As you wake up on your last real weekend of college, look toward the very near future. Cartoon by Abigail Santner

Columbia Greenhouse Nursery School’s Spring Fair brings an abundance of youthful joy into Morningside Heights on this scorchingly hot first day of May. Photo by MMT

The Senior Fund wants you. Say goodbye to St. Vincent’s. (NYT) Local residents question the future of Section 8. (Spec) Ducklings take over Park Ave. (NYP) Photo via Wikimedia Commons

The baseball team won both of its games against Penn today, overcoming a 9-2 deficit in the second, to clinch first place in the Gehrig Division of the Ivy League. The team advances to the Ivy League Championship series against an opponent yet to be determined next weekend. The team last won the division in […]

There has been a lot of discussion over the issue of the academic calendar and exams on December 23rd. Today the Senate passed a resolution aimed at resolving some of the problems by allowing students to reschedule December 23rd exams. Dane Cook was Bwog’s man in the room. The Columbia University Senate convened this afternoon […]

Bwog’s rave-reviewed collaboration with the Culinary Club known as Cooking With Bwog 2.0 continues. On the menu this week: Avocado Crab Salad for the main course with Poached Pears for dessert. Avocado Crab Salad (Serves 4, Time: 30 minutes) Ingredients: Juice of 1 lime 4 tbsp. olive oil 2 tbsp. finely chopped jalepeno 3 tbsp. […]

Butler Smells, Come to Hillel! There’s plenty of study space, group work space, paper writing space, sleeping space, eating space, and more space galore! Hillel is open most nights until 2:00AM, from May 4th-12th, with a special ALL NIGHT at Hillel on Sunday, May 9th(with breakfast at 6AM), and Monday (5/10) & Tuesday (5/11) until 3:00AM. […]

The Columbia Queer Alliance is hosting their final First Friday event in Lerner Party Space tonight, on the last Friday of the month. It features a Drag Pageant with Columbia students and Saharah Davenport from 9 to 11, followed by a party until 2. So if you’ve ever wanted to see CQA’s board in drag […]

CAVA has historically had trouble securing funding for even its most basic needs.

Join the Barnard Ecoreps for the last Harvest Dinner of the year, from 5:30-7:30 on May 4! Hewitt Dining Hall will be providing great food, mostly vegetarian with hormone and antibiotic free chicken! Enjoy the beginning of reading week and the end of classes with fresh veggies from Long Island and other local cakes and […]

Friday, April 30 5-6:30 PM Satow Room, Lerner Hall Join Columbia University’s Helvidius Group for the release and launch event of its annual publication, the 2010 Journal of Politics & Society. Guest speaker Greg Callus will present on the emerging significance of new social media outlets in the political sphere. Article authors Andrei Stetsenko and […]

There’s a bevy of free food available today if you know where to look. First, at 3:00 on Furnald Lawn, the Culinary Society is celebrating the end of the year with a fiesta. Get there quick for free tacos, beans, rice, aguas frescas, and tres leches cake. Then, from 6:30 to 7:30 in the West […]

The new Deputy Mayor is a Midwesterner, and a really swell guy. (NYO) NYPD told the parents of  Stony Brook student he died in a car crash, but he didn’t. (WCBS) A new newsstand is opening at 116th and Broadway, causing drama with the one that already exists across the street. (Spec) The Times’ Cityroom […]

Saturday, May 1 10-11 PM Lerner Party Space We know what you like. Old-school a cappella sung by some of the handsomest fellers around amidst the companionship of your collegiate brethren. You relish the harmonies of suspended fourths stacked under perfect fifths; you revel in the glory of masculine melodies and dulcet tones… You also […]

For those that will be spending their weekend buried in textual evidence, this week’s guide is nothing more than a waste of space.  But, for those who have lost all hope, check out your outlet options.  And as always, visit insidenewyork.com for more. Postscrypt Artsfest 2010 Support your local undergrad artists by attending this year’s […]