In a world where college bands seem to be perpetuating the same ol’ indie trend, Beilis serves as a refreshing reminder that not all college bands want to be The Walkmen 2.0.  The band, fronted by Matt Beilis SEAS ’07, is composed of guitarist Pete Couto C ’07, drummer Matt DeWit NJIT ’07, and bassist […]

So much for party unity–50% of SEAS freshman turned out for the ESC 2010 election this evening, selecting four candidates from three different parties. Your new class officers are: President – Heather Lee, the SHT! Vice President – Lili Gu, Nonstop Class Representatives – Gunnar Aasen, Nonstop, and Kelly Chen, Fuugle Bwog is confident that […]

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 […]

More stuff you shouldn’t have saved on public computers.  When the buzz gets a little throat, a little brass, a little sass—now we know it’s becoming a man. Not like a cheesy, wheezy clarinetist typing the Hora at the day’s third Bar Mitzvah reception. It’s starting to burst, like a cavalry’s accompaniment, sans jingoism.   […]

Watch out, Zvi G.—Harvard’s now got a SEAS of its own, having made its own Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences into a full-fledged School. Rumblings of the transition started a year ago, when DEAS Dean “Venky” resigned pending some big changes. SEAS—with an admit rate three times that of the Harvard school—just beats out […]

A loyal (indeed, very loyal) Bwog reader reports: “Shortly after the SEAS class day festivities finished (e.g. now), the sound system is playing the Mos Eisley Cantina song from Star Wars.” Bwog has heard many graduating students proclaiming that they have waited a long time for this. We bet they have.

Apparently, Columbia thinks that we’re getting a little fat. The ice cream case in Uris Deli, stocked full of neatly-stacked, attractive-looking Häagen-Dazs, Nestle Crunch and various other tempting frozen novelties that are begging to be eaten, is locked. Because we didn’t really need it anyway. In other food news, Bwog overheard someone in the burger […]

In last week’s Engineering Student Council elections, 67% of students voted for direct elections. 17% of students voted against direct elections. 15% of students abstained. Yesterday, the ESC voted to turn down direct elections.

For those not fortunate enough to be on the SEAS mailing list, Dean Zvi “Spam Robot” Galil sent this to the entire engineering school late last night: Hi All, I thought you would like to know that early wednesday morning, shortly after 1AM the time and date at that very second will be: 01:02:03 04/05/06 […]

Revised sexual misconduct policy is passed, as Bollinger hits Asia. Adam Goldberg: ESC Freedom Fighter. And despite hopes that it was all an April Fool’s joke (or a drunken hallucination), the West End will indeed be going Cuban. Girls. They like food. It makes them happy. Attendees of Culture Shock find themselves Culture Satisfied.

Headline spotted: Engineering Students Perform Plumbing Feats in Ghana Thankfully the phrase “Feats of Rectal Strength” was rejected by the Columbia homepage. They know better. Bwog doesn’t.

After an internal election, Dan Okin has been selected as the new ESC president. Accordingly, at this very moment, he’s getting sloshed with outgoing president Tom Fazzio at The Heights. Salud!

Don’t forget that the SEAS throwdown (a.k.a. E-Board Elections) is 9:15 pm tonight in Lerner’s Satow Room. It’s a poorly kept secret that the SEAS E-Board is a fascist institution. Therefore, the Bwog encourages vocal cries for democracy. Maybe a boycott. Definitely some signs. Oh, CSSN, why did you go defunct right when we needed […]

A recent item on Salon.com gave us pause: The Harvard Gazette reports that researchers in Australia have now successfully grown a complete, functioning breast from a single stem cell. Though the experiment, set up by Kaylene Simpson, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, was performed on a mouse, experts are confident that the study’s […]

Bwog reports! Someone decides! The Spec reported earlier today that Adam Goldberg, E’06, founder of Ye Olde Campus Network and former Engineering Student Council President, quit his position as ESC Director of Technology last night at an ominously named “constitutional review session which was closed to the press.” It was unclear why Goldberg resigned. Until […]