The Dems are on the ramps of Lerner, distributing cupcakes to anyone who will sign a petition to lower the price of birth control on campus. Due to the oversight of some legislative intern (probably a college student him- or herself), college students have lost the price reduction on birth control that kept us hiploose […]

Registration for the Columbia housing lottery doesn’t begin until March 11 (or March 3, if you’re an LLC weirdo), but to warm up for the event Housing Services will be giving room information sessions and building tours today and tomorrow that will start in the John Jay Lounge. They will be leaving on the half […]

Manatees as the key to ethical (and adorable) expansion? Brilliant! Silver Sushi? Awesome! Roscoe Jenkins and Britney’s vagina are easily confused I thought I was in a cellar in Paris, but really it was just a basement room in a church. Hey, look, it’s an article! No, wait—it’s just a list of New Jersey stereotypes. […]

Columbia dorm phone numbers all start in 853, and Columbia building numbers all start in 854. Until yesterday, when a new Journalism School administrator entered the strange world of 851! From an e-mail sent to J-School students: “___ comes to the J-school after spending the last seven years… Her phone: 212-851—– (they’ve run out of […]

Here we are, in the birthplace of homophilia… Or perhaps we’re in the cradle of oppressive tradition… At Columbia, we throw eggs and call people motherfucker for social justice… Because maybe we’re just another underfunded school for children with special needs… Please, please look both ways.

Bwog editor Pierce Stanley hops a lecture on the national stage, and wonders why more Columbians aren’t doing the same. Come Presidential election time, Lerner Piano Lounge transforms into a hotbed of political activity, with Columbia’s political organizations frequently hosting watch parties for important debates, election returns, and speeches made by the candidates. This celebration […]

The Three Trillion Dollor War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict is Nobel Prize-winning, globally-thinking Columbia prof Joseph Stiglitz’s new book. The book posits that Bush’s cost estimates for the war in Iraq were incorrect—the administration cited a $200 billion figure—and that the Iraq conflict will cost almost double that of WWI, putting the […]

Happening right now, in Uris. Free Business School t-shirts that read: “Disruption is inevitable. Who gets to be the disrupter is up for grabs.” Ooh. Cryptic. Also: bagels.  

Through the grapevine, Bwog has been hearing rumors that in attempts to safeguard against theft, Public Safety has plans to begin taking unattended laptops in Butler. Oddly enough, this is one rumor that turned out to be kind of true, in a vague, quasi-benevolent way. Ricky Morales, Crimes Prevention Manager at Public Safety clarified: “It’s […]

  …but also for liberals who long for brilliant, worthy and genuinely conservative opponents. William F. Buckley Jr., conservative writer and founder of the National Review is dead at 82.

Ah, the time when all Columbia College sophomores are simultaneously forced to commit to a course of study they can easily change later. The time when the overachievers realize the system won’t let them register for an Astrophysics-Philosophy-Urban Studies triple major, and the underachievers ponder the easy-to-coast-through major (Poli Sci? English? Art History?) that best […]

Students subject to Dean’s Discpline to be treated like sex offenders The awesomely-named Serene Jones, a Yale Divinity School prof, will be taking over UTS Columbia really wants to offer a new financial aid package to compete with the likes of Harvard and Stanford, but gently reminds us that it is much, much poorer than […]

Tucked away in Lewis Parlor in the Barnard Quad is a very special kind of celebration. The kind that happens every four years. To celebrate 2008’s leap year status, McAc Events—which in four years can hopefully be called LexisNexUS—is sponsoring a leap year cupcake decoration snacktime extravaganza, or something.  The cupcakes are stacked high on […]

For the next two and a half hours, all Starbucks locations in the eastern U.S. will be closed. According to The New York Times, Starbucks needs the time to teach their employees new ways to use the coffee machines. Because, you know, there’s more than one. As to why this process will take a couple […]

February 22nd marked the official start of 2008’s CU Assassins, a game “of espionage, stealth, and resourcefulness” (according to sponsor ESC’s website). With nearly 4 days of gameplay behind CU’s most resourceful/stealth, the death toll keeps climbing. ESC keeps a record of all deaths that include a description of the deceased at the time of […]