This Morningside Heights landlord stole $900,000 in rents, possibly from you! (NY Daily News) This Washington Heights barber cut hair, and also killed people. (NY Post) The New School will expand, and people won’t get that upset. (NYT) Maybe not the best time for an art installation with a fake bomb? (Gothamist) 6,700 NYC schoolteachers […]

It’s true: Collision, the sort-of annual end-of-year arts party, is not happening this year. Your one chance to make it to Brooklyn, squandered! According to Rick Fudge, the head of Collision, the board “decided we’d rather focus on smaller, more spontaneous stuff on campus,” like the occasional Minilision (ya know, mini-Collisions!) held this year, and […]

Zoinks! Columbia, or the librarians, or someone nice and also official, is giving out free bagels with cream cheese, fruit, and Oren’s (!) coffee tonight in Butler Cafe from 10 to midnight. Don’t be late, we are cautioned: supplies are limited. There will also be some study break activites, maybe some deep breathing and the […]

As we type! Baked ziti, mac&cheese, salad and a Wii. Third floor of Hillel, which is on 115th between Broadway and Riverside, accross from Schapiro.

"The class was so ineffectively done that I felt cheated out of the class I was supposed to have taken--the class in the course description."

Butler 209 Columbia’s greatest tradition continues at the same Band time, same Band place. Join The Cleverest Band in the World™ for its 51st consecutive, 69th semiannual storming of Butler Library. Get there early or be locked out! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111975658842791

You know the drill: the semester’s ending, strange things are coming up on our lawns, and your teachers are saying even stranger things. We asked for your professors’ closing remarks, and here are a collection of the most outstanding: Sam Moyn, Historical Origins of Human Rights “Well, it’s been a sheer delight. Have nice lives.” […]

Michael Molina, CC Claim to fame: I’ve been involved with various theater organizations, Fruit Paunch, play banjo and guitar in The Kitchen Cabinet, and was the Bwog commenter known as “anti-rjt.” Where are you going? Living in Nolita where I will be writing my robot screenplay and looking for a job in the entertainment industry. […]

Professor Hamid Dabashi is hosting a review session about Hegel for CC sophomores and anyone else interested in chatting with CC sophomores about Hegel today, from 2-3:30, in Hamilton (room unannounced, look for signs in the lobby). The Facebook event’s wall doth runneth over with other semi-rhyming philosopher/food combinations. Bwog likes “Machiavelli and vermicelli”; “Oreos […]

A happy Cinco de Mayo to you and yours! We hear the Reference Room is craazy right now. Floridita isn’t giving up without a fight. (City Room) Bloomberg goes to Washington: the city needs more homeland security funds. (NY Post) Last night at Christie’s Picasso’s “Nude, Green Leaves, And A Bust” became the most expensive […]

Mudd 13th Floor Lounge Enjoy Free Ice Cream, made with Liquid Nitrogen

Took you long enough, Book Culture on Broadway!

Does anyone else feel that way?! Go to these study spots with extended hours and compare how many finals you have with the person sitting next to you as the sun rises. As always, Lerner is open 24 hours during reading week and exams.  Mudd is open for everyone with swipe access: SEAS students or […]

The Blue and White investigates everything you left at the bar last weekend. “It’s just like an Ivy League Eugene O’Neill play,” says Tim Monaghan of the trails of lost luxuries left behind weekly by Columbia students. While bartending 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., Monday to Thursday, Monaghan witnesses students leave behind everything from keys […]

Name, school: Katie, BC Claim to Fame: Student Government Association President. You also loved my Midnight Breakfasts. Where are you going? Law school eventually. A reproductive rights advocate later. Barnard historian last. Three things you learned at Columbia: A sense of community isn’t created by a new building or policy. It happens when you’re sitting […]