An hour of strolling through Butler these days is generally a fruitless mission: you are not guaranteed even one lonesome seat. Your classmates have resorted to cozy nooks on the floor, windowsills, and perches along the main stairwell to spread out their research and write papers, or drown themselves in textbook photocopies for finals prep. […]

Everyone’s favorite Harvard-ditching academic, (Jeffrey Sachs is like so 2002) Cornel West, will be co-teaching a class titled “Christianity and the Deepening U.S Crisis” at UTS next semester along with Gary Dorrien and Serene Jones. The class will meet on Wednesdays from 5-7 PM, and, best of all, all the lectures will be open to the […]

Prolific tipster Jason Patinkin has just reported that a pipe has burst on the tenth floor of Schermerhorn, resulting in the evacuation of the building. “Thankfully, the building is filled with environmental scientists well equipped to deal with such hydrological catastrophes,” Patinkin rationalized in this time of crisis.  UPDATE 3:33 PM: According to a second […]

With a mere half-day left of classes left, popular lecture activity GChat is tragically broken.  Despair not, Columbia: This’ll all be over tomorrow.  Except the GChat being broken thing, which could very well continue into Reading Week.  Could you even imagine?

RoomHopping returns with a tour of an otherwise-mundane Carman double jazzed up with a massive Crayola-paint mural.  “This wall has been blank for a long time,” Ben Krusling, CC ’12, informed Bwog as we walked, gawking, into his Carman double. Aside from your classic college dorm string of Christmas lights hanging from the ceiling, the […]

Bwogger Lydia DePillis informs us that there is a smorgasbord of free food on the Lerner landing now! Lydia reports that there’s couscous, pita and spreads, petits fours, cheese cubes, and lots of candy, plus stressbusters masssages and Jack Johnson. Find the picture of the goods on your right, and hurry! 

Today is the day, Columbians! Today, you will go to your very last day of class ever this semester. (It feels as good to type that as it does to read!) You may feel guilty for never going/doing your work when your professor expresses his or her gratitude for your heart-warming enthusiasm, or you may […]

At last, Harvard doesn’t have an infinite endowment. Oh right, but now we have even less money. This semester, the Columbia bureaucracy did stuff we didn’t want it to do. 2008: sucks. 1956: that sucked too.  What to do about the world crashing in around Columbia, with some improvised Dylan lyrics.  World continues to spin […]

PrezBo had already “conceded that the endowment was down” at his last fireside chat, but now Bwog has some information on the scale of the damage: At the University Senate’s monthly plenary on Friday, PrezBo told the Senate that, over the fiscal year, Columbia’s endowment has lost “about the same” percentage as Harvard’s, which lost […]

Tipster Aki Terasaki, CC ’12, says: “There are 30 gallons of ice cream left in John Jay lounge from the Midnight Milkshake event. Everyone is invited to come and enjoy!” Though, Bwog notes, there’s still technically another hour until the former event is officially over.

Tomorrow’s opinion section of the Wall Street Journal features a familiar byline: a one Mr. Learned Foote, CC 2011 President. Foote, speaking as a gay pro-ROTC student, said that he felt conflicted in his eventual decision to back repealing the ROTC ban. “I wanted to fight discrimination, but I also wanted Columbia to restore its […]

Wondering what’s going to happen to Tiffany Dockery’s former University Senate seat? According to CCSC bylaws, the Council will select a new Senator to occupy the seat for the rest of Dockery’s term via nominations from the student body.A nominee must then win 2/3 of the vote of the Council, and voila, a Senator is […]

Bwog has a penchant for corralling disparate topics under the umbrella of broad themes.  Here’s what happened this week. NROTC continues to haunt us.  The survey came and went for Columbia and Barnard and everyone had a problem with it.  The GSSC President was politely disagreed with the outcome. And Bwog tried to decipher the […]

Although Hawkmadinebwog does not profess to be the highest authority on raptors, we have recently made the informed decision to call Hawkmadinejad by female pronouns. There is no absolute way for us to tell if the campus hawk is male or female other than DNA sex testing or actually watching Hawkma mate or lay an […]

When released last Monday, it was unclear how the NROTC results would affect the University Senate proceeding with the issue. Not only were the results controversially tallied, but they were not broken down for three of the four schools (Barnard being the exception).  However, Council and Senate sources confirm to Bwog that NROTC will not […]