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 […]

Like, you need to come to Bwog meetings. Because 1) Like, we are actually cool. 2) Like, we are an integral part of the lives of Columbian students. 3) Like, we are quirky, fun and edgy. 4) Like, we have juicy secrets, about many things! You will never say the C word again without being reminded of […]

Students at Columbia University represent the diversity of the nation and the world, bringing to campus traditions and customs from their own backgrounds. Bwog sent Daily Editors Alex Tang and Angelica Lagasca to review Lunar Gala: Harmony 2017, Columbia’s biggest celebration for the Lunar New Year. The gala featured musical and dance performances by Columbia […]

In this article, Bwog’s new writer Gabriella Philips delves into the world of ballet and shares her insight on Wendy Whelan.  Ballet isn’t like contemporary dance, where the dancers are constantly using the time with the choreographer to improvise and develop material. In a ballet company, it’s much more expected that you as the choreographer […]

Looking for love (or maybe a great hook-up) for this Valentine’s Day? So are the two lovely ladies featured in today’s Personals! Send us an email at tips@bwog.com, and we can set you up. Name, Year, School, Major: Lindsey Rubin, Class of 2019, JTS/GS, Majoring in Jewish History at JTS and Econ/PoliSci at Columbia Preference: Girl for […]

Bwog’s sports editor and everyone’s favorite, Ross Chapman is here again, reviewing this weekend’s games against Princeton and Penn. If you’ve seen the Columbia Lions Men’s Basketball team play this season, you would have gotten the impression that the team is very, very bad at defending against the three-point shot. In this weekend’s games against the […]

Happening in the United States: Yale University renamed Calhoun College to commemorate Grace Murray Hopper over John C. Calhoun’s controversial history as a defender of slavery. (BBC) Happening in New York City: After taking a 5-day road trip in a stolen car, two Ohio teens were found in the cop’s car in Times Square. One […]

Imagine this: you’re back at your old middle school. You’ve gone to an evening event in support of some younger sibling or cousin, and you have to get up halfway through to go to the bathroom. The bathroom closest to the auditorium is locked, so you wander through the hallways in search of one that the […]

It’s the weekend before Valentine’s Day, and we want all you lonely Columbia students to take this opportunity to be slightly less romance-deprived than usual. So, here are the first of this year’s personals – they’re essentially like dating profiles, but better. If either of these two lovely people catch your fancy, email us at […]

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. Monday, February 13th East of Venice: La Serenissima as seen from […]

Happening in the United States: The March cover of the fashion magazine Vogue was criticized for not being “diverse” enough. The cover, consisting of a group shot of seven models, intended to celebrate “the modern American woman,” but was criticized for including too few women of different ethnicities and body types. (CNN) Happening in New […]

Look, I shouldn’t be telling you this. You might try and find the path I took down through the tunnels, and I can’t have another’s death on my hands. Even so, I had tried to write out my story for a new internet blog series about Columbia’s rumoured hauntings, but I immediately received a private […]

Sometimes you need to go downtown late at night on a weekday. Uber is fcking expensive, and we’re boycotting them now because of Trump ties. Taxis are hard to come by. So you take the train… but tbh, it’s a little spooky. I needed to get downtown to see bae. It was 12:43 am and […]

When I woke up on the morn of February 9, I was unsure of what corner of the nether regions I had entered. Snow traveled not only downward but upward, leftward, rightward. But hark! Even then, the paths were cleared and salted well. Against the cold winds, some brave soul heaved their whole self into […]

The Stacks can be pretty freakin’ scary. Once, I went there to get some LitHum books, and I felt this great, dark presence looming just over my shoulder. As part of our library review series, Bwog Staffer Timmy Wu reviews Columbia’s favorite haunt/sexy-time place where “the light could not reach.” Location: The core of Butler […]