Doctor Martin Luther King Junior was a universally recognized Civil Rights Activist. He remains the face of the nonviolent civil rights movement and an American hero. However, some of his later views brought on an astonishing amount of criticism from both sides. King in the Wilderness, a documentary film that premiered this year,  describes a […]

The shopping period has come to a close! Today is the last day you can add classes without the instructor’s permission. You can still drop classes until Tuesday, October 9. If you like a class but aren’t sure if you want to take it Pass/D/Fail, you have until Thursday, November 15. Photo via Pixabay  

University of Maryland professor Dr. Michele Gelfand unleashed her cultural psychology brilliance on the Columbia community last night. Part of the Perspectives on Peace series that Columbia has organized since 2015, Gelfand shared insight from her recent book Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World. Freshman Bwogger Jordan Merrill, chaperoned […]

Sports Editor Abby Rubel is back with weekly previews and recaps of Columbia Athletics! Men’s Tennis: The Lions will open their season this weekend with a series of matches against William and Mary, Georgetown, Denver, and Middle Tennessee State at the Penn Invitational. The team welcomes back powerhouse players senior Victor Pham, ranked 13th in […]

Applications are due at 11:59 pm tonight for Daily Editor and Staff Writer positions. Send your apps as PDFs to editors@bwog.com and please title them “*First Name* App.” Email editors@bwog.com with any questions. Daily Editors are the backbone of Bwog. They’re the green to our grapes, the Literature to our Humanities, the Cheryl to our Milstein. As a […]

Happening in the world: Lebanese women are free to be themselves on women’s only beaches. (NY Times) Happening in the US: The fringes of Hurricane Florence are battering the North Carolina coast. Although the storm has been downgraded to a category 1 hurricane, it is still dangerous, with up to 13 feet in storm surge […]

Perhaps you have once dreamt of inviting Deantini to your shitty dorm pregame. Since that’s obviously impossible, what’s the next best thing? This drink recipe, probably. Up your hosting game and make a Dean-tini for your guests at your next social gathering. It’s sure to draw wows from the Columbia crowd.

ShopHop is a new series featuring different shops around the Morningside Heights community, from little-known stores to Columbia staples. This ShopHop focuses on Flowers by Valli, a conveniently-located store that provides all the decorative plants you might need. Nestled among the traditional MoHi mainstays of Community Food & Juice and The Heights, Flowers by Valli brings a smell of roses and […]

Seems like all sorts of people find everlasting love during NSOP. Which, good for them. But no matter how happy we are for any campus lovebirds, the publication of their relationship’s beginnings in something as entirely unromantic as the Columbia Daily Spectator is nigh-on unforgivable. So here, baby Bwoggers J and Olivia Nelson present a different sort […]

Welcome back to Barnard! Convocation takes place today at 4:30. The email from Dean Natalie Friedman reads as follows: Hello Students! Just a reminder that Convocation is tomorrow, 9/13, in Riverside Church. The proceedings begin at 4:30, and students should plan on arriving around 3:45. Your Class Deans will meet you outside of Riverside starting […]

In the “‘Rise of the Rest’ Entrepreneurship Across America” event last night, a panel discussed the future of entrepreneurship and the policy changes that will affect it. Hosted by Columbia SIPA, the program took place under the dome of Low Library. New Bwogger Michael Beltz shares his experience. The panel’s speakers included notable and experienced […]

What’s Happening In The World: Apple announced it’s releasing three new phones and fucking up its naming system more than ever before with the XR, XS, and XS Max. They range from normal to near-iPad sizes, and also from the “affordable” $749 to the whopping $1099. That’s like, a hundred bucks less than a MacBook. What […]

Youngweon Lee, Editor in Chief of Bwog, spends a lot of time on Twitter. So does Hamilton Deli, her to-go spot for delicious hot sandwiches located on 115th and Amsterdam. This may or may not be a “literary” analysis. You can decide. In case you didn’t know, Hamilton Deli has a Twitter (@HamiltonDeli). In addition […]

One Bwog staffer recently discovered the Marxism and labor history sections in Book Culture, a business that boasts an… ambivalent history with leftist causes. Break out the good stuff – it’s champagne socialism! Even in New York, a city with an extensive history as a bastion of left-wing theorizing and organizing, there are few radical independent bookstores. Some may […]

This summer, Barnard unveiled a new laundry machine system that was intended to make doing laundry easier for Barnard students. These laundry machines allow students to ditch their old TediMatts laundry cards and instead pay with a card, cash, or Apple Pay. While these new machines sounded nice in theory, reality suggests otherwise. Overpriced, inconvenient, and […]