This week, Bwog will be featuring candidates for leadership of the Columbia College class of 2010. Tools? Visionaries? You decide–vote next Tuesday!  Name, party: Sue Yang, Nonstop  Hometown:  Rochester Hills, Michigan Home dorm:  John Jay The woman: I would describe myself as an independent, decorating obsessed, font addicted (I have 2,789 fonts!), optimistic, sleep deprived […]

Voting for the SEAS 2010 class council started today! All you fresh engineers have until 6:00 PM on Friday to cast your ballots online (yes, the ESC has its shit together that much). Barring a hacker in the system, one of the three candidates profiled after the jump will lead your class for the next […]

This week, Bwog will be featuring candidates for leadership of the Columbia College class of 2010. Tools? Visionaries? You decide–vote next Tuesday! President, Party: AJ Pascua, Party of Five  Hometown: Union City, California Home dorm: John Jay The man: I’d normally refer you to my publicist, Mark Zuckerberg. But I’ll make an exception. My name […]

This week, Bwog will be featuring candidates for leadership of the Columbia College class of 2010. Tools? Visionaries? You decide–vote next Tuesday! President, Party: Mark Modesitt, Alma Matters Hometown: Evansville, Indiana Home Dorm: John Jay The man: I am from Indiana where corn and cows are more abundant than people. My floormates often kid me […]

Fully nine parties–count ’em, nine–have entered the cosmically inconsequential but strangely fascinating race for Columbia College’s 2010 class council. That’s down from ten last year, but certainly more competition than the class will see in its next three elections. They are: Party of Five, TOGA, Blue Barracudas, Nonstop, The, Stella, Columbia Undergraduates, Supporting Progress, Alma […]

Never underestimate the power of disgruntled losers. First, members of New GS Order—the party that went down to more benignly-named Serious Goals, Great Solutions in last month’s GSSC elections—formed the Non-Traditional Student Action Coalition, and just today hit the web with a GSLounge, a site intended to foster GS community. And they’ve been advertising on […]

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 […]

Overshadowed by the more prominent CCSC, ESC, Barnard, GS, and Italian elections, poor little ABC is clamoring for attention. Last night’s elections saw five people competing for four seats. Sucks to be Kylie Davis, but the results are here: President: Keith Hernandez (unopposed) Vice President: Lissy Hu over Kylie Davis Treasurer: Angela Kou (unopposed) Secretary: […]

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 […]

One of the most popular and political papers in academia right now is “Rich state, poor state, red state, blue state: What’s the Matter with Connecticut?”, co-authored by Columbia School of Social Work Prof. Andrew Gelman. Gelman used statistical models that break down many of the prevailing ideas about political polarization and income in the […]

2006 Spring CCSC Elections Final Results[almost, still a 24 grace period for losers to cry foul]Winners in bold CCSC Executive Board Evolution … 819 (43%) Nishant Dixit – President Bryan Lee – Vice President for Policy Laura Taranto – Vice President for Campus Life Anthony Walker – Vice President for Funding Calvin Sun – Vice […]

If you missed this morning’s email from Michelle Oh, it’s a doozy. A few students figured out how to vote online without showing up at the official CCSC voting booth (the Bwog would be happy to introduce our student government to a concept known as “password protection”). In some kind of bid for fairness, now […]

Freshman boy to his friend as he walked out the door after voting: “Anthony Walker is the man!” Win or lose, Bwog agrees. One of a gaggle of freshman girls noisily huddled by the John Jay elevators: “I was only going to vote for our class council because I don’t know any older people, but […]

Anna Corke reports in from CCSC voting on Low Plaza, nabbing some choice quotes and conducting a quick exit poll. Voting continues on Low until 7pm tonight and starts up against 9am tomorrow. For a full list of voting times and locations, see comments. Results of an extremely unscientific and brief exit poll: 2009 Class […]

Ever wonder how Saussure would interpret the Flex party’s campaign posters? Sam Cohen, the Blue and White’s official semiotician, has the answer. First off, what is semiotics? Semiotics is the study of symbols and signs. This includes both written/textual symbols, as in words, as well as things like traffic signs and cultural icons, basically everything […]