Bwog was puzzled when news of a delegation of Columbia professors going to Iran to apologize to President Ahmadinejad for PrezBo’s performance in September appeared in our inbox yesterday. The article by the government-sponsored Mehr News agency cited only one anonymous source and seemed completely improbable, Bwog brushed it off as Iranian propaganda and went […]

The New York Times’ Election Guide 2008 is a handy tool for figuring out the political affiliations of tight-lipped professors, distant cousins, and friends. Entering in a zip code will yield a listing of all the political donors in that area, including to whom that money was donated and how much. Here are some Columbia […]

Stephen Colbert’s guest on his WGA strike-breaking show tonight is none other than Chris Beam–former B&W senior editor, V112 writer, co-founder of Ivygate and writer for  Slate‘s political blog Trailhead (see iconic depiction at right). Watch it at 11:30 p.m. He’s blonde and articulate. Update: an interview with Beam, who’s in Manchester, NH in a noisy […]

A rare bit of apolitical tenure news at Columbia arrived today in the form of an email from Urban Studies program director Owen Gutfreund, who announced that he had been denied tenure and will be leaving as soon as next year. Gutfreud, an expert on urban sprawl, had the reputation of being an engaging lecturer […]

Thai Jones, CU American history Ph.D. candidate and son of Weather Underground founder Jeff Jones, has written a piece in today’s New York Times about the University’s most recent hunger strike and the history of self-imposed starvation as a means of political activism. Jones compares much of the campus’s anti-hunger striking sentiments of just a […]

Photo snapped by Brendan Ballou in St. Paul, Minnesota

The Crimson has broadened its coverage area–it’s now taking a look at Columbia’s expansion, but only as far as Alma’s project relates to its own. Some of the paper’s conclusions, in Bwog’s expert opinion, turned out a little whack. The Crimson calls Harvard’s proposed expansion an “even more ambitious plan” than Columbia’s (because all comparisons […]

Hats off to childrens author Jon Scieszka (interviewed by Bwog here), MFA ’80, who has been named the first national ambassador of young people’s literature! Apparently it’s like a poet laureate for kids. Mr. Scieszka, as lifelong Stinky Cheese Man fans, you are an alumnus who makes Bwog proud. And a kick in the shins […]

Bwog, having watched the progress of the Iowa caucus from its comfy couch for the last week, decided to check in with a few Columbians spending their vacations stumping the Hawkeye state for their candidates of choice. Considering it’s – 4 degrees outside, you’d have to be insane, or, well…insane. One note: those featured are […]

A new breed of badass is rapidly replacing the sedans of yesteryear. Here, a salute to Public Safety’s new-ish fleet of customized, hybrid SUVs. SUVs, you know, for speed.  UPDATE 3:38 PM: Sources are reporting the existence of CU Public Safety magnets in the shape of the new SUVs. They’re available at the security desk […]

From Hawaii to Times Square to the depths of suburbia, Bwoggers from across the country are writing in about their New Year’s Eve.  Let Bwog know how you kicked off your year…be it naughty or nice! Every year, my family and I fly up to my Grandma’s house in Honolulu for New Years.  My friends […]

How has 2007 been the year for Columbia’s prevalence within the mainsteam media? Let Bwog count thy ways… Ahmadinejad’s remark about homosexuality in Iran (namely lack thereof) was noted in Salon‘s Year in Sex. The same comment was also included in City Room’s 2007 synopsis under the heading “Widely noted denial of sexual identity”, as […]

The new year is here, and with it, some resolutions of Bwgossipers. Cheers to optimism! Create a filter to send all career center e-mails directly to Spam Fill four HamDel cards, topping this semester’s three Never mention to anyone how much I sleep Spend more time on Spectator-subversion related tasks Doodle more, transcribe less Chalk […]

…to be Bwog’s Senior Year Correspondent. Hello Early Deciders, we’re interested in having you write for us as our first ever Senior Year Correspondent. Bwog, always partial to nostalgia and the goings-on of prefrosh, would like to run a series of posts about the life and times of a second-semester high school senior. All interested […]

Bwog freelancer Stephanie Quan isn’t a classical music buff, but she got interested in virtuoso violinist Joshua Bell when she heard about this experiment in a D.C. metro station. Eight months later, she snagged a phone interview with the Strad-playing celebrity, and quizzed him on childhood habits and favorite dead people. Bwog: Hi.   Joshua […]