There are free t-shirts, courtesy of Hillel! Commemorative mugs and tote bags to come.  ALSO: Tonight’s 60 minutes, which started 6 minutes ago, is on Ahmadinejad. In case you want a preview.   UPDATE, 7:45 PM: GERALDO RIVERA IS INTERVIEWING CHRIS KULAWIK AT THE BROADWAY GATES RIGHT NOW

JJ’s-devotees were certainly in a shock this fall. Sure from a cursory glance, JJ’s looks great! So many frozen meals! So much ice cream! However, once you stepped up to that familiar counter, a perennial favorite was missing- the spicy chicken! The spicy strips of chicken breast were deep-fried to a tender and moist perfection. […]

Brad himself spotted at Grant’s Tomb, filming this movie. Thanks to Alex Klingenstein for forwarding the photo. 

And so the madness begins. An anti-Ahmadinejad press conference that just went down in front of the Broadway gates included state assemblyman Dov Hikind, who called for New Yorkers to “show up by the thousands” and create an impenetrable human barrier around Lerner Hall. Also present was the principal of the Rambam Jewish day school […]

Because it’s their day on the Plaza! Get out there and dance, and eat–delicious Middle Eastern food, cheap.  

So the Columbia Coalition Against the War (the War defined broadly at this point) is planning a picket of the main forum/speakout/thingy tomorrow. CCAW released another statement last night, reprinted after the jump, and is waiting on approval from the Dems for another consensus statement that’s expected to announce they’re all getting along again. Also, […]

The swirling storm of shit due to descend upon our fair university sometime tomorrow morning is predictably picking up steam. Current editor David Feith and Giuliani supporter Jordan Hirsch sure have a strong opinion on things, while conservative twit William Kristol has a rather novel idea for protesting the Iranian president. That guy who led […]

Bwog’s never waded through the bowels of CUIT web pages to check its printer quota, but apparently it should have. According to one of those cute tipsters that makes fake addresses to send us under-the-radar information, no matter where you print from on campus, the system won’t register your activity–you could run off the collected […]

We’re not sure what’s more strange about the AAA poster: that they promote their event with a picture of Calvin Sun et al., or that they’re touting Tokyo Pop as “Columbia’s premier nightclub/lounge.”  Also, Phi Iota Alpha felt the need to promote their rager with a glistening, curvaceous babe. No party in the Lerner Party […]

A Fox producer told Bwog yesterday that Chris Kulawik would be going on with Jamie Colby to oppose Columbia’s decision to host President Ahmadinejad. In typical face-off style, the anchor had him as a counterpoint to journalism school student Bess Kargman, who was supposed to argue in favor of the visit. In fact, they both […]

Far be it from us to confuse correlation with causation, but it does seem especially fortuitous that Kian Tajbakhsh, an alumnus of Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation working with the Open Society Institute, was released from an Iranian prison this Wednesday–the same day that plans for President Ahmadinejad’s visit fell into place.  […]

This just in: “The Columbia Mentoring Initiative was supposed to have a BBQ but it’s clearly raining. We’ve set up temporary shop on the 5th floor of Lerner. Come get free BBQ food before it runs out.” Smokin.

The air has been thick with statements over the last few days, as every group tries to decide what they think and student leaders rush to stake out their positions. In case you care, we’ve pasted or linked to most of them after the jump–but first, a little context. Wednesday night, student heads of things […]

After going down in flames with its first two attempts at opinion blogging, and with a tentative re-entry into the world of instantaneous news coverage with the Orientation blog, Spectator is taking a third swing. A little corner notice in the paper this week read:  “The Opinion Section has launched a blog twice and was […]

After e-mailing most every organization and calling every student leader they could get phone numbers for, Fox has its Columbia pundits set for the next few days. Here’s the list, possibly incomplete and subject to change: TONIGHT at 8:00 PM on the O’Reilly Factor: Columbia College sophomore Alejandra Aponte, arguing in favor of Columbia’s decision […]