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? […]

Given recent events, Bwog placed a call to Public Safety yesterday afternoon to find out how the department is reacting to Minghui Yu’s death and how they intend to make students feel more secure. [Edit: 3:24pm: Jim McShane email after the jump.] According to Public Safety, officers do not currently patrol the area where Yu […]

The AP is reporting that a suspect, a 13-year-old boy, has been arrested regarding the death of Columbia grad student Minghui Yu. He is reportedly being charged with second-degree manslaughter, but his name has not been released. UPDATE (1:15 PM): According to The Daily News and Gothamist, the police now suspect that the boys who […]

Hurry! From 6-9 tonight, the Blue Key Society hosts a competitive, campus wide Spelling Bee in the Wien Lounge.  ROAR, LION, ROAR! [Results after the jump!] For almost every student, Spellcheck is an indispensable tool. Thanks to Bill Gates and his brainchild, Microsoft Word, the once tedious process of editing a paper for spelling errors […]

Are you feeling lonely? Have the crossword puzzles, pornography and Georgi vodka you usually distract yourself with, lost their luster? Then come to LateNite this weekend. The show-case of six original one-acts written by Columbia University’s high-minded undergraduates will remind you that you aren’t alone. The recurring themes of sexual anxiety, pedophilia, and penis envy […]

  This is part two of a two-part series introducing you to the acts playing at this year’s Bacchanal. “Everything but country,” is an all too familiar way for unimaginative people to define their taste, or lack there of, in music. Sure, we all like different kinds of music, but the ambiguity of that statement […]

WABC TV and multiple student tipsters inform us that a grad student [not GS as previously reported] fleeing muggers at 122nd Street and Broadway was hit by a car and taken to St. Luke’s with “severe head trauma.” More on this as we get more information. UPDATE (1:33 AM): Gothamist post reveals that the student […]

While individual lottery numbers have been available through the “housing portal” since this morning, the full list is now posted on the main housing website, by name and by number. Bwog is pleased to announce the winner, one Brian Oches, a rising senior, with 8. And, in last place, freshman Stephen Chao, with a brutal-looking […]

This is part one of a two-part series introducing you to the acts performing at this year’s Bacchanal. Two separate sets of brothers make up four-fifths of The National. The fifth is lead singer Matt Berninger, whose odd, deep voice is probably the most distinctive quality of the band’s brooding sound. Since hitting the scene […]

In case you haven’t already been frantically GChatted by friends, you should know your housing lottery number is now available. What isn’t available, despite the Housing site’s promises to the contrary, is everybody else’s. Begin frantically scrambling to figure out how many people will pick EC suites before you… now! Update: “Daniel”, on the housing […]