There’s a lot to overhear in Lerner, from the incessant piano playing to the chiming of elevators as they go up and down and up and down or sometimes just linger on one floor with their doors opening and closing. Oh, and then there are the student conversations. Without further ado, we present a series […]
Rise and… shine? Nah, that would be too much to ask. Just rise and shuffle over to class. But afterward, when you’ve been awake for an appropriate amount of time to “shine,” consider doing so at the Greenmarket. The lineup: The return of Lani’s Farm, complete with “greens of all types” (but probably not the […]
Brace yourselves for The (Less) Social Network Part II: Gratuitous Hashtags. Some allegations about Twitter’s beginnings have been made and it doesn’t look like it’ll play out in less that 140 characters. #SoMuchDrama (Business Insider, NYMag) Kobe Bryant was fined $100,000 over a homophobic slur he made to a ref during a game on Tuesday. […]
More election results just in, this time from the Spring 2011 ESC decision. About 125 students voted for the classes of 2012 and 13, and nearly 200 for 2014. 498 students total voted for the other representatives; for more details, check out the full vote breakdown (PDF). Cheers guys! 2012: Judy Kim (President), Mailing Wu […]
An unidentified person was arrested minutes ago on College Walk. According to a tipster, the cab on the right is actually an undercover cop car (just like the movies!), and another tipster informed us that the person arrested was a man wearing a backpack shouting, “What did I do?” Apparently around a dozen cops surrounded […]
The winners of the Spring 2011 CCSC elections were just announced! See the full PDF, or read the highlights below. According to the CCSC Election Board, “This election was both the most competitive in recent memory and also that with the highest turnout, with approximately 45% of Columbia College voting.” Executive Board: CUCharge: Aki Terasaki […]
Bwog’s Wednesday feature, Where Art Thou?, is here to keep you posted on what’s going on in the A&E department in Morningside Heights and beyond (basically all the cool events your friends are in/on/at). If you would like your club’s event, The Edgar Allen Floe Society’s Spring Concert, posted on Bwog, now you can! E-mail […]
How exactly did the prospects for General Selection get so dire? Director Guru of Housing and Bwog’s new best friend Joyce Jackson explained that of course “it is always hard to say how many people will drop down to General from Suite Selection.” While she noted that fewer students have been moving off campus in […]
For those of you who (a) didn’t know or (b) were all grumpy-dumpy, today is Barnard Spirit Day! Though events have already gotten underway, there’s still fun to be had. Until 4 pm, perky people will serve free ice cream in the 2nd floor dining room of the Diana. And, tonight from 4:30 to 7 pm, […]
In Hungarian, some guy took half an hour in the bathroom—and left behind this list “Sentences on Conceptual Parties.” Sol Lewitt muses on the rationality and irrationality of parties.
Bwog Editor Emerita Juli Weiner, now a writer for Vanity Fair, penned this post on Trump’s apparent desire to run for president. And boy was she snarky! That snark garnered a hand-written response from Trump, including an annotated print-out of the piece. So they published it, and it was funny. The real estate tycoon circled […]
Remember when Ann Taylor asked around for some college fashionistas? Well, good news! One took the bait. And now our own Nida Vidutis, CC ’12,—unfortunately at the bottom of the Columbia list due to the infernal alphabet—is very-close-but-not-quite winning! She’s second place behind a GW girl, and polls close today! So go vote and prove […]
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