This event, too, was marred by protests, however, as long-time residents of the building complained, calling the move just another attempt by the university to gentrify a slum into a residential area. When the Administration failed to respond, though, the cockroaches actually took to the streets in a dramatic show of force to demonstrate their resistance to people actually moving in. Over there is Ferris Booth Hall. We were going to write a joke about it, but now that you've been inside, it's just not necessary. Attached to FBH, however, is the also newly renovated Columbia Bookstore, which has become the object of intense study as a large blue chunk of debris from the Space Shuttle Challenger was recently discovered clinging to the Broadway side of the building.
Scientists are at a loss as to the source of the fragment's mysterious unearthly glow.
This is the journalism building which was built by Joseph Pulitzer, who apparently gave enough money to build the building, but not enough to get it named after himself. Columbia's most recent successful athlete, Lou Gehrig, used to play baseball on a field that was located where John Jay now stands before he moved to the Bronx. This building also houses the film school which is chaired by Milos Foreman who, as you may recall, directed the Academy Award winning film Amadeus. Some critics have described the film which depicts the rivalry between Mozart and Sallieri as a brilliant portrayal of a battle between two artists. Others consider it merely a case of pianist envy.