To start up our In Defense Ofs this semester, Staircase Snob Alexandra Svokos decided to tackle one of the most universally abhorred features of Morningside Heights: the Ferris Booth Staircase. Walking down College Walk this morning, I overheard two girls complaining that the university does not provide any space for students to actually interact with […]

As classes really get rolling, we can only pound through our problem sets (damn you, science requirement!) and bitterly remember that awesome history of witchcraft underwater basket weaving class we had to drop. Because Bwog understands your never-ending thirst for knowledge, we’ve put together a list of nonfiction books that replace entirely match up with […]

Student council elections and the bureaucracy behind them have changed FOREVER. How so? We have a new elections board, chaired by Jeremy Meyers, CC ’15. Meyers explained himself and his spiffy new board to Bwog in this short but sweet interview. Bwog: What’s different this year about the student council elections? Jeremy: This is the […]

Bwog sat down with Timothée Chalamet, CC’17, who recently finished filming a role in Christopher Nolan’s new film Interstellar (in addition to guest starring in Homeland on Showtime and Royal Pains in USA). After missing NSOP for the movies, he’s settling into his first year and planning to limit shoots over breaks. Movie-obsessed senior staff […]

iOS7 is kind of ugly and hard to download, but we’re stuck with it anyway. Embrace it! (Telegraph) Syria isn’t even pretending they don’t have chemical weapons anymore. (The Atlantic Wire) Julie Chen’s bosses are really, really sorry they pressured her to have plastic surgery that one time almost twenty years ago and she did. […]

The next TLC/Discovery/Bravo channel special: the Barnard library whiteboard. Behold, grammar rules broken and put back together. Also, sassiness. Second photo via the Barnard library Twitter account. Thanks, Barnard librarians! Always vigilant.

You knew that Joseph Gordon Levitt, went to Columbia, right? Yeah. Well, our Film Fanatic Max Rettig also goes to Columbia, so he decided to check out a free screening of JGL’s latest endeavor. I got an email about a week ago from Ferris Reel, one of CU’s film-devoted clubs. It was an invitation to […]

Last time 2girls had to walk all over the bloody neighborhood the morning after 1girl was “mysteriously sick” (#YOLO) in order to sample the hot chocolate-y goods of various local cafes. This time, that same girl said to the other, “Screw it, I’m not walking. Let’s just buy ice-cream from Westside!” So, 2girls hiked all […]

New members, policy change, and cookies oh my! Monday night’s SGA meeting was one thrill of an assembly and Bwog’s own Lauren Beltrone was there to get all the deets. Andddd the votes are in. The Barnard Class of 2017 has elected Erin Bryk and Sarah Kim as President and VP, respectively! The election couldn’t […]

A tipster on Barnard’s Lehman Lawn overheard this epic accomplishment: I had sex with Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s great grandson last night! It literally doesn’t get more Barnard than that. Bwog agrees that that is as Barnard as it gets. Scientific reconstruction via Wikimedia

Columbia professor Carl Hart has studied the choices that crack addicts make. (NYT) Salvaging, or “parbuckling”, a huge cruise ship is not easy. (the Atlantic) Living in one of these new 100-square foot apartments in South Harlem would be tricky. “‘They are like dorm rooms but more expensive,’ said third-floor resident Kevin Mangan, 22, a […]

Due to an emergency water shut down on 114th street, some residence halls will lose water access, and JJ’s Place and Butler Cafe will close early tonight, September 17th. The shutdown is scheduled for at 10 pm and will last for 3 hours, though the email Housing sent out incorrectly says it will start at 1 am. Residence halls […]

It’s the start(-ish) of the school year and that means it’s time to wait in line at the packaging center  spend the whole weekend hungover do the only reading you’ll do all semester  meet new people! But before the introductions, it’s a good idea to have an interesting tidbit about yourself handy, just to prove to others […]

Have you ever wanted to work as a street-food vendor along the avenues and alleys of New York? Have you ever wished to be self-reliant in your salty snack cravings? Have you ever just desired…to eat a pretzel? Well, Bwog has, and tonight at 6pm in the Rennert Hall lobby, our dreams are coming true. […]

Sometimes we forget, but Columbia has some freaking awesome stuff.  In our efforts to remind ourselves of this, we bring you a new series: Bwog Goes Deep, in which we find cool shit in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library and tell you about it.  Chances are you immediately deleted it, but last week an […]