Hundreds stood, their fists raised, ringed by police, silent. And then, the cries went up. “Together we unite to take back the night!”  “Hey hey, ho ho, Sexual Violence has got to go!” The crowd, about 90% women and the most popular men on campus, lurched forward, flooding across Broadway and down 116th street to […]

Because Bacchanal is giving them out on the steps right now–enjoy the boxes of greasy goodness while watching everyone’s favorite stoner movie, Harold and Kumar go to White Castle!

If you heard the happy shouts of children outside Philosophy this afternoon, here’s why. We’re not perverts, we promise–just innocence-deprived.   – LBD        

1)  Finding the Columbia search engine less efficient than manually locating wanted pages? Google through all of the columbia.edu pages here.  It works like a dream. 2) Cents and insensitivity:  Moneycontrol India asks whether Indian students may be deterred from studying in the U.S. following the massacre at Virginia Tech.  Columbia’s cited. 3)  The beacon […]

Looks like our favorite ex-U of M president has taken a Midwestern rivalry to a new level--PrezBo is set to join the Washington Post Company’s Board of Directors on May 10, where he will govern the company with 11 others.  Word has it that Bollinger was nominated because of the help he could give Post […]

The NYPD has released information about the man accused of raping and torturing a Journalism School student in Hamilton Heights last week.  The man, William Roberts, has a criminal record and apparently frequents homeless shelters in the area.  Read WABC’s coverage here. UPDATE: Public Safety has put up a notice here, and is looking for […]

More on false sighting of J-school student’s attacker.  (Look for a scar on his stomach? Come again?) On being a “So-and-So Professor of Such-and-Such” They may cure their own corn beef, but their chicken noodle soup probably won’t cure this A Central Park Jogger debate-esque opinion piece…except it’s unclear who said this girl was “asking” […]

Spec is reporting that an employee at Appletree supermarket tipped off police to a man he believes to be the suspect in the recent Journalism School student rape. We don’t know at this point if it was in fact the suspect himself [UPDATE: He’s not], but police responded to the tip and searched the area this morning.   […]

Peter Gordon probably isn’t travelling to West Virginia any time soon. While being interviewed about his research on the Piraha, a tribe in the Amazon, for The New Yorker, the Teachers College Speech and Pathology prof made an unfortunate reference to one of America’s most persistent regional stereotypes. “If there is some kind of Appalachian […]

Four groups competed for student attention on Low Plaza today, a confluence of causes amidst an already eventful “Earth Week” and following yesterday’s demonstrations by LionPAC, Filasteen, Lucha & Co. Today’s events featured Darfur, Manhattanville, drugs, and cardboard boxes. Amnesty International was out promoting Darfur Awareness Week with a mock refugee camp, apparently the hottest thing in […]

When a typo is more than just a typo.

Chiquita Banana Told to Split  (What happened to the good ol’ days?) The only experiment in Frontiers of Science is the class itself “Being Muslim in America involves ‘heavy baggage.’ No, not bombs!” His Potential ’08 Summer Job Beats Yours  Staff Editorial on the VT Shooting Response Here

According to an email circulated among the science types, the CC’07 Valedictorian is Claire Lackner, a published Physics major and Rabi Scholar, and daughter of Lamont-Doherty climate change maven Klaus Lackner. Don’t hate her because she’s smarter than you, or because she’s not on facebook–that’s pretty much par for the course. Memo after the jump. 

While Public Safety clamps down on Columbia’s physical security, some students were alerted today to a breach in the university’s virtual defenses. According to an email they received, Housing and Dining accidentally exposed information from students’ housing files online for a period on April 2nd. “Exposure was limited,” the email goes on to say, “because there […]

Following the Virginia Tech shootings, Public Safety has announced that all Student Aides, who help man dorm security desks, are to be replaced with regular security guards for the rest of the semester. In an email sent today by Student Aide Coordinator Andrew Ness (provided after the jump), students who work at the desks were […]