More on false sighting of J-school student’s attacker.  (Look for a scar on his stomach? Come again?) On being a “So-and-So Professor of Such-and-Such” They may cure their own corn beef, but their chicken noodle soup probably won’t cure this A Central Park Jogger debate-esque opinion piece…except it’s unclear who said this girl was “asking” […]

Spec is reporting that an employee at Appletree supermarket tipped off police to a man he believes to be the suspect in the recent Journalism School student rape. We don’t know at this point if it was in fact the suspect himself [UPDATE: He’s not], but police responded to the tip and searched the area this morning.   […]

Peter Gordon probably isn’t travelling to West Virginia any time soon. While being interviewed about his research on the Piraha, a tribe in the Amazon, for The New Yorker, the Teachers College Speech and Pathology prof made an unfortunate reference to one of America’s most persistent regional stereotypes. “If there is some kind of Appalachian […]

Four groups competed for student attention on Low Plaza today, a confluence of causes amidst an already eventful “Earth Week” and following yesterday’s demonstrations by LionPAC, Filasteen, Lucha & Co. Today’s events featured Darfur, Manhattanville, drugs, and cardboard boxes. Amnesty International was out promoting Darfur Awareness Week with a mock refugee camp, apparently the hottest thing in […]

When a typo is more than just a typo.

Chiquita Banana Told to Split  (What happened to the good ol’ days?) The only experiment in Frontiers of Science is the class itself “Being Muslim in America involves ‘heavy baggage.’ No, not bombs!” His Potential ’08 Summer Job Beats Yours  Staff Editorial on the VT Shooting Response Here

According to an email circulated among the science types, the CC’07 Valedictorian is Claire Lackner, a published Physics major and Rabi Scholar, and daughter of Lamont-Doherty climate change maven Klaus Lackner. Don’t hate her because she’s smarter than you, or because she’s not on facebook–that’s pretty much par for the course. Memo after the jump. 

While Public Safety clamps down on Columbia’s physical security, some students were alerted today to a breach in the university’s virtual defenses. According to an email they received, Housing and Dining accidentally exposed information from students’ housing files online for a period on April 2nd. “Exposure was limited,” the email goes on to say, “because there […]

Following the Virginia Tech shootings, Public Safety has announced that all Student Aides, who help man dorm security desks, are to be replaced with regular security guards for the rest of the semester. In an email sent today by Student Aide Coordinator Andrew Ness (provided after the jump), students who work at the desks were […]

What? You’re not already sick of the amateur parodies of SNL’s “Special Christmas Box” that have been pollinating YouTube for months? You want to see law students pretend they have an iota of creativity by donning fake beards and Orthodox Jewish outfits to present you with boxes full of…Bagels with Lox? That’s the theme of the […]

A few who knew that LionPAC had reserved the Sundial for the same time that Lucha and Filasteen were planning a human wall across Low Plaza anticipated a showdown – but would have been disappointed, as the event went down without incident. About 50 people (very roughly speaking), including many of the New York Magazine […]

In case you haven’t checked your email within the last hour – or tend to disregard student council announcements altogether – Columbia’s student councils have joined forces to schedule a candlelight vigil for victims of the Virginia Tech massacre. The ceremony will take place tomorrow (Wednesday) night at 9PM by the Sundial. CCSC President Seth […]

Nikki Goldstein writes in to say $3.95 will get you assorted fruits to dip into the chocolate fountain at Ferris Booth — break out the Flex!

As students react to the Virginia Tech shootings, police hunt J-School student’s torturer Not just youth apathy? GSSC election turnout plummets Admin asks: How short would you make your showers for $25 in Flex? Meanwhile, profs fight climate change with “global thermostat,” clubs with $100 Whole Foods shopping spree Morality may not exist…but it’s best […]

The Chicano Caucus has just issued a statement regarding the verdicts on the seven stage rushers (will this story never end?), endorsed by four other cultural groups plus SPEaK, declaring that the group “must conclude that bias affected the decisions.” It’s considerably more diplomatic than Karina & Co.’s hit piece, but makes no bones about […]