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 […]

Breaking: College student discovers ability to snack instead of eat meals  John Jay is practically the new Whole Foods, except for its lack of organic food. Oh, and the whole rats and failed health inspection thing. Spec’s photography columnist so minimalist. Was “Nada Surf ‘2.0’” really an “entirely different beast”? Was it?

So, what are you doing next year? Teach For America will make you an offer you can’t refuse. Merrell Hambleton sat down to hear TFA alumni discus their two years of elementary school bliss. TFA pencils and Columbia Catering cookies abounded at last night’s Teach For America Alumni Panel. But interested students were a little […]

    A tipster just emailed to say that at 9:30 tonight there will be free Indian Cafe food in 304 Hamilton, courtesy of the Blue Key Society.  Get your knives and sporks!

Got a flair for writing narcissistic melodrama? The New York Times’ Modern Love is looking for college-age students to write about “what love is now.” Sample response provided by website: “I’m this century’s answer to the last-minute prom date: the gay best friend.” Ooh, edgy! Zeitgeist-y! So get to work, tortured yet insightful essayists. Winner […]

A very special Bwog report on the Westminster Dog show from canine correspondent Emily Cheesman.  Dogs just make everybody so happy. I’ve gone to the Westminster Dog Show, the Mecca of canine pageantry, for two years in a row and I can say that the world of purebred dogs and the people who love them […]