Crowns and frowns

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.