The sun is shining, the snow is melting, and it’s no longer so treacherous to take five steps. Or is it a false alarm? Merely Mother Nature’s cruel trick to lure us out of our layers and self-pity, only to dump another few inches on us and giggle? You decide in our latest poll (see […]

In the latest issue of The Blue & White, senior editor Hannah Lepow explores the oft-forgotten Roerich Museum, on 107th street between Broadway and Riverside. Beyond the familiar corners of 107th Street, where O’Connell’s and Lime Leaf duel for undergraduate attention, lies a little-known oasis of quiet. The Nicholas Roerich Museum, tucked away in an […]

Internship, schminternship! In Hidden Talents, Bwog exposes your classmates as the strange and glorious wunderkinder they truly are. Bwog’s equestrian enthusiast Mahima Chablani brings you a profile of the dark horse handicapper, and beloved contributor, Carly Silver. Would you like to share your talent? Is your talent exposing other people’s talents? If you satisfy one or […]

Tenka’s back with a sweet (pun only half intended) deal at the Sweetery Truck parked on 116th and Broadway till 5:30 this evening! Grab a Tenka coupon for a free cupcake, then march on over to the Sweetery Truck to redeem it. Free treats, hurrah!

Missing: CCSC – The meeting was canceled this Sunday. Diseased: ESC – Many members absent due to illness, minimal proceedings. Better Things To Do: SGA – Ranks also severely depleted. It’s rush season.

When you can’t instinctively tell if a blog post is satire (Huffington Post). When you post the story and tweet like you can’t tell it’s satire When Facebook begins to play a role in the prostitution industry (Cnet News). When even YouTube fails to provide a visual solution to your average housing problems (Or, when the […]

UPDATE (9:30 AM): A phone call to Westside this morning confirms that they had a problem with their servers last night which are now up and running. Our Flex tragedy is officially over. Go forth and swipe! Tragedy strikes! You either have to pay with “real” money or get your snacks elsewhere. Our tipster reports […]

Lost in Barnard Library (Lehman) on the afternoon of Monday February 7th. Lent it out to a girl in the library and forget to take it back before leaving. Please return it! Contact: dza2101@barnard.edu

Hand knit left-hand mitten with the image of a squirrel below three acorns and the number 20. Its mate is getting lonely. If found, please contact gem2125@barnard.edu.

A person in a group of people smoking outside Havana: I know smoking is shitty…but you should be able to do shitty things to yourself. Outside Broadway: Person 1: Hey, you have smokes? Person 2: Yeah, I unquit. Life’s too short to live any longer. People are so topical.

These excerpts were culled from documents left on Columbia’s lab computers. Let them inspire you, and please submit your own digitalia finds to The Blue & White at editors@theblueandwhite.org. *** Title for a Hamlet paper: ‘One of These Danes is Not Like the Other’ or: How I Learned to Start Worrying about Character and Love […]

Sean Udell and the relentless POTUS Project have not given up hope. As part of the ongoing effort to bring President Obama back to his alma mater for Commencement, Jody Zellman penned this persuasive cartoon. Given that PrezBO/Bama might not read Bwog, POTUS is also sending a copy direct to the White House.

“I can’t go on, I’ll go on.” -Samuel Beckett

One of the greatest perks of an Ivy League education is having all sorts of guest lecturers and talks hosted right on campus. Yet many of these great talks are not publicized enough. Enter Bucket List, a weekly feature that aggregates these events in a single location that will hopefully make you realize, like Bwog has, […]

In case you hadn’t heard, the Green Bay Packers won the Super Bowl last night sans old quarterback. Congrats Cheeseheads! (USA Today) Who wouldn’t want to read about the Most Interesting Man in the World? After all, he is the life of parties he has never attended. (New Yorker) Speaking of interesting elderly gentlemen, check […]