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 […]

Conservative activist and Michael Moore wannabe James O’Keefe took on the J-School’s Dean of Student Affairs during his latest tour of journalism school campuses. After being laughed at by the dean, a bemused O’Keefe had no choice but to walk out. (Gawker) U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel has endorsed the recent subpeonea on WHDLC, the financial […]

In case you missed the Republican debate last night, here are some of the takeaways. In case you just want to see Perry’s political career take a nosedive, here’s the video. (Politico) After it came to light that a former assistant coach at Penn State had been repeatedly caught sexually abusing children and that the […]

Columbia researchers find that the dust from car exhaust increases the chance for, among other things, brain damage, autism, depression, and Alzheimer’s. (WSJ) Yesterday, voters soundly rejected an anti-abortion initiative in Mississippi and a law limiting union rights in Ohio. (NYT) Though the initial flooding in Thailand may be over, the recovery is expected to cost in excess of […]

You can go back to sleep! The end of Daylight Savings has delivered another sweet sixty minutes to your day, so it’s now an hour earlier than you thought it was. Though it happens every year, one national news outlet or another perennially feels the need to narrate the history of this curious organizational phenomenon. […]

College students are now borrowing more money than ever before, with average student debt at $25,000. (NPR) In an event of epic proportions, Stephen Mitchell has released a new translation of Homer’s Iliad, but can Mitchell enter the fray with Fagles and Lattimore? (New Yorker) A Carnegie-Mellon student walking through the park at 3 am […]

Turns out Bank of America’s $5 monthly debit fee was actually an attempt to be more transparent, but consumer outrage killed the surcharge before it reached fruition. (Atlantic) The Murdochs, no strangers to lying to the public, could be in more trouble as new legal documents suggest that News Corp paid off victims once they realized their position was “perilous.” […]

Need a job? Take heart, because your search just got easier. Governor Cuomo has launched a new website to help those on the hunt for employment. (Observer) Including Columbia, a grand total of 15 hopeful universities have submitted proposals for new engineering campuses to Mayor Bloomberg. “All of the submissions were stronger than anything we […]

The Business School joins a Common App-esque initiative, making it easier to get in. Maybe it wants to be an undergrad school for this Halloween? (Financial Times) Ever wonder in the midst of the OWS protests where on the scale of 1 to 100 you lie? Check out this interesting infographic showing a cross section […]

A $250,000 gift to the University from two B-School alums facilitated a week-long Global Core workshop in May, which resulted in the creation of five new classes. (Spec) $2.5 Million in venture financing was given to Codecademy, a start-up focusing on computer science education that was founded by Columbia graduates undergrads this last summer. (NYTimes) 2.3 […]

Interested in running for mayor? Have a record? Christine Quinn, Bill de Blasio and Scott Stringer are among the prospective candidates touting their arrest records for civil disobedience. Even former mastermind Bill Clinton knows it’s not always “a question of did he inhale or not” (NYT) To solve the city’s growing litter problem, the MTA […]