As if you needed a reason to get out of Morningside Heights and into one of the greatest cities in the world. Nevertheless, Bwog offers a few. ( * designates free) Thursday Bobby McFerrin, vocalist Alison Krauss and bassist Edgar Meyer at Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage. 8 PM Friday * 90s indie rap heroes Soul Summit […]

Last night’s eclipse was widely watched around campus. Bwog was there, too, tucked in Pupin Hall’s cozy rooftop telescope, along with half the Columbia staff and their children. Bwog took the time to interview two eight-year olds on their opinions of the eclipse. Eight year old #1 (lisping audibly and shrieking): Oh my gosh!

The pantsuit is what’s keeping Hillary from the nomination, femininity It really speaks volumes about the id of The Eye when the name chosen for a fictitious professor is “Rutherford Edgemont,” which are actually two towns in north Jersey and Westchester, respectively. Breaking: California kids choose to leave California the first chance they get Nellie […]

Two reminders about foodstuffs today:  Free: Got SeOUL Food? The annual multi-cultural buffet is tonight at 7 PM in Lerner 555. There will be prizes to win, bands to hear, dinner to be consumed free of charge. Not so: The College Dems and V&T Pizza will be donating all proceeds from pizza sales tonight from […]

The Village Voice is reporting that the Air Force Academy in Colorado is coming under fire for inviting three men (one of whom being Walid Shoebat) claiming to be “reformed Muslim terrorists” to give a conference about terrorism and religion. The three were paid $13,000 to speak about counter-terrorism strategies at the American Assembly-sponsored event. […]

Tipster Rick Betita directed Bwog’s attention to Gothamist, whose attention was focused on The New Yorker‘s Letters to the Editor section. Specifically the letter in which Michael Allison, adjunct professor of astronomy at Columbia, had written about January 28th’s cover (see right).  Allison insists that due to the certain conditions (namely,”the angle of the long […]

Where’s the beef? But can YouTube and modern society eat your flesh? And yet, lack of CC’s Core Curriculum requirement doesn’t preclude taking CC Core Classes? SEAS kids in Avery? Butler: Just not enough like my dorm that happens to be 75 feet away. Lion cubs!

Making the rounds on the TC listserv today, an email from Professor Madonna Constantine. In the email, Constantine maintains her innocence and calls the actions of the administration “premature, vindictive, and mean-spirited.” She also indicates that she believes her race played a role in the investigation: “I am left to wonder whether a White faculty […]

Khaled Abu Toameh, an award-winning Arab-Israeli journalist and correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, delivered a presentation last night to a crowd of a little less than 50 students in Lerner Cinema. On a lecture tour sponsored by Hasbara Fellowships, Abu Toameh had also recently spoken at other colleges in the northeast including UPenn, Harvard, and […]

A lunar eclipse has just started, at 8:41 PM EST. “Totality” is from 10:01 to 10:51. Pupin’s observatory is hosting an event throughout the eclipse. Bwog will be in her room performing the approriate pagan rites.  

Happening right now, a vigil at the sundial for the people of Gaza. About ten students are currently gathered with candles wrapped in tinfoil at the Students for Justice in the Middle East and Arab Student Association-sponsored event.  “We’re trying to show solidarity with the people of Gaza,” said Jake Matilsky, GS ’09 and member […]

Yesterday’s New York Times had a gently chiding review of Sugar Salon, a collaboration, currently in its second year of existence, between Barnard’s dance department and Williamsburg Art NeXus. Female dance choreographers don’t get as much money or attention as their male counterparts, and so the Sugar Salon series commissions work from Barnard’s strong, beautiful […]

Recent days have shown that Pakistan finds itself at a very crucial turning point.  The assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and increased dissatisfaction with the performance of President Pervez Musharraf, have upset stability in what was already a volatile region. And Monday’s parliamentary elections, in which Bhutto’s opposition party took the majority of […]

By the time the second installment in the Veritas Forum commenced at 8:00 PM last night, Miller Theatre was packed, as packed as it had been, maybe, since the first Frontiers lecture of the semester.  The near-capacity crowd greeted emcee Jonathan Walton, CC ’08, with thunderous applause as he took the stage to explain, in […]

As the Spectator reported earlier, Teachers’ College professor and hate crime victim Madonna Constantine is currently being investigated for fraud and plagiarism. However, it’s not publicly known which of her works are coming under scrutiny.  Bwog attempted to contact Joe Levine, the Executive Director of External Affairs at TC for possible information regarding the case. […]