The Eco-Reps, that cadre of kids who’ll always cheerfully remind you to recycle, need help. Applications are due this Saturday, September 15th at midnight. Apply here, and check out their nifty new site while you’re at it! 

Leonard and Louise Riggo has given $5 million to the Department of Art History and Archaeology. $3 million will establish two professors in the department, one in African Art, and the other of the department’s choice. The rest is divided evenly between undergrads and grads for internships, thesis research, traveling expenses, and etc. Leonard is […]

Like a phoenix, Spectator rises from the ashes. Subway violence does not stop yuppies from buying their brie. Bye bye Zeta Psi. Now you really have to go to New Jersey to get your car fixed…  Mamadou Diouf speaks.  But we still have Sean Lennon…

Love the fashion, hate the week. For people who are interested in Harry Potter’s sex life. Keys open doors. How does Mark Lilla have no reviews on culpa? So is it organic or not?   

Esteemed School of the Arts professor James Schamus received the Venice Film Festival top award, the Golden Lion, for Lust, Caution. The duo saw previous accolades with Brokeback Mountain, which also won the Golden Lion. Directed by Ang Lee and produced and co-written by Schamus, Lust, Caution piggybacks on Brokeback Mountain‘s sexual frankness, garnering the […]

It seems that Spectator and The Eye are both currently down. The Eye is probably hungover from fashion week and parties; Spectator, what’s your excuse? The New York Times finally discovers that people who attend Marc Jacobs’ show are cool. Harlem was too preoccupied over Columbia expansion to note Scientologists creeping in, but the Village […]

Haven’t gotten paid? Bwog delves into the world of lost work-study checks patiently awaiting their owners. The University is (hopefully) the only employer you’ll have which will tell you to wait four to six weeks before they issue your first paycheck. And, as work-studiers can attest, this is hardly a given. You might get paid […]

We got a tip or two about disturbances at the 110th subway stop, but Spec has the full story about the super-violent (three stabbings, a caning) teen brawl that went down earlier tonight here.

    New York is a city with lots of people and most of them walk on the street, and everybody needs food, so there are a lot of street carts selling food. Midtown has the award-winning German sausage cart named “Hallo Berlin”, Washington Square has the vegetarian-but-miraculously-still-tasty dosa cart, and East 116th has a great […]

Over the summer, an anonymous tipster noticed that the Columbia homepage had added a “Giving” button. Poking around further,  the same source found the University’s gift guide, in which everything has a price. The Arts Initiative is looking for between $225-670,000 for a “unified University Box Office” in Lerner with online ticketing. Finally? Putting on […]

RUN NOW and maybe you can catch the last slice of CCSC-sponsored free Domino’s pizza in front of Alma. (They started distributing at 11 a.m.). UPDATE, 2:00 PM: The food’s gone, but circa six hours from now you can get MORE food at the same location from the College Republicans, who are holding a mixer […]

Spectator‘s still having technical difficulties (hooray for low-maintenance web design) so QuickSpec’s expanding its horizons.  Harvard undergrads face phone, pillow shortages  Yale Prez boycotts boycott of boycott (boycott boycott) Because it wouldn’t be Berkeley without people sitting in trees  Penn’s definition of radical amuses us Princeton: it’s still New Jersey Those lucky poor people! Cornell […]

In front of Labyrinth: TA 1: The other TAs are unbelievable to me, because they all went to Harvard and, like… TA 1 and TA 2 (simultaneously): …remembered everything they learned! Somewhere:  Girl to her friend: “Yeah, Zeus is ALWAYS sluttin’ it up. He’s, like, the worst husband ever.” Friend: “My mom’s a psychiatrist. Family […]

Fruit Paunch, Columbia’s oldest improv comedy group, is having auditions tonight in the Broadway SkyLounge at 8 pm. A few things: Fruit Paunch. Wouldn’t it be fun it it were called Fruit Pun-ch? Meta! And yet, not so! Wouldn’t it also be fun if an equally pun-loving (!) rival comedy troupe formed and called themselves […]

Professor Sarah Phillips, in Politics of the American Environment, trying to prompt commentary on the painting at right, after cautious musings about “closing” and “movement”: “Does pink have a gendered element to it?” [silence]. “This is kind of awkward, but I think we need to see this as a virginal landscape.” Class squirms. Then she […]