This horrific coffee spill also caused the frying of at least one Macbook. Seriously. Photo by BPD

Between 1980 and now, the percentage of all university classes taught by tenured professors has dropped from 75 percent to less than 25 percent.

In one of the most pitch-perfect moments of last night’s Varsity Show, John Goodwin, playing a young CC professor who insists that students call him by his first name and holds his office hours at 1020, declared that “CC is not about reading the great philosophers. It’s about students with different viewpoints coming together to […]

An International Food Festival shall take place in Furnald Plaza from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. featuring Mexican, Afghan, Italian, French, and Jordanian food.  All food will be cooked by students who have resided in said lands. Enjoy! Photo via Wikimedia Commons

Postcrypt Artsfest 2010 begins now in the Van Am Quad and ends with an open mic at 11 p.m. Live music will be performed all day. Stop by for free FeelGood grilled cheeses and an art sale! Rumor has it that there is also a catharsis tent.  Come support Columbia’s undergraduate artists!

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. […]

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.

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 […]