BURYING THE HATCHET Recently graduated (and gainfully employed) members of CCSC criticized incoming President and VP Policy Ben and Viv over Facebook for not intervening when FLIP was forced to move books out of the IRC due to a “fire hazard.” When approached for comment, a representative from Ben and Viv’s office stated that the two were busy hanging a “RUSH BETA” banner on the outside of the Satow Room. *** Two years after a controversial SJP banner was taken down from the

These excerpts were culled from documents left on Columbia’s lab computers.

A conversation with Christia Mercer.

B & W Staffers break the ice and tell you what we did this summer.

In which our hero loses his fake.

Many Columbians are Morningside shut-ins. Fortunately, The Blue and White’s crack team at The Travel Desk is not afraid to get on the subway

Lithosphere Maybe the problem is scale. I can’t manufacture age or enormity; they aren’t in me. I can read, but barely. Modes of expression crawl over each other like ants in the ground, each one bearing poison to the colony, resolute as the knowledge of pain before it reaches home. I rely on aesthetics so imprecise they are rendered best in earth: this ripple of mountains, dark sleeves of road, cross-sections of sediment and weather, lights crowding any temporary city. Or, i

Some say Columbia’s admin are inaccessible. We say they’re just camouflaged and hiding in trees.

Affirmative By Alex Swanson Why yes, I will certainly, unequivocally be doing something tonight—I mean, this is college. The greatest college in the greatest university in the greatest city in the universe! I’ve already read the first 12 books of the Illiad! The spears were phalluses and the shields were vaginas! Everybody died at the end! That’s exactly what college is going to be like, right? I’m so excited to be here! I’ve heard that Greek life is big here. I’ve heard that

You might not know the following figures—but you should.

You might not know the following figures—but you should.

A full loop on the shuttle from Columbia’s Morningside campus to the Medical School and back will take you past five different McDonald’s, 2 Empanadas Monumentals, New York City’s Only Active Mausoleum, six hipster coffee shops, including a bar that serves peanut butter burgers and avocado fries, Fairway Market, 8000 bodegas, Columbia’s incipient Manhattanville campus (“MEN AT WORK”), City College, Hamilton Pharmacy, Hamilton Pharmacy Inc., and six Chinese takeout places name

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Hello, freshmen! (For future reference, it’s best to go with ‘first year.’) This issue should find you in your dorm (I congratulate you on your choice) as your fan cools your sweaty brow after a crowded elevator trip up to your barren and questionably stained matchstick box. Welcome to Columbia! Don’t worry if you hate it; everyone else here does too. The rhetoric of College means an immense amount of expectation sits on the young shoulders which grip (