That’s right, despite the tired sadness that you may feel emanating from students on campus, today is ENERGY DAY! You can recharge by participating in the following shocking activities which our campus is buzzing with: Earth Institute: Lecture on Microgrids. Low Library, 6 pm. Screening: There Once Was an Island. SIPA 918, 6 30 pm. […]
Noon, today in the Lerner Piano Lounge is Live at Lerner’s final Sounds event of the year! How time flies. The menu is brunch themed – quiche, bagels, fruit, coffee. There will also be student artwork, courtesy of Columbia University Photography Society. Make sure to provide Live at Lerner with feedback via their survey for […]
Apparently, if elected Mayor, Bill de Blasio would let Vampire Weekend write New York’s official song. Adjust your vote accordingly. (Politicker) A UCLA Professor teaching game theory gamed the exam system and let his students cheat however they wanted on an impossibly hard final. (KCRW) NYC legislators may write a new bill raising the legal […]
Last week, a newcomer to Bacchanal recorded—or attempted to record—his revelry experience. Tonight, a slightly more seasoned Columbian shares his own weekend’s Party Testimonial, a raucous adventure that crossed boroughs. I had the first fun I’ve had in months at Potluck House‘s annual Subway Party, last Friday, on the way to—and at—Coney Island. It was […]
As you all know, the day prospies leave campus after DoC is the happiest saddest day of the year. So in an attempt to wish them a proper goodbye and hopefully bring them back in September, we braved the seven seas of Butler and asked the locals for some advice to prospies. Here’s what we […]
Last Thursday, the jazz programs of Columbia and Princeton came together in a night of great music, celebration, and camaraderie. We sent our resident jazz junkie Madysen Luebke to cover the event; here’s her report. The CU Jazz program is an unexplored gem of the Columbia arts scene that came out of hiding last Sunday […]
In the March issue of The Blue and White—on-campus and online now—now, Britt Fossum, CC ’16, tells us about some crazy desert science stuff Columbia used to be into. “The strange part was the rationale for construction in the first place,” admits Dr. Nicholas Christie-Blick of Columbia’s Earth and Environmental Sciences Department, describing the glassy […]
Hungry for some environmental consciousness? The Barnard EcoReps are organizing a Potluck today at 6PM in Altschul—come enjoy some free food and learn about how to lower your carbon footprint. Other green events today: Jacqueline Ottoman is speaking about green marketing at 6 PM in Hamilton 517 in an event organized by Consilience. CleanEdison is screening Carbon […]
“Hey, get down! They’re going to call the police on you!” —this was the cry of a metaphor of a vox populi shaped by years of oppression by the establishment a child as he observed his brother, a strong independent boy who don’t need no ground, climb a pole on college walk this weekend. First world anarchy […]
Earth Day is here! (Google) But it doesn’t sound like there’s much to celebrate about. China is getting yet another kind of avian flu. (The Huffington Post) The cinnamon challenge apparently isn’t safe anymore. (Chicago Tribune) Reese Witherspoon was arrested. (USA Today) So stay tuned for Columbia’s Earth Week events—you can learn how to help […]
To honor our heritage/amorous affair with our mother magazine, we will continue posting pieces from the current issue of The Blue and White. Keep an eye our for the mag in Butler, Lerner, and select residence halls. If you are interested in subscribing to the magazine, direct your correspondence to bweditors@columbia.edu. In this feature, magazine contributor and Bwog […]
Do u enjoy replacing actual letters 4 their numerical equivalents? Do u also enjoy misspelling or reducing words 2 one letter? Well, 2001 Britney Spears did and so should u. So come 2 our meeting @ 7 pm 2nite in the SGO on the 5th floor of Lerner 2 show off ur txt lingo skillz. […]
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