We all complain about food. And who hasn’t quibbled over Frontiers? Everyone is focused on Columbia and the economy.  More help for graduate-level French engineers, thank God!  

As traditional good old-fashioned print media declines, we face another tragedy� wait, you mean Steve Jobs is alive? Before you advise your parents to sell their Apple stock, go to class and hear about how bad the economy is already. Then thank your lucky stars that, though you�ll enter the job market earlier, you won�t […]

And now my life has changed: I used to write screenplays. My independence seems to vanish when crime pays. But every now and then my shot-selection’s poor, I know that I just need space like I’ve never done before. Help me if you can, my grades are down And I do appreciate your work gets […]

The Columbia bureaucracy may be untangled for professors… …but you’ll be seeing them more on Friday. You can preserve your memory, but must forgo doughnuts. A college sport created a coherent playoff system, but it’s not football.

The US government, I mean, Columbia�s bureaucracy isn�t doing exactly everything it should be doing? Eee gad! Liberals, stop being excited. Now. Liberals, you are a slave to your ideologies! Liberate yourself! Obama-day a good excuse to go to Tom�s Diner, and crazy parties, in D.C.? What?  

Most professors show leniency over inauguration day attendance. If yours hasn’t, trying showing him or her this editorial. Students make their way to DC.  College Dems celebrate, the BSO gets excited, Republicans try to move move on. And now, actual policy: four different opinion pieces on Gaza.

At last, Harvard doesn’t have an infinite endowment. Oh right, but now we have even less money. This semester, the Columbia bureaucracy did stuff we didn’t want it to do. 2008: sucks. 1956: that sucked too.  What to do about the world crashing in around Columbia, with some improvised Dylan lyrics.  World continues to spin […]

It seems that the Spec‘s website problems are not going away – Bwog kept getting “access denied.” Nevertheless, here’s what’s in today’s paper, with a little more explanation than usual. Columbia University’s Global AIDS Campaign launches several outreach programs (p. 1) Comparative Literature “Institute” looks for more resources (p. 1) A cabbie says that, despite […]

New Public School curriculum will save lives! New Squash Center will save youth! New Reading Day will “increase productivity”. New Administration, same politics. New Coach, nothing else changes…

The Barnard Leadership Initiative becomes the Barnard Leadership Institute, results of this switch remain a little fuzzy A new month, a new proposal for gender-blind housing Wait, what grade inflation? That’s only in Cambridge, silly Spec! Broadway and Amsterdam are different avenues, and different people frequent them. The first of December heralds in finals season, […]

Who will find Columbia librarians places to live? Why, Alan Brinkley, of course!  Why did PrezBo’s salary rise half a million dollars last year? So he can retire without stress, duh “But my roommate’s veganism got me thinking”: life’s Big Questions answered here! Should you invite all your BFFs to your private island for a few […]

Military types have an opinion on NROTC. MTA raises fares yet again. With budget trouble, New York special ed will likely be among the first cuts. Not having Wednesday before Thanksgiving off is massively inconvinient. The best way to get your message across to New Yorkers is to talk about forest fires.

For the sake of your children’s legacy admissions, donate! CC brother, can you spare a dean? Gay folks for fighting Gay folks for loving  Old-time religion it’s not  No, you’re not in prison, just a Barnard res hall  Plus: Spec adds new stuff!  

Your personal artistic freedom, limited no longer! Your life in a Columbia dorm: restrictive, your life in a semi-real apartment building: restrictive also One week till you get to vote once again and decide whether ROTC will restrict your rights on campus Will Columbia “diversify a predominantly white and male administration” in picking a new […]

Dean Quigley honored at dinner overseen by blue whale. Richard Bulliet now an honored guest of the Iranian ambassador to the U.N. Speaking of guests, yet another honored guest at Columbia. “Your honor, no one may believe this theory of voter fraud, but I intend to disprove it anyways.” Could ROTC honor Columbia? One professor […]