According to an email circulated among the science types, the CC’07 Valedictorian is Claire Lackner, a published Physics major and Rabi Scholar, and daughter of Lamont-Doherty climate change maven Klaus Lackner. Don’t hate her because she’s smarter than you, or because she’s not on facebook–that’s pretty much par for the course. Memo after the jump. 

While Public Safety clamps down on Columbia’s physical security, some students were alerted today to a breach in the university’s virtual defenses. According to an email they received, Housing and Dining accidentally exposed information from students’ housing files online for a period on April 2nd. “Exposure was limited,” the email goes on to say, “because there […]

Following the Virginia Tech shootings, Public Safety has announced that all Student Aides, who help man dorm security desks, are to be replaced with regular security guards for the rest of the semester. In an email sent today by Student Aide Coordinator Andrew Ness (provided after the jump), students who work at the desks were […]

What? You’re not already sick of the amateur parodies of SNL’s “Special Christmas Box” that have been pollinating YouTube for months? You want to see law students pretend they have an iota of creativity by donning fake beards and Orthodox Jewish outfits to present you with boxes full of…Bagels with Lox? That’s the theme of the […]

A few who knew that LionPAC had reserved the Sundial for the same time that Lucha and Filasteen were planning a human wall across Low Plaza anticipated a showdown – but would have been disappointed, as the event went down without incident. About 50 people (very roughly speaking), including many of the New York Magazine […]

In case you haven’t checked your email within the last hour – or tend to disregard student council announcements altogether – Columbia’s student councils have joined forces to schedule a candlelight vigil for victims of the Virginia Tech massacre. The ceremony will take place tomorrow (Wednesday) night at 9PM by the Sundial. CCSC President Seth […]

Nikki Goldstein writes in to say $3.95 will get you assorted fruits to dip into the chocolate fountain at Ferris Booth — break out the Flex!

As students react to the Virginia Tech shootings, police hunt J-School student’s torturer Not just youth apathy? GSSC election turnout plummets Admin asks: How short would you make your showers for $25 in Flex? Meanwhile, profs fight climate change with “global thermostat,” clubs with $100 Whole Foods shopping spree Morality may not exist…but it’s best […]

The Chicano Caucus has just issued a statement regarding the verdicts on the seven stage rushers (will this story never end?), endorsed by four other cultural groups plus SPEaK, declaring that the group “must conclude that bias affected the decisions.” It’s considerably more diplomatic than Karina & Co.’s hit piece, but makes no bones about […]

Our second weekly photo contest, on the theme of consumption, also attracted manifold worthy entrants, forcing some difficult choices. However, by the highly objective standards of the Bwog editorial staff, Janna Herman, B’10, came out on top again! Her winning photo, below, is entitled “Couples Dine Out.” See the rest of our picks after the […]

You think you’re suffering? Well quit your emo whining, already Triple threat: borough, borough, borough! Why being an Iranian in America can give you a political headache  Promised Land unpromised to Ethiopian Jews?  Book review: the journey from the far left to the Religious Right  

Bwog just got shut out of the Journalism School auditorium where they’re formally handing out the medals, but the Pulitzer Prize committee has just announced its winners, each recieving a cool $10 grand.

General Selection times have been posted!  

Early this morning, a gunman at Virginia Tech went on the deadliest gun rampage in U.S. history. The Washington Post is reporting 33 killings and more than 30 additional injuries as of 6pm. The Post‘s extensive coverage can be read here. Jamal Albarghouti, a student, caught the gunman on his cell phone’s videocamera and the recording is […]