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Last Thursday was the Roosevelt Institute’s annual policy forum on the topic of the future of the U.S. defense industry. Never one to miss a good panel discussion, we sent defensive defenestrator Julia Goodman to report. In case you’re unaware, the Roosevelt Institute is a nonpartisan think tank with chapters on college campuses across the […]

A baby is on the way! Grandma for president 2016? (Politico) Kepler -186f isn’t the catchiest name, but it might still make for a good home after we fuck up Earth too badly to live on it. First settler gets naming rights! (CNN) Ewwww these insects are having the wildest sex of any of us. We […]

After The Heights succumbed to the Great Citibank Fire of January 2014, we feared we would never see it again. We keened and wept, depressed at the prospect of 1020 being stuffed with freshmen forevermore. We made a list of the bleak alternatives to having The Heights in our lives… But then, today, we started […]

The King’s Crown Leadership Excellence Awards are coveted by some, as they are given to “students which have offered outstanding leadership to their community/ies with exemplary commitment and energy.” The awards ceremony began tonight at 6:30 in Roone, and some of the students being recognized are wearing red tape on their wrists in solidarity with recent […]

This week’s #tbt is brought to you by the Columbia Spectator Archives and Britt Fossum, who kind of wishes she went to Barnard. Have anything you’d like to see featured? Send it to tips or use our anonymous form. Bacchanal is a fairly recent development in Columbia’s history, starting only in the 2000s. But long […]

Tired of Fox News? So is The Colbert Report, who is on campus right now filming students. We caught up with a CC senior who had just been interviewed for the segment to mock Fox News making Columbia students look stupid. “So The Colbert Report is coming on with unreasonable demands—he holds up a picture of […]

Two Barnard seniors, Julia Discenza and Marjie Shrimpton (BC ’14) have taken on the challenge of creating, directing, and producing a collaborative piece of evening-length dance. What does evening-length entail in the dance world? An evening-length dance piece is a piece of choreography greater than 60 minutes usually that tells a self-contained story of some sort. […]

Does the government have an imperative to keep graduate-level education so expensive? Maybe. (Slate) Is Paul Ryan a phony? Yeah. (Salon) Is Don Draper going to hijack an airplane? Maybe. (Slate) Does sexism perpetuate the “confidence gap”? Yes. (Huffington Post) Is there an entirely haunted island? YES AND IT IS FOR SALE. (Time) Are all the big fast […]

Are you super weirded out by the prevalence of online selection this year? Do you have no idea what to do? Bwogger Anna Hotter’s got you covered. While most of Columbia has already braved the apocalyptic mayhem that is housing, some wretched souls still don’t know which exact shoebox they will call their home next […]

One staffer’s prospie loves Bwog so much that he even decided to come to one of our meetings. We liked him, and thought we’d ask if he wanted to write an article about his experiences at Perspectives on Diversity and Days on Campus. So, continuing this year’s trend of posting about the pre-frosh, Evan Morris, […]

Much has been made of the modern architecture of Lerner Hall, but the true reflection of the function of a building can be seen in how its occupants actually use it. A tip early this afternoon shed some light on precisely what purpose Lerner serves these days. Quoth one Bwogger: “Can this building get any […]

Every year, the Academic Awards Committee of Columbia awards the Mark Van Doren Award for Teaching to a professor with exceptional “humanity, devotion to truth, and inspiring leadership.” This year, it went to Professor of Mathematics Robert Friedman, who has taught in the math department for over 20 years. He chaired the department for three […]

A couple weeks back, the Internet (i.e. IvyGate) blew up a list of this year’s Sachems, to much discussion of how much secrecy exactly is involved and needed. Chief of Staff Writers Julia Goodman tells you why, despite their philanthropy and goodwill, Columbia senior societies neither have nor need full secrecy. It’s been a few […]

Scheduling is the worst/best thing ever. Shrug off some of your extreme class FOMO with other ways to learn cool things (they exist!), courtesy of Arts Editor Madysen Luebke. Wednesday: The New York Historical Society is holding an after-hours viewing of their Bill Cunningham Facades exhibit, along with a screening of Bill Cunningham New York, all for free with […]