Gearing up for tonight’s big game? Drop by the following joints for special Superbowl deals and steals: Havana Central $29.95 for assorted empanadas, all-you-can-eat shrimp salad, Cuban sandwiches, vegetarian stuffed peppers, rice and beans, and ropa vieja and all-you-can-drink mojitos, sangrias, draft beer, and soda Village Pourhouse $40 for all-you-can-drink Bud Lite and all-you-can-eat wings O’Connell’s […]

EcoReps are giving away free hot chocolate and cold cider if you sign up for their new energy challenge. Lerner ramps. Looks like you will also get a free SMILE!

Barnard’s Director of Public Safety Dianna Pennetti informed the community this morning that Frightening Animals were spotted on Columbia’s campus this morning. They weren’t hawks.  They were coyotes.  In front of Lewisohn.  Who says we’re too urban? Full email after the jump.

Spotted: passive aggression at the Barnard Quad eighth-floor laundry room. Yes, angry note-writer; karma is a bitch.

Teenage prostitutes. (CNN) The blobfish. (Daily Mail) New York accents. (Gothamist) New York mafia clubs. (NY Daily News) Male college students. (NYT)

If you’re up for a few more hours, look outside.  Our SEAS mole Sean Zimmermann informs us that the space shuttle that launches (hopefully) tonight will be visible in the southeast around 4:39 AM. That is, if it’s not still cloudy.

Bwog’s Dane Cook reports slightly deafened yet enlightened from Miller Theater. A tidal wave of sound hit Miller Theater last night during Lou Reed: Metal Machine Music—an orchestral rendition of Reed’s 1975 avant-garde album of the same name. The original album consists entirely of electric guitar feedback played at varying speeds, and the purpose of […]

This past Tuesday, amid a captive audience of caffeinated law students and pedantic professors, Dr. Klaus Muehlhahn, discussed the history of Chinese national security policy.  Bwog’s Human Firewall Jenna Matecki brings us word from “Intelligence Wars: Security, Sovereignty, and Information in China, Ca. 1940.” Despite a thirty-minute kick-off of academic formalities and introductions, the audience […]

Overhead before Microeconomics, about the Culinary Institute of America: “I’d totally go there if I didn’t have any academic ambition.” Overheard shortly after, during Scientific Computation: “I know some of you want to become chefs. You should join the CIA… the Culinary Institute of America.” —Professor Traub

Modesty (Gothamist) Optimism (NYT) Gratitude (Post) Generosity (Spec)

Location: Low Plaza Date & Time: Thursday, 2/11 from 9am-3pm, speakers from 12-1pm Contact email: ac.cudems@gmail.com Contact website: http://www.cudemocrats.com/activist-council