Breaking: College student discovers ability to snack instead of eat meals  John Jay is practically the new Whole Foods, except for its lack of organic food. Oh, and the whole rats and failed health inspection thing. Spec’s photography columnist so minimalist. Was “Nada Surf ‘2.0’” really an “entirely different beast”? Was it?

The Minotaur also felt these emotions.  Screw you Daedalus!  Chicken finger imagery will become a staple of the 21st Century canon, even though it has been around since the time of Homer.  Levian’s roof, like the Bloodhound Gang predicted, is on fire.  Quite the fire indeed. There is no mention of Marquez in this article.  […]

Indie rock… and the election! TC… and the Peace Corps! Manhattanville… and the Super Bowl! (And the phrase “iron curtain of safety!”) Judy Shapiro… and a vaguely mean knitting joke!  

Come on Spec copy editors, what’s a Legistation?    This article needs a more descriptive title: how about One Step Closer to Robot Soldiers? This Mexican restaurant needs a better name: how about Chipotle’s Ugly Cousin? Bwog’s not all criticism, though!  A gold star to the very appropriate alliteration in this title!  And a crime […]

There’ll be laughin’ and singin’ and music swingin’ and dancin’ in the streets How we gonna pay, how we gonna pay, [next] year’s rent?  Here in my car, I feel safest of all.  But for now I find it’s only in my dreams that I can change the world. I want to wake up in […]

Editorial board dissatisfied with performance of escorts All engineers experiment in College [by transferring to it] Some sort of joke about the word “busts” This guy wrote songs for Shortbus, a movie that features Ed Koch at an underground sex club

Change the country or change from Mister to Madam President? Pray that these curriculum-changers won’t need a hunger strike Barnard’s hole in the ground now has stuff in it! But Alexander Hamilton’s house is about to become a hole in the ground A concerned citizen attacks Spec’s “faux-journalistic exactitude“.  What would he call Bwog?   […]

Since when has Columbia been politically active anyway? Kanye now collaborates with… stuffed dinosaurs?  Apparently Communism is one of the faiths espoused by Columbia students. Now we finally know for sure: “every Muslim isn’t a terrorist, or white person a racist, or black person with a hoodie a gangster.” Is it at all telling about […]

“Imagine that you’re eating a hamburger.” Columnist mathematically proves that 90% of fans of The Wire are faking Heath Ledger our generation’s James Dean, but in more than three movies Finally, Barnard’s relationship with Columbia is explained in just ten paragraphs AM New York BONUS: Ken Jackson notes that “in New York, space is precious” […]

Harvard, Yale, and Princeton are showing theirs off, but Columbia is underendowed  When you’ve finished your CTV marathon, switch to this! Snoop Dogg: proponent of Lazy Sundays or ambitious multitasking? Over winter break, women’s basketball goes 1-4, and they still got more done than you did. And next year, the swim team is recruiting Frederick […]

Cupcakes: The all-purpose graphic! Perfect for film reviews. And articles about cupcakes. Barnard flooded with drawings of stick figures burning bras Also: an actual flood GSSC VP resigns, explains “I have an off-campus apartment now […] I can only do so many things at once.”

First big news of the semester: Columbia just got the ball rolling on this “Manhattanville” thing… Police find the man behind the Brooklyn Heights hate crimes, and his pipe bombs. (See also here.) Four-alarm fire destroys building on W. 113th Men’s basketball no longer undefeated in Ivy League play, but still untied!  Alumni committee spearheading […]

…breaking gender barriers! ….the soon-approaching death of CULPA???  …fancy foodstuffs (yum yum yum)! …reminiscence of things that have actually “worked” on campus  …columnists’ Obama plugs?  

Coming soon to Fox News- True Life: I was a male escort. Creepy crawlers. Another attempt to ameliorate Manhattanville-guilt. It’s not that I’m not smart, it’s that I go to Columbia. Another day, another diatribe on racism.   

SURPRISE! Engineer a way for SEAS students to get time off The wintertime is coming, the windows are filled with frost  Late night snack joint might be open on weekends To me?  Plus: The Voice sensationalizes, calls Manhattanville a “sweaty scrum” while AMNew York calls Columbia the Big Bad Wolf (not really, but you get […]