Standard Delivery, the band that won the Glass House Rocks Battle of the Bands and will perform alongside Hoodie Allen at (SIN)esthesia, released its first single, “Where I Belong” on SoundCloud this evening. The infant indie group’s press release (how mainstream) says that they recorded with Smash Studios and expect to have two more singles out before […]
Most copies of the February issue of The Blue and White have been snatched up, but here’s looking forward to the March issue, on campus next week. Today, managing editor Anna Bahr continues her three-part series on the experience of student debt at Columbia. To review the first piece, which focuses on taking out loans as an undergraduate, […]
Location: 605-615 W. 115th Street. Nearby dorms: Furnald, Woodbridge Stores and restaurants: UPS Store (yay!), the best Halal cart, Lerner, Morton Williams, M2M, Uni Cafe Cost: $7,340 (same as Wien, McBain, Broadway) Amenities: Bathrooms: Decent floor bathrooms. Upper floors renovated recently, and 2-5 will be over summer. AC/Heating: Air conditioning and heat. Kitchen/Lounge: Every floor […]
Yesterday, Mary Cunningham Boyce, neither Spec’s pick nor the interim dean (farewell Goldean!), was appointed dean of SEAS. As per tradition, we welcome her with some good old fashioned hazing community building. We’ve already seen some brainstorming in the comments, but it’s time to make it official: Dean Boyce needs a nickname. Leave your suggestions in […]
If you were hoping to win $500 in Flex and eternal fame by entering the room selection video competition, you now have a few extra days to create your magnus opus. The deadline has been moved from this Friday to the coming Monday at 4 pm. You’re limited to a mere three minutes and fifteen seconds […]
Dorothy Denburg, BC ’70 and the former Dean of Barnard College who currently serves as “Vice President for College Relations“, will be retiring next year. She has overseen student and alumni activities at Barnard since 1993. Later today, DSpar will send out a touching email announcing Dean Denburg’s retirement, which Bwog has obtained. Here it […]
Researchers combine their love of Harry Potter with a possible revolution in the fishing industry: invisibility fishnets. (The Register) Those equal signs on your Facebook are only going to keep popping up, because the Supreme Court is discussing DOMA today. (Chicago Tribune) Obama appoints Julia Pierson as the first female head of the Secret Service. […]
In honor of the upcoming launch of a new movement, Nonviolence: No Higher Calling, sponsored by Columbia’s Art of Living Club, Bwog has come up with a few extra ways that you can tear down violence with your teeth and nails.The movement’s goal is to commit 100 acts of non-violence for each act of violence. They […]
You’ve had a whole week to mull over all the questions and concerns you have about your life at Columbia. Why not come to the Blue and White meeting tonight at 9 pm in St. Paul’s Chapel to discuss them with us? There will also be refreshments. You know you can’t turn down an […]
As Facebook won’t stop telling us, everyone and their mother apparently went on a rollicking trip to a beach–everyone, that is, except for those good souls who traveled for some purpose other than Ultra or visiting the fam. If you took some sort of alternate spring break trip, tell us about it at tips@bwog.com. Here […]
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