49.6% = Record numbers Frontiers’ New Frontier  We’re fans of Garamond ourselves   Ivies decide that they should…hire coaches who win…? Barnard Matriarch loved by all “My reason for wanting to take some courses solely with women isn’t that I think men have cooties or should be castrated.”

Check newsstands tomorrow, and you’ll see something familiar: a shiny New York Magazine cover story digesting the last 40 years of crazy activism at Columbia, featuring glamour shots of David Judd, Chris Kulawik, Karina Garcia and a smattering of other rabblerousers. Take a seat, because it’s a doozy, reaching back to the SDS protests of […]

This morning Bwog groggily pulled open the shades, groaned, and fell back into bed, just like you. Now which one of you incurred God’s wrath? Well whatever sin you committed to bring on the storm, we forgive you, and here are eight things you can do to pass this Sunday so you don’t go nuts. 8. Take […]

You may be holed up in your rooms, cozily finishing up homework and recovering from the weekend, but hundreds of high school seniors have work to do: deciding whether they want to join us. Bwog stopped by the activities fair in Roone Arledge, filled with terrified-looking prefrosh and bright-eyed, bushytailed club leaders noshing on brownies […]

Neologisms-R-Us In addition to all the other crazy stuff going on this week, it looks like you can add another controversial event to the list, because Thursday is going to be Islamo Fascism Awareness Day. Great. Bwog recalls the good ol’ days when we were called “islamofascist” by a pundit or two, and we wonder […]

In the spirit of educating us all into better human beings, American Studies Department Head Andrew Delbanco–who’s been writing up a storm recently– convened a conference yesterday entitled “The future of Undergraduate Education: A conference on college: who goes? Who pays? And what should students learn?” Bwog correpondent Armin Rosen reports. Columbia College dean Austin […]

Well, Barnard and GS students voted yesterday for their new student councils, both comfortably missing the Spec news cycle, although they’ve now got the SGA results online (all hail President Stoffel!). We’re all going to have to wait till Monday to learn who emerged victorious from the Niko vs. Gabby dogfight–which had some fun shenanigans–while […]

We know, we usually leave events for the events bar, but we just wanted to point out the shit ton of things going on this week. This weekend is CCO, Days on Campus (welcome prefrosh!), the Broadway street fair (right now–get enough grease and cheap underwear for the next year), and the Dems convention. This […]

Bwog editor emerita Sara Vogel bumped into Jon Scieszka, one of her childhood heroes, on 112th street and Broadway a few weeks ago. When she found out that the author of The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales, Math Curse, and the Time Warp Trio series got his Master’s at Columbia in the […]

It’s official! SEAS Dean Galil brings good tidings of the engineering school’s class day speaker in the latest Zvi-mail, as follows: Hi All, It is with great enthusiasm that I share with you the following news. This year’s Class Day speaker will be the world famous architect/civil-engineer/artist  Santiago Calatrava. He has designed the Transportation Hub […]

You may notice, in the next few days, a few more buttondowned, blue-tied future politicos than usual hanging around campus–it’s the College Democrats of New York‘s annual conference, which this guy made a point of bringing to Columbia. They’ll be schmoozing, attending strategy sessions with titles like “Framing the Issues on Your Campus and Beating […]

Free Dinosaur BBQ right now on Low Plaza! Go go go!  Update: It is all gone.  Justice Update: There is no justice.  

Just a quick announcement: registration times for Fall 2007 are now online. If you choose your classes based on name (hey, that’s how some people choose their colleges), here again is our review of the most interesting course titles from the Fall 2007 bulletin. Also, until we get an official evaluation system, there’s still some […]

Observations from an Ethnic Studies teach in Wednesday evening, courtesy of Bwog correspondent Karen Leung. No introductory lectures, no Asian American studies classes, and only four courses in total to support Comparative Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies, and Latino Studies: These were this term’s course offerings from the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and […]

‘Round the fire with PrezBo (again) In Slavic Department, Russian does not own you…(I mean, at least now you have more of a choice) Something about this just seems out of place under “News”… All aboard, get on the Art Train Aw, a pre-frosh op-ed! Office hours for athletic trainers — apparently they once existed