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Graffiti of a Questionable Nature at BC

First came the lice. They invaded the heads (and sheets, and clothes, and pillows) of the girls of the Barnard Quad back in October. Next up on the nuisance continuum: “racist” graffiti.  It’s barely...

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Stop and Frisk Goes Too Far!

Gets stopped and frisked. Doesn’t even report the guy. Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker claims that he was accused of shoplifting at Milano’s Deli and then stopped and frisked by an employee!...

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Overheard: New Forms of Discrimination

This is a man who doesn’t care about social stigma. It seems that nowadays, nobody is safe from persecution. Gender, race, weight, and economic groups of all kinds are judged and grouped together as...

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Some Football Players’ Bigoted Tweets

WKCR Sports In light of yesterday’s news that sophomore Chad Washington was charged with a hate crime and the allegations that more people were involved in the incident, many were intrigued by the CU...

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Administration Releases Statements On Hate Crime And Athlete Twitters

Update: Athletic Director M. Dianne Murphy and Coach Pete Mangurian have released their own statement; their letter is after the jump. Update #2: Aaaand another one, from OMA. Also after the jump....

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Stuff That Happened In August

Some Columbia related news passed in the month of August.  We rounded it up for you: Aditya Mukerjee, CC ’12 and the former publisher of Spec, was detained at the airport after setting off an alarm...

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Race, Title IX, And Academic Freedom Discussed At USenate Plenary

Maybe one day we’ll stop investing in fossil fuels! PrezBo’s Defense of Affirmative Action and Discussion of Columbia’s Racial Policy At the beginning of Friday’s University Senate plenary, PrezBo gave...

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An Open Letter To The Mel’s Bouncer

Photo courtesy of Mel’s Burger Bar Have you had your fake ID, or your dignity, or both, damaged by the Mel’s bouncer? 100% of you should’ve answered “yes.” One brave Bwogger has a response. Dear...

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Messages From Wrestling Team GroupMe Reveal Culture Of Intolerance

Bwog recently received screenshots of a Class of 2017 Wrestling Team GroupMe. The screenshots, which contain messages spanning from 2014 to a few days ago, are troubling—the men in the group message...

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Racist Messages In FIJI GroupMe Surface, Involved Members Asked To Disaffiliate

On Saturday night, Bwog received screenshots of messages from the GroupMe of Columbia’s chapter of Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI). These messages, part of a conversation taking place on Saturday, depicted a...

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Statement In Support Of Black Lives Matter

Bwog stands in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and the protestors across the country calling for an end to police brutality, white supremacy, and accountability for the police officers and white...

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Professor Dinah PoKempner Uses Racist Slur Over Zoom

Adjunct Professor of the University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights used an anti-Black slur several times in a Zoom class. Content warning: This article includes the subject of racism. Shown...

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Subverting Submissive Civility: Dr. Waverly Duck Speaks On Anti-Racism

On September 16th, Dr. Waverly Duck gave a lecture on the sociology of tacit racism as part of an ongoing lecture series at the Center for Research on People of Color. On Thursday, the Center for...

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Addressing Structural Racism In The Treatment Of Autistic Youth

This past Friday Guest Writers Ava Slocum and Obutor Ogonor attended the first lecture of the year in Columbia Medical Center’s Implementation Science Seminar on Health Equity.  Friday’s lecture,...

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Community Panel: The Fight To Protect Homes In Rio Di Janeiro

On Wednesday night, Columbia Global Centers hosted a virtual panel as the first in a series of Amerfrican Dialogue and the fourth in a series of Brazil-Peru meetings on Black women, decoloniality, and...

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