Expect a gridlock in Midtown this week as the United Nations heads into the city. Editor Warning: Violence and Death. 

On Wednesday afternoon, Staff Writer Elaine Lloyd attended an event where Dr. Gillian Triggs, the UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, held a discussion with members of the Columbia Committee on Forced Migration on taking action to further implement the UN’s Global Compact on Refugees. 

This week, Staff Writer Monisha Gunasekera attended a talk with Peruvian Anthropologist and Ph.D. Candidate Urpi Saco.

Staff Writer Victoria Borlando reports on a speech delivered by the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education.

The fifth edition of Columbia Model United Nations in New York or CMUNNY V, for those in the know, is taking place this weekend. For those not in the know, CMUNNY is a series of crisis-driven simulations of past, present, and future political interactions between nations. Check out photos of our nation’s budding diplomats in action! […]

As seniors pack their bags, one Nobel-ballin’ senior citizen is unpacking his. Yes, that’s right, Kofi Annan, the former Secretary-General of the U.N., is coming to Columbia. This spring! Bwog thought spring was already over, but then again, Bwog has never been an expert on the equinoxes. In an email sent to the Columbia community […]

Classes “begin” in a few days, figuratively because a few of Bwog’s have already been canceled for CC’83 Awesomeness Festivities.  But your fair university didn’t get nearly as much sleep as you did over break.  Here’s what Alma Mater’s been up to. People of Old Alumni provide proof that we’ll all find jobs, eventually.  In […]

The denizens of Low Library have just released the calendar for Columbia’s 2008 edition of the World Leaders Forum, fresh with a snazzy new website chronicling the  Columbia tradition’s past, present and future.  Have a look at their new multimedia section, and you’ll see that this site is no laughing matter. But the speakers this […]

Apparently overjoyed with his previous New York sojourn, our overseas pal Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (we even remember how to spell that from the last go-around!) is returning to our fair city to attend the U.N.’s General Assembly in September. According to Mahmoud himself, he’s coming around to “defend Iran’s rights” and remedy the “unjust” Western way […]