Multiple tipsters have confirmed that Mayor Bill de Blasio, his son, Dante de Blasio, and wife Chirlane McCray have been touring around Columbia University—they’ve been spotted walking to campus near Starbucks, strolling through Riverside Park, and taking a personal tour near Butler Library and the freshmen residence halls. One Columbia staff member in Hartley was […]

Today on Lehman Lawn from 12-8 pm WBAR Barnard College Radio will be hosting their annual spring showcase of awesome music acts from all over New York City and beyond. The show is free and open to the public, and there will be free Vanessa’s Dumplings. The lineup this year looks full of both variety […]

There are sketchy emails currently being circulated through the Columbia LionMail network, and some are being sent from actual Columbia students’ email addresses after they clicked on the links to the first one. This might mean that some accounts are being hacked, but this cannot be confirmed. If you receive an email such as this […]

The president of Pace University criticized Columbia’s decision to stop offering internship credits for limiting the availability of educationally valuable, yet unpaid positions. (The Hill) Four French journalists were released this morning after 10 months held hostage in Syria. (ABC News) Google and Amazon are scaring people with their eye-on-the-future technological innovations. Drones are pretty […]

We’re always down to eat (especially in the vicinity of 1020), so we were pretty excited about Pita Grill, a new restaurant across the street from St. John the Divine. We sent gyro guru Artur Renault to sample the menu and write haikus about it. As the spring now blooms, So does a new restaurant; Pita […]

Despite the sudden, unwarranted cool-down this past week, the forecast for the weekend looks to be more friendly for those who love sitting on the Steps. Take advantage of the fact that the weather is finally warming up to the season and go watch the many Columbia teams in action this weekend. Catch a preview […]

It’s that time of year again. The end of the semester is a few weeks away, and the bleachers are starting to go up on Low Plaza. Seniors are starting to frantically take part in campus life any way they can, desperate to cling to their last weeks at Columbia. The rest of us have […]

The critical question for any Columbia student: how #blue are you? Do you represent #OurBlue? We know you’re #dying to find out.

Last Thursday was the Roosevelt Institute’s annual policy forum on the topic of the future of the U.S. defense industry. Never one to miss a good panel discussion, we sent defensive defenestrator Julia Goodman to report. In case you’re unaware, the Roosevelt Institute is a nonpartisan think tank with chapters on college campuses across the […]

A baby is on the way! Grandma for president 2016? (Politico) Kepler -186f isn’t the catchiest name, but it might still make for a good home after we fuck up Earth too badly to live on it. First settler gets naming rights! (CNN) Ewwww these insects are having the wildest sex of any of us. We […]

After The Heights succumbed to the Great Citibank Fire of January 2014, we feared we would never see it again. We keened and wept, depressed at the prospect of 1020 being stuffed with freshmen forevermore. We made a list of the bleak alternatives to having The Heights in our lives… But then, today, we started […]

The King’s Crown Leadership Excellence Awards are coveted by some, as they are given to “students which have offered outstanding leadership to their community/ies with exemplary commitment and energy.” The awards ceremony began tonight at 6:30 in Roone, and some of the students being recognized are wearing red tape on their wrists in solidarity with recent […]

This week’s #tbt is brought to you by the Columbia Spectator Archives and Britt Fossum, who kind of wishes she went to Barnard. Have anything you’d like to see featured? Send it to tips or use our anonymous form. Bacchanal is a fairly recent development in Columbia’s history, starting only in the 2000s. But long […]

Tired of Fox News? So is The Colbert Report, who is on campus right now filming students. We caught up with a CC senior who had just been interviewed for the segment to mock Fox News making Columbia students look stupid. “So The Colbert Report is coming on with unreasonable demands—he holds up a picture of […]

Two Barnard seniors, Julia Discenza and Marjie Shrimpton (BC ’14) have taken on the challenge of creating, directing, and producing a collaborative piece of evening-length dance. What does evening-length entail in the dance world? An evening-length dance piece is a piece of choreography greater than 60 minutes usually that tells a self-contained story of some sort. […]