[ALMA MATTERS ♔] 2.18.12 A milli, a milli, a milli… Just as the great poet Lil Wayne once said, it ain’t trickin if you got it. So if you’ve got a great idea to make Columbia a better place but need a little extra cash to pull it off, just apply for a CCSC Student Project Grant! Deadline is the 25th, so dream big, people—puppies are wonderful, but what about

[ALMA MATTERS ♔] 2.11.12 Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? When you cross College Walk, my heart skips like the children on the grass. When I look into your eyes, I feel like I’m diving into lakes of chocolate, deeper than the fountains of Low or the pools of Dodge. When the sunshine plays across your lustrous hair and beaming face, you launch ten thousand ships—Helen had

[ALMA MATTERS ♔] 2.4.12 Got thoughts on Financial Aid? Want a free lunch? Laurie Schaffler, Dean of Financial Aid, will be sitting down with students over a series of six lunches to discuss ways to improve the financial aid advising system. This is a really huge opportunity to share your experiences and recommendations with the lady who will actually be in charge of making change happen! We are looking for a

[ALMA MATTERS ♔] 1.28.12 in honor of @DeanTMartinez, this email will be composed entirely of tweets #mildlyobnoxious #impropercapitalization #hatersgonhate yo @CCkids, #exclusive invite to a #pizzaparty before the women’s basketball game this saturday! to get inside, just follow… @DeanTMartinez, the real twitter acct of Dean Martinez of Community Affairs! (but be nice, she’s a bit of a n00b when it comes to tech) INFO: DSA Pre-Game Pizza Party for Columbia Women’s

[ALMA MATTERS ♔] 1.21.12 WELCOME TO SPRING 2012, COLUMBIA COLLEGE! I hope you have all had a restful, relaxing, and reinvigorating winter break. It’s finally the new year, and I, for one, am ready to rock like never before…(second-semester senior, #sorryimnotsorry). Let’s kick things off with our first event of the new semester, “What’s Wrong, Columbia?”. We want you to tell us literally everything that you think can be added, improved,

[ALMA MATTERS ♔] 12.18.11 Just hold on a minute… Since it’s finals, I could just say “GOGOGO!” and leave it at that… But actually—your paper’s not really going anywhere anyway. So here’s an email filled with study breaks, and I promise they’re awesome. Today at 1pm in Furnald and John Jay lounges, there will be a veritable barrage of cuteness as we host eight dogs from the Delta Society Pet

[ALMA MATTERS ♔] 12.10.11 From us to you… Given the space restrictions brought on by the ever-charming finals season, CCSC (in particular, the extraordinarily devoted and devilishly handsome CC Senator Kenny Durell) has worked with the Butler Library staff to bring you an unprecedented opportunity: MORE STUDY SPACE IN BUTLER! For the pilot, Butler will add six of the ten graduate reading rooms on the 5th and 6th floors of

[ALMA MATTERS ♔] 12.3.11 You’re almost there… The end of the semester is nearing, and with it comes a brisk chill in the air, lights in the trees, and a plenitude of events and opportunities on campus. Oh, and finals. Regardless if you’re a senior who’s on the verge of being academically checked-out or a first-year asking why you decided to take a 3000-level class without the prereqs, it’s a

[ALMA MATTERS ♔] 11.26.11 It’s the most wonderful time of the year… For one of the truly most magical moments on campus, we are proud to invite you all to attend the annual Tree Lighting Ceremony this Thursday, December 1st! Every year, students come together to light the trees on College Walk, enjoy wonderful performances by their peers and hear words of wisdom and encouragement from their faculty and administrators.

[ALMA MATTERS ♔] 11.19.11 Happy Thanksgiving! It’s not uncommon that when the weather drops to -10˚ and the sunlight disappears that it feels like manners and gratitude fall away too. Often we get caught up in our own problems and our own lives, and we don’t reach out to others to say thank you for all that they do for us. In light of that, we would like to propose