Carolyn Ruvkun horsed around with the Equestrians and wielded swords with the Kendokas, but no club has quite kicked her ass like Parkour. Ninjas walk among us. For the members of the Columbia University Parkour Club, New York City is a jungle gym with endless opportunities for death-defying jumps, leaps and tumbles. Parkour combines philosophy […]

The Columbia/NYU electronic band Night Eyes, which also recently made a fun flashlight-lit video, released its first EP called “Exhale” yesterday. The first 150 to download it from bandcamp get it for FREE, or you could pay $3.96 for it on iTunes. While you’re busy downloading, relive last year’s College Walk of Shame (not the […]

Delights at the Greenmarket this week! Lavender is back and 115th smells like heaven. There’s fresh fish at American Seafood on 116th. Start planning your Thanksgiving shopping early if you’re unlucky enough to be stuck in Morningside for the holiday: the Greenmarket will be open on Tuesday the 23rd instead of Thanksgiving Thursday. There are […]

Don’t feel bad if everyone around you is frowning. Secretly, they’re probably pretty happy! (City Room) The ever-tormented Floridita is unsatisfied with its mystery “attractive relocation space.” (NY Mag) Celebrate your Columbia experience with this charming souvenir mug. (Zazzle) Surprise! A mosaic from 1901 was discovered behind the walls at the 1 train station at […]

Overheard outside Butler: “Excuse me do you know what is it?” “It’s so weird!” “Dude, what the fuck.”

The 2011 CC and SEAS Class Councils, together with Balfour Class Rings will be in the 2nd floor EC lounge tonight!  At 8pm they will be handing out free pizza and soda—as well as selling class rings.  Feel it, 2011?  Feel the nostalgia coming on? Image via Wikimedia

Kristina Beedzakova, SEAS ’12, spotted this lonely panda bear sitting abandoned on the Low Steps. This tugs at Bwog’s heart strings.

Today, Finn Vigeland, CC’14, has his crossword puzzle published in the New York Times. He uses a pen, never a pencil, to do puzzles. “If you can’t do it in pen,” he told Bwog, “don’t do the puzzle.” Bwog chatted with Finn about the art of the crossword and how he finally got published. Every […]

Alternating Wednesdays is when Bwog shares all the good things to be had at the TIC. Here goes. Tickets sold for on-campus events this past week: 1050 Around Morningside: Walkabout Yeolha: October 20th-23rd, Wednesday-Friday 8p, Sat 2pm & 8pm, Riverside Theater, FREE w/CUID. Tickets. The Physicists!: October 21st & 23rd, Thursday 8pm, Saturday 3pm & […]

Several weeks ago Dylan Lonergan CC ’13, Legislative Assistant of the Senate Student Affairs Committee, compliled this ROTC Briefing as well as these ROTC Supplemental Materials.  They explain what ROTC is, its history with the school, and several ROTC systems at other institutions.  Produced on behalf of the SSAC, they are being distributed to student […]

Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor of our own CU Orchestra, debuted yesterday as conductor of the LA Philharmonic, for the concert “Green Umbrella: Bang on a Can.” A federal judge in California overturned DADT, and has ordered military recruiters to start accepting gay recruits. (NYT) The J-School is making a news outlet website for NYC. (NY Convergence) […]

From time to time, when Bwog doesn’t have a lot of homework, we’ll run a review of free things. Tonight is that night again. Here’s our report from CCSC 2012’s Mugs + Hugs. Waiting anxiously for friends in the Schapiro lobby, Bwog heard a frantic student getting off the elevator bark into his phone, “you’re […]

An event being held to mark the recent release of “The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery” by history professor and avid collector of newspaper clippings Eric Foner is happening right now. Attendees are packed into Davis Auditorium to hear some of America’s most prominent historians (Ira Berlin, David Brion Davis, and Robin Blackburn, […]

Members of the Class of 2012 can head over to the West Ramp Lounge between 10 and 11 tonight to pick up free swag from their class council: class mugs sporting the CC ’12 logo in Columbia blue. There will be Hershey’s Hugs, too! Don’t forget your CUID. Hillel will be hosting an “I Scream […]

Raph Debenedetti reports! Project Sunshine, a community service program that helps out children in St. Luke’s with activities and visits, has been recognized at Stage 1 by the SGA. Catch up on your Stage 1/Stage 2 lingo here. SGA discussed the three different options to find the best way to get the student body’s vote […]