This year Barnard’s Class Day speakers will include New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New Yorker editor David Remnick, famed tennis player Billie Jean King, and organizer of Harlem Head Start programs Thelma C. Davidson Adair.  Bwog just ran into outgoing BC President Laura Stoffel who could hardly contain her excitement. Expect a more official […]

Just seconds ago at the ‘Stend—amidst a crowd that at 10:30 PM consisted of a dozen people awkwardly milling about, but soon increased to several dozen—2008’s Columbia College Class Day speaker was announced. Joel Klein, CC ’67, is the Chancellor of the NYC Department of Education and by the looks of it, quite obviously the […]

Astute tipster Helam Gebremariam, C ’07, said Yale’s class day speaker, Fareed Zakaria of Newsweek, was a “total Matt Fox knock off.” She writes: “He made all of the same jokes that Fox did about how Harvard got Gates and Yale got him. He ALSO called someone out (a la Julia Kite) for writing something […]

It’s official! SEAS Dean Galil brings good tidings of the engineering school’s class day speaker in the latest Zvi-mail, as follows: Hi All, It is with great enthusiasm that I share with you the following news. This year’s Class Day speaker will be the world famous architect/civil-engineer/artist  Santiago Calatrava. He has designed the Transportation Hub […]

While we’re still anticipating who will be speaking at Columbia’s commencement this year, Bwog tipster Julia Kite notifies us that the crimsonites in Cambridge have invited none other than Harvard drop-out/Microsoft mogul Bill Gates to speak on June 7th. On top of that, Billy’s finally getting his diploma too — Harvard is presenting Gates with […]

We couldn’t quite believe it when we got an e-mail from Robert Maschio, CC ’88, who plays Todd on Scrubs. But we e-mailed back, and he seems to really actually honest-to-god want to speak on Class Day. In his own words: “Hey Gang, This is Robert Maschio, the actor who plays High-Five Todd on the […]

One of our more distinguished alumni (excerpted): “I’m a liar and a cheat and a thief and the ultimate manipulator. … I tell lies every day, man,” the 40-year-old actor says in the February issue of Men’s Journal magazine. “And when I say I’m phenomenally manipulative, I am.”   Fox, who is now starring opposite […]

It’s Matthew Fox, of Lost fame. We hope this is a joke. (Though some of you commenters in the other thread seemed prescient…) A genuine teevee celebrity! Chris Szabla reports: “The general mood among seniors: either appalled, or wondering if Quigley and Chait were playing an extended joke. Even the video montage of headshots from the likes […]

Class day has transformed the South Lawn into some kind of mass graduation arena! Just in case you’re not in Morningside Heights this week, see what your campus has become…     Bring an umbrella and look for wet powder-blue robes. Forecast calls for intermittent showers tomorrow.         And even if it […]

Details are in on the CC Class Day McCain protest and things are looking peachy. Well, orangey? An email from protest organizers says “orange at Class Day signif[ies] our opposition to McCain’s policies and support for equality, women’s rights, and peace, among other values.” Official protests run from wearing orange buttons to “an orange demonstration,” […]