The dean of CBS wrote an op-ed about taxes. (NYT) Read this disheartening story about buying papers and paper-factory-people in today’s ivory towers. (The Chronicle) NYC’s health commissioner dislikes Camel’s new cigarettes, the ones marketed directly towards hipsters. (NY Daily News) Now NYPD can scan your iris to make sure you’re really you. O brave new […]
Bwog couldn’t help but notice how nice it looked strolling through College Walk today, with our peripherals filled with a constant, hopeful tint of yellow that lifted our spirits from pre-Thanksgiving woes. Maybe this was why Hawkma was out!
CU Photography Society is hosting an event in Kent 403 at 5:30 featuring the portfolios of photographers Lois Conner and Leilei Meng, with discussions of their work and the practice of photography in East Asia. There will be free food. CCSC 2012 is hosting a study break with refreshments at 10:00 in the Piano Lounge […]
Sean Zimmerman reports from last night’s Engineering Student Council meeting. At the ESC meeting last night, CAVA’s push for new office space was the order of the day. ESC heard CAVA’s proposal for new space in Broadway Hall, and voted in favor of giving CAVA both Broadway 102 and Broadway 103. CAVA said after the […]
Bwog’s Special Correspondent Zoe Camp reports from last night’s SGA meeting. Tonight’s special guest was Lisa Gamsu, Barnard’s Vice President for Administration and Capital Planning! And so ensued a lengthy conversation on all things Facilities: During the construction of the Diana, the Lewis Parlor was used as a common space. With the Diana completed, the […]
NYTimes reports a House ethics panel has found Democratic Representative Charles Rangel guilty of 11 out of the 13 alleged ethics violations. “I am not being treated fairly,” the Morningside Heights and Harlem representative told the ethics committee yesterday before he walked out of his hearing. The committee ruled Rangel had violated House rules for […]
A tipster notified Bwog yesterday that the source files of the Social Experiment website, including the databases of passwords for each day, had been uploaded to the open source project hosting site GitHub and were publicly available. Bwog has since notified the Office of Residential Programs and the files appeared to have been taken down […]
The staff of the Harvard Crimson is concerned our Social Experiment will backfire, causing vicious competitive tension which will destroy any existing social cohesion at Columbia. (Harvard Crimson) NYU’s neighbors are concerned that its plans to add an additional 3 million square feet of space in Greenwich Village are not a good thing. NYU’s president […]
Everyone has mocked the Social Experiment. But a few brave souls are out to prove the doubters wrong with a sprinkle of Socialism. Ian Kwok and company have started a campaign to win the Social Experiment collectively and donate their $500 winnings to charity. They call their radical display of unity The Socialist Experiment. “Let’s […]
Teams of Schapiro floors are competing tonight in a coin war to see who can raise the most money to support Pakistani flood victims. All the proceeds go to UNICEF to supply clean drinking water for 2.5 million flood victims. Reslife will award the winning team a fully funded study break, but everyone gets free […]
Bwog Winter Enthusiast Mahrah Taufique spotted snow on 114th and Broadway! It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… Bwog’s Resident Debbie Downers figured people just threw ice in there. Bummer. Anyways, keep your eyes peeled for first flakes!
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