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 […]

And here’s what happened: World’s greatest mime, Marcel Marceau, died this weekend in Paris. He was 84. And delightfully silly. *wipes face as if to brush away tear* Harvard got themselves a SEAS. Oh no they di’int. Barack Obama invited you to join him in Washington Square Park: Bjork at the Garden tonight. Tickets still […]

Lee Bollinger, we are forced to conclude, is a superhero. He talked with the Presidents of Malawi and Turkmenistan this morning, took on Ahmadinejad this afternoon, and is now teaching his class. Alexandra Muhler was there for Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov. With all the trouble coming out of Central Asia recently, it’s nice to return to the […]

Find CNN’s Live Feed here! The speech is starting, and it’s like a movie: Coatsworth asked everyone to turn off their cell phones and to stay seated, lest the Secret Service get all up on their asses. 1:50: Bwog has been chased out of Hamilton. Unbelievably, people are still in class. Inside, someone threw a […]

South Lawn is standing-room-only.  

Everyone from firefighters to Yeshiva University to guys in kilts playing “God Bless America” on bagpipes are thronging outside the gates. The speakout has taken a break for the speech, which will start in about 15 minutes–first 10 minutes for PrezBo, then 10 minutes for SIPA Dean Coatsworth, then 30 minutes for Mahmoud. Classes are […]

Everyone has their cause today. This one seems hypocritical. Also spotted, man with orange sign wandering around South Lawn: “Two Robots in Every Garage.”  – SEV 

The Bwoggers trapped inside Roone managed to get these messages to the outside: According to an Office of Communications representative, the spots weren’t handed out on a first-come first-served basis. Columbia College was capped at 150, SIPA at 300, and 150 went to Barnard, SEAS, and all other grad schools combined. That’s ok though, because […]

Geraldo Rivera, his mustache, Chris Kulawik, and serious-guy-with-beard (who is apparently Kulawik’s shadow), all made an appearance on Fox News. – JNW

“Bush is worse!” So says World Can’t Wait (the ones who want to drive out the Bush Regime).  People are inside, and the rally is starting!