The new issue of the Columbia Political Review is out on shelves and online! Unfortunately, it’s only online in  PDF form, so we can’t link to individual articles, but CPR has updated its website, and the issue is now available both as PDF (55mb, be warned) and as individual articles: Professor Jenny Davidson on politics […]

Three pieces of Columbia-related real-world news: first, some dude named Barack Obama has been chosen as TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year. The most interesting part of the feature are “previously unpublished photos” of a very cool lookin’ Obama, taken while he was at Occidental, a year before arriving at Columbia. One of the photos […]

Issue 2 of C-Spot, Columbia’s “erotic review,” is now on the shelves and online. There’s a new gallery of your classmates, and here’s some quotes from the new issue for your titillation. “Conceivably, Columbia gives us everything we should ever need to be all-stars in the bedroom: perseverance, open-mindedness, creativity, confidence, adaptability etc.” “Once perhaps […]

For those who have not looked out their window this evening (entirely possible, we know), it’s snowing! Mabo Imosili and Bwoggers Hans Hyttinen and Jon Hill send photos from around the quad. UPDATE 12:29 AM: We have a confirmed snowman sighting in front of Butler. The snowman’s name is Ozymandias, and it is drinking Red […]

While you’re trundling through another night of studying for this year’s exams (or have joined the lucky few who are done), let’s look ahead to the New Year. More specfically, CC ’10 VP (and potential presidential candidate) Sue Yang got in touch with Bwog about how next year’s “Study Day” conundrum is being handled.  Two options remain on the […]

The Lerner boardroom group sends us another photo, this time “as proof that not all hope it [sic] lost.” We’ll let you be the judge of that. Again, remember to send us the best of your study space/group, and/or any slightly insane sleep-deprived shenanigans. Good luck on today’s finals!

Bwog’s received the following photos of students who’ve “camped out in the boardrooms on the 5th floor of Lerner for days on end.” These people, who apparently moonlight as Red Bull company employees, believe that their misery rivals that of their Butler-bound peers. If you think your study space is better/worse, send us the photos […]

Butler corresponent Sara Vogel breathlessly reports the following: Around 11 PM, in 209 Butler, the following Dramatic And Exciting Events Occurred: A book fell to the ground. A bunch of students stood up and pointed finger guns at each other, as if holding everyone hostage. They all pointed their fingers and then said “bang” and […]

The perennial Carsplit enthusiasts have resurfaced! And they’ve asked that we post a link to this thing in hopes of securing cheaper airport-bound cab rides for everyone. So sure, here’s Carsplit. We know it’s hard to see past your last final, but if you’re headed to JFK, LaGuardia, or Newark by taxi in the coming […]

Here’s another one from the upcoming December issue of the Blue and White: staff writer Jon Hill sat down with Nobelist/Columbia professor Joseph Stiglitz.  Economist and Columbia Professor Joseph Stiglitz made a splash in the academic world with his pioneering work on information asymmetry, the problem of hidden surprises faced by used car buyers, eBay […]

A Freudian slip became a Freudian scream just minutes ago: Someone in an upper floor of McBain [primally] screamed out his window, “I want to suck your cock, Lee Bollinger!” Now, correct us if we’re wrong, but isn’t the person you’re taunting supposed to be the, um, sucker? Or perhaps the McBain resident just has […]

AHHHHHHHHHH! Now get some rest! Really! Follow the lead of this adorable couple who apparently live in Uris by snuggling up with your loved one and/or Red Bull-filled Nalgene. Good luck with tomorrow morning’s finals!

At midnight, Columbia has one of its few annual rituals—the Primal Scream. For new students, here’s a four-step guide: If your clock’s not auto-synced to the NIST’s Cesium Fountain Atomic Clock (i.e. the Internet), make sure you’ve set it correctly. At midnight, open your window or go outside. . Loudly. Keep it short. If you’re […]

Bwog took a stroll around Butler this fine Sunday evening, for such is our time-honored tradition. What we saw is a haunting portrait of the terrible side-effects of caffeine and what must be at least half of Starbucks’ yearly revenue. We also observed the masses try to escape their madness: literally, below, and figuratively, at […]

There’s a silence over campus, which will only be punctured by tonight’s Primal Scream. Heads hunched in Butler or in dorm rooms, the collective Columbia population slogs through the start of exam week. Ugh. But we at the Bwog wanted to focus on the light at the end of the tunnel – all those things […]