Saturday was Dean’s Day on campus, in which parents were encouraged to fork over some extra dough to attend lectures on drugs, Mexican popular culture, globalization, and other stuff. Rachel Lindsay attended Prof. Carl Hart’s lecture on demon drugs, and gives us this report:  Meth, like crack, is whack. We know this. But Psychology professor Carl Hart also knows […]

Sort of.  ESC online voting started at midnight, and SEAS kids have until 6:00 PM on Tuesday to register their choices for Academic Affairs, Alumni Affairs/Professional Development, and Student Services Representative–all the other offices are uncontested. But one-party races do make for fun campaign speeches, and courtesy of ESC’s web wizardry, you can watch them […]

Unless you’ve been closeted in the stacks all day, you probably heard the shindig out on the Plaza, which will raise lots and lots of money ($64,445 and counting) to benefit the American Cancer Society. It’s also rather entertaining for passersby, with various field-day type activities filling every corner of the quad. More pictures after […]

Looks like the scales of justice just got a little more balanced at the Law School, where a sharp eyed tipster noticed that the older, traditional, decidedly Christian logo:   has been replaced by something more sleekly innocuous: As we noted before, Columbia did decide to stick with the royalist crosses, but apparently takes a […]

So, it took awhile, but unless you’ve been pent up inside during the last week and a half, spring is finally here! Finally, a time to break out of the boots and slide on those flip-flops, and hopefully some motivation to do your problem set outside in the sun, as opposed to drooling in your […]

Weep, cheer, or do both at the same time. According to the Housing website, lottery numbers are posted! Update! Xavier Estevez provides us with this link showing the lottery listings sorted by priority, which hadn’t been linked from the Housing website. He also gives us the following fun facts: “Only 35 groups, as opposed to […]

Just in, from an anonymous tipster: “I’m at work in my humble cubicle in the Journalism School right now.For some reason Danny Glover is sitting next to me on his cell phone discussing some movie that he wants to be 2 and a half hours long and financed by $18 million.”  As long as you […]

As if you haven’t heard enough: Election news! Election news! Election news! (Happy people with alcohol!) Ollie’s gets sued for being a crappy employer; unfortunately, noodles remain disgustingly greasy  M’ville: Mo’ money, less problems? More about why the RIAA sucks The antithesis of a Columbia student, with reason

Finally, it’s over: CCSC election results are in, and the victory parties underway (continuing 2009 President George Krebs planned a big one, the Sophomore Semi-Formal in Low, at which he was spotted breaking it down with a crown on). Bwog’s poll of earlier this week proved a mostly accurate indicator, and there were few surprises: […]

Bwog voted (after fighting its way through the halo of handshaking candidates outside Lerner). Have you?

The grass is back!

Bragging rights for the talented seventh Fixing a (near meteoric) hole where the rain got in “Sometimes I’ll try to swipe and miss [the turnstile in Lerner] and catch it right at [my] groin.” Edit:  Online voting A LINK IN HONOR OF THE FACT THAT THE BANQUET IN HONOR OF THE KING OF SPAIN WAS […]

See it! Woyzeck, a production of Columbia Stages, runs from March 28 to April 1 at the Riverside Theater, 91 Claremont Avenue at 120th Street. Free with a Columbia ID! Woyzeck is a tragic masterpiece penned by the brilliant German intellectual Georg Buchner, who before his death from typhus in 1837—only 23 years old—founded a […]

We didn’t get pictures like last year, but word is that acceptance letters went out today, meaning that there are going to be a lot of angsty posts over here and excited youngsters the world over refreshing their e-mail obsessively. CC and SEAS combined got over 21,000 applications–that’s a lot to reject! Welcome, class of […]

David Iscoe reports on secular advantages to Kosher-for-Passover food. In many ways, for food lovers, religious dietary restrictions are horrible.  It’s not that I can’t imagine a life in which I couldn’t eat a cheesesteak, it’s just that I imagine that life would suck. The laws cut both ways, however. Sometimes, religious laws act as […]