Occasionally, Columbia professors break the monotony of Honesty Policy regurgitation to add a little spice to the first lecture of the semester.  Here are this term’s quips: Xavier Sala-i-Martin, Intermediate Macroeconomics “Empirical evidence suggests that people die.” “There is one big difference between Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, and that is that Macroeconomics is useful.” “Let me […]

Bwog is still searching its Cabinet of Cleverness for a new name for the expanded morning news post.  Share your ideas in the comments. Yesterday the Museum of the City of New York opened a new exhibit celebrating the city’s “ultimate movers and shakers” in the last 400 years.  But where is PrezBo in the […]

Many undergrads will never have set foot in that peak of professor perks, the Faculty House. Under construction for the past year, the old space harbored cracked marble and un-airconditioned, dusty faux-Italian decor and no AC. But the new house is a sight to behold. Even if you don’t share our fascination with places you’re […]

Already tired of cooking in your nonexistent dorm kitchen?  CCSC 2011 is hosting a welcome back-style dinner in Lerner Party Space tonight at 6:00 PM.  The food will be from Indian Cafe on 108th and Broadway.  CCSC 2011 President Learned Foote helpfully notes that the dinner will be “first come, first serve,” meaning that it’ll […]

A favorite start-of-semester tradition in Bwog-land is the release of the Heyman Center’s schedule for the upcoming semester. Some staffers get to pencil in talks and discussions they’ll later miss (thanks homework!), and some get to giggle yet again at “Heyman Center.” Because some of us are four years old, really. This year’s best bets […]

Journalists and hippies alike may rejoice on this, the opening day of the Journalism School cafe. Nothing but the combination of news tickers on the wall, various 1960’s references on the menu, and cheaper-than-in-Starbucks Starbucks coffee could bring so many happy lunchers here on opening day. After moving through a short, fast-moving line, Bwog was […]

After being freed from a Lerner closet, the first Blue and White issue is hitting newsstands near you. To whet you appetite, here’s another morsel from the issue: Hannah Lepow looking at a teen fiction novel’s take on Columbia. In Homer’s Iliad, Achilles must choose between infinite glory and the simple pleasures of home. In […]

Bwog knows that of all days, you are going to class today. Bwog also knows that those smart older people who are teaching your classes either love saying/screaming outrageous things, or really just can’t help it. So please, share the outrage (hilarity, warm fuzzy feelings, fear, etc.) with your fellow students by emailing noteworthy opening […]

You really are here, and it’s beginning to set in. You are back in class, back in Lerner, and back in line at Hamdel (as Bwog noted early last night). Don’t feel so bad about it though, Bwog will keep you company as you “take notes” (or not) on your laptop. And don’t forget to […]

Bwog’s heard multiple reports on “an edict from on high,” as one Music Hum instructor put it, that Music Humanities has banned laptops in class this semester. The reasons given are frankly not too surprising: the laptops are seen as far more of a distraction/procrastination tool than a help. Who knew? It’s unclear yet if […]

   Photo by AB Bwogger Anish Bramhandkar started his year off right by heading up to the 12th floor of Mudd to catch a few minutes of Disney/Pixar’s Monsters Inc., spotted on one of those ubiquitous flatscreens.  Why is SEAS spending its considerable brainpower on kids’ movies?  Bramhandkar suggests the display is designed to convince […]

On the cusp of reaching its teenage years, the Columbia Underground Listing of Professor Ability is the first stop for figuring out which professors are tolerable, and which ones make students want to impale themselves with a rusty railroad spike. But, in talking with CULPA co-head honcho Ron Gejman yesterday, Bwog learned that the shining […]

Before her official classes begin, Hawkmadinebwog editor Courtney Douds spends the morning with an informal assembly of birders in Central Park. Every Tuesday morning in September and October this year Richard Lieberman will lead birders through the Ramble of Central Park for the Linnaean Society of New York in search of warblers, raptors, waders, thrushes, and the many […]

Students stumbling out of their early Tuesday classes will find a large BBQ spread, courtesy of Live at Lerner, on Low Plaza until 2 p.m. Not surprisingly, there’s a long line waiting for wristbands, but, well, it’s free food! Go! Also, while we have the chance, thumbs down to Live @ Lerner’s Facebook description: “We […]

So begins another year, and with the first day of class comes our tradition of posting professors’ opening remarks. Who will provide this year’s Freudian slips, obscure philosophy puns, and strange classroom rules? Email all the inspiring/hilarious/insane things your professors say to open the class to bwgossip@columbia.edu so that everyone will be as excited and […]