On Saturday, around 40 members of Student-Worker Solidarity, a group of Columbia and Barnard students working for pay equality in the Columbia community, rallied alongside former restaurant workers at Indus Valley Restaurant on Broadway. Here’s SWS’s official press release about the event: For the third Saturday in a row, Columbia students protested alongside former employees […]

Even though Bwog loves hopping around so very much, we were curious to see what a lecture about another type of movement—”rolling”—entailed. So a few nights ago, Zoe Camp hopped/rolled over to the J School and attended “A Rolling Stone Conversation” to see what all the fuss was about. The name of Tuesday’s event at […]

And here Bwog thought that Barack Obama’s victory would satiate campus liberalism for at least a month. Instead, the College Dems are already out to hold him to account, and this year they have a new weapon: LARGER POSTERS! Bwog mostly loves them for being put in blatantly no-poster zones.  Dems Lead Activist Kate O’Gorman told […]

Alexander Cockburn is an irascible old codger, true, but (or maybe therefore) he’s also damned hilarious. At his Tuesday night Heyman Center-sponsored talk on the death of the American left, attendees (who included Bilgrami, Khalidi, Foner, Mamdani, Ed Said’s widow, a bunch of student activists and a handful of old NYC lefties and journos) were treated […]

Bwog correspondent Armin Rosen decided to spend part of his spring break hobnobbing with the stars at the America Israel Public Affairs Committee’s conference in Washington DC. His second dispatch follows. After hearing Dick Cheney drone through a half-hour long exposition on the danger that a premature American pullout from Iraq poses to Israel, I […]

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Does John McCain speak for you? Because he doesn’t speak for these guys. After all, post-thesis seniors have to get worked up about something…