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CCSC Combats "Study Day"

fChabad is the new place in Harlem for singles to meet and "schmooze". Seriously, it beats 1020.

Coming soon in theaters, Checkmate at 112th Street. You never knew a bishop could be so dangerous.

Why don't you just go to Africa and save some lives like our "celebrated economist" tells us to? Phelps and Stiglitz are in the next room, kind of ticked off.

You can't get into Barnard because of failed mercantilism? Bwog is just itching to protest the Columbia-Barnard Free Trade Agreement.

All the world's a stage! Know thyself! At least before you go trick-or-treating...


wwMayyyyybe Bloomberg will run for reelection

Gamers: beware of exceeding University bandwidth caps, but only sometimes. In fact, for most of the things you'll be doing online, you will be fine.

Perhaps the University Senate is a place where debate within the University should take place. As opposed to debating with kitchen knives.

Wait a second. Local bars might allow students in occasionally?

Freshmen: Maybe you should forget what classroom in Hamilton your next club meeting is in, walk into a debate between two warring heads of state, reconcile their differences and then walk out with your Nobel Peace Prize.


A tipster alumnus points out this article in the Village Voice from last week in which local writers name their favorite writer-y watering holes. The Sabotage Cafe author Joshua Furst selected Columbia standby 1020, and explained: "Not that many bars in the city where you can talk about Foucault for two hours."

Of course, while actual conversation at 1020 is less Foucault and more fou-cking, Bwog offers accolades to the bar for making the cut.

- JNW


French lit obsessives might recall a character from Camus's The Plague who spends years reworking the opening sentence of a novel. It's a commentary on the human condition, or some shit...anyway, Butler library the Columbia library system, which has inspired everyone from Max Weber to Orhan Pamuk, could well have its own resident serial re-writer/tormented literatus. Meet Butler lounge denizen Marcos, C '98, today's victim of...

Why are you here?

I'm writing a novel.

What's it about?

I have no idea.

How long have you been working on it?

Five years.

Why are you writing it here of all places?

I'm an alumnus...they have good coffee.

I notice you're usually holding court with people at one of the booths...

I'm procrastinating.

So you aren't here for the intellectual stimulation?

That and the procrastination.

Exhilarating! In other totally unrelated news: the New York Daily News has deemed upperclassman dive 1020 an accurate barometer of public opinion. 1020's opinion: last night's "Soprano's" finale sucked ass.

-ARR


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