Breaking: SNL sheds light on our very own Operation Ivy League. It had everything you look for in an SNL skit: actors breaking character to laugh, a topical reference to something you know, and Andy Samberg. Enjoy!

Bloomberg: Bloomberg is to give his 10th State of the City address today, where he will address issues of education, crime, housing, and politics, as well as announcing a plan to make it legal to hail livery cabs. (City Room) Operation Ivy League: Harrison David is reported to be in the custody of a retired […]

David Hu reports straight from the court Today’s hearing was a “calendar call,” and not that much really happened. In a hearing that lasted about 30 minutes the students were all called forward but none of them spoke. The lawyers of each of the defendants conversed directly with the judge, but no new information was […]

The five students arrested in December for drug-related charges will be represented by high-profile criminal defense attorneys, who have previously represented the likes of the Wu-Tang Clan and Temeka Lewis, one of the defendants from the escort service patronized by former governor Eliot Spitzer, DNAinfo is reporting this morning. Jose Stephan Perez will be represented […]

Chris Coles (CC ’12), Harrison David (SEAS ’12), Adam Klein (CC ’12), Joseph Stephen Perez (aka Stephan Vincenzo, CC ’12), and Michael Wymbs (SEAS ’11), who were arrested in Operation Ivy League, will appear in a hearing tomorrow at the Criminal Term of the Supreme Civil Court on 111 Centre St., beginning at 9:45 a.m. […]

On Monday, New York Magazine published a six-page piece on Harrison David, one of the five Columbia undergrads arrested in Operation Ivy League. Both David and Miron Sarzynski, the dealer who lived downtown, were interviewed, as well as many anonymous sources alleged to be clients, friends, and classmates of the students. Some important lingering issues […]

On December 7th, 2010, five Columbia students were arrested for allegedly dealing marijuana, LSD, cocaine, Adderall and ecstasy. Four of the five students arrested were members of fraternities. They were arrested after allegedly selling drugs to an undercover cop. This is a story you now know well. Exactly thirty-seven years earlier, on December 7, 1973, […]

According to the New York City Department of Correction, Harrison David has just been released from the Manhattan Detention Center after thirteen days in prison. All five of the students arrested in “Operation Ivy League” have now been released but not yet tried. Bwog is waiting on comment from David’s lawyer. Update, 2:21 p.m.: Samuel […]

The New York Times published a story today that calls last week’s bust of a drug ring involving Columbia students “unremarkable, but for one thing: [the] Ivy League clients.” Below, we highlight some relevant new information that our (full disclaimer!) very own Eliza Shapiro helped report: The original anonymous call to Crime Stoppers that prompted […]

There’s a new Operation Ivy League in town, and this time it’s selling T-shirts. Four students, Slav Sobkov (SEAS ’12), Wilmer Cerda (SEAS ’11), Carmen Marin (SEAS ’11), and Elizabeth Pino (CC ’11), have decided to combat negative media portrayal of Columbia this week by raising $11,000 (hey, that number sounds familiar!) and doing good […]

Something isn’t adding up about the case between the two Mr. Davids. As we reported last night, Harrison David’s father, Dr. Dave David, gave an interview to the Boston Herald claiming that he was planning on coming to New York from Boston today to “take care of everything and be with my son.” Harrison David gave […]

More breaking news tonight: according to the statuses listed on their NYPD inmate records, Chris Coles and Jose Perez (Stephan Vincenzo) have been “released.” More to come soon. We’ve heard rumors that Adam Klein was back on campus today, attending class, but we can’t confirm that yet. Spec reports that Coles is back on campus […]

Bwog just checked in with a representative from the office of Hershel Katz, Adam Klein’s attorney, who confirmed that Klein’s court date remains January 18th. There have been conflicting reports, but that’s the word from the attorney. More news this morning about Coles and Perez. Coles gave an interview to reporters at the Manhattan Detention […]

We confirmed earlier that Michael Wymbs had been dispatched from the Manhattan Detention Center, and have now learned that Adam Klein has also been released on bail, according to a quote from Klein’s lawyer, Hershel Katz, in DNA Info and Klein’s Department of Correction information. Wymbs and Klein’s parents each posted $35,000 bail. The University is not […]

Some updates this afternoon about Operation Ivy League: according to the New York State Department of Correction, Michael Wymbs was discharged today and Adam Klein’s court date has been moved from January 18th to tomorrow. DNA Info is reporting that Mark Williams, the national rep for Psi U whom Bwog spoke with yesterday, is headed to […]