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A couple weeks back, the Internet (i.e. IvyGate) blew up a list of this year’s Sachems, to much discussion of how much secrecy exactly is involved and needed. Chief of Staff Writers Julia Goodman tells you why, despite their philanthropy and goodwill, Columbia senior societies neither have nor need full secrecy. It’s been a few […]

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Can a secret society even get a break around here these days? We dug through some secretive, but not private, semesterly newsletter updates from the national St. A’s organization, but the findings weren’t terribly exciting. Then again, St. A’s isn’t all that secretive to begin with, and all of these documents are available publicly on their […]

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Sachems Revealed

You know those two senior societies, the Sachems and the Nacoms, that “take the secrecy element very seriously“? Well IvyGate published a list of what it believes to be 14 of the 15 members of the 2014 Sachems. Members include the presidents of CCSC and ESC, the former managing editor of the Blue and White Anna Bahr, the […]

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specsucks IRL

specsucks is a blog that thinks that the Spec sucks that began last academic year. Bwog and Spec have officially ignored specsucks’s monomaniacal posts and tweets. But today specsucks posted photos “from a secret specsucks ritual,” in which they made a pentagram out of copies of The Eye, burned it, and put a dagger through it. You […]

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