Last night, Bwog reported on the shocking disappearance of the Tasti D-Lite kiosk from Lerner. It turns out that the departure was as sudden as our photo suggested. According to Michael Novielli of Student Auxiliary and Business Services: “Dining Services was notified on Friday, January 16 that Tasti-D-Lite would be permanently closing its location on […]

Tasti D-Lite has served its last four-ounce cup of sweetened dairy-based frozen dessert substance on the fifth fourth floor of Lerner. Bwog discovered the d-parted D-Lite kiosk Monday night, just as employees were giving the area a final sweeping. No word yet on why Tasti has vanished from Lerner, but Bwog will doggedly track down […]

Why, look, the Spec has a new set of columnists! Hoping to end the association of the Spec opinion pages and giant penises are:  Monday: Eric Hirsch (CC ’09, former associate editor of AdHoc), Philip Petrov (CC ’09, literary editor of The Current) Tuesday: MaryAlice Parks (CC ’09, member of CUPlayers and a coordinator of […]

A while ago, we reported the development and implementation of columbiaclasses.com, a new way to rate and search for classes.  But have no fear, traditionalists!  CULPA, the original professor-rating site, has come into the 21st Century with a new and spiffy website that might actually work when you need it!  Bwog is giving you a […]

Gather ye rosebuds Columbia, it’s time to wish a fond farewell to the 132nd Executive Board of the Columbia Daily Spectator.  Bwog offers a hearty congratulations to outgoing Editor in Chief Tom Faure, Publisher Manal Alam, Managing Editor Amanda Sebba and the entirety of their staffs for all the fine work they’ve done this year. […]

The ladies (and gentlemen) of Barnard ResLife are looking for input from BC students in the form of a new online survey. The survey comes on the brink of a recent Town Hall meeting, at which several *significant* changes [emphasis theirs] to this spring’s room selection process were proposed.    Barnard’s put up an enormous […]

Newly minted SSOL enthusiast Adam Weiss reminded Bwog of some important and welcome changes to your Student Services Online. For one, a search will not only bring up classes, but their registration statuses. Oh, and search now also brings up the course description when the call number is entered. Now there are fewer things to […]

More news from the desk of Barnard Public Safety, as residents of BC dorms just received an email announcing that Public Safety officers will be doing routine rounds throughout residence halls a few times a day. Officers will also be making sure that everyone who’s in the building is supposed to be there, and so […]

Local market Appletree has become quite the fancy establishment as of late! There’s a new, overpriced salad bar, and they’ve stopped renting VHS tapes. Plus, here’s this latest element of the Great Appletree Makeover: the store has a brand new facade, which is a rather becoming shade of royal red.  

Terrible, terrible news as Morningside standby Amir’s has been shuttered due to health code violations. And it only violated 11 points’ worth of your health during its last inspection in January. Bwog tried calling the ill-fated falafel distributor for comment, but after a few rings, the phone just cut off.  Close-up of the notice and […]

Hooray for associate professor of history Pablo Piccato, who has just been named as the new Director of SIPA’s Institute of Latin American Studies, a position which he’ll occupy until 2011. Piccato is a scholar of Mexican history and has taught at the University since 1997. According to the email announcement, he’s previously “served as […]

Soul food lovers who enjoy not walking very far from campus to obtain your soul food, rejoice! Relatively recent neighborhood addition Rack&Soul has just reopened after a brief period of dormancy. The popular chicken and ribs purveyor has moved right next door to a smaller location on 109th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam. Their new […]

Oh what do you know, this Saturday regrettable-costume emporium Ricky’s opened. And just in time for you to buy something special for Halloween. This afternoon, Bwog wandered inside the rabbit hole. Join us, as we try to make sense of this thing.

Hey look, that student center located in the transparent cube thing between Furnald and the J-School is on the verge of opening. It’s not serving yet, but the facilities appear to be ready to go and it’s no longer under construction. The interior looks like what someone in 1983 might imagine a cafe in 2008 […]

Alan Brinkley, who has served as University Provost for the past five years, will be stepping down from the position at the end of this year.  The news was announced in an e-mail this evening to the Columbia University community. In the email, Brinkley writes that “I feel that it is now time for me […]