Crowns and frowns

Frown: Columbia selecting a random day to turn the heat on each fall, regardless of the weather. Every building has been boiling the past few days!

Crown: Pumpkins!

Crown: With Halloween on Saturday, this is one week in which it’s nicer to have Ricky’s than Kim’s.

Frown: Former Columbia student Alicia Keys premieres a new song at NYU.

Crown: Eric Furda, former director of Columbia admissions and current admissions dean at the University of Pennsylvania, opened up to the New York Times about admissions policies.

Frown: Why would anyone, student or administrator, choose Penn over Columbia?

Crown: The World Series comes to New York yet again.

Crown: Twenty-ounce water in the vending machine near the Amsterdam entrance of the International Affairs Building is $1.

Frown: Twenty-ounce water in the vending machines down the hall from IAB’s Amsterdam entrance is $1.35.

Crown: University Senate meets for the second time this semester.

C/Frown: Prezbo plays hooky (à Paris!)

Frown: Eyewitnesses, reporters, and officials can’t seem to agree on who hit whom in Friday’s CAVA crash. Hmmm...

Crown: ELECTION DAY BREAK!