Image via toyrific.co.uk Stop panicking about lil’ piggy flu.  We’ve found a way to make it politically incorrect. The only reason we have a potential pandemic is all those corrupt doctors.  Free Viagra be damned, we want our vaccine! The 2013’s are signing away their souls (on Facebook).  Columbia has the fewest downsides—compared to Cornell. […]

Outgoing Dean Austin Quigley is in the audience for tonight’s performance of the 115th Annual Varsity Show. Below, an eager audience member is disappointed to learn that his English accent is not, in fact, faked. – Photo by ACM

Documenter of All Things Butler Alexandra Muhler sends in this photo, taken in 603.  It’s like the Pagemaster, but this is real life.  

Like many of you, last night the staff of the Blue and White attended the 115th Annual Varsity Show, “The Gates of Wrath.” The Varsity Show should not be, as most people say, about collectively making fun of ourselves and our school. It’s about collectively doing something—anything—together. And last night, at the premiere of the […]

As the senior class heads out into the real world, Bwog traditionally delays them a few minutes to get their final thoughts on their time at Columbia, and their advice to their successors. Our second installment is from ESC’s Kim Manis. You can follow the rest here. Name, School: Kim Manis, SEAS Claim to fame: […]

NOTE: Since publishing, it has come to Bwog’s attention that this review only covered the first half of the play. Bwog sincerely regrets the error. Bwog’s Shakespeare Under the Stars Expert Julia Mix Barrington turned out last night for King’s Crown Theatre Troupe’s production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and returns this report.  Caesar‘s final performance […]

With baseball and softball already finished for the year, other sports teams are moving into their final competitions. Read last weekend’s results, including men’s golf winning the Ivy title, here. Rowing: After falling last weekend for the first time this spring, the heavyweight team has its final cup race, against Navy on Sunday morning. The […]

Bwog Daily Editor and Blue and White staff writer Eliza Shapiro delved into the world of Columbia professor housing and brings us this dispatch, which appears in the upcoming May issue of the magazine. Sometimes, in the morning, Philip Kitcher and Judith Shapiro take their dogs, Teddy and Nora, out to play in Riverside Park. […]

Van Am Quad (image via WikiCU) Van Am Quad is filling with the sweet, smoky smell of barbecue, which can mean only one thing. No, it doesn’t mean there’s another fire in Hartley. It’s actually the start of the Van Am Block Party, which does mean FREE FOOD. Organizers say there will be outdoor games […]

As the senior class heads out into the real world, Bwog traditionally delays them a few minutes to get their final thoughts on their time at Columbia, and their advice to their successors. So we proudly present the first installment of a many-part series profiling the Class of 2009. You can follow the rest here. […]

But everybody else is doing it! I know, I know, I’ll get to it eventually. Okay, so I made that part up. But the spirit of it is true. They gave me all of those column inches — I couldn’t let them go to waste! I’m no different than you. It’s just that I’m better.

Bikini-and-Taurine Correspondent Sean Zimmerman notes that the John Jay 13 lounge has been taken over by Monster Energy Drink’s campus rep. “Well, I wasn’t considering this free sample, but the posters show I can undress multiple chicks with it…”

 -Via Time Out New York It’s our last pre-finals weekend of the school year. Make it count! Friday, Saturday, Sunday The Generational: Younger than Jesus Friday 12-9; Saturday & Sunday 12-6 at the New Museum, 235 Bowery At the New Museum, 50 artists, all under the age of 33 are being showcased. There are 145 […]

Everyone’s favorite collegiate journal of East Asia, the Columbia East Asia Review, just dropped its hottest volume yet (apply rap jargon to academic journals, check). These articles expand the boundaries of East Asia…if that’s possible. Fujian leads Chinese immigrants all over the globe. Defective Chinese products are going everywhere too. Let’s research the Burmese…in New […]

Are you a freshman freaking out about finals? The 2012 Class Council has taken heed of your mania, setting up a new study buddy finding system called FAC, Freshman Academic Connection. Students input their courses and areas of expertise, and the Council will compile a list of participating students and send it to RAs. Freshmen, […]