Barnard students have been puzzled for about a week by the presence of a large, ugly white tent right inside the gates. What is Barnard hiding? A fissure leading straight to the center of the earth? An uprising of mole people? Bwog snuck a photo through a crack between the tarps… They’re putting a sweet […]

Last Wednesday afternoon, Columbia Law Professor Eben Moglen gave the third lecture in his four-part series, entitled The Union, May it Be Preserved. Watch or read it for yourself here. Privacy Pundit Maud Rozee was in attendance. Moglen continued his tradition of opening with a song with The Ballad of John Henry. Then he addressed […]

A friend accidentally received a New York DL for ”Maxwell Kaplan” from the guards at EC instead of his own ID. If you’re Max from Mt. Sinai or know him, please let me know! ajt2143@columbia.edu

Last week, we were contacted by a Princeton 2012 alum about Hillflint, a “collegiate sweater line” he started for the Ivy League. We checked out the website, made jokes about the pictures of what’s supposed to be the Ivy experience, scoffed at the pretentiousness in the assumption that people will know your school based solely […]

Wow, speaking of Catching Fire: the new Hunger Games movie is out on the 22nd. So that’s something. (NY Daily News) (Time) “Selfie” is officially a word now. “Twerk” and “binge-watch,” too. Expect your hometown’s local radio stations to talk about this a lot this morning. (BBC) Your degree? What? It’s costing you hundreds of […]

Public Safety just sent out a crime alert for a robbery which occurred today at 5:50 pm, on Riverside Drive at 112th. A Columbia undergrad was robbed of his iPhone at knife point. Check out the alert for more details and remember, nowhere is safe…

Welcome back. As we sit under the fluorescent lighting of the library, we’re looking back on our weekend with bewilderment and fondness, and hopefully you are too. Here’s a glance at what Columbia got up to over the past few days—and our feature of the night, the 1020 raid of Fall 2013. Things seen and […]

And here we are at our PE Madness Semifinals (right?). Weird took on Masturbatory as Back to Summer Camp fought Catharsis. Who came out on top? That’s what it looks like when Pilates and Fencing collide. No thanks to you guys, Bwog argued these two contentious debates out, trying to figure out which would be […]

As we’ve been doing lately, here’s a weekly roundup on what’s been going on around campus on the athletics side. Sports connoisseur Max Rettig reports on the fit half of Columbia below. Foil Plans Columbia sophomore Jackie Dubrovich won a gold medal in women’s foil at the Bratislava Junior World Cup this past Saturday. In […]

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As if there weren’t enough waiting and wishing in life, SSOL now has features that let you do both. For classes that is. Julia Goodman chronicles her attempt to use the new Wish list and sort-of-new waitlist features. Okay, log into SSOL. Shit, what did I just change my password to? Oh, got it. Click […]

Can’t get enough of our student government? Neither can Joseph Milholland, who updates us this week with news of rotary and credit unions and also of fixing Lerner. Another busy night at the Satow Room featured two visitors. The first was the president of Columbia Rotaract. She came to talk about an event on Tuesday […]

Robert Kasdin, Columbia’s senior executive vice president and PrezBo’s right hand man, just accepted an off-campus internship. Basically. He’ll be co-chairing incoming city comptroller Scott Stringer’s transition team, reports the New York Observer. The team “comprises a swath of the city’s most eminent lawyers, economists, academics, accountants, executives and community leaders”—and Kasdin is the boss […]

Something you should’ve invested in: bitcoin. Also known as the future of money? (Time). We’ve already invested in a new mayor. But what about the other nine? (NY Times) Look who’s all grown up and running at Regionals (Hint: it’s the Columbia XC Team). And don’t forget it’s registration this week! May the odds be […]

Considering today’s shitty weather, Bwog wanted to think of an extra special Bwog Asked to cheer up tonight’s patrons of the But. Uncomfortably, Bwog was social and asked, “what makes you feel warm and fuzzy?” Smoker’s Plaza Slippers A pillow Green *As Bwog leaves, a debate begins on which colour is the fuzzier and warmer […]