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NSOP is just two weeks from now! If you haven’t heard, this year’s theme is NSOP Out Loud. If the NSOP Committee’s promo video is any indication, first-years will be expected to take a bunch of Snapchat videos, hopefully making friends along the way. Undergraduate Student Life released the schedules for all undergraduate NSOP’s this […]
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Mailing Mayhem

There were some things you thought you could count on at Columbia. One of them was that plinth for Henry Moore’s statue. But the plinth is finally gone, and now your mailing address is, too. In an email to students on Friday, Columbia Housing announced that you should start addressing all mail/packages to: Your Full […]
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It’s August, the most melancholy month—the one in which you mourn the coming of September, start comparison-shopping laptops, and draft angst-ridden goodbye emails to your boss (“I’m good for more than data entry!”). If you feel a tinge of panic at not having done anything (besides achieving oneness with your couch), well, that’s justified. You […]
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If you haven’t already realized (and if you haven’t…did you get lost in your copy of Infinite Jest? Are you putting in too many hours at your JP Morgan summer internship?), it’s July! Before you drink yourself into a coma this holiday weekend (please don’t…ugh…you don’t live in Carman anymore), try to clear your head of […]
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We’ve heard through the grapevine (ahem…tips@bwog.com) that shit is getting (and we quote) “messy” in the Class of 2020 Facebook group now that housing assignments have been released. Hopefully this piece will soothe your worries a little bit, first-years, or at least make you realize that who your freshman year roommate is won’t really matter in […]
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Our Arts Editor takes time off from his summer law internship to catch up on Supreme Court decisions and the continuing influence of our own PrezBo’s legal precedent from his time at the University of Michigan. Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States decided the case of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin et al. and released a 4-3 decision, […]
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Earlier today, the Barnard Community was deeply saddened to receive a construction update email with the news that our beloved magnolia tree (which was moved last fall in order to build Barnard’s new Teaching and Learning Center) may be on its last limbs. Despite the recent warm weather, Maggie’s leaves have still failed to emerge, […]
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It’s official–despite a resolution by CCSC to make Cannon’s more accessible, everyone’s favorite bar (during NSOP) will be closing for good. After hearing a rumor from a pal over at Sig Chi, we gave Tara Hill (as it’s officially known) a call earlier today. The person on the phone confirmed that they will be closing at the […]
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In what seems a pattern of overt financial and educational pivots toward reforming Columbia into a “Global University,” Campus Services’ Scott Wright in an email two weeks ago announced the termination of Columbia’s “banking service agreement” with CitiBank. Instead, a “committee of representatives from Columbia Finance, Student Financial Services, Campus Services and Student Life” decided to transfer Columbia’s […]
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President Bollinger sent an email on Wednesday informing the Columbia community that former Provost and professor, Fritz Stern, has passed away. Fritz Stern graduated from Columbia College in 1946 and received his PhD from the university in 1953. He taught at Columbia for over 40 years. You can read the full text of President Bollinger’s […]
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SEAS student Nayla Kidd, previously reported missing, has been found. According to an email from Public Safety Officer James McShane, she was “located by the NYPD and is safe.” Kidd had last been seen on May 5th, and students became aware of her disappearance on May 12th after friends of hers began posting on Facebook […]
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Surprise! This is actually our last senior wisdom (and post) of the semester. Prez Ben is a busy guy, but he eventually found the time to write his senior wisdom (a few weeks after the deadline). Read on for wise words from Ben Makansi. Name, School, Major, Hometown: Benjamin Karim Storch Makansi, CC, Astrophysics, Steelville, Pennsylvania Claim to fame: NSOP […]
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