Kurt Kanazawa takes a journey into the realm of one of Career Services’ less orthodox clients. On behalf of a dare, from myself mostly, I decided to actually open and critically consider a “Career Services” email. The Gmail crystal ball spun, and lo and behold I found myself staring at the career event of a […]

Perhaps I’m a product of another era, but I’m pretty sure that bartenders used to be discouraged from sleeping with their drunk clientele. When I was young, smoking in dorms was not only tolerated, but encouraged, goddamnit! Call me old-fashioned, but everyone knows that the real meaning of Valentine’s day is celebrating monogamous heterosexual relationships […]

Dreamy man-children, oh goodness, how endearing It’s Hip! It’s Culture! It’s Cutting-edge! It’s hip, cutting-edge culture!  Hey, that sounds good, let’s say it again! Cassette tape obsessives are the new vinyl obsessives! And it’s no surprise that a little cucumber and some cinnamon buns make for aph-ro-deee-sia And that Saint Augustine…he was bringin sexy before […]

For the last minute planner, Bwog correspondent George Olive offers a well-educated selection of options for the elite diner in search of a romantic night out. Restaurants Porcão Churrascaria Though unconventional, a top churrascaria may be the perfect place to take your lover. At Porcão and similar establishments, diners pay a fixed price and then […]

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. Joshua Bell and Jeremy Denk Thursday: 8pm – $28-$94 – Stern/Perelman Theatre at Carnegie Hall – Bwog’s heartthrobbingest interview ever will perform alongside another whippersnapper of the classical […]

Bwog’s senior year correspondent from the class of CC ’12, reminds us of how good it felt to sneer at the kids who got candygrams and roses on Valentine’s Day. Thanks to the efforts of one environmentally-conscious freshman biology teacher, it was announced this year that for the first time since its inception, the annual […]

Because there’s only one day a year and one candy medium that legitimate the claim that “heart” is a transitive verb, Bwog is celebrating candy hearts.  With a poll!  Here are the staff-selected finalists from the call for slogans we opened last week.  Vote away! {{poll “12”}}

The now-notorious Saint Valentine’s Day flood sure was dramatic, what with the entire Barnard quad being evacuated at 2 a.m., but it seems to have left little damage.  Even at the epicenter of the leak, on the fifth floor of Sulzberger, only the lounge and hallway are affected.  But a disarticulated radiator, a few holes […]

The February issue is nigh, but a teaser is hither. You may have seen them walking together down Low steps, just a hair’s length closer than the average pair of professional colleagues. Maybe you sat next to them at Brownie’s, the architecture school’s classy alternative to Ferris Booth, as they nibbled on croissants and talked […]

Bwog daily editor Mariela Quintana floats into the surprisingly happy go lucky world of Ivy League fencing. The Columbia Fencing team did not carry themselves with the athletic aggression that one would expect at their final competition of the season. The mood Wednesday evening at Dodge Fitness Center evoked memories of the indoor soccer tournaments […]

Columbia loves bureaucracy, burns employees Back in the day, Columbia was the love police Inhabitants of Sulzberger don’t spend the night alone…they spend it together, in the gym Moral: If you only ever date people in the Spec office, your perspective on Valentines Day/romance/seduction is…different. Only today could a sentence like “ogling [Debora Spar] for […]

Last weekend, in honor of NJ Transit’s “Free Student Week,” Bwog featured a list of fun things to do in New Jersey. We liked the list so much we decided to send staffers to actually go and visit the places on it. In what is hopefully the first in a bi-weekly series, Paul Barndt recounts […]

Happening right now, on the Lerner Ramps, the Fed’s erotic bake sale. Plates of homemade chocolate chip and sugar cookies shaped like breasts, penises, and other anatomical delicacies are overflowing on blue plates. Bwog noticed a conspicuous lack of male genitalia, to which Fedster Sophie replied, “We both go to Barnard, so there’s a bias,” […]

Ivygate: UPenn humor mag’s “Diversity Issue” is very very racist, and almost as unfunny.   Columbia Cokane: One of a few CU blogs on the McCain backlash bandwagon  Roar Lions Roar: Columbia football snags 6’8’’ 270-pound bruiser The Phlog: Mark Strand’s Mad Lib Homework Assignment  The One Train: A picture of a fancy camera  Queued Paper: […]

Columbia events, in the national spotlight. Kind of. The New York Times ran an article about President Bush, who in a conference yesterday about race relations denounced incidents involving nooses and said: “The noose is not a symbol of prairie justice, but of gross injustice. Displaying one is not a harmless prank.” The Times mentioned […]