A profile of GS student John McClelland II, who was an Army medic in Afghanistan and Iraq, in Warrior Forge. He says that he’s working on his first novel, The War in Glorious Technicolor. Reason 10,343 to be happy you don’t go to NYU: the Times takes a look at college life in the city, […]

Farewell: Bored@Butler (at least for now) The Russian spies “Tension in your buttocks” Hours of studying for your second semester Lit Hum final, 2014! The records for $109 million of the Columbia Medical Center’s funds Notable Columbia alumni Robert Butler (Pulitzer-winning psychiatrist) and Bob Sheppard (beloved Yankees announcer) Hello: NYC Restaurant Week The first person […]

That means “a motley assortment of things.” Seatbelts, everyone! Gulati says the U.S team was “capable of more” in the World Cup. Columbia is a partner in a jargon-y, confusing government project called the “NYC Media Lab.” Breaking: James Franco is self-important. He is also an artist. Joseph Stiglitz makes $109,919 a year is the […]

The UWS’s first protected bike lanes are coming to Columbus Avenue between 96th and 77th Streets. Full Metal Jacket star Michael Modine and NYT‘s Ethicist Randy Cohen are pleased. Infamously unpleasant people doing unpleasant things: Barnard prof Georgette Fleischer is joined by Anna Wintour in a quest to keep New York City quiet. Former Fruit […]

PrezBo and four other University Presidents ask Congress to repeal “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” arguing that the policy is “detrimental to both our students and the nation.” Bill O’Reilly told TC Professor Marc Lamont Hill, who is black, that Hill “kind of looked like” a cocaine dealer “a little bit.” Hill responded that O’Reilly looked […]

All of these things are not like the other! The Hechinger Institute, an independently funded branch of TC, launched an education blog. Your tour guide lied: murder and rape rates rise in NYC. The most recent Jester and Fed are now online. So there’s this group called the Columbia Business School Follies and they made […]

A Barnard professor makes noise about noisy night life. Serious Eats decides that Mimi’s Truffles are, in fact, “onto something special.” The 1, 2, and 3 trains are actually tomato red, not just plain red. The Upper West Side gets its own walk of fame. Update, 3:15: This just in! More Orgo Night recaps from […]

Some of you are done with finals by tonight or tomorrow, and that means it’s time for you to plan your escape route from Morningside. Use Carsplit to split cabs to the airport and save money. It’s a win-win! For a some before-noon procrastination, watch 50 of your classmates do the Soulja Boy dance (PROM […]

Call your mom and complain about finals!  And tell her that she’s awesome. Through May 16, get half-off a (now even more customized) Frappucino between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m.  Lucky Columbian, you have two Starbucks to pick from! A new art exhibit has opened on the High Line. Take the subway instead of the […]

More suspicious packages. (Gothamist) Another Staten Island Ferry crash. (City Room) Emma Watson likes Brown. (Vanity Fair) Oh, and don’t respond to that phishing email everyone’s getting from the “COLUMBIA Webmail Maintenance Unit”.

Whilst we suffer through finals… …grandmothers protest the war(s) (NYT) …the MTA budget continues to suffer (Gothamist) …CUNY is forced to limit the number of applications (City Room) …and Spec has video of Orgo Night

This Morningside Heights landlord stole $900,000 in rents, possibly from you! (NY Daily News) This Washington Heights barber cut hair, and also killed people. (NY Post) The New School will expand, and people won’t get that upset. (NYT) Maybe not the best time for an art installation with a fake bomb? (Gothamist) 6,700 NYC schoolteachers […]

A happy Cinco de Mayo to you and yours! We hear the Reference Room is craazy right now. Floridita isn’t giving up without a fight. (City Room) Bloomberg goes to Washington: the city needs more homeland security funds. (NY Post) Last night at Christie’s Picasso’s “Nude, Green Leaves, And A Bust” became the most expensive […]

A meeting of minds at Campo.  Who’s to say they too weren’t drunk and screaming? The owner of the Times Square SUV was arrested while trying to flee to Dubai. Summit Security employees get wage and benefit increases in a new contract. The MTA and Port Authority have been paying huge amounts of overtime. We’ve […]

Meet Kyle Smith, your new head coach for the men’s basketball team. (Spec) Meet Nick Tsoulos, who will soon be opening Mel’s Burger Bar in mid-June or early July. (nycfoodguy.com) Meeting new people is better with social networks… or not. (Gothamist) Midtown meets London, as the NYPD plans on installing a new security network. (NYT) […]