This morning, Mayor Bill de Blasio appointed former Dean of SEAS Dr. Feniosky Peña-Mora as the new Commissioner of the Department of Design and Construction for New York City. Peña-Mora served as SEAS’s fourteenth dean from 2009 to 2012, when he abruptly resigned from office in an event we dubbed Peñamonium. For freshmen and sophomores out there, this all happened […]

This Columbia Life—enticingly nebulous description below—will be holding and recording a live storytelling event for students to share their Columbia/NYC/strange stories from 8 pm to 10 pm this Thursday in 501 Dodge. Here’s a blurb straight from This Columbia Life: Looking for a chance to spin a story about Columbia, from your deadliest deadline to […]

Come grab some delicious and multicultural free food today from 11 am to 4 pm on Low Plaza at the Language Fair for the Less Commonly Taught Languages.  (Yes, that is the title.) Languages with participating instructors include Persian, Dutch, Czech, Finnish, Vietnamese, Swahili, Ukrainian, Wolof, Catalan, and other members of the Sole Language Instructors […]

Emma Sulkowicz, CC ’15 and Zoe Ridolfi-Starr CC, ’15 spoke yesterday at a press conference with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand about Columbia’s sexual policies.  The Senator is hoping to increase federal funding to combat campus sexual assault. (CBS New York, Fox NY) Joe Biden…or Twitter superhero? (Politico) Well, we guess this means no more mile-high tequila […]

The CU Elections Board has announced not one, but two rules violations during the recent elections cycle. Sean Ryan of Refresh and Andrew Ren of TAP sent unsolicited mass emails in the process of campaigning. In response, the elections board deducted one vote for every 10 students who received the spam. This didn’t affect the […]

As the semester winds down, things get…dark. Especially in the bathrooms of the LLC. Proceed with caution.  It was around one in the morning when a student ran through my suite’s open door and into the communal bathroom. Let’s call him Freddie. A suitemate and I were sitting in the lounge doing homework and didn’t […]

The Student Affairs Committee of the University Senate just announced its two new co-chairs for the 2014-2015 academic year—a law student (and CC alum) and a B-School student. Matthew Chou, CC ’14, and Akshay Shah, SEAS ’14, have served for the past year as co-chairs. You can read the press release and the platform they […]

South Asian Student Association Club Zamana put on its annual showcase, featuring several South Asian dance groups and bands as well as some other popular campus groups. Raw Elementz, CU Sur, Dhoom, String Theory, Raas, Taal, CU Raaga, and CU Bhangra all came out to perform. Bwog daily and unabashed Desi dude Fainan Lakha gives […]

PrezBo wants us to know he’s serious about handling our concerns about sexual assault. In addition to his previous letter stating his commitment to addressing sexual assault on campus, he sent out this letter giving the following updates on the administration’s progress: PrezBo will create a new administrative position, the Executive Vice President for Student […]

Did the weekend make you forget the gnawing doubt in the pit of your stomach? That, rising sophomores, is what we call a false sense of security. Raise your hand if you’re excited for the fifth day of housing! We’re going to be camped out here all day to give you up-to-date Housing coverage, answers […]

To further honor the newly accepted class of 2018, Bwog is rolling out reviews of the freshman dorms on campus considering you kiddos need to pick where you want to live soon. Whether you prefer living in the same building as John Jay, or stay true to your love for Carman because it doesn’t get […]

Strange things happen in Frontiers of Science. Today, in the spirit of the Biodiversity section of the class, five avid pupils decided to dress up in animal costumes for class. Our wildlife photographer captured images of several giraffes, an owl and a dinosaur. One of the perpetrators said of their bold statement, “We’re biodiverse!” Clearly […]

Bacchanal is coming up and nobody gives a shit about anything else, not even CCSC.  That in mind they had a relatively easy-going meeting and talked about some interesting stuff.  Resident “chill dude” Joe Milholland got a piece of the action. The April 6 2014 meeting of CCSC featured an extensive discussions among council members […]

Today begins India’s elections, what will be the word’s largest democratic vote.  Democracy is, like, really cool. (NYT) The State Department lost $6b and can’t really say where it went.  Bureaucracy, it makes mistakes. (Gawker) Jeb Bush said in an interview on Fox News yesterday that crossing the border illegally can be “an act of love.”  Some […]

Tonight we explore a place of WikiCU lore: the Butler basement/tunnels. Don’t try this at home, kids, though we know you want to. The entry: There are two ways we saw to get to the basement: through the first floor of the stacks (restricted to library staff) and through the X staircase on the northwest side […]