Bells will toll 32 times today at noon for the victims of the Virginia Tech students. There’s no official rally, but you should probably be quiet. 

If you haven’t read the post below, he’s been nabbed Diversity — it’s not just a campus issue Ah, College Confidential: wrecking the nerves of pre-frosh everywhere since you were in high school Interview with a Gilmore Girl, Barnard alum, and (apparently) former Furnald resident? Lucky. What we can learn from Virginia Tech Perez Hilton […]

The Daily News reported at 4:00 AM and Spec picked up later that the prime suspect in last Saturday’s brutal rape was apprehended in Queens at about 5:45 PM yesterday. Barnard students were notified by e-mail at 9:00 AM. According to the article, “Robert Williams, 30, is a violent ex-con who attempted to kill his […]

Hundreds stood, their fists raised, ringed by police, silent. And then, the cries went up. “Together we unite to take back the night!”  “Hey hey, ho ho, Sexual Violence has got to go!” The crowd, about 90% women and the most popular men on campus, lurched forward, flooding across Broadway and down 116th street to […]

Because Bacchanal is giving them out on the steps right now–enjoy the boxes of greasy goodness while watching everyone’s favorite stoner movie, Harold and Kumar go to White Castle!

If you heard the happy shouts of children outside Philosophy this afternoon, here’s why. We’re not perverts, we promise–just innocence-deprived.   – LBD        

1)  Finding the Columbia search engine less efficient than manually locating wanted pages? Google through all of the columbia.edu pages here.  It works like a dream. 2) Cents and insensitivity:  Moneycontrol India asks whether Indian students may be deterred from studying in the U.S. following the massacre at Virginia Tech.  Columbia’s cited. 3)  The beacon […]

Looks like our favorite ex-U of M president has taken a Midwestern rivalry to a new level--PrezBo is set to join the Washington Post Company’s Board of Directors on May 10, where he will govern the company with 11 others.  Word has it that Bollinger was nominated because of the help he could give Post […]

The NYPD has released information about the man accused of raping and torturing a Journalism School student in Hamilton Heights last week.  The man, William Roberts, has a criminal record and apparently frequents homeless shelters in the area.  Read WABC’s coverage here. UPDATE: Public Safety has put up a notice here, and is looking for […]

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