“hungry not only for Iranian freedom, but also for turkey subs.”  Spec is hungry for Tajbakhsh’s freedom: would they like a turkey sub? This harsh dance critic may be a Columbia alum, but I still prefer Soulja Boy’s more concise critical style: “man that shit was ugly” When using latin produces the words “cum-pastry shop,”  […]

In the middle of so many heads of state on campus, it is easy to look over an apparently modest conversation that included a composer, arts professor, Pulitzer prize winning poet and law professor discussing the role that jazz and improvisation play in everyday life. Justin Vlasits reports. During the Columbia Harlem Festival of Global […]

For those who were wondering how Iranians felt about the whole PrezBo introduction… “Fars News Agency      September 25, 2007 Iranian University Chancellors Ask Bollinger 10 Questions TEHRAN – Seven chancellors and presidents of Iranian universities and research centers, in a letter addressed to their counterpart in the US Colombia University, denounced Lee Bollinger’s insulting words against […]

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, one of the many Deciders in this whole Manhattanville shebang (after having heard from the masses) will “announce an agreement between the University and the Borough President to balance community concerns with the goals of Columbia’s proposed expansion” tomorrow at 1:00 PM. Could be game over for team CB9/SCEG/CPC. Stay […]

Sara Maria Hasbun reports on a lecture that’s very…stimulating. About 75 years ago, Alfred Kinsey got tired of gall wasps and moved on to the mating habits of humans. To the horror and disgust of the American public (who simultaneously snatched his books from shelves, although they’d never admit it), he essentially created the academic discipline […]

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After yesterday’s speech-tacular, a little silent activism on something just up the street was almost refreshing. Spotted on Kent at about 12:30 PM. (It says “Columbia Renewal is West Harlem Removal.” Which is almost a pun.) (Hamilton was also festooned with one that read “Expand With Respect.”)   Viva la bedsheet revolucion!

Try one on for size: Naiveness  Absurdity  Surprised Bollinger got all political or whatever? Long time no see, Megan Greenwell! And that is why we cherish you, Bulliet …and you, Eric Foner

What happens when you mix dirrrrty, sexxxy hip-hop with Apple computers? One crazy dance party. Bwog staffer Hannah Goldfield elaborates (photos by Hannah Goldfield and Merrell Hambleton). I first heard Spank Rock while nodding off in the backseat of a friend’s car. Someone had added a few bonus tracks to the end of an otherwise […]

We were just kidding about the clean slate business. First, WNYC opened the phone lines to callers yesterday, and this morning. They also reported that PrezBo, who comments at the end of the radio blurb, stole the spotlight…but not everyone’s heart. And NPR reported on the event this morning, catching some of the more controversial quotes on tape.

Spectator’s still the Ahmadineblog, but you have to get your news from somewhere. Ergo, CleanSlate. Here’s what’s been happening news-wise since the birth of the Ahmadineblog.  To everyone that slept in Butler tonight, I’d maybe save this one for later  But what’s a single word we could use to sum up this controversy and then […]

Bwog newbie Pierce Stanley trailed PrezBo to (hopefully) his final event before a well-deserved rest (how does PrezBo relax? Hm.)   For a lecture hopper who braved the hordes on Broadway this afternoon only to find himself caught in the depths of an unusually dark and tense Roone Arledge Auditorium, witnessing the verbal smack down […]

…or is it?  The last news van has left Broadway, and the time has come for the national media to postmortem fair Alma’s latest tryst with controversy. Predictably, the Weekly Standard has nothing but nice things to say about the outcome of today’s event. Meanwhile, Salon’s Michael Grieve predicts that PreazBo’s speech (relive the moment […]

Crazy shit correspondent Armin Rosen happened by a rather unusual protest on Broadway this afternoon. The Tanach teaches that the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed because of the “groundless hatred” Jews harbored towards their fellow Jews. Fuck it, say the Neturai Karta. The anti-Zionist ultra-orthodox sect whose views on Israel and the Holocaust are in […]

After what was, after all, a rather tame event, the hordes receded from campus. Garbage drifted across South Lawn, a few verbal skirmishes broke out, reporters dragooned passersby for reactions, and it became pretty clear that a post-speech timeslot with the Columbia Coalition’s mike wasn’t worth much. Via Spec (which seems to be linking to […]