Last night, like many of you, The Blue and White attended the premiere of the 114th Annual Varsity Show. The Blue and White staff reviews. Lions, erections, and bears, oh my! The Bwog is no stranger to hate–for details, see our ill-fated Yorkie Roundtable and that time we reminded you our name is not spelled […]

Tipster John Hill forwarded Bwog a most interesting link: Trojan is kind enough to release a ranked list (warning: PDF) of American universities on the basis of their standards of sexual health. Breathe easy; Columbia took 12th place of 139 (third among the Ivies, after Harvard and Penn, and 51 places above those filthy Cornell […]

A Bwog classic, Campus Corners is returning from a two year hiatus — for one day. Here, we bring you some of Columbia’s less crowded study spots, if only to get you to leave Wien’s warm embrace for a couple minutes. Getting into the computer science lounge isn’t easy. Last year, every undergrad was sent […]

Pardon the temporary hiatus — but if finals and papers are killing you as much as they’re killing us, perhaps it’s time for a break anyway. TONIGHT Goddard’s 60s begins at Film Forum! (209 W Houston St., 212-727-8110). With fashion designer Agnes B. introducing “Breathless” today. Film runs all weekend, event runs through June 5. […]

Bwog’s resident theater expert Michael Molina managed to weave his way through the large, metal, bleacher-like sets to review KCST’s As You Like It, and was kind enough to send us his review. The King’s Crown Shakespeare Troupe’s performance of “As You Like It” brings laughter and general amusement despite rain clouds, graduation bleachers, and […]

Name, School:   Geoff Aung, CC  Claim to fame:   Inaugurating Columbia’s Burmese-German-Irish (BGI) population. Starting the Burma 88 Coalition, wrangling friends and enemies to get involved and put Burma on the campus map (right next to the room with all the skulls in Schermerhorn extension).  Post-grad plans:   Researching rural herding cooperatives in Mongolia […]

Harlem affordable housing: “The sugar on a sour pie.” On asthma: “Ninety percent of time is spent indoors.” Director: What “nobody else had was my unique view about stuff.” Columnist: “we’ve been doing so much, trying so much, and experiencing so much.” Reporter: “It’s clear that the Obama-Wright controversy rests on race.” Director, on the […]

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Perpetual Bwog favorite Richard Bulliet has once again treated the students of Islamo-Christian Civilization to a semester of quotable quotations. Read and learn: this is the wit that lured Ahmadinejad to campus. Too Much Information It’s like getting a contact high when everyone around you is smoking dope but you don’t do that–you’re still sharing […]

Grumbly reactions to Class Day speakers are traditional at Columbia (John McCain, too conservative! Matthew Fox, too pedestrian!). Joel Klein has received only a smattering of disapproval in the comments, on account of his low name recognition. To stoke your envy (or pride–at least we didn’t end up with Bianca Jagger), Bwog has collected a […]

Bwog is taking it slow today and, most likely, so are you. Luckily, the good people at the 114th Annual Varisty Show (a.k.a. Morningside Hates) have unveiled their website. It features high-larious Dateline-style investigations of the V-show’s alleged misdeeds. Bwog has, of course, watched all the videos, but isn’t quite feeling up to full reviews. […]

Goodbye, Nicholas Dirks‘s red bandana and the profusion of hair it covered Goodbye, Courseworks! Goodbye, Speccie #1 Goodbye, Other Speccie Goodbye, Israeli-Palestinian conflict (???!!!!!) — at least among campus student groups — maybe…

As anyone who has stepped outside in the past hour might have noticed, there are swarms of over-studied, over-worked kids piling out of Butler and Lerner who are descending en masse on the Candyland BBQ. Lines stretch around the quad, with students at the beginning of the line providing Bwog with estimated wait times ranging […]

It’s unofficially academic honors day on Bwog, so in a very special double-feature of Senior Wisdom, we check in with CC Salutatorian, Julia Kalow. Name, School: Julia Kalow, Columbia College  Claim to fame: I’m the one you have to listen to at CC Class Day who’s not Joel Klein.  Post-grad plans: PhD in organic chemistry […]

They’re setting up on South Lawn now—grilled meat, adult beverages (the usual 2 IDs to drink), and 200 pounds of sweet, sweet candy. It’ll go from 5 until 8PM.