Home State: Circling her mother, she circles Albany now. State of the MTA: still sucks State Presence: Its not about putting a letter on the Bwog State Debate: Maybe this is why Obama never visits us Real eState: Public toilets = new housing?   

One particularly creative procrastinator just sent Bwog a photo essay of his Butler abode. We support you, procrastinator, and may your efforts bring calm (followed by debilitating panic!) to those of your kind.   

In the great legacy of great Columbia-affiliated writerly-types, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer announced today that former professor Jean Valentine will be the next New York State Poet and Mary Gordon, Barnard McIntosh Professor of English, will be State Author.  Much like an elected congressman, the two will serve two terms and probably sit on […]

Update:    ESC Constitutional Review is underway! An ardent and opinionated public of record numbers (four people) was just turned away from the meeting as the ESC enforced its closed doors policy. Junior Class Representative Samantha John vocalized an appeal to overlook the closed doors policy for the discussion on internal elections, which she viewed as […]

2008 is Bwog’s first Presidential election year ever, so we’ve asked resident political junkie Jim Downie to write a weekly column summarizing, analyzing and sometimes mocking the past week in national politics. Political Weekly will run on Mondays, Obama, McCain, Huckabee and Clinton will run all year long.  So why does Bwog feel you need […]

Tonight seems to be the night, gentle reader, when Alidad Damooei will join George Krebs as CCSC Exec-board candidates.  It is rumored he will be filming a campaign video to introduce himself and his ticket.  He will not, however, be able to release this video until after spring break when the official campaign season begins […]

Another certain gossipy website was the focus of last night’s CCSC meeting. Satow Room bureau chief Martha Turewicz reports.  From the first few minutes of last night’s CCSC meeting, there some early indications of the intensity to come. Proceedings started a few minutes past 8, and while the next hour was lost to constitutional review, […]

Spotted in the elevator in the 620 Barnard dorm:  

Tipster Tedde Tsang sends photos Bwog’s way of some sort of bizarre, international students mating ritual, performed last night at 11 PM on the 4th floor of the IAB. You remember 11 PM last night, don’t you? It was the hour you accidentally fell asleep in Butler while leaning against an empty Redbull can. Also […]

Boo dearth of housing for GS kids.  Hooray Manhattanville! Boo hateful speech on Juicy Campus.  Hooray censorship! Boo unclear CUIT back up policies.  Hooray transparency on the Information Super Highway! Boo rigid Physics major requirements. Hooray to superficial study of sciences through opinion columns! Boo plagiarism scandal.  Hooray record donation?!  

This afternoon and at 8 PM tonight, the CU players present Absurdité, a two hour-long presentation of three short plays by Christopher Durang and one by Eugene Ionesco. The performances of the four plays surpass mere tributes.  Showing remarkable creative vision, the four directors produced innovative adaptations of Durang and Ionesco’s works and successfully guided […]

Astronomy department chair, Varsity Show character and Bwog birthday party guest David Helfand will be giving a guided tour “to the edge of space and time” at the Guggenheim tonight.  Explains the museum’s website: “Light particles from the depths of space tell us how the history of the universe began, and most likely how it […]

For those of you unfamiliar with the ins and outs of the Columbia creative community or a certain 2002 HBO miniseries, Project Bluelight is a CUArts/CCSC-sponsored short-film contest in which screenwriters submit scripts and the selected material is then made into a movie. Project Bluelight the brainchild of Michael Molina and Jeff Schwartz, both CC […]

Want to avoid doing your reading for another hour? SEAS 2008 Class President Eash  Cumarasamy has an idea for you: “The Class of 2008 is holding a study break right now for seniors in preparation for Winter Gala this Wednesday.  We’re serving hors d’oeuvres and there are tons of masquerade ball masks for people to […]

The completion of the George Krebs CCSC ticket is… complete. Laura Doan, CC ’09, has joined the team as VP of Funding. Doan joins a ticket featuring Krebs, Adil Ahmed, Robyn Burgess, and Ian Solsky. Candidate declaration forms are due on March 6th, and the Alidad Damooei camp remains conspicuously silent.