“If you love it so much, why don’t you marry it?” My response is, “Yeah, I would if I could.”

I’m a woman on a mission.

Staff Writer and Soil Enthusiast Henry Golub makes the case for converting Avery into a farm. Join the adventure of growth and shrubbery. Before the car, we had the horse, and before the building, we had the farm. Get ready, folks, ’cause we’re about to go full Bronze Age. Many of us have seen Avery. Some […]

Spotted in Avery: some hungry student ordering pizza.

Chairs are perhaps the most important aspect of a library experience. Desks are fairly consistent, and lighting can be improvised. For those not brave enough to transgress the omnipresent line of chain-smoking architecture grad students, read on for a full review of how Avery’s chairs stack up against its rivals. The discerning Columbia student recognizes that the […]

There are two kinds of people in the world, my friend: those with the right kind of mug in the NoCo library, and those who tell you that you have the wrong mug… …and that you can’t use your phone  

If you need to print out that half-assed response paper, go to Butler or Kent. Photo from Wikimedia Commons

Have you ever wanted to get into the mind of a Columbia ID checker, to see what it’s like behind that desk? A new blog, The Red Zone (http://showyourid.blogspot.com/), offers just that opportunity. It chronicles the tales of an Avery General Assistant, known to readers only as “GA,” since the author never mentions his/her name. […]

Overheard near Uris: “Let’s go to Avery—that’s where all the hot girls are.” Official Response from Avery Library staff member, Ian Scheffler, CC’12: “He’s totally right, I mean there are all those hot Italian girls from the architecture school.” “Yeah, if you’re tired of reading, just look at all the pretty people … I mean […]

In the latest edition of Bwog’s profiles of the friendly faces around campus, Claire Sabel, Guide to the Weekend Editor and Stuffed Sandwich enthusiast, journeys into the bowels of Avery to chat with Steve of Brownie’s Cafe For a break from the standard Butler fare, many students venture underground to Brownie’s, the cafe below Avery […]