This is us, Paula and Christina, two of your average Columbia freshmen. We’ve got Carman parties, Lit Hum, and mandatory meal plans. About our campus… It grows because we build complexes all over the city. And between you and us, something amazing happened…and now we can talk to animals! It’s really cool, but totally secret. […]

Havana Central, rest in peace. The West End, rest in peace. Bernheim and Schwartz, the new restaurant and beer hall opening up on Broadway looks almost done from the exterior; it has new sidewalk, a new sign, and has started to enclose its outdoor seating area. The restaurant is hiring, which is good because we […]

I found a Ving card in front of the Broadway side of Lerner at around 4pm today. I’m not going to give it to Hartley Hospitality because I reckon they’ll charge $50 anyways. Contact me via email for pickup: yh2568@columbia.edu

Every week, tons of speakers grace Columbia’s campus and make us all a bit smarter, which we chronicle in Bucket List. Corruption Cognoscente Amsal Lakhani went to “Maximizing Illicit Profits: Understanding How Corrupt Officials Choose How Much to Charge for Bribes,” on Thursday, and has a lot to say about it. Thursday’s lecture was prefaced by […]

Once in a while a new form of social media comes along for us to add to our already two page folder of social media apps on our phone. The latest craze amongst the kids (by this, we mean first years) is an app called Yik Yak. Much like Bored@Butler, the app allows for you to […]

We’ve heard a few rumors that one of our favorite places to get salads just got even more expensive: Milano is charging $1 extra for chopped salads. Nothing about capitalism in America has infuriated me more. The horror! The horror! Let us know if this has happened to you too, or if an entrepreneurial individual […]

The Palin family may have gotten into a drunken brawl. (State Column) Endless salad and breadsticks? There must be a downside. (Arizona Daily Star) “A 15-metre-long behemoth with a crocodile-like face,” or the first known aquatic dinosaur. Terrifying. (IBN) Meanwhile, putting tanks in towns may not be the most popular idea. (NYT) Not impressed via Shutterstock

Bwog has discovered that Class of 2018 has a lot of feelings about Furnald. They share them below. Temperature Titan Caroline Mansour tells us about the great Furnald AC outage of 2014. Remember last week when it was 90 degrees outside? When first years rode the heat wave all the way to their first days […]

Some brilliant entrepreneur in EC is selling the last half-bite of what looks like a wonderful sandwich. The fine customer service of this enterprise is shown by a generous offer to “remove meat for vegetarians.” Hurry, or this fragment of bread will be gone.  

Columbia’s academic buildings have odd bathroom patterns. Many a time, students must walk several floors to find a bathroom they can use (and want to use). To solve this issue, we sent some magnificent bathroom mappers to survey several buildings’ restroom facilities and present them to you in easy-to-remember poetic form. Gender-neutral bathrooms, and an […]

“Rape shouldn’t be part of the college experience.” “Red tape won’t cover up rape.” Earlier this week, No Red Tape delivered this letter to President Bollinger, proposing further reforms to Columbia University’s most recent sexual assault policy. Today, they’re holding a “Stand With Survivors” demonstration until 3, where student and alumni survivors are sharing their […]

Remember when myBarnard almost dropped everyone’s classes? Yea? Today, if you have bad professors, shitty lecture sections, or otherwise crappy classes that you don’t want anymore, feel free to drop them…but of your own volition. Make your changes before 5 pm, because that’s CC’s deadline for adding, dropping or changing sections of a Core class. For […]

NFL Commish Roger Goodell dropped the ball on Ray Rice’s domestic abuse investigation, and Ray Rice was dropped from his endorsement deals with Nike, Vertimax and several other companies. (CBS) Speaking of f*ball, Rihanna was dropped from last night’s Thursday Night opening segment. Apparently, CBS wanted to beat an already pretty badly maimed horse instead […]

Last night, an infuriating amount of students began requesting to be taken off of the Columbia Democrats email listserv. One tipster suggested that the unsubscribe-request rate correlated with Obama’s approval rating. However, the trouble came when the messages asking to unsubscribe began to forward to everyone on the listserv, not just the CU Dems Board […]

Lectures around campus have already begun for the semester, and Media Maven Max Rettig went to check out a lecture on conflict journalism and the late James Foley. “I wish we had a more upbeat topic for you, but we don’t want to hide the truth from you” was the opening line of this panel […]