Name, Hometown, School, Major: Emily Nagel, Ridley Park, PA (Just outside of Philadelphia), CC, Drama and Theatre Arts, English Claim to Fame: Leading prefrosh all over campus, RA/CA’ing in Carman and Furnald, and probably more visibly, writing XMAS!5 with Jeff Stern and directing XMAS! 6, 3-year VShow Alum (directed 117), refusing to make a normal face in any picture, […]

Yea, though we walk through the valley of the shadow of finals, we will fear no evil: for Seniors are with us; their Wisdom and their Advice, they comfort us. We are in entering the depths of finals season, and tonight/tomorrow are going to be rough as we prepare for Monday. To relieve stress and distract […]

Name, Hometown, School, Major: Rebecca Newman, Greenwich, CT, Barnard College, Economics Claim to Fame: President of Columbia Women’s Business Society, possessor of an alter-ego with her own name, and known to many as “that girl that’s in Theta, but not.” Where are you going? Austin, TX to sail for Columbia at college sailing nationals, Southeast Asia for a […]

Name, Hometown, School, Major: Maxwell Bertolero. Danville, CA. General Studies. Philosophy and Psychology. Claim to Fame: That annoying GS kid who asks way too many questions. Former motocross racer and high school drop out. In the future, I hope to be known as the kid who talked about depression, dirtbikes, free will, and drinking whiskey in his […]

Name, Hometown, School, Major: Boris Vassilev, Rockville, MD (Originally Sofia, Bulgaria), Columbia College, Physics and Creative Writing (I did it for the money.) Claim to Fame? Fame: Bwog’s last surviving copy editor. The only Eastern European, transfer science and humanities double major on campus. My heart chambers fire out of order. Infamy: The set of Fiddler on […]

Name, Hometown, School, Major: Lila Neiswanger, Portland (Oregon), Columbia College, Drama and Theater Arts. Claim to Fame? I’ve designed and teched something like a zillion on-campus productions, I was News Photo Editor for the Spec, I was on the NSOP Committee, I’m working on this year’s Senior Week, I do graphic design for a lot of […]

Name, Hometown, School, Major: Thomas Timberlake, Berkeley, CA/New York, NY, COLLEGE, Sustainable Development Claim to Fame: Member of the Columbia University Rugby Football Club for the past 3 years, president in 2011. I also get recognized all the time for fitted hat and camo vest swag. Where are you going? Back home to 109th Street, chill with the […]

Name, Hometown, School: Jacob Andreas, Piedmont, California, The Zai Yuan Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University in the City of New York Claim to Fame: I beat PrezBo in the Fun Run. I also helped run a website that you’ve probably used before. Where are you going? To graduate school for a distressingly long time. Three […]

Name, Hometown, School, Major: Astrika Wilhelm; any town (seriously, I’ve lived in a dozen or so states); Barnard College, Environmental Science Claim to Fame: Winning the Diet Coke contest and having my face on the billboard at Time’s Square (and getting some cool swag). But really, being involved in so many organizations (see: SGA, Green Umbrella, […]

NHSM: William Cybriwsky, Manhasset, NY, SEAS, Earth and Environmental Engineering Claim to Fame: What I wish my claim to fame were: I’m wearing headphones all the time—if not on my ears, then around my neck? Also my gait. I’m told it’s very distinctive. Involvement in many groups whom I’ve all loved very much—Alfred, CUMB, Postcrypt, Greenborough, ESC, and Peer Health […]

Name, Hometown, School, Major: Erik Nook. I was born in Schaller, Iowa, but grew up in Durban, South Africa, and Perth, Western Australia, Columbia College, Psychology Claim to Fame: I once brought my knitting to a Columbia football game. I also coordinate Stressbusters, taught bartending, volunteered with Men’s Peer Education, facilitated for Under1Roof, played saxophone for the Wind Ensemble and […]

Name, Hometown, School: Leah Greenbaum, Newport Beach, CA. A global citizen of Columbia College Claim to Fame: Spec’s campus news editor; that girl who always begged professors for extensions; that girl who interviewed you once about SGB; that girl who transfered from UC Berkeley and still wears flared levis sometimes/a lot. Where are you going? Morocco, Cambodia, Belize, […]

Next up, Don Cheadle Peter Wallerson. Nomination form here. Name, Hometown, School, Major: Peter Wallerson, Brooklyn NY, SEAS Biomedical Engineering Claim to Fame: Hotel Rwanda, Crash, Ocean’s Eleven, Brooklyn’s Finest, most recently House of Lies… But really though, the other day I went to see Seminar on Broadway (got Alan Rickman’s autograph and it was awesome, but […]

Name, Hometown, School: Jose Alberto Delgado, Brownsville, TX, Columbia College Claim to Fame: Marching Band Banned headlines, I woke up to 10 emails from journalists asking for interviews one day and was called like 30 different times by radio stations, newspapers, and magazines. I also organized a performance for a party attended by LeBron James, Chris Paul, […]

Name, Hometown, School: HCRW, Dirty Jerz, College ‘12 Claim to Fame: Dungeon Master of all knowledge related to Housing Services. Where are you going? New York for a while, New Orleans eventually. Three things you learned at Columbia: Avoid dogma in most things: in politics, in love, in choice of careers, in any major life decision. […]