Jerome Greene Hall, as usual, was the place to be yesterday afternoon. The place was packed with both senators and literary references, which was the perfect mix for Bwogger Nadra Rahman.  February’s University Senate session was brief, centering mostly on faculty initiatives and concerns. While the Student Affairs Committee (SAC) updated the Senate on student […]

Monday mornings bring CCSC swarming—over issues of transparency, accountability, and passionate quotes. CCSC Bureau Chief Nadra Rahman reports. In last night’s meeting of the Columbia College Student Council (CCSC): deliberations over Joint Council Co-Sponsorships and Grant Opportunities (JCCC) funding, spontaneous and spirited debates over transparency, and the unyielding force of VP Finance Anuj Sharma. To […]

Monday maven Nadra Rahman checked out last night’s CCSC meeting. Here she is, reporting from the Satow Room on food insecurity measures, fresh (Council) meat, and laser tag, despite being removed from the room twice for closed votes. The bulk of Sunday night’s meeting of the Columbia College Student Council (CCSC) focused on selecting new […]

Bwogger, prospective SusDev major, and proud Wien resident Nadra Rahman ventured into IAB on Tuesday night to attend a panel titled “Challenges and Opportunities of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.” The panel, consisting of three top-level UN employees, was part of the series of events celebrating SIPA’s 70th anniversary. Since September 2015, the UN […]

IAB-interloper Nadra Rahman found herself listening to a chilling tale of abduction, murder, and corruption when she attended The Galindez Case: The Kidnapping of A Columbia University Professor and Trujillo yesterday at the International Affairs Building at 6 pm. The speakers were lawyer and author Stuart McKeever, Ambassador Bernado Vega of the Dominican Republic, and Dr. Ramona Hernandez […]

On Wednesday afternoon, Nadra Rahman ventured into the black hole that is the International Affairs Building, where she heard Olesya Turkina give a talk about her book Soviet Space Dogs. The talk involved cigarette packs, canonization, and deeply engrossed grad students. Many of us associate the early days of the American space program with the […]

Believe it or not, every Wien room comes with its own sink—and at least one has its own stand-alone toilet. But, like Columbia students, not all sinks are created equal. Were you to become a sink today, perhaps due to hormonal fluctuations or a muttered (but binding) curse, would you be a good one? Who […]

Self-professed romance fan Nadra Rahman attended one of the Book History Colloquium events yesterday evening, titled “The Rise of the Literary Annual, Powerful Femininity, and Beautiful Books.” There wasn’t as much romance as she expected. I was the youngest person in the room by far—the average age of attendee (of which there were six, besides me) […]

Daily Editor Nadra Rahman is incapable of a lot of things: driving, swimming, and skating better than an untutored three-year-old are some of them. Add bike-riding to the list, as she makes a valiant effort to review the newly-launched bike sharing service Zagster, despite her inability to balance. What do Wien, John Jay, and Lerner […]

Though she was booted from her original seat by a videographer, philosophy-ignorant Nadra Rahman got to attend Viggo Mortensen’s dramatic reading of author and philosopher Albert Camus’s “The Human Crisis,” in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of his trip to the United States. The Miller Theatre event was completely sold out, so you know it had […]

Chronically-broke Bwogger Nadra Rahman decided to trudge over to Uris to get in on that sweet Behavioral Lab action, with mixed results. You can rest assured she will never live off the grid. It started off pretty innocently. I wrote my name on a sheet of paper, received a stress ball in the shape of […]

Last night, the South Asian a capella group Columbia Sur had their annual showcase, featuring a cappella groups from colleges all over the Northeast. The event, titled “Zabardast,” was an exploration of Bollywood romance and a pretty cool deal, so we sent over Deepika Padukone enthusiast (and Bwogger) Nadra Rahman to check it out. Coincidentally, she can […]

Editor Nadra Rahman comes to you with a heart full of lamentation. Today, instead of preparing for an intimate night by the fire with fluffy-haired CU dreamboat Prezbo, she sits alone and thinks of what might have been. The Chain of Events On Friday, January 2, 2016, I received an email about the fireside chat, an “opportunity […]

What are your RAs doing when they’re not CAVA-ing that one girl down the hall or yelling at Carman 13 to stop leaving hair in the showers? Bwogger Nadra takes you into the mind of a second-semester RA, desperate to cultivate some community on their frigid floor. You spend a good chunk of your winter […]

Remember that Sexual Respect requirement you have to complete? It’s not going away anytime soon, so you’d best choose one of the fun workshops, at least. That’s why we sent Daily Nadra Rahman to review “The Art and Science of Flirting.” I entered 633 Mudd with confidence, knowing anything I would learn at “The Art […]