Remember how when you were a first-year your cool sophomore friend talked about using her windowsill to chill perishables in the winter? One intrepid McBain resident has actually done it. Forget eating in Ferris when you can dine overlooking the shaft the city. Of course, with the recent spring-like weather, one has to wonder how […]

Want some actual discussion with your free food this time around? Students for Sensible Drug Policy and Students for Human Rights will host a discussion entitled “Traumatized: The War on Drugs, Child Abuse, and the Teen Treatment Industry” in the Lerner Party Space on Tuesday, January 31st at 7:30 pm (note: the free food happens at […]

Sean Zimmermann reports from last night’s ESC meeting. SEAS Dean Pena-Mora attended last night’s ESC meeting. The Dean began by thanking ESC for their letter in support of his administration, which the council sent to the Spectator last December. Pena-Mora pledged to “continue to ensure that you [all] have the best education experience that anyone could […]

Efficient Correspondent Renée Kraiem reports from the latest SGA meeting.  Rep Council met last night in an alternative space next door to its usual haunt, the Diana Café. The new, more intimate setting proved metaphorically appropriate for the tone and subject of the night’s meeting. First on the agenda was this week’s administrative guest, Jessica […]

Samantha Kwek, a student in Columbia’s School of Continuing Education, passed away on Sunday according to SCE Dean Kristine Billmyer. Kwek was a postbaccalaureate student pursuing quantitative studies. Her death is being treated as a suicide. We extend our condolences to Samantha’s friends and family, and ask that commenters please use the space respectfully. In […]

It takes boldness to be a Barnard woman. It takes fearlessness. It takes an unlimited data plan, and still having a Blackberry. Only the bold get coffee. Only the bold get knowledge. Barnard women: if you can’t read the text below, text your boldest moment to 330c5890 or 330c5af by Thursday at 5 pm to […]

You could have gone to Fordham and been one of these students (plus a baby). (NYT) Your overheard comment on the train yesterday could have been made public to the world in general. (Overheard in NY) Your innocent desire to party could have been tragically misinterpreted by American customs. (Gawker) Columbia could have cared about its USNWR ranking this […]

Fellow students, Tonight like every Monday night before it, the Blue and White Magazine meets to feast, farce and foster a sense of community. On the agenda is the upcoming issue, but also whether or not we could redesign St. Paul’s chapter for optimal color-coordination (but not actually). If at all interested, please find your way […]

Last week, we posted some salacious screenshots of the Columbia Class of 2016 Facebook page. This morning we received the following in an email tip from a prefroshbear reader (props!): So I saw the post about the Columbia Class of 2016 facebook page. It was pretty funny, but those posts have nothing on the stuff […]

The CU Students for Sensible Drug Policy invite you to a round-table discussion on the ‘Opium Trade in Afghanistan: Human Rights, Security and Public Health.’ Colonel Louis H. Jordan Jr., NYU’s Jake Sherman and journalist John Duncan will discuss how Afghanistan’s lucrative drug trade jeopardizes social and political stability. Free samples are probably out of […]

Bwog was born out of remedial html coding and ramblings about Russian art. Life was never very easy in the beginning. Spec was curious, Gawker didn’t want to play nice, and Bwog tried to be the big kid on the playground. Since then, Bwog kind of grew up, but never at heart. There has been a […]

Knowing that real lions graduate without doing the swim test, Bwog too was titillated by the prospect of casting Cubmail into the Hudson and watching it drown. But first, we had some questions about the planned switch to Gmail. Columbia Student Affairs’ Director of Communications and Special Projects Katherine Cutler answers. Does Dean Shollenberger have […]

Just over an hour ago, Helen Gurley Brown announced a donation of $30 million dollars to be shared between Columbia’s School of Journalism and Stanford’s School of Innovation to create a bi-coastal Institute for Media Innovation based out of Columbia’s J-school campus. Helen Gurley Brown reigned as head editor of Cosmopolitan magazine from 1965 to […]

Self-hating SEAS student? Or angry CC student who just doesn’t get the first week of Frontiers?

Last seen in the Hartley computer lab at around 9 am, on 1/30/12. No case; no password; background is a generic picture of a rower on a lake. About 2 years old and showing its wear. Contact: etp2109.