Crown: Some Columbia students have marble baths and ovens with kosher settings in their dormitories, according to the New York Times.
Frown: Most of us undergrads don’t.
Also frown: To have marble-bath privileges, you must live in the Bronx. That’s even further than Harmony Hall.
Corollary frown: Harmony jokes, which got old after the second week of school.
Crown: Hawkmadinejad lives! Seen on top of a lamppost outside Butler.
Frown: Our only other wildlife is vermin in our dorms.
Crown: Teachers College wins $150,000 to develop mobile phone games that help you quit smoking.
Frown: The rest of Columbia can’t quite make up its mind about a smoking policy.
Crown: Laundry swipe is working in East Campus, and a texting feature tells you when your laundry is done!
Frown: Barnard’s laundry rooms don’t use LaundryView.
Crown: The new Book Culture is now open for business.
Crown: Manhattanville open house in Lerner on Nov. 18.
Frown: Columbia’s Manhattanville Web site still considers last year’s sustainability grade “news.” An update every now and then would be great.
Crown: John Jay begins taking reservations for its annual Thanksgiving dinner.
Crown: Bacchanal is bringing Bob Saget to campus to help us forget our midterm grades.
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