The Mortarboard Yearbook is looking to fill editorial positions on its staff. Positions include: Section Editors (Clubs, Faculty, Student Life); Staff Photographer; Business Assistant. Contact email: mortarboard@barnard.edu Contact website: www.barnard.edu/club/yearbook

Join us this Wednesday, February 3, at 8pm in 569 Lerner for a study break with the Columbia Pre-Law Society Executive Board.  You’ll have the chance to meet the new EBoard, hear about our upcoming events for this semester, learn about our other projects, such as our new website, meant to bring you the latest […]

@ 5th Floor Hillel Building (115th and Broadway, across from Schapiro)

Postcrypt Art Gallery is hosting an open poetry slam/open mic this Friday Feb. 5 at 8:00pm, back home in St. Paul’s Chapel. All are welcome and encouraged to bring some poetry to read or an acoustic instrument to play. Free refreshments will be served! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=280788065894&ref=ts

@ Lerner Black Box Saturday, February 6 Auditions at 9am Performances at 8 & 11pm In Egg & Peacock, 7 short plays are written, cast, rehearsed, and performed within a 24-hour period. Be a part of something awesome, with little to no time commitment. eggandpeacock5@gmail.com Event Page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=286336347015&index=1

Following the success of its fall production, “The Priest and the Prostitute,” Nazaara, Columbia’s only South Asian Theater group, is holding auditions for its upcoming Spring production. Positions are available for backstage crew and actors. All levels of experience and interest are welcome – just come to auditions Thursday, February 4 from 9 pm to […]

@ Sulz Parlor (3rd Floor Barnard Hall) Friday February 5th, 6:15pm Services, 7:15pm Dinner Liberal? Pluralist? Traditional? Egalitarian? All are welcome at Shabbat: A Liberal Jewish Experience. Join us for a song-filled service (with guitar!) and a FREE Italian Dinner to follow. Bring your own plate and receive a free t-shirt! RSVP to Kesher@hillel.columbia.edu

Barnard College celebrates the opening of The Diana Center Vag with a ribbon cutting ceremony.  The new seven-story building, with ascending double-height glass atria and a façade of clear and etched colored-glass panels, is already a significant architectural presence on Broadway, in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of New York City. Designed by WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism, the […]

Awaaz, Columbia’s premier journal of South Asian culture and studies, is now accepting applications for editorial positions. We currently have openings for junior, copy and layout editors. If you are at all interested in South Asian politics, culture, photography, literature, poetry, etc., then send a letter of interest to cuawaaz@gmail.com by 11:59 PM, Saturday, February 6th. […]

@ Lerner Broadway room Come join us on Friday Feb. 5th at 5 pm in the Broadway room (in Lerner) to learn more about the opportunities that the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) Scholar Chapter can offer you and how to get involved. HSF has many programs and events that can help you further your educational […]

We’re not sure how much Prince had to do with the creation of the Diana, but colored berets are definitely involved. This week’s report: CCSC: Last night’s meeting began with some healthy self-analysis and critique, with the council noting their difficulties (As well as successes) in collaborating on policy and events with ESC–there was even […]

Bwog is as stoked as anyone else for tomorrow’s opening of the Diana, not least of all for the deluge of tremendous Overheards to come.  This marks the beginning of what will surely be a prosperous endeavor (this is totally what Setting Out for the West felt like, guys). Overheard in the Diana elevator: Old […]

From the Department of New and Quirky Campus Blogs comes Dicks at Columbia (http://dicksatcolumbia.tumblr.com).  Don’t worry, it’s totally SFW: the blog is a “celebration of the phallus in all its forms” on this undersexed campus, documenting the proprietor’s near-anthropological quest to find and photograph every wang at our apparently wang-obsessed school.  You can help, too!  […]

This clever graffito marking a dollop of unknown provenance in John Jay further proves that life is just more fun with annotation.  And gold stuff. Photo by Claire Sabel

It’s Groundhog Day, and Punxsutawney Phil thinks there’s more winter coming. Staten Island Chuck, though, forecasts an early spring.  In any case, if you see Ned Ryerson, run. Or start ice sculpting. (Gothamist) From our comments: reader Pantsless sent in this awesome time-shifting map of New York. (Kottke) Firefighters rescued a man and a woman […]