And 2009 has officially begun. The snow penis is back, complete with a heart in time for Valentine’s Day. Thanks to Jason Patinkin for the photo, and thanks to Columbia for the memories. UPDATE: Apparently there’s another message in EC Courtyard – a message of love to Fruit Pauncher/Ferris Reel VP/all-around Bwog favorite Colin Drummond […]

Today 111th and Riverside witnessed the triumphant return of Cupid, the ABC series starring Bobby Cannavale, a man of many faces known for co-starring roles in both The Station Agent and Paul Blart: Mall Cop. The show is actually a remake of a 1990s Cupid starring Jeremy Piven, who pulled out of the original series to […]

Oh sure, there may be budget cuts aplenty on the way, but the Medical Center isn’t about to let the economy stop its discoveries. This time, a team led by Columbia University Medical Center researchers has linked a gene called ELP4 to Rolandic epilepsy, the most common form of epilepsy. Rolandic epilepsy’s best-known symptom is […]

As if the first African-American Attorney General – confirmed yesterday! – and the new FCC Chairman weren’t enough, a commenter has tipped Bwog off to Columbia’s latest alumnus to join the Obama administration. New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg, CC ’69, has accepted Obama’s nomiation  to be Secretary of Commerce. He is the third Republican to […]

After a semester on hiatus, the campus overheards have returned! Send anything silly, stupid, or downright strange (whether text or photos) to bwgossip@columbia.edu. A father and his two young sons are walking along Broadway past Ricky’s. Father: Do you remember when that used to be a costume shop? Boy 1 and 2: Yes! Father: And […]

Bwog loves soccer, so we were happy to see popular Econ professor (and president of the US Soccer Federation) Sunil Gulati announcing the United States’s bid for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups on Monday. Gulati, who was also involved in the first World Cup in the United States in 1994, will be leading […]

Reading will make you poor. Was there ever any doubt that some hellacious barbecue would thrive? A thing called eminent domain appears to be causing some sort of dispute. Men’s basketball gets all philosophical.  

ESC President Peter Valeiras tells Bwog that there are two meetings tonight for students: first, at 8 p.m., Associate Dean of Student Affairs Eleanor Daugherty will be leading a meeting in Low Library Visitors Center about planning “ways to commemorate Eric.” Then, at 9:45 p.m. in the Satow Room, there will be a meeting for […]

Faithful Bwog reader Laura Gabriele sent us a photo she took of the infamous trucker hat-toting ironic eyeglass-wearing celebrity Judah Friedlander paying a visit to the Dance Marathon this past weekend. Friedlander is pictured in Roone with Kamal Yechoor, lucky Dance Marathon-er and SEAS Student Council 2011 president.

As the doldrums of February kick in and we all begin to forget our New Year’s resolutions, Bwog encourages you to skip the gym (not like you weren’t going to anyway, right?) and hustle instead to one of the over 250 restaurants participating in a time-honored New York culinary tradition, Restaurant Week. This year, the […]

Today, as you sit in your lecture and scour the internet for something, anything, to distract you, Bwog suggests browsing the treasure trove of old time-y Morningside Heights and Columbia campus photographs here. Aside from the terrifying image on the right, one can find dozens of pictures of a Columbia your blessed legacy-bearing great-grandparents told […]

Bwogger Sean Zimmerman sent along these pictures of a John Jay 13 room completely stuffed with newspapers. Why? Because, uh…why not? The room belongs to Billy, pictured below in the center with his hands on his hand. His partners in crime are, from left to right, David, Alex, Hefei, Jess and Gautam. Bwog would pay […]

As the revelries in Pittsburgh died down last night, a crowd of 13,000 gathered 65 miles northeast of the Super Bowl champions’ city to wait for the groundhog Punxsutawney Phil to predict how longer the winter will last. If the groundhog does not see its shadow, myth has it that spring will come early, an […]

This morning, ESC President Peter Valerias issued a statement to the SEAS community in response to the death of SEAS freshman Eric Harms on Saturday. Valerias wrote that Harms was “involved in so many aspects of campus life and always willing to help others out when they had a task to complete.  He was a […]

M.I.T introduces the revolutionary concept of holding smaller science classes with more TA’s, Columbia science profs think it just might work For one young Spec columnist, “godless is cool” at Columbia, and, worse still, the “street” is College Walk! A lot of Jewish people go to Columbia, and live in the greater metropolitan area Spec […]