The Dumb Column Factory
My first Spectator column of the year came out Monday, and I proved myself to be a royal idiot. Soon after, I sent a mea culpa to the Spec sports staff, the athletic department, and a few angry student...
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Bwoglines: Buildings
The J-School steals a mixed-media mastermind away from The Guardian. (Wired) Want to be an eminent domain holdout? The Times lists places you might consider moving to. Gentrification is upon us! (and...
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Things You Should Pretend You Already Knew
The basement of the West End. Photo via Wikimedia Sometimes, fresh-people, in a seminar, or at a party, someone will reference something that used to exist and doesn’t anymore, and you will have to nod...
View ArticleUSenate Drafting Resolution for Public Course Evaluations
While calls for public course evaluations have been swirling around since at least January, members of the University Senate’s Student Affairs Committee are looking to finalize a resolution to present...
View ArticleGilchrist Wants to Return to Columbia, Has a Message for Us
As reported a few days ago, the College Republicans have been considering bringing Jim Gilchrist, co-founder and president of the Minuteman Project—a controversial group aiming to stop illegal...
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Read Sophomoric Op-Eds of Yesteryear
Previously unavailable Spec Earlier this morning, our august print newspaper, the Columbia Daily Spectator, announced that they have put a limited number of their archives online. Until today, Spec’s...
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Get Your Tickets for the Columbia Media Conference
This coming Saturday, The Spectator, The Blue & White, and the InterPublications Association are teaming up to bring you the first Columbia Media Conference. The Conference is a day-long (from...
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Personals: Andrea Garcia-Vargas, CC’13, and Julia Wu, BC’13
Tonight’s personals feature Andrea Garcia-Vargas and Julia Wu. If either lady strikes your fancy, email personals@bwog.com for your ticket to love. Name, Year, School, Major: Andrea García-Vargas,...
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Check Yo Self Before You Email The Entire Spec Staff
A Real Thing Typically in listserv fuck-up posts, we remind you to never ever hit “reply all.” This time, however, we have a cautionary tale of checking the “send” line so you don’t reveal your...
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GUYS, @CUSpecOpEds Used Their Logo, and the Spec is ON IT
This bird has a tweeting problem Even though we’re barely into winter break, Columbia stuff has happened on the World Wide Web. So. About a week ago, it looked like Spectator‘s opinion page was handed...
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Senior Wisdom: Finn Vigeland
Do not feed after midnight. Our next wise senior is Finn Vigeland, COÖPer and former managing editor of Spec, who writes about vulnerability, transit, and the roof of Low. Name, Hometown, School,...
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Addressing The Changes In Spectator’s Managing Board
Really has been 139 years, hasn’t it Lili Brown spoke with our friends over at Spectator to better understand their Managing Board’s restructuring. Yesterday, Spectrum released Spectator’s new Managing...
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From The Issue: Crossing The Border
This piece from the Orientation issue of the Blue and White, written by Emma Bogler CC ’17, explains and explores the disappearance of the Columbia Daily Spectator’s City News Section and what this...
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Columbia Daily Spectator Forced Out Of Old Office Space
Okay but when is the Columbia Daily Spectator going to get an office? The Columbia Daily Spectator, Columbia and Barnard’s lovable weekly “daily newspaper” and perpetual op-ed machine, is to shortly...
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Spec Could Hear Us Knocking But We Couldn’t Come In
This past summer, the Columbia Daily Spectator was forced out of its old office space on Broadway between 11th and 112th Street. The publication has not yet found a permanent new home, but for the time...
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Investigating The Mysterious Fuck Spec Flyers
repeat after us: fuck spec We’ve been spotting mysterious “Fuck Spec” flyers around campus. We kind of wish it was us, but it’s not. We sent Staff Write Abby Rubel to investigate. Approximately eight...
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