Location: 47 Claremont Nearby dorms: Relatively far from other Columbia dorms. Elliot and 600s are close though. Stores and restaurants: Morton Williams is the closest option. Westside’s a considerable schlep. But Fairway is only a short walk away. Starbucks, M2M, and the Halal carts are all frequented, but kiss Chipotle goodbye. You can order in, […]

PrezBo just announced that Mary Cunningham Boyce will take over from Interim Dean Donald Goldfarb as the Dean of Columbia’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, effective July 1 2013. From PrezBo’s press release: Columbia is fortunate to welcome such an impressive dean at a time of both signal accomplishment and new opportunity […]

Being back at school is so dreary, right? Well, not today from 12 -1 in the Lerner Piano Lounge it isn’t! Come to Live at Lerner’s latest Sounds event for: The band: Bowmont, a Brooklyn band which is “like a punchier Coldplay, but more fun.” The food: Pita, baba ghanoush, hummus, falafel and more noms.

If you dial a toll-free number from any payphone in Manhattan, you can hear a history of the neighborhood in 1993, courtesy of The New Museum. (CBS) Supreme Court Justices will hear arguments on the meaning of marriage today, as they come to their decision about whether California’s Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage is […]

Bwog was as excited as you were to get back to school after Spring Break; we wouldn’t have been able to cope with another day of not going to class. Nevertheless, spring break is a time we need to reflect on. So we went on our weekly Butler escapade to find out what the Butlerites’ […]

Once again, you can count on Bwog to deliver your annual housing reviews. Here’s the beginning of our series, so you aren’t such a lost puppy when choosing where you’re going to live.  Location: 2900 Broadway (actual entrance on 114th, shared with Hogan) Nearby dorms: Hogan, Ruggles, Carman, not far from McBain and Watt. Broadway […]

Dean Martinez has just forwarded an e-mail by Business School Dean R. Glenn Hubbard announcing the death of student William “Billy” McGuire. An accomplished athlete and promising businessman, the loss of Billy is a loss to the university’s community. Bwog would like to extend our most sincere condolences to all those who were close to […]

While Bwog was imbibing in the Caribbean on the couch with our dog watching the Girls finale, Barnard bears were actually doing something in the form of a delegation sent to São Paulo, Brazil for its fifth annual Global Symposium, “Women Changing Brazil.” According to the full press release the Symposium, held last year in […]

Columbia Music Festival keeps getting more exciting! After their announcement two weeks ago that Hoodie Allen would be the festival’s first headliner, more acts have been announced today by WBAR, Live at Lerner, and WKCR. WBAR announced that their headliner will be New York rapper Le1f. The concert will also include Queens rap trio Children of […]

Update, 1:06 PM: numbers for those entering the Barnard lottery are now up as well. No, you didn’t get an email about it. …supposedly, since it is currently impossible to log in to the housing portal due to increased traffic. However, housing had announced that the numbers would go up before 5pm today, and tipsters […]

At Columbia, we read books in class and play games in our dorms. In Armenian public schools, they play games in class. (Al Jazeera) Here, events against gay marriage prompt protests supporting it. In France, a bill legalizing gay marriage has caused opposing rallies against it. (NYTimes) Now that My Chemical Romance (and Bwog’s years of teen […]

Come to the Bwog meating tonight to witness puns even worse than that last one! SGO, 5th floor of Lerner, 7 pm, free food. Bring your ideas, pitches and useful supernatural abilities, such as meat vision.   Timmy is an average kid, that no one understands via Tumblr

If you’re hiding out in your room / still getting last licks on spring break, you haven’t yet seen that there is a large motorcade on College Walk right now.  Rumors are abounding that it is for Vice President Joe Biden, although we have not had this confirmed yet. Columbia confirms that the motorcade is […]

Whether you spent the last week inebriated or sitting in your own filth, watching entire seasons of TV shows, you probably missed some newsworthy happenings. Luckily, Bwog is back with a roundup to distract you from the work you were supposed to do over break keep you informed. J. school professor and author of “A […]

Steve Coll, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former Managing Editor of the Washington Post, has been named the new dean of Columbia’s J-school. Like outgoing J-school dean Nick Lemann, Coll is a staff writer at the New Yorker, which is apparently a farm team for Columbia J-school deans. Before being named as dean, Coll served […]