Barnard has been hit hard by the economic crisis, according to e-mails sent by Dean Dorothy Denburg and President Debora Spar to students and alumnae respectively.

UPDATE, 5:45 p.m.: James McShane, Director of Public Safety, said in an e-mail that the situation has been contained. "The flooding condition in the Schermerhorn Extension has been addressed," he said. "Clean up operations by Facilities Operations personnel is ongoing and will continue throughout the night. Barring any unforeseen complications, the building will be open tomorrow morning. Thank you for your cooperation."

On Monday afternoon, the Schermerhorn Extension—home to various departments, including Anthropology and Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology (E3B)—faced serious flooding.

As a result, all classes there were canceled or relocated, according to McShane.

Surrounded by framed architectural blueprints of Columbia’s Morningside campus on the walls of his house on Morningside Drive, University President Lee Bollinger told about 50 undergraduates at Tuesday evening’s Fireside Chat the story of Columbia’s relationship with space.

“This is a story I tell frequently,” he said, before warning his onlookers that the question might prompt him to speak at length and holding forth on the backdrop for the University’s Manhattanville expansion today.

University President Lee Bollinger was assaulted during his Tuesday morning jog, he told Spectator at his Fireside Chat Tuesday evening.

"I was running in Central Park this morning," Bollinger said. "A person hit me. I'm fine now. He was stopped by the police, and it turns out he was under psychiatric treatment. He was arrested."