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CCSC Combats "Study Day"

Bwog thought the seventh floor of Hamilton was kinda just fine the way it was. The Hamilton elevator not so much. But hey, what the hell d o we know?

Elsewhere in the ever-exciting world of campus facilities: the Mac is still standing, but probably not for that much longer--Barnard residents have told us they've been informed by e-mail that everybody's favorite concrete slab has been slated for destruction sometime during the next couple of weeks.

Sad news, but we're oddly comforted (or maybe just thoroughly confused) by this ancient piece of Digitalia:

"One's experience of traveling through MacIntosh Hall can be understood as a purely spatial experience dictated by a drastic contrast between forward motion on this journey and retrospection on reverse motion along the journey."

Will one's experience of watching Mac get torn down be quite the spatial, drastically contrasting, forwardly moving and plaintively retrospective experience as grabbing a cup of Java City between classes? Stay tuned.


Continuing today's snow sculpture-related coverage, and apropos to tonight's J-School lecture on regime change, one of the once proudly (or panoptically!) upstanding snowmen on South Lawn appears to have capitulated, inspiring Bwog to cite Shelley's "Ozymandias" and post this apt juxtaposition:

Meanwhile, this find on Hamilton Lawn indicates it may not have been quite the bloodless coup:

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On the other side of the lawn, however, the week's most admirable snow folly lives on: what one contributor called "Calvin and Hobbes-esqe sculpture...there's a snowman bowling with a second snowman's head":


Bill Pennington, author of an article in today's Times, meditates on what many-an-Ivy Leaguer has meditated: just what is the purpose of pursuing a successful football program at a school known for its academic caliber? Are the two ends of academic excellence and athletic triumph mutually exclusive?

(Perhaps: he notes that Duke, Northwestern, and Stanford, top schools with strong football programs, all have pretty shitty records)

The Columbia squad might be proud.


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