If you’re returning to campus after a fall break filled with family, hometown friends, and studying lazing around in bed, you’ll notice that Facilities has started to install lights on the College Walk trees. Stay tuned for an announcement for the tree-lighting ceremony in a week or so. The lights are actually lit before the […]

Sheetrock falling in McBain was clearly not enough for the Columbia ceilings’ reign of terror over students’ heads. The failure of basic infrastructure continues, causing more destruction of  property/sense of peace/personal integrity, this time in Hartley. Because the one worse thing than sheetrock falling in your bedroom is sheetrock falling in your bathroom, right above your […]

Exactly we’ve all been waiting for: a documentary about the kind of gross diner cultural touchstone that is Tom’s Restaurant. The “Documentary about Nothing Everything” now has a trailer and everything. Check it out and maybe surprise your friends with some fun facts the next time you get a 3 AM milkshake.

As fall break comes to an end, Columbia’s lawns shed their green grass, adopting instead their winter coat of white plastic tarp.

In the late 1960s, the Board of Trustees commissioned the architectural firm IM Pei & Partners to conduct a study of space in Morningside Heights. The study yielded a report titled “Housing at Columbia,” which surveyed the opinions of students on the housing situation at Columbia. The report’s authors included transcripts of interviews with students […]

Don’t forget that school’s out for a reason. New York Mayoral elections are Tuesday November 5th (tomorrow), and in the spirit of the holiday have an election guide courtesy of Columbia Political Union. If you are registered to vote in New York, polls are open from 6 AM to 9 PM. Election guide thanks to […]

When Sam “Ruby Prince” Aarons told us he was selling Print@CU to Spectator, we were happy for him–it’s a big sell and it makes sense; Sam’s graduating this year and Print@CU will need upkeep after he’s gone. But next thing we know we’re getting all these freaked tips and noticing concerned conversation by the sanest […]

It’s fall break a.k.a. Election Day weekend. So read about Jack Hidary, mayoral candidate and Columbia drop out. He’s gunning for third.  Jack Hidary—tech entrepreneur, millionaire, and aspiring politician—will not be the next mayor of New York. According to a recent The Wall Street Journal/NBC 4 New York/Marist poll, even if Hidary sways every undecided […]

This past Wednesday, Casa Italiana showcased pianist Konstantin Soukhovetski. He performed selections from Philip Glass’s The Hours score as well as his own solo piano arrangements of Strauss’s Capriccio and “Four Last Songs.” This concert featured the premiere of Soukhovetski’s arrangement of the final scene of Verdi’s La Traviata. Traviata obsessor Alexandra Svokos was, naturally, there. Soukhovetski is a […]

ZOMG guys, Kristen Stewart’s on campus!!!!! According to a few tipsters sticking it out on campus over break, the ever-edgy, awkward lip-biting Twilight star is hanging out in Lerner filming something. And not just in Lerner, but in Ferris Booth. Maybe she’s playing another angsty student? Will the Kent attic be utilized as another vampire […]

Didn’t we say we had a fucking amazing cross country team? Yesterday at the Ivy League Cross Country Heptagonal Championships, the Columbia men’s team achieved 48 points (remember: lower points is better) for the win–beating out defending champ Princeton and tying Columbia’s historical best from 1979 at the Heps. Nicolas Composto, CC’14, took second place […]

Last Wednesday afternoon, Columbia Law Professor Eben Moglen gave the second part of four in his lecture series Snowden and the Future. A video and transcript of the lecture are now online. Bwogger Kevin Chen went to check it out.  I arrived early enough to see a flurry of activity, as people attached banners to […]