Things that have changed since Fall 2012

Please add any things that have changed about Columbia/Ourselves/The Neighborhood since our first year. The goal is to inject everyone with a healthy dose of nostalgia!

Things That Cost Less

• Tuition was $5,000 less
• The price of Koronet pizza was $3.75 a slice
• Subway fare was $2.25 (I thought it was $2.15)
• laundry wasn’t (seemingly) free (now we pay for it as part of tuition)
• $1 beers @ Lions Head on Wednesdays << what is it now?  $2 :( :(
• Barnard’s Kosher meal plan was more expensive than regular meal plan
• Metro fare went up by 0.25 … twice
• Milano’s card minimum was $8 (so you weren’t forced to get gum just to buy your salad)
• Free tampons/pads
• Emergency Meal Fund
• Chipotle was $7
• (Aren’t Absolute Bagels more expensive now?)

Stores/Places That No Longer Exist

• Cardo-Mat, where no one ever went was replaced by Dig Inn

• Some people actually went there!
• Never even heard of Cardo-Mat

• Ollie’s exploded. (And thus concluding the Ollie-Vine/Triad-Yakuza war for Morningside Heights)
• Sweetgreen replaced Uni-Cafe
• Friedman’s replaced Haakon’s
• O’Connel’s became Tara Hill Bar and Grill (and yet will forever become known as Cannon’s)
• Arts and Crafts replaced Camille’s
• Citibank burned down, briefly taking The Heights with it, and then the 112th branch opened on the other side of broadway, replacing Village Copier
• Ricky’s closed down
• The ‘dam came and went

• RIP

• Barnard Library was still standing RIP
• Barnard gymnasium (and library) existed
• Barnard pool was open
• Archery Club had a place to practice [see Barnard gym]
• Il Cibreo became Amigos
• Havana Central became Bernheim
• Camilles was a thing and reputed mob front

• Totally a mob front. 20 years open and no customers??

• Butler and Lerner Second Floor computer labs used to exist

• Lerner still exists?

• But the “computer lab” has become a lounge with 3 computers

• VIllage Pourhouse became Amity Hall
• Maoz became Pressed Juicery
• vareli and/or domain switched names 5 times then shut down
• Toast Chicken became some weird Mexican-themed thing
• Columbia Cottage
• No Insomnia cookies
• What was before pita grill?
• Golden Nails
• Tom’s didn’t have street seating
• Young’s Fish Market
• No ugly condo building next to SJD
• The old-new South Ferry Station--and when 1 trains terminated at Rector Street
• Low Library

Practices/Rituals/Institutions That Have Changed

• there were two entrances to EC!!!!!!

• Where was the second one?
• i distinctly remember going to EC parties freshman year and entering on the other side of the courtyard. you could go past SIPA and get signed in!-- CRAy
• ^^^tru
• omg i thought i dreamt this
• NO ONE BELIEVES ME WHEN I TELL THEM THIS
• I THOUGHT I DREAMT THIS TOO HOLY SHIT IT WAS REAL OMG

• Bwog had news, Spectator was Daily

• people knew what was going on around campus/where the free food was

people know that now!! u arent part of that free food fb group? ^^

it doesn’t have all the free food events that aren’t advertised well

Bwog used to be hilarious :(

• Lysistrata & Metamorphoses were assigned in Lit-Hum

• And King Lear! :(
• Lysistrata was the dirtiest book in Lit Him, that’s so sad.

• Wilma was still at John Jay
• Lion used to be somewhat relevant
• Havana central had great empanadas, Amir’s had the best coffee

• Empanada Wednesday! They sold them outside for $2 or  $3 each

• you could petition global core
• gender-based misconduct policy, university rules have been revised for better or for worse
• CrackDel used to sell 4Loko, then it lost and regained its liquor license (m2m has them now)
• New York Times newspapers used to be in Lerner (now they’re in John Jay)

• they moved them to the piano lounge because people on tours were taking them all
• Now free online subscriptions!

• No sexual respect initiative
• bacchanal didn’t suck

• No tickets, wristbands, CUID check
• #Make Bacchanal great again

• ZBT, SAE and Psi U still existed

• Gamma Phi and AOII didn’t exist yet
• ZBT’s come back!

• Keanu was very popular <<lmfaos
• Our Football team hadn’t won a game
• Subs conscious stopped being good
• We used to turn the tooth in front of Law (do people still do that?yes)
• BWOG had a decent web design
• Registration is different

• Yea, before there was no wishlist, so you had to watch your computer 24/7 to wait for an open spot
• Could also give class spots to friends. Upperclassmen would register for additional classes and give them to their underclassmen friends.

• COOP stuff
• Ricoh (package center) became Swiss Post Solutions

• Package center wait time went way up

• JJ’s place is open over break
• CPS has more appointments
• $15 minimum wage for work study
• Dodge got all new equipment, weights and machines

• And it took all of five minutes to wreck that shit

• Spec comments sections were a bit less shitty/had less MRAs/were more active

Practices/Rituals/Institutions/People That Disappeared

• Alcohol Edu
• Columbia Admirers was a thing

• As was Overheard Columbia
• Columbia Compliments started it all!

