About Us

Bwog Spring 2016 It’s Bwog, not BWOG. Editor in Chief Mason Amelotte mason@bwog.com editor@bwog.com Managing Editor Maddie Stearn maddie@bwog.com Events Editor Finn Klauber events@bwog.com Deputy Editors Lili Brown Rachel Deal Daily Editors Sunday: Lila Etter Monday: Betsy Ladyzhets Tuesday: Finn Klauber Wednesday:  Nadra Rahman Thursday: Emma Seely-Katz Friday: Sarah Dahl Saturday: Amara Banks Sports Editor Ross Chapman Senior Staff Writers Joseph Milholland Ross Chapman Asya Sagnak Gowan Moïse Mia Lindheimer Editors Emeriti Courtney Couillard Joseph Powers Britt Fossum Taylor Grasdalen         The Blue & White Spring 2016 Editor in Chief Channing Prend Publisher Andrew Loso Layout Editor Aaron Su Senior Illustrator Alexa Economacos Copy Editor Robert Jack Gross Creative Consultant Sean Augustine-Obi Editors Emeriti  Daniel Stone Hallie Nell Swanson

Publisher James Fast james@bwog.com ads@bwog.com Associate Publisher Nikolas Huth nikolas@bwog.com Director of Communications Gabrielle Lipson gabrielle@bwog.com pr@bwog.com Tech Parker “The Cat” Case Andy “&eveloper” Hadjigeorgiou Kevin “The WordPress Daddy” Chen tech@bwog.com Bureau Chiefs CCSC: Joseph Milholland SGA: Raji Ganapathy GSSC: Jennifer Nugent and Romane Thomas Staff Writers Shina Chetti Joanna Zhang Momo Arbeit Maryam Badran Angela Chong Raji Ganapathy Sanam Jalinous Maham Karatela Gabrielle Kloppers Jessa Nootbaar Rebecca Novik Jennifer Nugent Nikki Shaner-Bradford Romane Thomas Alma Bwogger Courtney Couillard           Managing Editor Nia Brown Senior Editors Virginia Fu Yasemin Akçagüner Ben Schneider Caroline Hurley Staff Writers Alex Swanson Mabel Taylor Nick Kensinger Virginia Ambeliotis Nikhil Dominic Staff Illustrator Rachel Chin Assistant Layout Editor Bianca Guerrero

Bwog is an independent, student-run campus news site. After being launched in January 2006 as the online incarnation of The Blue and White magazine— intended to post stories that warranted immediate attention, such as free food alerts and breaking news—Bwog developed into Columbia’s preeminent campus blog separate from the magazine.  While our focus remains set on the university and we retain ties to The Blue and White, we are a financially and administratively independent organization, published by Blue and White Publishing Inc.

Bwog is completely student-run and publishes multiple posts a day during the academic year. Our goal is to alert students to information of interest and offer a critical perspective on life at Columbia. This includes news from the administration, campus gossip, and events—in addition to, still, free food. We post what you should have heard about as a member of the Columbia community, packaged with bad puns and coarse jokes.

Bwog’s rise to legitimacy came with the Minuteman protests in the fall of 2006. Other highlights in Bwog history include September 2007 when Ahmadinejad came to campus—thus creating our beloved Hawkmadinejad—comprehensive coverage of Operation Ivy League in winter 2010, breaking the news on Dean Moody-Adams’ resignation in summer 2011, and the spring 2012 announcement of President Barack Obama as Barnard’s commencement speaker.

As seen in the case of Obamanard, the Bwog comment section is vibrant and active. This space is intended for readers to discuss relevant topics constructively and respectfully. Bwog leaves it largely self-moderated, but reserves the right to step in, as per our comment policy.

If you are interested in joining Bwog or have juicy news and gossip, email us at tips@bwog.com, or come to our open weekly meetings every Sunday at 7 pm in the Lerner SGO. For inquiries concerning advertisements, contact ads@bwog.com.