It’s that time of year again when many of ’09’s student leaders, activist types, overachievers, and masthead ascenders will be tapped and asked to join a senior society. A tipster sends evidence in the form of a photo of the sidewalk in back of Earl Hall: Three S’s, the (dark?) mark of one of Columbia’s […]

Another year has passed, and a new passel of eager young reformers have stepped up to the Executive Board of the CU College Dems. Bwog welcomes the whole crew, along with Chris Daniels (pictured), the new President and issuer of many press releases to come. The full new board, and the email that announced them, […]

What can we do to reinforce a message of freedom on this campus? How about dancing at Havana Central? Hey, it’s better than wishy-washy social justice editorializing Or picketing alone in front of the Mayor’s house Maybe there’s nothing to do but pray But in this case, the guy should probably just sue their asses

This year Barnard’s Class Day speakers will include New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New Yorker editor David Remnick, famed tennis player Billie Jean King, and organizer of Harlem Head Start programs Thelma C. Davidson Adair.  Bwog just ran into outgoing BC President Laura Stoffel who could hardly contain her excitement. Expect a more official […]

Tipster Faith Chang informs Bwog of free lasagnas—both of the meat and vegetarian varieties—are currently up for grabs in the Lerner lobby courtesy of Blue Key Society.  BONUS: There’s also free Famiglia in the EC lobby. Supposedly it’s only for seniors, but we didn’t have trouble snagging a slice.  

Bwog contributor Christopher Morris-Lent recently directed us to www.hamdel.com. We think, if you’re expecting ABC Specials and E-mail Deluxes, you’ll find it amusing.  

Bwog Lecture Hop Editor Pierce Stanley sends a dispatch with notes on last night’s teach-in about the Iraqi refugee crisis and his new understanding of this week’s series of Iraq War protests. The distinct sound of a bell has been ringing in my head for the last three days, and it’s starting to affect my […]

Writer Paul Auster, CC’69, perhaps best known for the postmodern detective novels collected in the New York Trilogy (and subject of a Columbia College Today cover story not too long ago), has a very enjoyable and candid personal essay in today’s NYT about his involvement in the protests of ’68. “Being crazy,” Auster writes, “struck […]

This past weekend was the New York Comic Convention, a massive gathering of everything comic books. New Bwog correspondent and former Marvel Comics intern Shaina Rubin writes a dispatch about meeting the writers behind the heroes. (She’s even illustrated the scene with her very own comic.) On first entering the New York Comic Convention, known […]

Editorial hates on indie rock of the Spring Concert, pines for pop punk and death metal for next year Comprehending the nature of the universe, on Long Island New GS Student Council news, with only half the bickering! Cheaper birth control after last year’s price hikes Iranian Nobel Laureate encourages feminism in Iran, discourages bombing […]

More news from the Fu Foundation from Bureau Chief Tony Gong.  Featuring colorful commentary and discussions about food! I love ESC. I’ll love ESC through impeachments, seven-hour meetings, and god knows how many viewings of Homeward Bound. But I love seeing The National perform for free in Roone Arledge just a little more. Nevertheless, at […]

Today Associate Professor Joseph Massad‘s Desiring Arabs has been awarded the 2008 Lionel Trilling Award, according an email sent to the MEALAC listserv. The award is given each year to honor the book authored by a Columbia faculty member “that is deemed to best exhibit the standards of intellect and scholarship found in Lionel Trilling’s […]

Today’s the Pennsylvania primary, which means that it’s time for another very special Tuesday edition of White House Bureau Chief Jim Downie’s Political Weekly.  April 22nd, 2008: Known in the rest of the world as the first of two European Champions League semifinals, Americans know it as Super Tuesday 3.0. Unlike its predecessors of March […]

Our Hero is making some appearances by the church, probably to enjoy the nice weather and the sparrows and pigeons that hang out there. Jeff Chou sent in the following picture of H-dad perched on a lamp by the chapel.   AND Hawkmadinejad made his YouTube debut via an accidental filming by Xavier Estevez! He’s […]

One of the more highbrow student publications on campus, Columbia’s Journal of Politics and Society, published by the Helvidius group, is not the average Columbia magazine that you will find strewn on study tables in room 209 of Butler during finals week or hanging lazily on a rack on your way outside of Lerner. Indeed, […]