For our last offering from our dearest Mother Magazine, The Blue and White, we present Senior Editor Channing Prend’s, CC ’17, look into Columbia’s Community Scholars Program. Like any other student, Eric Washington has a CUID, logs in using his UNI, and takes courses at Columbia. Yet he’s not enrolled in any of the university’s 20 […]

Yesterday the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox played for an empty stadium. The current riots in Baltimore lead to the closure of the park to the public. The players were left to play in an incredibly somber environment. The Orioles prevailed for their city winning 8-2. (Bleacher Report) Uber is suing the city […]

Up next for Senior Wisdoms, we bring you V119 alum and current CA for East Campus, Jess Chi. Name, School, Major, Hometown: Jessica (Jess) Chi, Columbia College, Sociology and English, Closter, New Jersey Claim to fame: Former Panhellenic Council President, current East Campus Community Adviser, and “that Asian girl” from The 119thAnnual Varsity Show. You’ve probably bumped […]

Tuesday Daily Editor Briana “Badgalbribri” is back on this Wednesday afternoon to share some music that she’s been “thinkin about a lot lately.” Most of these songs were made years apart from one another, but their messages remain thematically consistent and particularly relevant right now. Hopefully, the lyrics and messages of these songs will inspire […]

Student-Worker Solidarity has released a statement on the responses they have received from Scott Wright, the Vice President for Campus Services, concerning their petition addressing certain Columbia Dining policies that apparently restrict workers from speaking Spanish and eating around students. Despite these assertions from various Columbia Dining workers, Wright claims that these incidents were “isolated.” […]

This sunny and warm morning has blessed us with another gift: 2016 Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived on campus to give her keynote address at the 18th Annual David N. Dinkins Leadership Forum earlier this morning. Students en route to class have stopped to take pictures with or of the former First Lady, and her […]

For this issue’s ATSL, The Blue and White endeavored to grapple with the most pressing question concerning the Columbia community (or, perhaps, just Bwog readers): should you read the comments? While we obviously think you should, Features Editor and magazine contributor Tatini Mal-Sarkar, CC ’17, tells you why, and staff writer Mabel Taylor, BC ’18, tells […]

According to various news sources, Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont will be launching his presidential campaign tomorrow. Although he is considerably behind Hillary Clinton in the polls, his candidacy will be sure to divide moderate and progressive democrats. (Huffington Post) Yet another Bravo show about housewives: the network is coming out with a new series called […]

This afternoon, Columbia College released their full list of Phi Beta Kappa inductees for the class of 2015. According to the announcement, PBK inductees are chosen based on “the breadth, depth and rigor of their academic programs, as well as recommendations from faculty members who have worked closely them.” You can find the full list […]

It’s the last week of classes and the semester is coming to a close, which means that things are gonna get weird. And nostalgic. Fast. Your professor may straight up inspire you with a a heart-wrenching speech to send you off, or he/she may have reached the tipping point (think senioritis) and go totally off the […]

Today’s Senior Wisdom is brought to you by our fav COÖP kid, Justin Birmingham. Name, School, Major, Hometown: Justin Birmingham, SEAS, Mechanical Engineering/Music Minor, Clinton, NJ aka the fifth best small town in New Jersey! Claim to fame: Was once the head hancho of the COÖP Biking Program, known far and wide as the kid who […]

A year after they graduated, Morningsiders is still a well-known and loved presence on Columbia’s campus. The Blue and White sent Culture Editor Alexander Pines, CC ’16, to the launch of Morningsiders’ latest EP, unfocus, to check in with the band. “A surprising amount of Kant makes it into the post graduate life,” Magnus Ferguson, CC ’14, […]

Say goodbye to your favorite for-profit colleges!! It was announced earlier this week that the last branches of the Corinthian College system have been shut down. The change has resulted in numerous actions by debt activists and former Corinthian College students who claim that their education was not worth the money. (NPR) Protestors in Baltimore […]

Today, we begin one of our favorite Bwog traditions: Senior Wisdoms from a few members of the graduating class. We will be bringing you some of your classmates’ nuggets of wisdom until the end of the semester, and we begin with the person least-related to Bwog—former Spectator EIC Abby Abrams. Name, School, Major, Hometown: Abby Abrams, Barnard, English […]

Bwog rarely cares about sports (especially when it involves non-Columbia teams), but sportswear clad New York baseball fans infiltrated the MTA this weekend for the Mets-Yankees series. They were loud, pregaming in public places, vulgar, rambunctious…basically all things we are/inspire to be when Bacchanal Saturday rolls around. Since we didn’t quite get there this Bacchanal, […]