There might have been midterms this week, but that doesn't mean the world stopped turning (or that Spec News stopped reporting). In case you missed it, here's what happened while you were cramming:
In the week's biggest on-campus news, we now know the 13 student groups vying for three 114th Street brownstones. But while only three groups can go home with their very own building, everyone's a winner when it comes to John Jay Dining Hall, which will be converted to an after-dinner study space starting this week. In other potentially groundbreaking space news, student councils and administrators are working to repurpose unused or underused spaces, like the sketchy basement in Ruggles.
In the world of finance, Columbia reported that its endowment earned a run-of-the-mill 2.3 percent last year, and a Barnard employees' union reached a tentative labor agreement with administrators. Meanwhile, the Columbia Democrats pointed out that while the Student Health Insurance Plan fee went down this year, the fee no longer covers abortions.
