Happy Monday, y’all! This week, it seems as if midterms are beginning to creep upon us. You know what that means: shit. Yeah, you thought that was going to be something witty. Nope. Just shit. Anyway, here are your Bwoglines for today!  Happening in the nation: It rained in California this weekend. Actually, let me rephrase […]

Bwog’s Sports Editor shares his insight on the recent losses of the Columbia Men’s Basketball team.  So, the Columbia Men’s Basketball team has lost four games in a row. And the Penn Quakers have won four in a row. This isn’t good. The Lions, who two weekends ago had a two-game cushion on the teams beneath […]

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 […]

While midterms lurk in the near future, blurring the beautiful prospect of the toasty Miamian sunlight during springbreak, it is always important to treat yourself to a study break! Do you feel like everyone seems to understand what your Arabic professor is talking about in class? No! Everyone is just mindlessly nodding, as you are! […]

Happening in the world:  The police are still seeking seven people who may have connections to the assassination of Kim Jong-nam. Out of the 11 people that are wanted by the Malaysian police, six of them are North Korean. (The New York Times) Happening in NYC: A man is seen netting pigeon out of New […]

After about a year of negotiations, BCF-UAW reached a tentative contractual agreement with Barnard College late Wednesday night. This contract means that BCF will no longer strike on the strike deadline of next Tuesday, February 21. While limited information about the details of the contract were originally available, President Debora Spar released some details a […]

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It’s nice when you can bake something sweet that also seems mildly healthy. It’s even better when you don’t have to pay (directly) for some of the ingredients! With a few Ferris bananas (thanks @CU Dining!) senior staffer Sarah Dahl cooked up some delicious banana bread. My mom has a go-to banana bread recipe, which she […]

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/musibwogcally/theatrically-inclined on campus. Saturday, February 18th Bhangra in the Heights X, 7:30 PM, Roone […]

Happening in the World: Meet the newly-discovered continent Zealandia! This week, scientists determined New Zealand and Australia to be separated by a continental crust large enough to place the two nations on distinct continents. (CNN) Happening in New York City: Addressing concerns that college tuition rates are becoming increasingly unaffordable, NYU is making changes that […]

Barnard President Debora Spar sent an email to the community this evening informing them of the details of the contact made between Barnard College and the contingent faculty union, BCF-UAW 2110. This announcement follows an email sent on Thursday informing students that an agreement had been made while not supplying details. The announcement of the agreement […]

Dear Vape God, Who are you? What inspired you to engrave your dankness upon the driven snow? I could only imagine the scene, a bundled figure at the peak of the blizzard, staring towards the North Star while dramatic clouds blend into the snowy sky. And you would be alone, of course, because you’re a […]

As Barack Obama once said, “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” After receiving concerns about current housing costs for upperclassmen, Columbia Housing has decided all upper-class housing will cost $9,292; furthermore, […]

Columbia University Marching Band members-turned-Guest Writers Abby Rubel and Gloriana Lopez have been to every men’s home game this season. They’ve laughed, they’ve cried, and they’ve gone home with sore throats from yelling at the teams. And since they won’t be able to see the team play until next week, they wrote some basketball superlatives […]

According to the New York Times, Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health recently sent out acceptance emails to 277 prospective graduate students–except these students hadn’t actually been accepted into the school. About 75 minutes later, the School of Public Health’s admissions office sent out a follow-up email correcting their mistake. The accidental acceptance emails, they […]