• Dr. “M” Dianne Murphy was Athletic Director
• Robert Kasdin
• Spec Sucks was active and formidable

• Spec sucks will always be active and formidable

• Print at cu was a thing

• Barnard had a much much cheaper printing center for all student orgs.

• Banners on Barnard Hall
• Dean Terry Martinez was here ): miss her. She actually cared about us.

Practices/Rituals/Institutions/People That Appeared

• Suzanne Goldberg
• Vergil didn't exist/ADI had the only schedule planning platform
• Before you had to buy everything at the lerner ramps with cash. Now cookies/showcase tickets can be bought with Venmo!

• Frisbee team takes credit for starting the trend you're welcome

• lol bye
• We have a frisbee team?

• MAKERSPACE!
• NO TINDER

• but there was that date my school thing that super aggressively postered in hamilton and emailed our columbia.edu accounts
• I don’t remember a world without tinder

• SEAS classes are now on Canvas
• There’s hordes of Chinese food carts

• And a Korean and Thai one

Collective Psyche

• We were freshmen

• I am still a freshman at heart!

• very little campus organizing/activism as opposed to now
• We still had hope

• This would affect me more if I weren’t so emotionally hardened

• We still had time to chill and party and make new friends
• we said hello to people we didn’t know

• ...did we though? at least during NSOP
• Some people still do!
• I still say hello to my orientation group members...even if it isn’t reciprocated

• I gave a shit
• Freshmen actually KNEW where the Abbey is (and frequented it)

• They questioned if my ten dollar bill was real...but not my ID

Things that are Now off-limits

• The Hamilton and Math Tunnels got locked down
• there were two entrances to EC!!!!!!

• Where was the second one?
• i distinctly remember going to EC parties freshman year and entering on the other side of the courtyard. you could go past SIPA and get signed in!-- CRAy
• ^^^tru
• omg i thought i dreamt this
• NO ONE BELIEVES ME WHEN I TELL THEM THIS
• I THOUGHT I DREAMT THIS TOO HOLY SHIT IT WAS REAL OMG

• Entrance to Lerner roof from 8th floor was unlocked
• Kent attic was open
• More beer cans on Mudd Roof
• You could go on the Claremont Roof without being seen by big brother
• WE USED TO HAVE THE LERNER BOARD ROOMS ON THE 5th floor T.T
• I could actually use the Barnard tunnels for the purpose for which they were designed
• Uris library (Watson) stopped letting in undergrads during midterms and finals
• That bathroom in Schermerhorn was permanently locked after CU realized that it was a cruising location for unaffiliated gay men (I swear to god if I dreamt this, I will be so sad) (online sources say it was the 7th floor bathroom) lol
• Schermerhorn roof used to be accessible, there was a greenhouse up there but now the door is always locked

Places that are different but not gone (mainly dining/renovations)

• Wallach became a hotel. <<<is this true?<< it got renovated so it it looks fancy

• so did mcbain, EC, schapiro, and a few others

• New Ferris staircase        
• Ferris pasta station had only 3 burners not 6

• Ferris pasta people were still just as unfriendly tho

• (Many floors of) John Jay were renovated <<<including the dining hall
• Printers were added to John Jay
• Butler Cafe got revamped
• no dumb virtual maps of campus near the 115th entrance, just printed ones
• BARNARD STUDENTS COULD SWIPE INTO JJ’S

• They can next year boo

• John Jay wasn’t renovated

• And there was pizza with the twisted rope crust (my favorite had jalapenos).

• Cafe East now sells mangos, grapes/cheese
• Carman renovations
• Carleton Lounge’s buffet and sub sandwich station  got replaced by the sucky, more expensive Blue Java.
• Butler caf started selling fancy(?) overpriced cake things

• also they now sell packaged ramen and large packages of rice cakes

• Amir’s started serving beer (lol)
• Carman Lounge now looks like the Rain Forest Cafe (and McBain Lobby)
• John Jay is open for dinner until 9 pm and JJs is open every night until 1 am -- even the weekend nights
• John Jay has sushi DAILY (R.I.P. Jay pizza)
• There did not used to be a bathroom on the bottom floor of Jay (everyone used the 5th floor bathroom to vom...which is where I lived </3)
• The football stadium/outdoor track at Baker field did not have the Christie complex

• what does this mean?

• there were no *breakfast swipes* (read: poptarts) at JJs
• Jay used to have only one questionable salad bar, now there are several
• Meatless Monday’s has taken full force at campus dining halls

• a heinous crime
• Forreal i just want bacon on mondays at john jay

• Lerner ramps: Uncomfortable benches replaced with uncomfortable chairs+tables
• Subsconscious had a much bigger menu; a much better chip selection; much tastier sandwiches; and wasn’t planning on installing seating (talked to someone who works there and they confirmed the seating thing)
• Ham Del didn’t have those baller sesame rolls they use now (or did they?)

No Clue/Misc

• Dan Stone :)
• bloomberg was still mayor
• Professors would strip down to their underwear
• McBain was a rat’s nest that smelled like a cat litter box. Now it’s a hotel that smells like a cat litter box.
• Low occupied by CDCJ students