Embracing a university policy that makes us vibrant, dynamic and exciting in news this morning, we have something for everyone. How much we can credit the social media for the revolution in Egypt is questionable, but the latest news, a father-daughter reunion, is all Twitter. Add ‘reuniting long lost families’ to the site’s (still short) […]

The Task Force has closed its survey and conducted its hearings. Audio recordings for all three are posted online, as are the first two transcripts—the final one is expected within the next few days. The Task Force will continue to accept e-mail submissions and post them for consideration until 11:59 PM on Wednesday, March 2, […]

Burgers, cookies, and salads—oh my! Few things are more important in the life of a Columbia student than eating a good meal. It’s an exciting week in the Columbia culinary world. Boringside Heights—all minutia, all the time.

Never fear, Columbians. Dear Bwog has returned once again to help you solve your collegiate quandaries. This week, our favorite “heterosexual male Suzy May” tackles one of the tougher issues of college dating—what to do when the one you “love” is fading you out. Dear Bwog, After what I thought were three successful dates, this guy […]

Found in Pupin 424. Bwog has no idea why these lovely verse were written, but we’re certainly having fun trying to guess. Leave us your ideas in the comments! Friendly professorial advice: “These are different ways of telling your professor why you didn’t finish your paper on time. Which is the only style you’d get […]

On Thursday, Bwog’s character-based correspondent Diana Clarke hopped over to the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, where she joined a roomful of besweatered academics to listen to Thomas S Mullaney, GSAS ’06. He discussed the difficulties of creating a typewriter that could print Chinese characters and tried “to explain the convoluted mathematics of the subtitle.” All in all, […]

Going to school in New York City can be rough, especially when the weather is rainy and gross, and everyone is grumpy. Friends, take heart—spring break is only two weeks away! Until then, sit back, and enjoy the ‘toons. And remember, there’s no better way to procrastinate than a lil’ constructive doodling. We want your […]

CBS ’11 students Balazs Alexa and Jean Meyer have created Date My School—an online dating site that helps studious, yet social media-inclined students from different universities meet each other. The site “now has more than 7,000 users, including some from the Fashion Institute of Technology because, Mr. Meyer said, a friend convinced him that there […]

Gramatica Basica del Estudiante de Español book. Found in newspaper rack in Hamilton. Has pink sticky tabs and writing on first page. Email tqb2001@columbia.edu

The weather sux. Life is dull. Remember the good ol’ days when life was carefree? Let’s commiserate together! Hit play on this next video, read on, and just… think about life. “I’m almost at where I want to be philosophically… and did I tell you she called me?” “Sometimes when your blood sugar is low, […]

In this week’s Cooking with Bwog, our resident poultry and pesto preparer Matt Powell shows you how to roast a whole quail. Bwog can personally attest to the fact that this dish tastes dazzling! But, if you think this is just too complicated, just wait. Your time will come—next week: Good Ol’ Fashioned Mac ‘n’ Cheese! Whole […]

What can’t Facebook do? It helped protesters organize in Egypt, it’s telling us we could win a Snoop Dogg concert (we’re in 5th place!), and now we’re getting free chipotle. NBC trying to build social-networking hype for their new show America’s Next Great Restaurant by offering free Chipotle “Buy One, Get One Free” coupons (apparently Chipotle […]

Earlier today, Mayor Michael Bloomberg appeared on The John Gambling Show to offer his opinion on, among other things, the controversy surrounding ROTC at Columbia. He seemed disappointed  upon hearing that veteran Anthony Maschek was heckled at last week’s town hall. After an audible sigh, he waxed philosophic on college kids, explaining that “a lot of […]

In the spirit of Enlightenment salons from centuries past, we present the latest installment of BwogSalon. Below, check out an excerpt from Raphaela Sapire’s article from the inaugural issue of the Columbia Economics Review. Sapire discusses the growth of the tech sector in New York City. Its new nickname, “Silicon Alley,” is a testament to this rapid rise to […]

Thanks to the Common App switch, Columbia may be the second most selective Ivy this year, after only Harvard. This has purportedly scared Harvard and Princeton into reinstating their early admissions plans. (Daily Beast, Harvard Crimson, Daily Princetonian) Columbia students, representing the Student Global AIDS campaign,  plan to protest House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s speech at Harvard.  (WaPo) […]