Armed with camera and a friend, Bwog visited Ricky’s NYC this week to explore all they have to offer this Halloween — costumes, wigs, false eyelashes, masks, fishnets, suspenders. Merely a salon and beauty supply store eleven months of the year, October brings out the best (and/or worst, most disturbing, most sexual) in Ricky’s.

Singer/musician/poet/actor/spoken word performer Saul Williams was seen perusing the street fair on Broadway between 116th and 110th earlier today. Don’t worry if the smell of grilled meats and sound of raucous children kept you away from the fair: Bwog missed him too. Williams was seen chatting and taking pictures with fans. He’s supposed to be […]

Last Wednesday at 4:30, Columbia Law Professor Eben Moglen gave the first in a series of talks about digital surveillance in America, titled “Snowden and the Future: Part I: Westward the Course of Empire”. A transcript and video of the lecture can be found here. Bwog sent Snowden Supporter Maud Rozee to do some listening […]

This Thursday, pro Lecture-hopper Elizabeth Self attended “Breaking the Silence: Sexual Violence in Islam,” and brought back some valuable information to share.   This was really heavy subject matter, and when I arrived Thursday to a room full of round tables, I felt the gravity of the situation pretty harshly. Sure, I was interested in the […]

Engineers Without Borders will be throwing its annual semi-formal fundraising event tomorrow, October 13th from 3:00-5:30 PM in the Roone Arledge Auditorium. Tickets are 3$, and get you food, performances, presentations, and some pretty cool speakers. For tickets, go to the TIC or click here! P.S. You don’t have to be an engineer to attend. 

When we were first invited to our class Facebook group we thought a lot of things: ‘How useful!’ ‘Can’t wait’ ‘Sign me up!’ What we didn’t think? ‘Oh my God get me out of here.’ But we’re certainly thinking it now…

Have you been spending absurd chunks of time hiding out in Butler and leaving your papers strategically scattered when you take a lunch break? Feeling guilty? Don’t! Camping Connoisseur Katherine Nevitt is here to defend you. We’ve all complained about the impropriety of pitching tent in Butler. And yet at the same time, we’ve all been Milstein […]

In case you haven’t noticed, there are hordes of youths on skateboarders on Broadway, screaming, with helicopters overhead and cops standing and yelling.  Bwog’s hangover is none too pleased with this, but we admire their spunk.  This is the annual Broadway Bomb, an illegal boarding race down Broadway.  Last year, the state filed an injunction […]

Yesterday, a Missouri zookeeper was crushed to death by an elephant while conducting routine zoo activities. (ABC) This may be the most horrific thing you will read all week. We hope. (CNN) A cyclone touching down on India’s East coast has displaced hundreds of of thousands. Luckily, no deaths or injuries have been reported so far. (NPR) […]

What are you Columbia students up to this Friday night? If you feel lonely and want to talk, Butler Bwog is here, for a full 24 hours. Email tips@bwog.com, if you’re sad, bored, or just want to talk.  Here is an inspirational poem:   You have seven hours of homework every night, You think no […]

Filed under new developments: the Africana Studies program at Barnard was elevated to a Department this past week. The announcement on the Barnard website says, Barnard announced this week that the College is elevating its popular Africana Studies Program to a full academic department, a move that comes just months after Africana studies celebrated its […]

On Wednesday, a panel of journalists and activists with expertise on Syria gathered in the International Affairs Building to unravel some of the intricacies of the crisis and discuss the future of media coverage. Bwogger Lauren Beltrone was in attendance.  In between the sound of my ears popping as I rode the elevator to the […]

Sometimes merely describing a muffin like any other food item is insufficient. Sometimes a muffin cannot be characterized just by its orange-and-cranberry exterior. Sometimes a muffin is simply “sassy.”

What’s worse than the two papers and three midterms you have for next week? Clubbing baby seals Being sick with two papers and three midterms! Lucky for you, Mama Bwog always has your best interests at heart. Here are some tips so you can stop spreading whatever plague you’re infected with OR (even better) not […]

It’s almost expected for students to forgo class every now and then, for any number of illegitimate reasons. Professors may even be more deserving of the occasional free pass, especially for work-related absences. However, there must be some kind of limit on how many days a professor can take off, especially in an integral core […]