Facebook is moving ever closer to its long-awaited IPO, rumored to value the company at over $100 billion. (WSJ) It has recently been announced that Lana Peters, Joseph Stalin’s only daughter, died of colon cancer in Wisconsin on November 22, 2011. (BBC) The AMR corporation, the parent company of American Airlines, has filed for Chapter […]

This year’s Black Friday sales set a new record for shopper splurging. Unfortunately, it turns out Black Friday isn’t home to the season’s lowest prices. Wal-Mart strikes again! (Bloomberg, NYT) Egyptians are heading to the polls today for the first time since they forced Hosni Mubarak out of power, but clashes with current military leader […]

Columbia’s new Center for Urban Real Estate suggests building a giant landbridge from Manhattan to Governors Island. It might be called LoLo, or Lower Lower Manhattan. (NY Times) A new NASA rover, Curiosity, was successfully launched into space yesterday, and is on its way to Mars. Curiosity will land on the Red Planet in August of […]

The #occupiers have been getting a lot of attention lately, but support at Columbia is hardly universal. (Spec) Newt Gingrich wants to be “humane,” and takes considerable criticism because of it. (WP, Reuters) Mitt Romney claims his first name is Mitt. It’s not. (Gawker) Are criticisms of police brutality unfounded? Recent NYPD statistics show the lowest […]

UC Davis chancellor “feels horrible” about the pepper-spray incident. (LA Times) Where the 51% at in the OWS movement? (Atlantic) We want you to have good sex. (NYT) HuffPo Canada’s managing editor experiments with a vodka-soaked tampon…and then writes about it. (HuffPo) Three American students have been arrested for having participated in the recent demonstrations in […]

A New York resident was arrested yesterday and charged with planning to build and detonate bombs across the city. (NYTimes) They squabbled and squawked, but the congressional supercommittee charged with resolving the debt crisis just couldn’t do it. Even after they asked for an extension from their UWriting Professor President. (Bloomberg) Occypy Wall Street, after […]

A UC Davis Professor wrote an op-ed on Huffington Post comparing Police tactics used on students at UC Davis to those at Columbia. His conclusion: Public Safety is nerfed, and couldn’t hurt anyone if they wanted to. (Huff Po) The NY Times has a wonderful article about tech start-ups in NYC. Damnit. Is it too […]

The Landmarks Preservation commission has still to make a decision on whether or not to build boundaries that encompass Morningside Heights, after much pressure from the Morningside Heights Historic District Committee. (Spec) Fox has decided to choose Netflix as its platform on which they will release a new season of Arrested Development in 2013. (The […]

In case you missed it last night, Athletics will allow the band to play at Saturday’s home game against Brown. The reversal came just hours after the Grey Lady ran a story with its own praises and criticisms (Spec, NY Times) United Color of Benetton vowed to bring together more than just overpriced knit sweaters. […]

To celebrate the two month anniversary of OWS, protestors pledged to shut down the NYSE. While so far unsuccessful, police and protestors are already clashing outside the Exchange doors. (Gothamist, NYTimes) Protest is sure to be especially charged today, after a New York State Supreme Court justice ruled that those from OWS do not “have a First […]

After #OWS’ recent eviction from Zuccotti Park, many questions remain: Is this legal? What happens next? Is there “life after #Occupy?” Most importantly, why was Hipster Cop not in on the raid? (WSJ, NYT, Slate, Gothamist) As owners and players refuse to budge, and both sides prepare to take the issue to court, will the NBA […]

At 1 am this morning, hundreds of police officers raided the two-month-old Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park. Tune in here for a live stream of the events. And despite efforts to suppress media access to the park, Bwog and B&W alum Avi Zenilman was there. IvyGate blogger Wilfred Chan, CC ’13, met up with a few Columbians there as well. Bwog […]

Applying: Columbia sure isn’t the easiest school to get into, but they’ll be much more excited about you if you happen to be a military veteran. (NYTimes) Extracurriculars: Outside of classes, you may find time to participate in student groups like the Quidditch team. And maybe you’ll even make it to the Quidditch World Cup, […]

Do yourself a favor, and go peruse National Geographic’s Photo Contest 2011. (The Atlantic) You’ve always known that New York real estate was expensive, and that Columbia didn’t exactly cut you a deal with dorms, but these kids in California have taken off-campus living to another level. (NY Times) Columbia’s basketball team got a ton of […]

Launch: Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, in conjunction with the automobile company Audi, has kicked off a new project entitled “Experiments in Motion.” The project will consist of a series of experiments to identify new paradigms of motion, mobility, and design. Don’t be surprised if you spot PrezBo gunning down College Walk in a fresh Audi for […]