Item! Last night, the Dems and CPU hosted a dinner with leaders of campus political groups in the James Room of Barnard Hall to “foster intergroup cooperation.” Bwog’s request to attend was politely denied, but organizers graciously provided the list of those in attendance: besides the Dems and CPU, representatives from the College Libertarians, LionPAC, […]

Item! Karl Rove is a fan of Bwog’s favorite history professor, Eric Foner. According to a 2003 New Yorker profile by Journalism School dean Nick Lemann: “Rove’s favorite book at the time [1984] was Eric Foner’s Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men, a history of the early days of the Republican Party, which he read less […]

Seems like everyone and their mother is issuing statements these days about the Minuteman Protest: distancing, endorsing, calling for blood…and sometimes saying not much at all. While frolicking in the Student Government Office, Bwog ran across one such statement, passed this evening by the Student Affairs Caucus of the University Senate: Resolution on Free Speech […]

If you happened to be watching Fox News this morning at 8:15 AM–because that’s how Bwog likes to wake up–you might have seen a group of students with big signs behind the cameras. And if you looked closely enough, you would have seen a couple of  Columbia faces: Dems member Nathan Morgante, CC ’09, and […]

Nineteen candidates for freshman representative. 30 seconds each. Most either started their school’s Democratic chapters, worked for their Congresspeople, and are PROUD to be democrats. How to distinguish oneself?  “I had lunch with Obama…haha, yeah.”  

Bwog correspondent Jacob Victor reports: Results are in from Wednesday’s College Dems E-board Elections! The winners are: (drum roll, please…) President: Mike Nadler CC ‘07 Vice President: Andrew Avorn CC ‘08 Secretary: Maggie Mendenhall BC ‘09 Treasurer: Chris Daniels CC ‘09 Members at Large: Josh Lipsy CC ‘08 Elyse Ross BC ‘09 Rachael McMillan CC […]