Details are in on the CC Class Day McCain protest and things are looking peachy. Well, orangey? An email from protest organizers says “orange at Class Day signif[ies] our opposition to McCain’s policies and support for equality, women’s rights, and peace, among other values.” Official protests run from wearing orange buttons to “an orange demonstration,” […]

Starring: Max Minghella (previous credits: Syriana, Bee Season, Art School Confidential) Also featuring: Joey Alvarado, Liz Strauss Location: Cafe Swish, Kim’s, JJ’s Place Plot Summary: New York Times decides to profile progeny of esteemed director Anthony Minghella, cute freshman friends provide sense of natural environment. Rising actor eschews usual activities of the young and famous […]

This is the sixth post in the senior wisdom series. Read the rest here. Andrew Stinger, CC’06. Claim to fame: Mr. CU Relief. Post-grad plans: Still waiting to hear about a spot in the Associates Program at Random House. Other possible back-up plans include marketing with Starwood Hotels, a position buying air time for an […]

The folks at Northeastern University have blown a fuse somewhere. When students from their incoming class attempt to sign up for a University-provided email account during Orientation, they will have to complete a “Facebook.com Tutorial.” A Powerpoint presentation cooked up by the admins sez: “The facebook provides excellent opportunities for students to connect with their peers […]

The New York Daily News is reporting that missing senior Richard Ng looked up directions to the Brooklyn Bridge before leaving EC Sunday night, leading investigators to look at his disappearance as part of a suicide attempt. A commenter on the Bwog’s original post also mentioned a similar scenario. All of us at the Blue […]

This is the fifth post in the senior wisdom series. Read the rest here. Birk Oxholm, CC ‘06 Claim to fame: Tripped over a grate on campus and sued Columbia. Post grad plans: “half-time at McKinsey, half-time at Goldman, half-time at Yale Law.” Preferred swim test stroke? Breast. What are three things you learned at […]

The evening news crews broadcasting outside the Broadway and Amsterdam gates were the first clues, but Richard Ng’s disappearance has been picked up by the NYC media. Channel 7 has the most complete coverage, aside from the Spec. Police are now placing Ng at W. 72nd Street and Broadway at around 10:30 Sunday night. Anyone […]

A few days ago Google introduced a new feature called “Trends” that allows users to view statistics about the search queries that Google fields by the millions every day. And finally, we have proof that Columbia actually is more important than its ivied brethren. A comparison by volume of the search term “columbia university” versus […]

Yes, we’re that self-reverential. If you’ve never read a word of Spec coverage on Manhattanville, read this. It’s crazy! It’s okay, nobody else knows what the hell they’re talking about either. O’zbek tilini ko’proq talaba o’rganishini istardim. Yeah, that’s Uzbek, bitch. You will never be this cool. Ever. Happy Birthday! That will be two dollars […]

Bwog decided to forgo packing up a messy dorm room for a cloudy voyage to City Island. Floating in the foggy Long Island Sound but technically a part of the Bronx, it’s the closest thing New York City has to a fishing village; complete with yacht clubs, fried fish stands, and nautically-themed lawn ornaments.   […]

Our source sez: The New Yorker poetry department receives over 1,000 submissions every week. Each of these is destined to be lovingly rejected by an intern, usually a Columbia grad student, with a carefully handwritten note. It’s understandable then that sometimes things get backed up. Really backed up. According to one of the interns, there […]

This is the fourth post in the senior wisdom series. Read the rest here. Montse Ferrer, CC ’06. Claim to fame: Community Service Guru. Post-grad plans: Bogota, Colombia for the summer to work with a program that is demilitarizing paramilitaries and then starting law school in the fall– still not sure about where. Preferred swim […]

We have only our instincts. This we call the delivery of events, a fragile striking, unexpected, a poison, more a poison, the blade and the poison, and the sound of keys. There is no possibility of downfall.

Leo Gertsenshteyn reports: A man in a banana costume just ran screaming through 209 Butler. Luckily, it has promptly returned to being an uneventful night of studying and NSA sex in the stacks. And overheard in Butler Cafe: Girl: Oh guess what! I’m soooo excited! I got my books on Mesopotamia today! Guy: Oh, cool. […]

In animal cruelty, actually. The eminently reasonable, not-shrill-at-all People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has ranked the Worst 10 College Laboratories, and Columbia comes in 10th, behind places like Harvard and Johns Hopkins (well, we beat Yale). At least the Columbia monkeys have people on their side, (watch out for the ominous voice of […]