The Barnard Spring Party and Auction is coming up on May 8th and Bwog is drooling over the items up for auction. Bwog’s favorites: NAME A CHARACTER IN ANNA QUINDLEN’S NEXT BOOK Here’s an opportunity to be immortal: choose a name—your own, your child’s, a grandchild’s, or someone from your imagination—and best-selling author, Newsweek columnist, […]

LOTS of free ice cream in front of Barnard’s library right now. Cookies ‘n creme, toppings, whipped cream, root beer—the works!

Does anyone else think it’s kind of odd that Barnard and GS should go through designated entrances for South Beach on South Lawn? Said one student council member manning the GS table for the event: “Our only instructions were that they not bring in their children.” We can only presume that College students are served […]

Band members, would-be band members, and people who just like to wear skinny jeans and slip-ons congregated in lower level Macintosh at the WBAR-b-q this afternoon to celebrate the cream of CU/Barnard’s indie crop. And eat burgers and drink beer. Combined with lazing in parks and chucking around various objects, could an idyllic spring Saturday […]

Packed with more old women and men than actual Barnard students, the Women Poets at Barnard’s final Spring 2006 lecture was insightful. The Sulzberger Parlor served as the perfect space for the intimate and soft spoken reading of poetry accompanied by free samples of wine among other refreshments. The Women Poets at Barnard reading series […]

After a week-long postponement and numerous technical difficulties, SGA Election Results are in! Total number of offices: 20 Total uncontested seats: 13 Races with no candidates: 1 Rugby player Eman Bataineh emerged victorious, beating out Cypriot Sophia Mouyis and bartender April Hovav, all juniors. Curiously, SCEG activist Brett Murphy–who had been running as a ticket […]

It looks like the folks at Hewitt Dining Hall haven’t learned their lesson after being cited for health code violations earlier this year. Anna Corke reports: About 1/2 hour ago, Leora Kelman, Sam Cohen, and I sighted a cockroach in Hewitt Dining Hall. It was about 1.5 inches long, probably of the German variety. After […]

Warner Brothers may have censored itself to stay on the good side of the FCC’s new indecency standards, but you can catch the uncut premier episode of the Bedford Diaries, filmed on the Barnard campus, at the WB website before the sanitized one runs on Wednesday. Sexy professors! Suicides! Unrequited love! Is YOUR life this […]

A Barnard tour guide reassuring a parent: “Well, actually, many students get accepted by Columbia and rejected from Barnard.”

Oh, snap! Gothamist hates on Barnard’s new student center. We don’t think it’s that ugly– do you?