Bring a bike and start doing stunts…   …including balancing above a real live person’s face (after the jump, plus a YouTube video of some of the stunts).

   Image via Antiqbook.com The best of times: Kittens need to move out of their 72nd Street apartment and into your heart (Gothamist). Freakonomics thinks your professors should pay you (NYT Freakonomics blog)! Coming soon:  more room to stand in line waiting for a friendly Labyrinth BookCulture employee to glance your way (Spec).   The […]

   Image via HardCoreBikes.ca College Walk is certainly a versatile place, and, this morning, the sometime soap-box and occasional amphitheater and will add a new title to its resume:  Biketrial playground.  Congregate in front of Low at 10 AM sharp to see professional biketrial whiz Thomas Oehler perform various exciting tricks all over the Academic […]

Bwog reports from the first CCSC meeting of the year. Like the first day of class, the first CCSC meeting of the year had little in the way of substance. Instead, just as that first class gives students a chance to see how a teacher will run proceedings, the mostly new CCSC members (only 8 […]

Nature capped our final free weekend of the semester with some gorgeous weather and a beautiful sunset over Low.  After the nervous excitement of this first week, take some time to relax because it’s the last chance you’ll get. See you in Butler. Photo by AB

It’s 78 and the sun is shining, and experts say that this is prime ice cream weather. RAs in Broadway, McBain, and Ruggles have generously come together to meet that need, with free “sundaes, smoothies, and ice cream” in their respective lobbies/ basement, between 4 and 5 p.m. Should be delicious. 

Sure, we reported this a day early, but at least it’s still happening. Columbia/Barnard Hillel, a.k.a. “our HILLEL that Never Sleeps!” is having a free brunch today at 12:30 (i.e. now). It’s on the 3rd floor of the Hillel Building, which is at 606 W. 115th street, right across from Schapiro. And the extra time […]

Mark Lilla debates whether conservative ideas are properly studied on college campuses, and adds that, at Columbia “not a single prominent conservative is to be found.” (Chronicle of Higher Education) HHS Secretary says swine flu vaccines could start early next month, but will that really stop the hysteria? (AP) The new (and even-more-Twitter-like) Facebook Lite […]

Starting strong in their first home matches of the year, the men’s and women’s soccer teams both recorded emphatic victories this weekend. Senior James Prince and first-years Nick Scott and Will Stamatis all scored to lead the men’s team over Long Island, 3-1, while, for the women, 2008 Ivy League Player of the Year Sophie […]

Columbia’s own associate professor Rama Cont is featured in the most recent edition of City Journal discussing new ways of financial modeling and his unconventional view on the economic crisis. Although Bwog has a hard-ish time wrapping its head around the more specific econ bits, all you would-be i-bankers may find Cont, who conducts his […]

A tipster has informed us that the swipe machine in Hewitt Dining Hall is broken and everyone is getting in for free. Go now, before they fix it!

The east side of Broadway is barricaded this afternoon for a street fair. The festivities stretch as far as Bwog’s eye can see from its 3rd floor window in Nussbaum, or, at least from 112th to 114th street. Sausage, fruit, Thai food, and (we assume) pashminas abound!   Photo via compaswebworks.com

Even though Blair from Gossip Girl considers them her “holy trinity,” 2/3 of HYP are officially Big Losers now! (WSJ) (Bloomberg) Columbia, on the other hand, reports smaller losses. (Reuters) Morgan Stanley’s new CEO made it through the B-School. (WSJ) New York Fashion Week keeps on strutting its stuff, despite the recession. (NYT) And in […]

For all you forward-looking seniors- the Center for Career Education is extending an invitation to “launch the academic year and your job search” at their first career fair of the semester. It runs until 12 today in Low Library. (So Days on Campus isn’t the only time you’re allowed up there after all…) According to […]

Friday, Saturday, Sunday NY Craft Beer Week 9/11 through 9/20, various locations  If you’re getting tired of Pabst, take your pick from over 80 bars and sample some of the finest micro and homebrews the city has to offer. Price: passport costs $35, but with it you can try each beer for just a few […]