For some coffee is merely caffeine fuel, for others it’s an art form. Critic Jason Bell, of last year’s famed food feud, investigates… As two employees fiddle with an iPad, unsuccessfully attempting to ring up an order, a third grinds coffee beans in slow motion, chatting with her friends. At Columbia’s outpost of Joe, getting […]

Following recent redesigns of the Columbia website and Cubmail’s homepage, Barnard got its own online makeover today. The revamped Barnard site features flashier effects, but you’ll probably be too distracted by the collage and Fidelity-esque blue stripe in the background to notice all the techie magic. In the past two years, we’ve seen major web […]

Dean Peña-Mora & the Class Councils of 2013 and 2014 invite you to Carnaval, “a festive event” promising Caribbean food, music and dancing! Expect free food from Korilla BBQ & Empanada Mama, and appearances by Tropical Beats Steel Drum Band and Sabor Dance Troupe. Register here for a rollicking good time. 6-8 pm in Roone. Be […]

Ellen Morris, Academic Director of the semester abroad program, confirmed the Columbia students studying at NYU’s Amheida archeology program were safely evacuated from Egypt yesterday evening. After stopping in Dubai, they are due back in New York City today. “For the rest of the semester,” Morris writes, the CU & BC students will be studying abroad […]

Last night Peter Sterne learned pretty much anything you would want to know and probably a lot of stuff you wouldn’t about how to have a career in politics. Last night, Matt McMillan, CC ’03 and internet consultant for Democratic political campaigns, showed a group of about 40 undergraduates in Hamilton 602 what it really takes […]

Akeem Ajimotokan, a thirty-three year old lawyer who had been working in Columbia’s office of procurement, was found by the police last Wednesday morning, “tied up and unconscious in the trunk of his car” (NYT) after attempting to sell it on the Internet. He had been stabbed and brutally beaten. (WSJ) The car was found […]

The Swim team beat Brown at Homecoming this past weekend! To celebrate, we bring you a bit of gossip from the latest issue of the Blue and White… Keep sending your silliest and strangest stories to tips@bwog.com Each week, the swim team coach buys 150 bottles of Ronnybrook Farm chocolate milk at the greenmarket to […]

Katheryn Thayer reports on last night’s SGA meeting. Coming up: Barnard Basketball Night! Saturday, February 5, 7pm at Levien Gym. Support the basketball team and breast cancer awareness! With special appearance from Bacchantae, singing the national anthem. EcoReps will hold their first potluck of the semester February 2 at 7 in the Diana dining room. The […]

Black leather gloves (size 7 1/2 or 8) from Bloomingdales. Lost in Pupin or Northwest Corner Building. Reward!! Email jk3316@columbia.edu if found.

The administration will relocate CAVA to the basement of Nussbaum over the summer. CAVA’s move to Nussbaum surprised many, especially after undergraduate student councils had issued a joint statement supporting CAVA’s bid for space in Broadway. Farther away from campus than Broadway, the larger space in Nussbaum had never been discussed as a possible location for […]

The gates by Carman on 114th and Broadway are closed. Shrug. Update: You can get the entire list of gate closings from Columbia’s Weather-Related Update: Earl Hall, Chapel, CEPSR, Carman, John Jay, and 120th at NoCo.

A mixed bag of news graces this morning’s bwoglines, but except for the announcement that Arianna Huffington will present the keynote address at the Columbia Spectator’s Annual Awards Dinner, it’s pretty much the worst of times. A winter storm warning is in effect till Wednesday evening.  University weather related updates say, as we’d expect, school’s […]