Just a reminder to those sending belated Mother’s Day cards, yesterday the price of a first-class stamp rose to 42 cents. (It’s a price increase of a penny.) You can check out the rising price of stamps since the ’50s via this graph (which is itself on a stamp)—both meta and informative. 

Name, School: Amanda Erickson, CC  Claim to fame: Former Spectator managing editor  Post-grad plans: Covering politics in DC for the Chicago Tribune this summer, then hopefully covering meetings about parking permits and roundabouts in a small town newspaper somewhere. Or else volunteering and backpacking from Argentina to Mexico.   Preferred swim test stroke? Floating on […]

This year’s final issue of the Jester hit the internet a few days ago and will hit newsstands Thursday — you may have received an email from Jesterbot informing you of such. The theme of the issue, as you might have immediately noticed from the front cover, is Tragedy. Editor in Chief David Iscoe explains, […]

Bwog ventured into the dark heart of Butler to snap some photos of the most lived-in cubicles, desks, and chairs. Columbia, what we saw, it frightened us: A Red Bull bottle converted into a flower vase for a single dying rose, sheets and sheets of notebook paper used as a make-shift gum cemetery, more of […]

With nearly the entire student body locked up now in finals or the library, you may have forgotten that we live in quite the dangerous city!  While tipster Alex Weinberg was able to stand on Ruggles in GTA IV, Columbia sociology professor turned underworld expert Sudhir Venkatesh noted in Slate that the first person shooter […]

The new issue of the Fed—the last one of the school year—has hit the internet and newsstands. Annals of architecture, ad eundum quo nemo ante iit  Contemporary Civilization, ad nauseum Our culture’s decline, reductum ad absurdum Thank yous, ad infinitum The dormitory life, ad captandum vulgus Knowledge, ad vitam aeternam!  

Name, School: Niko Cunningham, GS Claim to fame: Student Body President of GS – you know the rest Post-grad plans: Going back to LA – getting back together with the gang and making movies. Preferred swim test stroke? “If a student takes beginner swimming for one term and is still not able to pass the […]

  Tonight marked the 3rd Annual Pillow Fight/Primal Scream. Not that we needed to tell you that; anyone who wasn’t getting a good night’s rest before a final (ha!) or listening to very loud music probably just heard about 25 straight minutes of screaming emanating from South Lawn. The be-pillowed masses started to gather at […]

As several commenters have kindly reminded us, the 3rd(?) Annual Finals Eve Pillow Fight will be taking place on South Lawn in front of Butler tonight at midnight (or 11:55, according to the Facebook event). Please bring you game face and a pillow. Pictured at right: some of the carnage from last year’s battle royale. […]

The depths of procrastination have truly reached a new low: We’ve taken to Googling our professors on YouTube. An anonymous tipster points us in the direction of “Prolegomena to any Future Numa Numa,” which features philosophy professor John David Collins and one of who we believe to be the children of Collins and one of […]

The final Blue and White of the year is now on newsstands near you, and it’s a very exciting double issue. But because we know you don’t want to have to get up—thus forfeiting whatever prime Butler real estate you managed to snag—we’ve gone ahead and Quick’ed it for your enjoyment.    Valuable advice, from […]

Professors bid their classes adieu, claim, “There’s still hope!” Hawkmadinejad should consider taking a leaf out of Woody Allen’s book.  Stressed about finals? Maybe look into the therapeutic benefits of being a sniper–only virtually, of course. Way way back in the 1980s, Columbia employees map campus, and Wallach was called Livingston! Will wonders never cease?  No […]

Name, School: Jon Cioschi, Columbia College  Claim to fame: My great, great, great (I’m not sure how many greats, to be honest) uncle, Antonio Meucci, may or may not have actually invented the telephone.  Alexander Graham Bell may or may not have stolen the designs from him and patented it before he could.  Reason being, […]

Senior wisdom continues with the illustrious Kieron Cindric.  You may know him as Associate Professor Bradbury from V114, but Bwog’s got your backstage pass.    Name, School: Kieron Cindric, CC ’08 Claim to fame: Varsity Show, Xmas: A Secular Spectacular, various other musical productions; being naked on stage and dressing as cupid for Halloween Post-grad […]

Citing the dining services webpage, Tipster Peter Labuza, informs Bwog that Chipotle will be accepting flex at some point this summer. According dining services, students can reap the nutritive benefits of Chipotle’s burritos and at the same time exercise their creativity as they build their Mexican creations.  It is unclear when this initiative will begin […]