The month might be nearly over, but Bwog isn’t done dishing out campus horror stories! This time, Senior Staff Writer and midterm victim Asya Sagnak expands upon an unexpected experience in Columbia’s favorite prison/library. The clock strikes eleven. That marks your eleventh hour at Butler, desperately trying to save your GPA. You’re desperate, tired, and […]

AT&T made a deal to buy Time Warner for $84.5 billion yesterday. The companies expect to finalize the deal by the end of 2017. Trump commented that because of his view on the consolidation of major media companies, he wouldn’t have approved the deal. (The Wall Street Journal) Major websites such as Twitter, Airbnb, Spotify […]

With midterms making us sometimes feel we are surrounded by grade-obsessed zombies, it can be difficult to remember our student body is filled with incredible people using their talent to help others. Peter Kiernan represents a perfect example of the reminder we need.  In 22 days, the fate of our country will be decided through the selection of our […]

Happy Halloween Month! If you’re anything like Bwog, you’ll be noticing campus becoming ~spookier~ as Hallowen draws closer. Bwog Senior Staff Writer Gabrielle Kloppers recounts a very real, and very scary problem for Columbia students year round; the ever-present, ever-nosy, Suite Ghost. Despite not living in the Ruggles Murder Suite, we are all nevertheless plagued […]

New York City is packed with amazing culture and inspiring art, but sometimes it’s difficult to break the Morningside-bubble and experience it all first-hand. “Where Art Thou” is a weekly guide to interesting and notable lectures, events, and performances for the literary/musically/ theatrically-inclined on campus. Tuesday, October 25th Ensemble Signal Plays More Reich, 6:00 PM, Miller […]

The European Space Agency stated that a European spacecraft, named “Schiaparelli” might have crashed on Mars on Friday, leaving a dark spot on Mars’ surface. (The New York Times) Airbnb lost major lawsuit battle in New York State. Its Head of New York Public Policy, Josh Meltzer, wrote in a statement, “A majority of New […]

Spooky things, scary things, Russian black-ops teams who take your professors away. Bwog continues the horror stories with a fresh addition from Staff Writers Jennifer Nugent and Paola Ripoll.  It was a dark and stormy midday on November 9th, 2016. The students of Professor Adelbert’s Soviet Interventions class slowly shuffled in, excitement in their eyes […]

Student performance group NOMADS is presenting username, a production that centers around online gaming communities. username will be performed on October 20, 21, and 22 in the Glicker-Milstein theatre. NOMADS performs works that are entirely student-generated. From the script, to the direction, to the sound design, this production was entirely created by your peers! In “username,” the […]

Ah, love—how it comes and goes with the wind. We have a few tips to help you avoid the more tense moments in your lives. Find out where they live on the directory and don’t go to those dorms. Figure out their dining hall pattern (a trial and error process, admittedly), and avoid Ferris when you […]

At a Beijing economic forum yesterday, President Rodrigo Duterte announced “my separation from the United States… both in military and economics also.” (Chicago Tribune) Yesterday in Miami, President Obama compared the Affordable Care Act to Samsung. If a phone has flaws, he said, you fix it and don’t throw it away. “Unless it catches fire, […]

On Wednesday evening, first year staff writer Sarah Kinney traversed over to Schapiro Theatre (after going to the other Schapiro building and getting wicked lost) to see Columbia’s Graduate School of the Arts’ production of Summertime. She laughed, she cried… just like she did later that evening while watching the debate. But that’s another article. […]

In their first production of the fall semester, the Columbia University Players present Christopher Durang’s “Baby with the Bathwater,” a dark comedy about child-rearing, directed by Max Fiest CC ’17. Last night, Bwog newbie Lexie Lehmann had the chance to sit in on the play’s dress rehearsal. Below are some of her thoughts! (Content warnings for the […]

Today is Midterm Day, the halfway point in the semester. To mark the occasion, Bwogger Ross Chapman is here to remind you that your situation could always be worse – at least when today is over, it’s over!  Taylor Swift is the first person I hear in the morning. “The players gonna play, play, play,” […]

The final presidential debate happened on Wednesday night, and that’s about enough said about that. (New York Times) California’s attorney general has begun an investigation into Wells Fargo after the company received allegations of identity theft. Apparently, many customers had accounts opened in their names that they did not authorize. (LA Times) The Obamas hosted […]

Earlier today (or, technically, yesterday), Bwog received the following tip: Caught a close up of the feasting hawk responsible for the rain of feathers in front of butler today. A former staffer suggests that this is the same hawk dubbed “hawkmadinejad” back in the 08 09 era. Pic attached. Same bird? The bird in question […]