Today’s Tomorrow’s the day to reserve tickets for the Spring Concert, and contrary to earlier reports citing a $5 figure, tickets are actually going to be free. However, the show is CUID-only and seating is limited. Book early, either online or at the Lerner Box Office. 

A reminder to ice cream-enthusiasts that today (until 2:30 PM) CU Snacks is holding a free Ben & Jerry’s tasting on the first floor of Lerner. “We are *literally* handing out 42 pints of Ben & Jerry‘s, hoping only that you’ll help finish it before it melts,” the email reads. Emphasis theirs, excitement everyone’s. 

The Mystery of Pain.  Asked to legitimize the illegitimate, GSSC Elections Commission resigns. Barnard Voting: The eBear Necessities. Congestion plan coughed up.  Bob Dylan meet Joe Pulitzer. How safe are we really? In other Columbia-related news:  the NYTimes captures the different views on the boy arrested in the recent death of a grad student.

The vigil at 5:30 for Minghui Yu attracted hundreds to Low Plaza today.  Students from the Office of the University Chaplain handed people candles and hot cider as they heard eulogies for the promising statistics grad student.  PrezBo and Dean Pinkham admitted that they did not know Yu or his family personally, but offered condolences […]

Jim Downie’s Political Weekly returns to its regularly scheduled broadcast time with a campaign trail synopsis that doesn’t involve George Krebs or Alidad Damooei. As elections draw nearer, the candidates continue to slog it out on the campaign trail. The whirlwind schedule of endorsements, media, flyering, and stumping becomes even more repetitive to both the […]

The lineup for Barnard Radio’s annual outdoor BBQ and concert has been announced in an email from Milano Chowkwanyun, the Co-Promotions Director of WBAR. The show will take place on Friday, April 25th (on Barnard’s lawn, Nexus be damned) and will feature the following:  Wizards of the Coast Bear Food Will Win the War Liturgy […]

The biggest day in the literary year has arrived: The announcing of 2008’s Pulitzer Winners. The Washington Post earned 6 awards this year, while hometown rag The New York Times earned just 2. Bob Dylan also earned a “Special Citation” for “his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of […]

With only a week more of campaigning left, both CCSC E-Board candidates are starting to gather up endorsements. While Spec, Christian groups and other heavyweights have yet to back a candidate, Camp Krebs got a big boost with a CU College Dems endorsement. Alidad countered with BSO’s first ever endorsement and is currently leading Krebs in Greek […]

Tonight at 5:30, teachers, administrators and friends of Minghui Yu are invited to Low Steps for a candlelit vigil. Bollinger, Dean Pinkham, Statistics Professor David Madigan, Chaplain Davis and representatives of student groups will be speaking and a moment of silence will be observed.

Bwog diligently follows up on the Mario Kart tournament previously announced on its very pages. Friday night was a veritable throw-down/show-down of epically nerdy scale. Eight players, united by Bwog, gathered in a Ruggles suite to flaunt their mastery of a game they’d been playing since elementary school. Mario Kart, perhaps the most beloved game […]

For those still pondering how to make it public, Spec suggests communication! Unveiled: the next tourist trap will be the George Washington Memorial…Lavatory? ESC Candidates make their platforms public so that you can’t vote for them. Next year, a large particle accelerator will be made public and according to a Princeton professor, “might make dragons […]

According to Bwog contributor Alex Weinberg, “One of the electronic construction signs on 110th between Amsterdam and Columbus has lost its mind.” More photographic evidence after the jump.

Courtesy of planning staff, here’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for… Bacchanal! A Monday night concert in Lerner! A not-free luau! Exciting…? BacchanALIENS 2008 Keep an eye out for free BacchanALIENS t-shirts and giveaways! Wed. April 9: Comedy Show (Ardie Fuqua w/ Fruit Paunch) 9-10:30pm, Davis Auditorium (Shapiro) *Pick up FREE tickets at the […]

 Every Sunday, as you roll out of bed and head to brunch, Bwog will be doing the same. Except we’ll be writing about our brunching experience in hopes of improving your next one. Bwog’s Sunday Brunch will run every Sunday. As great as some Sunday brunch specials are, brunch is a remnant of a broken […]

As our tipster notes, today is the first of two Days on Campus, and Columbia’s crawling with prefrosh and their parents. Here’s a choice quote from the activities fair held earlier today in Lerner: Columbia Student to a prospective student, while convincing him to sign up for a student group: So, where are you from? […]