Join us at Glass House Rocks and Rolls 2010! For one night only, Lerner becomes a giant glass house of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Stop by for some LASER TAG, delicious Dinosaur BBQ, tons of free giveaways (including t-shirts), awesome dance performances on the ramps, and much more! Contact glasshouserocks2010@gmail.com for more information.

Columbia band Life Size Maps brings their rowdy brand of upbeat cello pop downtown to the Bowery Poetry Club at 308 Bowery (Between Bleecker and Houston). Contact mfm2129@columbia.edu or visit http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=283577304362 for more information.

Breakthrough Collaborative is a nation-wide not-for-profit with a twofold mission: Empowering under-resourced, high-potential middle school students in their dream of college graduation. Enlightening college students about careers in education. Breakthrough does this by running academically-intense summer programs in 29 different cities for middle-school students. Their teachers are YOU, a select group of college students looking to positively impact local communities throughout the United […]

Breakthrough Collaborative is a nation-wide not-for-profit with a twofold mission: Empowering under-resourced, high-potential middle school students in their dream of college graduation. Enlightening college students about careers in education. Breakthrough does this by running academically-intense summer programs in 29 different cities for middle-school students. Their teachers are YOU, a select group of college students looking to positively impact local communities throughout […]

Dear Friends: Please join the staff of The Blue and White and the Bwog (pictured at right) at our first meeting of the semester, happening tonight, Monday night, at 9:30 p. m. in the basement of St. Paul’s Chapel. First-years and new writers/artists/layout designers are especially welcome and encouraged to attend. We’ll be planning our […]

With the National Weather Service warning us of flash floods and wind gusts of up to 70 mph, today was shaping up to be a terrible day for not only students, but umbrellas as well. Oh parasols protecting us from pernicious precipitation… we hardly had the chance to know each other. In fact, Bwog’s armchair […]

If you had a craving for a freshly-made salad or sandwich from Café 212 this weekend, you probably found yourself out of luck. Indeed, in a move that disappoints many, Dining Services recently made the decision to stop its salad and sandwich services on the weekends. According to Director of Dining Vicki Dunn, the café […]

One or two (but certainly not three!) of you had something to say about last semester’s unfortunate Study Day(s?) timing. No one wants to study for Econometrics two days before Christmas, so Marisa Rama and Jordan Hewson, both CC ’12, created a Facebook group as a form of petition against future years following the same […]

A view from John Jay 10. Thanks to Chris McGinn, CC ’13, for sending this in!

In the Bronx, as part of a gun buyback program, people got cash for turning in their guns… even BB guns. (Gothamist) In Manhattan, there are so many transgender name change requests that its Civil Court could be one of the nation’s leading name-changing institutions. How topical! (NYT) In Stuyvesant Town, all is not well. […]

Nightline, the Columbia community’s anonymous peer counseling hotline, is excited to announce that training classes for prospective Nightline counselors are about to begin. For more information about our organization, students can go to http://www.columbia.edu/cu/nightline/ or contact the Nightline directors at nightlineinfo@columbia.edu. Nightline Info Sessions: Wednesday 1/27 at 8:00 pm in 424 Kent Hall Friday 1/29 at […]

Columbia New Poetry welcomes anything as long as it’s new and poetic: your best haikus, compositions, artwork, flash fiction, short essays, sonnets, lyrics and letters. Submissions should include your name and contact info, and be sent by February 20, 2010 to columbianewpoetry@gmail.com. Interested in joining the editorial board? Please e-mail use with your name, year, […]