Bwog’s Fu Foundation Bureau Chief Sean Zimmermann actually sat through the Night of 1,000 Speeches, or ESC’s 2012 candidate forum. His report, and some admittedly sub-par cameraphone pictures, follow.   Gimmicks and costumes dominated the Engineering Student Council forum today, as each of the first year candidates concluded their campaigns with formal speeches. This year’s […]

The activities fair may be over, but you’ve still got a while to find your niche in Columbia’s extracurricular scene. To help you sift through the alphabet soup, our series of club crib sheets continues with groups that hand out money and groups that may eventually make lots of money. Governing Boards and Councils (a.k.a. […]

Screw CCSC elections. Last night, the real election everyone on campus was talking about went down: the election for Director of Technology of ESC! But apparently, not everyone was as excited as me. About ten people on the council were missing�enjoying SEAS NY trips, returning Homeward Bound at Kim’s, etc. I snuck listens to the various coercing cell […]

Bwog just received an email announcing the winners of ESC’s 2008 General Elections. It’s time to meet your new governing cabal, SEAS. Class of 2011 President: Kamal Yechoor Vice President: Chris Elizondo Representatives: Albert Miller and Dana Ibarra Class of 2010 President: Heather Lee Vice President: Lili Gu Representatives: Gunnar Aasen and Kelly Chen Class […]

Bwog’s Fu Foundation Bureau Chief Tony Gong reports on yesterday’s very special (positively Clintonian!) ESC meeting. Considering the sometimes tedious nature of ESC meetings, last night’s was one for the books. And not just any books, like Goosebumps or The Giver (just to name a few… I could go on). Last night, not one, not […]

Fu Foundation Bureau Chief Tony Gong stayed up all hours to report on the biggest night of the ESC calendar year, with the possible exception of Mole Day.   After seven grueling hours, twelve speeches, and far too many handfuls of complimentary grapes and cheese, ESC finally finished up electing next year’s Executive Board last […]

ESC elects president.  No one will have to brush their teeth in Mudd anymore. CCSC campaigns kick off today.  Everyone is promising the same thing.  What ever happened to off-campus flex? Ticket with a funny name, welcome to the big show.  Get slapped with a rules violation. A New face for Bank Street College. Bloomberg, […]

Update:    ESC Constitutional Review is underway! An ardent and opinionated public of record numbers (four people) was just turned away from the meeting as the ESC enforced its closed doors policy. Junior Class Representative Samantha John vocalized an appeal to overlook the closed doors policy for the discussion on internal elections, which she viewed as […]

February 22nd marked the official start of 2008’s CU Assassins, a game “of espionage, stealth, and resourcefulness” (according to sponsor ESC’s website). With nearly 4 days of gameplay behind CU’s most resourceful/stealth, the death toll keeps climbing. ESC keeps a record of all deaths that include a description of the deceased at the time of […]

Seeking comfort after my tragic, yet beautifully reported assassination, I decided to attend another ESC meeting last night. Alas, no comfort; but a merry time discussing school on-goings was in store. The Alumni Affairs and Professional Development Representative affirmed Columbia’s first implementation of the Recyclebank program. But one engineer expressed concern about abuse to the […]

Breaking CCSC/ESC/GSSC/SGA news in the form of new dark horse candidate Chas Carey, CC ’08. Carey, running on the “Federalist Party” platform has decided to simultaneously run for presidency in all class councils. According to candidate Carey, his campaign is one of unification: “Class councils have long been powerless against the overwhelming might of Low […]

Bwogger Justin Gonçalves weighs in with words and pictures from last night’s ESC Battle of the Bands. Last night, on the storied stage of Roone Arledge Auditorium, the Engineering Student Council capped off its annual E-Week celebrations with the ESC Battle of the Bands. After five bands ran through ten-minute sets, Crown Victoria and the […]

Last night, the ESC and their political colleagues assembled for its second formal meeting of the semester. Policy, Glass House Rocks, and mystery were aplenty. Bwogger Tony Gong reports. The meeting began unremarkably as several representatives of outside groups began to brag about all the things they had done. First up was the CC ’09 […]

Congratulations to Barnard ’11 President Reni Calister! (Time to put the red cup down, Reni). She’ll be joined by Becky Gimple and Abbey Warner as the first-year SGA VP and Secretary, respectively.  The wheels of democracy are also in motion over at SEAS. Kamal Yechoor of the Fu-Tang Clan was declared the first-year ESC president. […]

First, CUIDs actually becoming prepped for off-campus use, now somewhat sensical advising reform? The student council legends were true! Which of course means the councils get to pat themselves on the back Changes are coming to Harlem too: a W hotel might be opening Meanwhile, Saigon Grill employees still treated like shit SENIOR COLUMN: After four […]