Bikini-and-Taurine Correspondent Sean Zimmerman notes that the John Jay 13 lounge has been taken over by Monster Energy Drink’s campus rep. “Well, I wasn’t considering this free sample, but the posters show I can undress multiple chicks with it…”

 -Via Time Out New York It’s our last pre-finals weekend of the school year. Make it count! Friday, Saturday, Sunday The Generational: Younger than Jesus Friday 12-9; Saturday & Sunday 12-6 at the New Museum, 235 Bowery At the New Museum, 50 artists, all under the age of 33 are being showcased. There are 145 […]

Everyone’s favorite collegiate journal of East Asia, the Columbia East Asia Review, just dropped its hottest volume yet (apply rap jargon to academic journals, check). These articles expand the boundaries of East Asia…if that’s possible. Fujian leads Chinese immigrants all over the globe. Defective Chinese products are going everywhere too. Let’s research the Burmese…in New […]

Are you a freshman freaking out about finals? The 2012 Class Council has taken heed of your mania, setting up a new study buddy finding system called FAC, Freshman Academic Connection. Students input their courses and areas of expertise, and the Council will compile a list of participating students and send it to RAs. Freshmen, […]

 -The Uptown Local Team Columbia’s Ultimate Frisbee (the sport is also called Ultimate) team Uptown Local gained some national cred this past weekend, finishing an impressive fourth in regional competition. The team‘s meteoric rise began the weekend of April 18th when they surprised the competition in Sectionals. Though the team was the 8th seed out […]

Bwog “Newspaper-Reads-You” Expert Valerie Sapozhnikova joined a tiny audience at the Harriman Institute to learn about media in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Sitting amongst an audience of about 15, and listening to the moderator become bored with herself as she droned on about each speaker’s accomplishments, I almost started to regret my decision to […]

Those final Gateway project due dates may be looming, but there is always time for popsicles. The 2011 SEAS class council will be handing out free sticks of icy, sugary goodness today from 2PM to 4PM on College Walk, so make sure to get yours. Bwog has been told that there will be “upwards of […]

 -Via employmentguide.com Because the most important thing about your internship is what you wear… …not what you do. Good luck getting involved with journalism this summer… …or trying to cope with living in Europe (the horror!)

-Layout of Bloomingdale asylum via shorpy.com Yeah, it seems like there’s this weird bug going around… Your professors aren’t the only crazy people in Morningside. What!? Middle East politics controversial at Columbia? Students ‘redefine‘ classical music. Proposal for new definition: rabid puppies with mustaches.

Instead of making for the nearest bar in order to forget the impending doom with your fellow seniors, the organizers of Senior Night ask you tonight to switch it up a bit, and head to a specific bar based on where you will be moving after graduation.  If you’ll be staying in the Northeast, head […]

 Screen shot of “Wilma’s Anthem” “To the left, to the left. When your omelet’s done it’ll be to the left” rings the creative chorus of “Wilma’s Anthem,” a YouTube music video made by two Columbia students to celebrate their John Jay dining experience.  Though there’s no way to be sure, Bwog assumes this video and […]

Columbia (or at least the Butler computer lab staff) has deployed the giant sanitary bottles! “Mexican” flu stands no chance.  – Photo by AMP

In case you haven’t noticed, there is some sort of free food thing going on out on South Lawn. That line that snakes all the way around the lawn and past the J-School? Yeah, it might take a while, but once you’ve given them your ID you are free to gorge yourself on delectables from […]

News that swine flu may be “linked” to a TC student has put Columbia’s email systems in overdrive, as administrators have made various “community-wide” announcements about the flu. Executive VP for Student and Administrative Services Jeff Scott announced yesterday to faculty and staff that “Currently, there are no changes to University operations or activities based […]

Outgoing Dean of Columbia College Austin Quigley has just issued a goodbye letter to the students of Columbia College. He wants us to know what an impact we have all made, “individually and collectively,” on his life in the past fourteen years, and so he has copied and pasted his own statements from a previous […]