Forty years have passed since your parents went to Woodstock and spent the next 39 telling you how awesome it was. Now, Columbia community, it’s your turn! A mini-Woodstock is coming your way beginning your weekend. Yes, that’s right, it’s time for Bacchanal 2009, and by Bacchanal we mean, of course, Woodstocchanal. All the events […]

SEAS students need a break from Morningside Heights, too Hey, we wanna use those fancy classrooms! The social scene at Columbia isn’t easy, and social interaction here can become “a Kafka-esque affair”  Woe is us, we’re sad, and we’re not going to do anything about it

At tonight’s CCSC meeting, VP for Policy Adil Ahmed announced that, after a meeting with Dean Cristen Kromm, alcohol may be allowed in common areas next year. Currently, Columbia does not allow alcohol to be kept anywhere except in an overage student’s room, declaring the common area a “public space” (locks and doors not withstanding). […]

Monday Columbia College Days: The Campus Life Committee starts its attempt to muster up school spirit today.  M-F. Tuesday The Darfur Debate: It’s a chance to see Mahmood Mamdani debate.  Genocide?  Sudan?  The International Criminal Court?  They’ll yak it up.  6:00 PM @ Cowin Aud, TC. Wednesday US vs. Iran: The major turning points in […]

 “French fries in a bowl,” circa 2006 The Wikipedia Collection The smell of old grease wafting from Morningside’s finer college-grade establishments is irresistible in this indecisive weather.  But which one to pick?  The musty, fast-paced oil of HamDel?  The old-fashioned, touristy lard of Tom’s?  Or, the sushi-soba mix of M2M?  In this installment of “The […]

The weekly “Gee, really?” news of the week: replacing soda with water is healthy.   In fact, water even has fewer calories. The Chronicle is careful not to judge when reporting on Massad’s probable tenure.  It’s just been a “rocky road,” but not the delicious kind. Harvard was mentioned in global media more often than Columbia […]

With the admission of the final batch of CC 2013 students, the time has come upon us. The times which shall see a swell of apple-cheeked youths swarming over the campus, staring all doe-eyed and innocent at Low. In honor of the swarms already here and the swarms yet to come, Resident DVD-Repackaging Expert Mark […]

While baseball and softball both had their doubleheaders postponed, it was otherwise a successful Saturday for Columbia athletics. Most notably, the #10 ranked men’s heavyweight rowing team defeated #8 Princeton and Penn to win its first Childs Cup since 1963. A year after losing by just over a second to Princeton, the boat put it […]

   Image via AnthonyDaCosta.com All’s a-twitter for Bacchanal next week and, on an only-vaguely-related note, Columbia musicians (or Columbia-hopeful musicians) are making waves all over the City. First up: Anthony Da Costa, our charming folksinger prospy is returning tonight to the tiny exposed-brick room that loves him.  The Postcrypt coffeehouse, that is.  Da Costa’s website […]

   Image via Examiner.com The CU Bartending Agency doesn’t seem to be running as smoothly as its sister operation across the street.  Gender (and web-design skill) differences aside, the concept is the same, but now a message on CU Bartending’s homepage alerts “Valued Columbia Bartending Agency Clients” that the agency continues to be “unable to […]

Baseball: For the second weekend in a row, the baseball team split its weekend Ivy league double-headers. After 13-9 and 8-6 wins over Yale, the team dropped two close games, 9-7 and 12-11, to Brown. A midweek 9-1 thumping of Rutgers, though, put the team back on track heading into four games this weekend against […]

   Image via the Boston Massacre Historical Society The New School is (or was) at it again!  We told you last December of their first attempt at a building takeover and in February of their threats to shut down the entire university, largely over a desire to see current president (and former Nebraska senator) Bob […]

Columbia University Film Productions (CUFP) is hosting its own film festival tonight at 8 p.m. in the Roone Arledge Cinema. Besides the festival offering FREE FOOD, films being screened are the works of Columbia students and staff, including a film by Lili Gu, SEAS ’09. Now, if that name sounds suspiciously familiar to you, it […]

Dry your tears, you downtrodden Dionysians: it seems that La Negrita may not be closing, after all. In a message sent to members of La Negrita’s Facebook group, bar manager Jared Cardon says the bar “got it’s [sic] 11th hour reprieve and will stay open.” Details are few, but the a new “Partner/Manager” named Eric […]

 Image courtesy of Facebook In a school-wide email announcement earlier this afternoon, Dean of Student Affairs Kevin Shollenberger announced that MIT Financial Aid Director Daniel Barkowitz will be Columbia’s new Dean of Financial Aid and Associate Dean of Student Affairs. “A financial aid professional with over twenty years of experience in higher education – most […]