On the heels of its land use committee's vote last week, Community Board 9, which represents West Harlem, voted to oppose Columbia's ambitious plans to develop a 17-acre area in West Harlem. However, as the Columbia Daily Spectator explains, CB9 did offer "ten specific conditions" that Columbia must agree to before the community board will give their approval. While the conditions include withdrawal of eminent domain and the creation of affordable apartments, Columbia views the......

It's a mixed bag for Columbia today. The school was probably happy to find out that it ranked 9th in U.S News & World Report's latest top college ranking issues, but it's no fun to learn that its billion-dollar Manhattanville project was rejected by a community board committee. IvyGate got a hold of the embargoed "Annual Ranking of Best National Universities" information and found that Columbia ranks ahead of Dartmouth (#11), Cornell (12), and......

Yesterday, a couple hundred Columbia students walked out to protest the war, and CTV News has video, and you'll see protesters chanting for troops to be removed as they march on and around campus (apparently there was free hot chocolate during the cold day). Interestingly, the Columbia College Democrats removed their support for the walk out "in part because of disagreements over whether to call for divestment," according to the NY Sun. However, there......

Is it sad that an overly ambitious NCAA mascot's http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/ART/4402e8a61dbe0">crash into the Columbia Television table, causing $6,500 in damages, outshines the team's efforts (a loss, though)? Or is it a no-brainer, because it involves backflip smack takling, a red-haired frog costume, Roar-ee, the Columbia Lions' mascot AND a university investigation? Gothamist picks the latter, and we thank the Columbia Spectator's blog for posting video of the blackflip gone bad as their print arm explains......

Gothamist was reading the Columbia Daily Spectator, trying to recapture our youth (we are getting OLD), when we stopped at this headline: "New Policy Will Hurt Columbia Fanbase." Forget what the new policy is... Gothamist was surprised that Columbia's sports team actually had fanbases. There are alumni, yes, but fans? In our day, Gothamist would call them "fellow students." Anyway, the new policy is that Columbia is not allowing tailgating at football games, and making......

Yesterday, it was the Blessing of the Animals at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. St. John the Divine holds a festival in honor of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals and the environment. The Daily News reported that pet owners and shelter officials were there to get pets blessed as well as adopted. Gothamist loves the Blessing of the Animals because there is nothing more awesome than seeing animals head......