On Saturday, May 3, Bwog Publisher Ava Slocum attended the Columbia University Ballet Ensemble (CUBE)’s performance of Paquita in Harlem at the Victoria Theater, part of the historic Apollo Theater.

Now in the second half of the fall semester, the new security measures from the start of the year haven’t gone anywhere. Students report feeling isolated and exhausted by the feeling of added surveillance on campus after the Spring 2024 protests. 

On Sunday, November 11, Publisher Ava Slocum attended Columbia University Ballet Ensemble (CUBE)’s production of The Nutcracker at the Manhattan Movement & Arts Center downtown.

For more than two years, the student-led Reproductive Justice Collective (RJC) has been urging Barnard and Columbia to provide medication abortion on campus. Abortion is still not available at Barnard except through referrals after the college first promised it on campus in 2022. In the meantime, students from RJC have taken it upon themselves to […]

After Barnard released a new list of community expectations, the Barnard chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) released a statement condemning the expectations, claiming they were “designed without community input” and “issued without warning.”

For when you need a break from that Iliad essay.

What to do when the Big Apple just isn’t big enough.

In the early morning of Thursday, August 8, police received a call regarding people vandalizing a home in Brooklyn belonging to Cas Holloway, Columbia’s Chief Operating Officer (COO).

In which Senior Staff Writer and former Events Editor Ava Slocum tells us about her first semester of a year-long study abroad program in the UK!

After a dramatic drop in ranking in 2022, Columbia has announced that it will stop submitting data for its undergraduate schools to the annual report.

Juneteenth is now an official University holiday, according to an announcement from May 9.

Everything is winding down for the semester, so this final EEOC is a bit scant. Thank you so much for staying tuned this year—Bwog wishes you best of luck on your exams and a beautiful start to summer!

On April 24, President Bollinger announced that he has appointed professor and researcher Daphna Shohamy as the next Director of Columbia’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute.

Happy (belated) Earth Day! The official day is over, but you can still celebrate with this week’s environment- and social justice-themed events for the last week of classes.

Columbia and Barnard have so many amazing student groups, and we love advertising their events! Enjoy this lovely third week of April with some of these student- (or University-) hosted special discussions, screenings, and more.