In Brooklyn, Bwog editor Zach van Schouwen extemporizes on electioneering, and inadvertently gets disenfranchised. The lines weren’t terribly long by 8 AM at P.S. 110 in Greenpoint, where a few disheveled hipsters joined the contingent of elderly Polish men to cast a vote for one or more candidates. Stumbling blindly around the outside of the […]

Last week, first-years received an email from AlcoholEdu announcing a contest. Alcohol Edu, always on top of the latest zeitgeist-y cultural references asked: “Is college really like Old School or Animal House?” Responses could take any form of expression (hear that, you creative types?) from essays to drawings to videos.  Bwog found this quite coincidental, […]

Vampire Weekend not worth the $10 you didn’t pay for their CD on iTunes Breaking: Super Bowl more popular, lucrative than environmentalism   No asterisk for the vowel?   It’s a walk-off! CC’s got Obama, GS has about what you’d expect The cookbook that Americans…er, New Yorkers…er, diet-conscious East Harlemites can’t get enough of!   […]

On December 19, two days before potentially returning Resident Advisors had to submit their applications for the 2008-2009 school year, rising junior and senior RAs received an email from Dean Kromm, Director of Residential Programs, detailing changes to their duties. Specifically, when on-duty, they must be closer to campus at all times and cannot be […]

A curious mention of a Columbia “alum” in the news today in the form of a police report. High school dropout and apparent puppy enthusiast Esther Reed stole the identity of a missing South Carolina woman named Brooke Henson. Using Henson’s name and personal information, Reed took her SATs and GED and gained entrance to […]

Tipster alumnus from down under Tao Tan passed along a helpful reminder that starting today until February 10th, all NJ Transit tickets will be free with a student ID and this coupon.  Bon voyage.  

In which Bwog factotum and freelancer CML travels to the promised land—Hillel and AEPi—in search of the perfect Super Bowl experience.        It’s a fairly well-known fact around campus that Robert Kraft, who is apprently not America’s favorite magnate of mediocre cheeses but the largest shareholder of Israel’s biggest packaging plant (who knew?—Ed.), and generous donor […]

A few tipsters have sent Bwog links to a website called EveryBlock. Users can search by zip code or address to find out all sorts of neat things about a neighborhood like elevator malfunctions, construction work violations and grossest of all: restaurants’ health code violations.  Kitchenette scored a moderately upsetting 14 points, the most nauseating […]

So the Super Bowl is over, but New York is getting ready for another showdown. Bwog wakes up early to catch the solicitors in action! Snow on Christmas Eve is so trite, but snow on SuperTuesday Eve?! It’s just a harbinger of things to come. Volunteers from the rival Obama and Clinton factions have been […]

There’ll be laughin’ and singin’ and music swingin’ and dancin’ in the streets How we gonna pay, how we gonna pay, [next] year’s rent?  Here in my car, I feel safest of all.  But for now I find it’s only in my dreams that I can change the world. I want to wake up in […]

Because we know you haven’t heard enough about Phi Beta Kappa lately, Bwog investigates how one becomes a member of the illustrious society in the first place. The bad news? There doesn’t seem to be any magic formula for becoming a member of the elite squad known as Phi Beta Kappa. According to the PBK […]

Akeel Bilgrami inspired Bwogger Justin Vlasits to pontificate on the differences between undergraduate and graduate education  John Legend and Jeffrey Sachs teamed up to slow-jam against poverty Shapiro out, Spar in We also learned about the baller after-party of the Poverty Action Tour Barnard might have discovered another way of knowing The Greek scene: Not […]

Happy Super Bowl, Columbia! It’s still the beginning of the semester, so there’s a good chance that many of you will be watching the game instead of the sky turning from light to darkness from inside the depths of Butler. So in the spirit of procrastination and camaraderie, Bwog presents a few neighborhood game-watching options. […]

The Muslim Student’s Association decided that it was better late than never to celebrate Eid al-Adha or Al-Hijra, so weeks after both the festival of sacrifice and the Islamic New Year, general merriment was had in the auspices of Low Memorial Library. Below the colossal classical pillars and Greco-Roman statues, a completely different tradition commemorated […]