand out amongst a […]

The final challenge of the EcoReps’ “Do It In the Dark” initiative begins today. To become the “biggest loser”, you and yourself/your roommate/your suitemates must have the room with the most reduced electricity consumption for the week (ending May 3) compared with its consumption at the beginning of the challenge.  The electricty meters will come […]

Roy Den Hollander just can’t seem to catch a break. Today, the Business School ’97 alum’s lawsuit against Columbia for failing to offer a “men’s studies” class was dismissed yet again. This afternoon, an evil feminist cloaked as Judge Lewis Kaplan rejected Hollander’s claim that “feminism is a religion.” Kaplan countered that feminism is “no more […]