As you read this, hundreds of mice feast in McBain

Critters—mice, rats, cockroaches, pigeons, bedbugs—happen to have easy access to our dorm rooms. Proud as I may be of the ability of a mouse to sneak into my building, I am never glad to find one scurrying over my foot in the middle of the night in McBain.

By Mark Hay | Mar 1 08:27 pm ET

Critters—mice, rats, cockroaches, pigeons, bedbugs—happen to have easy access to our dorm rooms. Proud as I may be of the ability of a mouse to sneak into my building, I am never glad to find one scurrying over my foot in the middle of the night in McBain.

Bringing South Asia into context on campus and between covers

For a university with such a large and vibrant South Asian population and such an eye to global dialogue, this silence borders on the absurd.

By Prapti Chatterjee and Mark Hay | Feb 25 09:46 pm ET

For a university with such a large and vibrant South Asian population and such an eye to global dialogue, this silence borders on the absurd.

Overcoming perpetual problems, never losing hope

University and student initiative can curb the longstanding hindrances on advancing to a new plateau in our battle with mental illness.

By Mark Hay | Feb 15 07:05 pm ET

University and student initiative can curb the longstanding hindrances on advancing to a new plateau in our battle with mental illness.

For the love of love

Trans, BDSM, and other groups deserve to gain the support and acceptance of the community at large.

By Mark Hay | Feb 1 08:31 pm ET

Trans, BDSM, and other groups deserve to gain the support and acceptance of the community at large.

Losing my religion, gaining my religion?

Religious tolerance is on everyone's lips, but are we really practicing what we preach?

By Mark Hay | Jan 19 12:02 am ET

Religious tolerance is on everyone's lips, but are we really practicing what we preach?

The death of spontaneity

Students attempt to safeguard spontaneous events, but are ultimately blocked due to any number of constraints (space, funding, permission), but mainly because they do not know whose name they must throw around to make Public Safety go away and let them build a snow ramp.

By Mark Hay | Dec 10 09:51 pm ET

Students attempt to safeguard spontaneous events, but are ultimately blocked due to any number of constraints (space, funding, permission), but mainly because they do not know whose name they must throw around to make Public Safety go away and let them build a snow ramp.

It’s ten o’clock; do you know where your money is?

One way or another, your student life money will get lost in the hodgepodge and winds up overspent and/or misappropriated.

By Mark Hay | Nov 12 06:49 pm ET

One way or another, your student life money will get lost in the hodgepodge and winds up overspent and/or misappropriated.

KCCC—Is it all you imagined it would be?

Is there a case for such apparent redundancy in what are increasingly pan-Asian Christian groups, especially given the apparent migratory tendency of their “members”?

By Mark Hay | Oct 29 06:50 pm ET

Is there a case for such apparent redundancy in what are increasingly pan-Asian Christian groups, especially given the apparent migratory tendency of their “members”?

Journey to the center of Columbia

And when we enter that world, we can speak to ghosts and leave a little of ourselves to speak to the future.

By Mark Hay | Oct 15 07:04 pm ET

And when we enter that world, we can speak to ghosts and leave a little of ourselves to speak to the future.

Madoff, money, madness, and you!

When one looks a little more closely at the system of gifts and donations at Columbia, the individually logical and straight strings mix and mash into a nauseatingly intractable Gordian knot.

By Mark Hay | Oct 1 06:38 pm ET

When one looks a little more closely at the system of gifts and donations at Columbia, the individually logical and straight strings mix and mash into a nauseatingly intractable Gordian knot.