Barnard girls just can’t decide who they want to be president — lets hope no one demands a recount (Spec). Rich people are getting old men arrested for trying to save cats (NY Post). Columbia students are allowed to go places no one else gets to go, but not on the South Lawn (Spec). Super […]

The first set of first-year election results is in, and the winners in the SGA 2013 elections are: VP – Rachel Ferrari Secretary – Emily Feinstein Treasurer – Anya Whelan-Smith Those scoring at home will notice that that list does not include a presidential winner. This isn’t a typo (for once), but because, according to […]

Ah, fall. When the leaves fall and the weather takes a turn for the colder, but not before a select number of first-year college students paper the dorms with posters and broad promises, hoping to sneak enough votes to join student council. So far, CCSC and SGA have released their official candidate lists, and the […]

The SGA has released their election results, and Barnard’s new student council president is Katie Palillo, who won with 73% of the vote. She’ll be joined by Kimberly Wu (VP Student Government, Amy Chen (VP Student Activities), Giselle Leon (VP Communications), and Sharmin Ahmed (VP Finance) 41.5% of Barnard students voted, despite the senior and […]

Hooray, the 2012 Class Council election results for ESC and SGA are here. Meet your new teams: ESC: President: Derrick Fu (SuperFu) Vice-President: Jessica Wu (SuperFu) Representative: Eric Harms (SuperFu) Representative: Judy Kim (FuReal) SGA: President: Charlie Dinkin Vice President: Bo Yun Park Treasurer: Astrika Wilhelm You might recall that “Stephan” did endorse SuperFu.  And […]

Tonight’s NROTC Forum Planning meeting revolved around the logistics of the two community forums concerning NROTC on campus, to be held — according to CCSC VP of Policy Adil Ahmed and SGA President Sarah Besnoff — hopefully the last week of October. (Though Besnoff said again and again, with growing frustration, that the Councils were […]

Earlier today, we spoke to SGA President Sarah Besnoff, who explained that despite reports of Swipe Access’ imminence, in fact, a CCSC/SEAS survey on the issue is the next step in actually moving forward on this thing. According to CCSC VP of Policy Adil Ahmed, this survey will be sent out “shortly.” CCSC is currently […]

Yesterday evening we reported on the exciting news that Swipe Access to Barnard dorms is imminent. This, while sort of true, is not the full picture, according to SGA President Sarah Besnoff. Though CCSC announced that last spring BC students had “voted overwhelming to allow Swipe Access,” according to Besnoff, nothing formal has been decided, […]

The activities fair may be over, but you’ve still got a while to find your niche in Columbia’s extracurricular scene. To help you sift through the alphabet soup, our series of club crib sheets continues with groups that hand out money and groups that may eventually make lots of money. Governing Boards and Councils (a.k.a. […]

SGA election results have rolled in.   President SGA Sarah Besnoff VPSA Maria Luiza Morad Vice President For Communications Kathryn Palillo Vice President of Finance Amy Chen Jr.Rep to BOT Daphne Larose Community Affairs Rep. Emily Kan Academic Affairs Rep. Muzna Ansari

Breaking CCSC/ESC/GSSC/SGA news in the form of new dark horse candidate Chas Carey, CC ’08. Carey, running on the “Federalist Party” platform has decided to simultaneously run for presidency in all class councils. According to candidate Carey, his campaign is one of unification: “Class councils have long been powerless against the overwhelming might of Low […]

Congratulations to Barnard ’11 President Reni Calister! (Time to put the red cup down, Reni). She’ll be joined by Becky Gimple and Abbey Warner as the first-year SGA VP and Secretary, respectively.  The wheels of democracy are also in motion over at SEAS. Kamal Yechoor of the Fu-Tang Clan was declared the first-year ESC president. […]

Well, Barnard and GS students voted yesterday for their new student councils, both comfortably missing the Spec news cycle, although they’ve now got the SGA results online (all hail President Stoffel!). We’re all going to have to wait till Monday to learn who emerged victorious from the Niko vs. Gabby dogfight–which had some fun shenanigans–while […]