Editorial board dissatisfied with performance of escorts All engineers experiment in College [by transferring to it] Some sort of joke about the word “busts” This guy wrote songs for Shortbus, a movie that features Ed Koch at an underground sex club

* = free! Thursday * Cheeky Bastard Presents: The Teenagers and 66Sick at Hiro – Russian accent-faking London band on their first trip to New York, open bar, merrymaking, etc. Hiro Ballroom at the Maritime Hotel, 363 W. 16th St, 10:30 pm. Free with RSVP: http://newyork.going.com/teenagerssluttt. Friday Composer Portrait: George Crumb performed by So Percussion […]

Come summer, 113th street residents are going to have a new neighbor: Delta Sigma Phi. The fraternity was recently awarded an open brownstone, a step up from their current EC digs where space was reportedly tight. “Ultimately, we believed our chapter needed a centralized place to meet if our activities were to remain unhindered, and […]

Turns out we’re not the only Manhattan university looking to expand.  According to Washington Square News, NYU has proposed adding 6 million square feet to its campus, and is looking outside the Village for about half of that space.  The current candidate neighborhoods are Midtown, Northwestern Brooklyn, and, most intriguingly, Governor’s Island, the perpetually-redesigned, super-historical […]

In which Courtney Douds communes with the poet of misspent suburban youth. I predict this to be the least ironic post ever written for Bwog. This past Tuesday, I attended the first of two concerts given by the band Marilyn Manson and their infamous frontman of the same name at the Hammerstein Ballroom. And though […]

Change the country or change from Mister to Madam President? Pray that these curriculum-changers won’t need a hunger strike Barnard’s hole in the ground now has stuff in it! But Alexander Hamilton’s house is about to become a hole in the ground A concerned citizen attacks Spec’s “faux-journalistic exactitude“.  What would he call Bwog?   […]

In which Bwog lecture hopper Phil Crone reports back from the Heyman Center’s discussion on climate change  Altschul Auditorium was host last night to a panel discussion featuring PrezBo, Joseph Stiglitz, and various experts on the ever more apocalyptic science of climate change. What exactly PrezBo, a freedom of speech scholar-cum-university president, was doing heading […]

Starting at a few minutes before six, students began to file in. There were name cards to fill out, a buffet to be devoured. Barnard had pulled out all the stops for tonight’s Town Hall: note the pristine white table clothes.     According to Kate McNamara VP of Communications for the SGA, tonight’s Town Hall […]

In which Bwog theater correspondent Michael Snyder ruminates on Broadway’s take on familial destruction: In our post-post-modern world of narrative tricks and linguistic games, it is easy to forget that a meticulously constructed, intelligently written, and vigorously performed family drama can still pack a powerful emotional and intellectual punch.  If you need proof, look no […]

A tipster alumnus points out this article in the Village Voice from last week in which local writers name their favorite writer-y watering holes. The Sabotage Cafe author Joshua Furst selected Columbia standby 1020, and explained: “Not that many bars in the city where you can talk about Foucault for two hours.” Of course, while […]

Spotted in a Broadway laundry room by tipster Jacob Kriegel:   

Homeboy Jeffrey Sachs’s love-fest, more commonly referred to as the Show Me: Poverty Action Tour, continued last night in Lerner Cinema, striking a far less harmonious chord than the previous night’s concert.  While Monday’s kick-off event offered a serenade by none other than the Grammy award winning singer-songwriter John Legend who sang “Show Me,” a […]

Debora Spar, pioneer of the economics of fertility, loves babies.  How does one transform the face of the Barnard woman? Columbia is a national treasure, and Barnard is its jewel. Ted Kennedy’s new best friend still hates his alma mater. How do you cure administrative schizophrenia? Next time you think about getting a haircut, consider […]

With the second most delegates of any state, New York promises to be a critical part of Super Tuesday on February 5th. Here’s a brief rundown of what to expect; be sure to keep your mice on the refresh button a week from today and watch as shit gets consequential.

Yes, it’s technically the December 2007 issue, but the latest installment of the Columbia Political Review just hit newsstands this week. Look for it around campus, download the pdf, or follow the links below: Was Abu Gharib a crime only Americans could have committed? Romney embraces Buddhism, Huckabee adopts postcolonial, para-disciplinary ethical philosophical theory, etc.  […]