Beat the midterm blues: Play our Butler Bingo.

Free samples of Boar's Head meats and cheeses, and Izze juices, in the Uris cafeteria right about now. You can also nab a nifty Boar's Head insulated sandwich bag that you can cool in your freezer.

And also, Columbia Catering, the exclusive catering service of Lerner Hall, has free bag lunches in the Piano Lounge.

UPDATE: Each sandwich comes with an apple, Lays chips and an Oreo brownie, and you may accompany your meal with a selection of drinks including Coca-Cola, Seagram's Ginger Ale, Minute Maid Lemonade, 7-Up, and Lipton Brisk. They have mozzarella and tomato, ham and cheese, and tuna salad. They used to have roast beef, but Bwog got the last one. - DHI

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If you have been following the news in even the vaguest capacity over the past few waste years, or if you've ever tried to get a computer in Lerner around 1 PM, you're aware of the major space crunch Columbia is experiencing. But who needs to move into Manhattanville when you have the garage below Uris, with a carport-sized space devoted entirely to old computer monitors? (Even without the old iMacs, we know that's the purpose because of the snazzy signs Columbia made up). Bwog recommends a new freshman dorm, and perhaps a Jamba Juice franchise, for the space.

More computer-riffic pictures after the jump!

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UPDATE, Sunday 3:10 PM: As pointed out by a commenter, news of the Business School potentially moving to Manhattanville was amply covered by the Spectator last year. The precise location is unconfirmed. The source for the Economics Department's cancelled move to Knox Hall is an administrator in the Economics department via a student tipster; this is also unconfirmed.

RETRACTION, Sunday 3:10 PM: The assertion that the Economics department will relocate to Uris is pure speculation.

Apparently rendering Uris Hall menacingly hostile to outsiders was hardly enough for business students still surrounded by the puerile pestilence of unkempt undergrads. According to an anonymous (and unofficial) tipster, the B-school now wants out of Morningside entirely. After one planned location, St. John's Cathedral Close, was given the kibosh (Bwog speculates it might have had something to do with that pesky Biblical maxim about money lenders in the temple, or perhaps the decidedly anticapitalist rhetoric penned on the bathroom walls of the nearby Hungarian Pastry Shop), Columbia is, our source states, planning to move its instruction of future captains of industry to- you guessed it- Manhattanville. The specific location, in fact, will probably be at the end of 125th Street, down by the new Hudson Piers Park, placing part of Alma Mater, at long last, directly on the Hudson shore.

The catch? Well, much of the proposed site is currently occupied, seemingly, by the viaduct of the Henry Hudson Parkway. Not to mention, our tipster writes, "we don't own (and we aren't gunning to own) the plots of land closest to the river". Bwog wonders what this new development could mean for Columbia's protracted battle with CB9 over the fate of the neighborhood. As for Uris, it could, apparently, be handed over to the Econ Department, especially now that its move to far-flung Knox Hall at the Union Theological Seminary has been nixed. And though the B-school's putative move is at least five years away, we hope for the sake of future Columbians that Flex and Dining Dollars are to be, once again, enshrined as legal tender at a deli that welcomes undergrads with the waft of hot, handmade sandwiches.


Apparently, Columbia thinks that we're getting a little fat. The ice cream case in Uris Deli, stocked full of neatly-stacked, attractive-looking Häagen-Dazs, Nestle Crunch and various other tempting frozen novelties that are begging to be eaten, is locked. Because we didn't really need it anyway.

In other food news, Bwog overheard someone in the burger line on Low Plaza say that the free food, sponsored by the Engineering Student Council, was offered in conjunction with an event called... you guessed it... "SEAS the Day." And you thought engineers couldn't come up with good puns.

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