Registration for the Columbia housing lottery doesn’t begin until March 11 (or March 3, if you’re an LLC weirdo), but to warm up for the event Housing Services will be giving room information sessions and building tours today and tomorrow that will start in the John Jay Lounge. They will be leaving on the half […]

“The Internet has created new forms of storytelling.  In some cases, the threat may prove fatal.”  What, pray tell, does he speak of?  Toy Story: the defining allegory of our generation. We won and we lost!  Hooray for a balanced perspective! “Vocalist Shirley Simms remained largely silent.”  Good show! Columbia’s housing selection process is SUITE.  […]

In other Special Interest Housing news: Art House is no longer. The decision to disband came after Special Interest Community administrators wanted Art House to maintain its current location in Wallach for next year. Alas, Art House members were seeking better digs. Philosophized one soon-to-be-ex-A.H. denizen: “It’s a shame that Columbia is losing this because […]

Well, there’s still time for you to concoct a ridiculous special interest housing application! They’re due at noon on Friday. If you can generate a reason you need to live together as legitimate as the one that “Urban Economic Perspectives” must have come up with (in their words, “to engage the community in dynamic dialogue”), […]

In an attempt not to be outshone by the European Commission’s plan to make the Earth a greener place, Housing Services (in conjunction with the Office of Environmental Stewardship, Facilities, and RecycleBank), announced today in the form of an email an “innovative new program…that rewards you for recycling while helping to improve our campus-wide recycling […]

Columbia continues its recent trend of improving old things by re-doing them in Century Gothic with the launch of the new Lerner website. Even though the new site is the color of a failing kidney, information is streamlined and aesthetically pleasing—like this handy map of Lerner’s innards. And this insultingly oversimplified guide to booking space. […]

General Selection times have been posted!  

A commenter let us know about Spectator‘s housing coverage blog this morning, and we’ve been anxiously checking since. They’re sending up live updates from John Jay lounge on what’s gone, what’s still available, and some funny shit people have said in  their panics. So, rather than sitting there on our butts all day ourselves, we’ll […]

For those of you bastards who aren’t trying to find off campus housing for two years because Wien blows, here’s your goddamn suite selection times.  Have a wonderful time next year with your kitchens, bathrooms, and common area, assholes, you “earned” it.   Some blowhard calling himself (or herself) the God of Housing has posted […]

Weep, cheer, or do both at the same time. According to the Housing website, lottery numbers are posted! Update! Xavier Estevez provides us with this link showing the lottery listings sorted by priority, which hadn’t been linked from the Housing website. He also gives us the following fun facts: “Only 35 groups, as opposed to […]

Spec’s Housing Guide, replete with secrets: Gay couples live together without breaking any rules; Freshmen make friends with other freshmen on their floors and relative bombshells:  McBain receiving a second elevator, Wien’s bathrooms to be single-sex. Plus: A lesson in the art of being cliquey and A nod to Barnard  PS: Looks like someone got […]

Hey guys, guess what time of year it is? Time for HOUSING REGISTRATION. Let the drama begin. Bwog wishes the best of luck to those embarking on the journey into the land of lottery numbers. You’ve got until March 28th. (In the meantime, you can virtually tour/dream of that Watt single by browsing in here.)

Diamond Already Pushing For Four More Years (actually two and a half more) B.C. May Go Back to Stone Age Columbia Not Only Organization Ruining Housing, Having Horribly Slow Paperwork NY Has Share of Has-Beens Besides Yankees And then we remembered that we use Macs. Feditor new wise man of protest Point–Counterpoint On CULPA Also, […]

The Inmates Next Door RIP CBGB RIP R.W Apple  Don’t let it get to your heads They’re lucky they even have housing! 

From flyers posted in EC elevators: Dear Residents of East Campus,  In preparation for the new school year, we recently shampooed the carpets throughout your building. Unfortunately due to the excessive humidity this week, some carpets still haven’t dried properly. To rectify the situation we will be raising the temperature of the A/C units to […]