Classes at elementary school about to get a LOT harder Low Dome of the Rock  Anything vs. Tasti D. = WINNER  Spectator gives Columbia advice on web design?  We’re not smarter, we just have better taste  Plus: You really don’t like us, do you, NYP?

In the last installment of the Friendly Fire series–which earlier brought in the Village Voice’s Nat Hentoff, the New York Post’s Bob McManus, and Columbia’s own Karina Garcia–moderator David Eisenbach talked Monday evening with pundit and failed gubernatorial candidate Arianna Huffington about speech, the press, and that mysterious attack ad. There are few things more […]

Jesus week starts today, kicking off five days of praise and prostration. This afternoon, Low Steps played host to easels on which passersby could at once declare and apologize for their direst sins. What do Columbia students feel sorry for? “for thinking I’m better than non-Ivy students” “for coveting my friends’ money and looks” “God […]

Bwog salutes Israelites and Yankees today as opening days for tribe and team alike kick off.  For the Jews, it’s the first night of Passover, the celebration of the Israelites’ escape from Pharaonic tyranny.  For the Yankees and their fans, it was opening day, with a 9-5 victory over Tampa Bay; a good first step […]

Bwog correspondent Josh Mathew hopped a lecture on Friday about where you can go to get some learning in the Middle East.  In her introductory remarks, Lisa Anderson, Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs, introduced the panelists by noting the common misperception of American education in the Middle East: It doesn’t exist. […]

Columbia University has been named the worst school for movie piracy by the MPAA,  and word has it that the advocacy group is considering legal action against college students (per the Curb Illegal Downloading on College Campuses Act of 2007). You might be advised to delete your pirated file of You, Me, and Dupree before […]

Frontiers of Science lecturer Professor Darcy Kelley, on raising abandoned baby bats: “So I asked my friend how she carried her bats around, and she said she hung them from her bra: it’s warm, it’s wet…” Download the Frontiers podcast if you don’t believe us. Who says this class doesn’t teach first-years useful information?

Can’t you just drink beforehand, THEN sit on Low Steps? It’s the same basic result. Anticipating getting “shafted” by McBain… …Yet despair not! A SIPA Conference on Africa – can’t think of a joke to put here And, from the annals of history, the Michigan Daily presents: Chill Bollinger. “I sat on Lee Bollinger’s bed […]

Every spring at about this time, freshmen walk by Low Steps wondering why a bunch of seniors are sitting there with bottles in paper bags, or why Alma Mat er smells like vomit. Last year, a few of the hipper low-level administrators joined the loiterers in their celebration of public drunkenness, dodging security officers’ halfhearted […]

Saturday was Dean’s Day on campus, in which parents were encouraged to fork over some extra dough to attend lectures on drugs, Mexican popular culture, globalization, and other stuff. Rachel Lindsay attended Prof. Carl Hart’s lecture on demon drugs, and gives us this report:  Meth, like crack, is whack. We know this. But Psychology professor Carl Hart also knows […]

Sort of.  ESC online voting started at midnight, and SEAS kids have until 6:00 PM on Tuesday to register their choices for Academic Affairs, Alumni Affairs/Professional Development, and Student Services Representative–all the other offices are uncontested. But one-party races do make for fun campaign speeches, and courtesy of ESC’s web wizardry, you can watch them […]

Unless you’ve been closeted in the stacks all day, you probably heard the shindig out on the Plaza, which will raise lots and lots of money ($64,445 and counting) to benefit the American Cancer Society. It’s also rather entertaining for passersby, with various field-day type activities filling every corner of the quad. More pictures after […]

Looks like the scales of justice just got a little more balanced at the Law School, where a sharp eyed tipster noticed that the older, traditional, decidedly Christian logo:   has been replaced by something more sleekly innocuous: As we noted before, Columbia did decide to stick with the royalist crosses, but apparently takes a […]

So, it took awhile, but unless you’ve been pent up inside during the last week and a half, spring is finally here! Finally, a time to break out of the boots and slide on those flip-flops, and hopefully some motivation to do your problem set outside in the sun, as opposed to drooling in your […]

Weep, cheer, or do both at the same time. According to the Housing website, lottery numbers are posted! Update! Xavier Estevez provides us with this link showing the lottery listings sorted by priority, which hadn’t been linked from the Housing website. He also gives us the following fun facts: “Only 35 groups, as opposed to […]