As one of our last weekends on campus before we say goodbye to Fall 2014, it should come as no surprise that some people got rowdy. Next weekend we’ll be watching SNL on a couch with parents, and we like to think that the weekend after we’ll be productively studying our days away. And because […]

As it starts to become time to think about the semester ahead, we at Columbia are feeling a bit antsy on how to deal with the weight of it all. We’ve taken to searching for new encounters, and dipping into dangerous territory by attempting to still meet new people in new ways (the beauty of […]

Last night, Orchesis premiered its fall showcase, “Maniac on the FloOrchesis.”  Dancing Dynamo Lili Brown brings you the play-by-play. Orchesis, Columbia’s largest student dance group, is back with another fall showcase that began last night at 8:30 pm and ends tonight with a 9 pm show in Roone. This year’s showcase brought over 100 Columbia […]

Another weekend behind us and another set of groggy eyes upon waking this Monday morning. But why? This weekend was like any other: high hype Wednesday/Thursday, same four block radius Friday/Saturday. It seems the normality of this semester has gotten to the best of us: we’re out of the midterm funk/drunk, Halloween and fall break […]

Whether you spent this weekend out & about with your family, drunk and clad in Columbia gear for the first time this year, or both, there was a lot happening around the Columbia bubble. Though you won’t have to be proving to your parents that you actually have fun in college next weekend, we as […]

Her Campus Barnard is bringing a new wave of feminism to Columbia and Barnard, encouraging men to get in on the action of gender equality. Inquisitive investigator Lili Brown met with the brass of Her Campus Barnard to discuss the recent movement and its role on campus.  Her Campus Barnard yesterday morning released a photo […]

This weekend was in the wake of midterm season – and what did we do to work off some steam? Columbia falsely answered our prayers and decided to host a festival full of inflatable obstacle courses and balloons on College Walk for…children. So we were forced to put our middle finger dismay away and wind […]

Although most of us don’t get out of the CU bubble nearly enough, the city is an integral part of our college experience. Generation Citizen, a relatively new club to campus, sends Columbia students out to high school and middle school classrooms across the five boroughs to improve how civics is taught to these students. […]

“In the midst of winter midterms, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer freshman.” – Albert Camus, The Stranger October is here. You’re butt hurt and overwhelmed by your twenty papers, five exams, and two inexplicable “projects,” and the only way to really deal is to get sloppier than your NSOP self. Hey, we […]

The weather this weekend was in more of a late August-fashion than that of late September. And how did we choose to bask in the unexpected warmth and sunshine? Whatever weather the first weekend of October brings, we always want to know where you’ve been over the weekend at tips@bwog.com.  Activities in the Manhattan home base: Surprise run-ins: […]

New clubs and organizations have been springing up on campus this fall, including Columbia University Ready for Hillary. Politics Paramour Lili Brown caught up with the group’s co-founder, Anna Jessurun, to see what the club is all about. If you’re interested in learning more about/joining CU Ready for Hillary, please fill out their sign-up form and […]