The joy of attending school in New York is that half of the student body has endured a subway ride with a stranger passed out and drooling on their shoulder. In the hope of avoiding unpleasant public transportation experiences, Bwog reposts its pre-break peregrination pointers (“travel tips” seems so overdone). And if you think this […]

Those gungho-y-est of campus organizations, CCSC and the EcoReps, win this week’s Bwog award for most funnest use of Microsoft Excel with their new website. One bar graph reveals that the average Carman resident excretes over 5 pounds of carbon a week.  A pie chart proves that John Jay is an energy-gobbling monster, which Bwog’s […]

Why, the Fed is back! And we had thought ’twas lost! My God, Jesus is everywhere I look! One Scotsman has discovered China! In America! Dear me, is that a sexual pun I espy buried within the name of a Columbia landmark?  A number of heretofore unknown facts are presented, and in the most delightful […]

See how your classmates live as Bwog resurrects an old favorite feature: Room Hopping. If you (or a friend) has a beautiful, well-decorated, tricked-out, gaudy, or otherwise exceptional room or suite, send word Bwog’s way and we’ll send a camera crew and reporter. What’s the point, after all, of living the high life if no […]

Bwog received a tip from one unlucky student whose internet was shut down yesterday due to copyright infringement—which can mean anything from sharing or downloading stolen music or movies to illegally copying website content. The unfortunate tipster has not been sued by the RIAA (yet?), but according said tipster, CUIT has reportedly confirmed that one […]

Last week’s felling of the tree in front of Earl sparked a mild-mannered quasi-protest act by an unidentified group of individuals who have placed a papier-mache Lorax on the stump of the Tree That Once Was.  Bwog would never suggest, however, that in order to create the papier-mache Lorax, the merry protesters would have had […]

Eliot Spitzer, the governor of New York, has just resigned, days after the Times broke the story that he was “Client 9” of a high-end escort service. Spitzer made the announcement standing next to his wife, Silda Wall Spitzer, who was wearing a very fetching Hermes American Flag-ish scarf. Spitzer’s long-awaited resignation completes a tri-state […]

Our all too brief sojourn to Brooklyn must come to a close, as our quest to explore each and every dorm continues. Today: Wallach.  Hey, everyone. It’s Wallach! Wallach is the kid in class that really isn’t the most interesting or social person but is certainly the one that can be immediately described as “nice.” […]

So, Columbia has a new financial aid plan This is a good thing Or is it?! Either way, Columbia needs people who’ll get better returns on its money…hire me, please? And in any event, is it at all surprising that GS got the short end of the stick?

Yesterday, Bwog expressed excitement that David Paterson–the black, legally blind, Columbia ’77 grad–will probably be sworn-in as New York state Governor within a day or two. Which is all well and good, except Radar is reporting he has some (less adulterous) legal troubles of his own. Seems Paterson is currently being sued by a former […]

Adorable schoolchildren from Williamsburg… they’re just like us! Happening right now on College Walk, an elementary school class dressed in orange sashes and armed with colorful poster-board is protesting the closure of a Brooklyn animal shelter.  Bwog approached the mini-strikers and remarked that Morningside Heights was pretty far from Williamsburg. They agreed. Why, then, were […]

Elizabeth Rice, SEAS ’11, is the champion.  

From Wien to Woodbridge to Ruggles, we’ve explored many on-campus housing options this week. Now, it’s time to go off-campus with Brooklynite Bwog editors Zach van Schouwen and Mariela Quintana where they will debate the pros and cons of shacking up in New York’s better borough. PRO: Hipsters and $2 Beer Brooklyn! Behind every tenement […]

Columbia joins the “Ivy League arms race.” In a pinch?  Here’s John Kluge’s wallet. Centralized planning, Soviet-style! If a facade falls on 110th street in the middle of the night, does anybody hear it? Burma Coalition shows some saffron muscle.

Although the formal announcement in all of our inboxes is still pending, the Times has already reported the details of Columbia’s big financial aid plan this morning. The main points: Families making $60,000 or less per year will no longer pay tuition, room and board, or fees as of Fall 2008 Grants will replace loans […]