While most of Columbia is away on fall break, high school students invaded campus. Today Columbia was host to the Scholastic Press Association Conference. Bwog managed to snap a few shots of these youths in bloom.

There’s no fall break when it comes to press conferences.  Somehow, Justin Vlasits woke up for it. It was a chilly morning on the steps of the Arthur Zankel Building of Teacher’s College as reporters from every major television and radio station crowded onto the sidewalk to hear TC Jewish Association Co-President Rebecca Pasternak and […]

Everyone’s got their own ideas for how to deal with nooses and the like. Let’s compare! New York City has declared November 29 to be a “day against hate,” when presumably no cars will honk and New Yorkers will throw off their prickly demeanors to live in harmony. On Friday, the mainstream Columbia establishment (the […]

Bwog editor Lydia DePillis is in Kentucky, trying life on the other side. FRANKFORT, Ky.–Another door, another vote, another Advil. According to Dems organizers, we may be hitting the entirety of Beshear’s base in this 27,000-person town, and it felt like it –canvassers were assigned large suburban districts and sent out in two-person teams, rather […]

Bwog editor Lydia DePillis is still in Kentucky, posting from coffeeshops. FRANKFORT, Ky.–The Columbia cavalcade awoke at a reasonable hour this morning, shaking off the remnants of last night’s indiscretions (I don’t feel the need to recount them here). The Louisville visit went well, if you count driving an hour both ways to awkwardly mingle […]

The Sun reported a few days ago–from a “source at the college”–that Columbia has rubber stamped the hotbutton professor Nadia Abu El-Haj’s tenure bid at the Barnard Anthropology Department, the culmination of a drawn-out squabble on the margins of academia (Bwog’s resident expert Josh Mathew took a look when the grandstanding reached its height around […]

New daily editor Alexandra Muhler tells us what’s what when it comes to horsemanship in the City. After a year in New York, I’m used to being cut off in crosswalks by aggressive drivers. But there’s still a thrill in feeling the whoosh of a passing car while crossing the street on a horse. And […]

Bwog editor Lydia DePillis is still in Kentucky, where she’s misplaced her camera cord–pictures are going to have to wait until the morning.  The Columbia Dems are Beshear’s shock troops. Not that anyone’s shocked to see them–most residents in contested districts have encountered eager young campaign workers before. But it’s a cool name anyway. The […]

Bwog editor Lydia DePillis is still in Kentucky, along with Brit Spec reporter Josh Chambers, who’s blogging here. “Ten?” “Um, Eleven.” “Oh, yeah, eleven.” Honks, that is. Such began the morning, at 8:00 AM, with the entire Columbia contingent lining S. Broadway St. shivering almost as violently as they were waving their signs–almost everyone had […]

Bwog wishes everyone a very merry fall break!

Bwog editor Lydia DePillis hitched a ride with the College Democrats on their annual campaign trip. Her dispatches follow, wireless permitting. LEXINGTON, Ky.–We’ve touched down in the South, and my minivan might as well have been a spaceship for the distance I feel like we’ve traveled in the last 18 hours. The sun rose and […]

Bwog editor Lydia DePillis hitched a ride with the Columbia Democrats this weekend on their annual fall campaign trip. Over the next few days, she’ll be filing dispatches from the trail, wireless permitting. LEXINGTON, Ky.–I’m not sure why I woke up at 5:40 AM this morning, evidently without my alarm. I catapulted out of bed, […]

Sticking around campus for the long weekend? Here are a few ways to amuse yourself after you’ve finally caught up on sleep, courtesy of Bwog daily editor Hillary Busis: Friday, November 2 Hip Hop Karaoke What’s that you say? You love karaoke, but you’re bored with wailing sing-along standards like “I Will Survive” and “Don’t […]

A group of first-years (who have collectively named themselves Floor 7 Productions) recently submitted their short film Waking Up and Other Hardships to Apple’s ’07 Insomnia Festival, in which high school and college student groups create their own three minutes of brilliance in under 24 hours based on a set of pre-listed elements. See if […]

“Good news” from the Anthropology departments, to some folks’ dismay Something tells us a three-year boycott on these proportions this might be a little difficult Rest In Peace TV-Links, Glorious Ruiner of GPAs and Paper Deadlines If you want to know what makes Butler residents angry, here’s how to do it Racism: It’s overstated!   […]