Bucket List represents the intellectual privilege we enjoy as Columbia students. We do our very best to bring to your attention important guest lecturers and special events on campus. Our recommendations for this week are below, and the full list is after the jump. If you notice any events that have been left off the […]

Today is the fifth official World Spine Day! Do not doubt it. October 16th is a day for the vertebrate. Been lying prostrate? Want some grapes? Lose some weight? “Staighten up and move.” Come to this week’s Bwog meeting in Lerner 505 at 7pm. Bring your friends. Feed us some pitches and we will feed […]

Bwog always loves a good fashion show (and hates domestic violence), so we decided to send our Arts Editor and Bwogger Lexie Lehman to Alpha Chi Omega’s annual fall philanthropy event ‘Runway Warriors,’ a fashion show benefiting anti-domestic violence organizations. This past Saturday, Alpha Chi Omega sorority hosted their annual fall philanthropy event, ‘Runway Warriors 2016: Storm.’ […]

A former Full-time tropics dweller, junior staff writer Timmy Wu has only two sweaters: one of Harvard, another, Yale. He elaborates on the microaggression he started to experience since the beginning of sweater weather. There is one thing that Sappho’s poetry and Columbia school spirit have in common: they both are either broken or lost. As […]

As Election Day slowly approaches, it seems like the Trump campaign is crumbling. A dozen of sexual assault accusations made towards the presidential candidate, lackluster performance in the debates, and a scandalous video may not turn Trump supporters around, but may have them telling Trump to shut his mouth. (Buzzfeed) South Korea’s Joint Chief of […]

It’s 2am. You’re at a party in EC. You’re sweaty, you’re sticky, and the room won’t stop spinning. You consider lying down on the floor and never getting up again. But then, you hear those signature opening bars, followed by that pterodactyl-like sound of your friends screeching – it’s that song. It’s your song. It’s the song. The […]

Why leave campus, or even your dorm, to go to a gallery, when you could have an art exhibit in your own bedroom? Metro fare and energy aren’t required to revel in the beauty of Bianca Rico’s (BC ’19) 3D art installation vivifying her 600 double. Senior Staffer Sarah Dahl has the scoop. Bianca has […]

It’s Saturday night: the party you’re at is about to get shut down by public safety and your bank account is a realistic interpretation of “Dante’s Inferno.” You and your new-found friends are on a mission: to get to JJ’s together in one piece. Welcome to this adventure! Click on the links to determine your fate.  While […]

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 18th Filming at the Borders: Hope, 6:30 PM, Maison […]

Notorious RBG tried to take back a past statement in a discussion on Colin Kaepernick’s hotly debated protest for black lives in the United States. Initially calling the protest “dumb,” Ginsburg claimed that she wasn’t informed on the reasons for Kaepernick’s protest. She later regretted her comments and said that she should have refrained from comment, […]

From October 13 to October 15, the King’s Crown Shakespeare Troupe is presenting Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead in the Lerner Black Box. Staff Writer Tamara Barriot reviews their production. Sylvia Korman’s (BC ‘18) take on Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead sheds a new light into the meditative, almost absurd, nature of the piece. […]

Friday morning: a time of self-reflection, meditation, and recovery. Before her 8:40 class on Friday, Bwog Staffer Angelica Lagasca explores the blank expanse of the campus and its inhabitants. An alarm, unyielding: It keeps calling, as if beckoning for its long-lost love. Wake up darling, the alarm screams. No one answers. A floormate: I open […]

Last night in the Earl Hall auditorium, United States Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz discussed the accomplishments and challenges in U.S. energy policy. Senior Staff Writer Ross Chapman covers the event.  “Ambition is going to have to keep us moving forward.” In the middle of a surprisingly Obama-themed week, Columbia hosted the United States Secretary […]

Will we ever find alien life, like we’ve always dreamed? Stargazing Live presenter and physicist Brian Cox says “Uh, not really,” stating that every alien civilization will self-destruct before we can encounter them. (Huffington Post) The University of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center helped a paralyzed man feel his fingers again with […]

In the spirit of Yom Kippur, the 25-hour fast in honor of atonement, Bwog wants to give every Columbia student a chance to fess up their transgressions and mend their ways. Let’s be honest, God’s voicemail is full, and unless you want a pile of coal in your stocking stuffer again, time to change. Since Yom Kippur is […]