On Monday night, SGA heard from President Sian Leah Beilock about Barnard’s support of transgender and non-binary students, fundraising goals, and yup, you guessed it: plans for the Spring 2021 semester. 

The bizarre, the profane, and the actually useful: here’s what Bwog has in our notes for Fall 2020.

There has to be some greater meaning here somewhere…

We can’t ALL be “majoring in unafraid.”

On Thursday night, Columbia Libraries hosted four cartoonists for America: WTF?: Comics in a Time of Crisis, a discussion of the Trump administration, identity, and the role of comics.  Karen Green, the Curator for Comics and Cartoons, opened the evening with thanks, to Kevin Schlottman and Emily Saso of the Rare Book Library for organizing […]

This week, Rep Council sat down with Provost Linda A. Bell, Dean Christina Kuan Tsu, and Dean Wendy Garay to discuss hybrid and hy-flex classes, the experiences of first-years and transfer students, and the status of Barnard’s commitment to fighting anti-Black racism.

On Wednesday night, the Barnard Center for Research on Women presented “Transformative Justice in the Era of #DefundPolice: Lessons from the Past, Strategizing for the Future,” featuring transformative justice activists Mimi Kim and Shira Hassan.

This week, SGA learned more about the legal side of Barnard operations, including the pay freeze and the hiring freeze, and COVID resources for Barnard staff.

Time to show that you’re the main character.

On Monday night, the SGA Rep Council met with Dean Leslie Grinage and Vice Dean for Campus Life, Nikki Youngblood-Giles to discuss Barnard’s COVID-19 response this semester and next.

On Monday night, the SGA Rep Council met for the first external meeting of the 2020-21 school year and heard from DeShaunta Johnson of the Ombuds office.

Pop a Lactaid, and let’s grill.

On Monday night, candidates for Barnard’s Student Government Association convened for the Candidates Forum, to discuss policies and answer questions.

On Wednesday, September 16, noted author and feminist scholar Roxane Gay addressed the Barnard community, in the first of three lectures in the new “Big Problems: Making Sense of 2020” series.