Harvard, Yale, and Princeton are showing theirs off, but Columbia is underendowed  When you’ve finished your CTV marathon, switch to this! Snoop Dogg: proponent of Lazy Sundays or ambitious multitasking? Over winter break, women’s basketball goes 1-4, and they still got more done than you did. And next year, the swim team is recruiting Frederick […]

This sign was spotted atop the muffin display case in Cafe 212. Coming soon: a crumpled piece of notebook paper tacked up next to the sandwich menu, reading, “Do u like me? Check box yes or no. Luv, Turkey.”

Until this week, the Wallach Skylounge’s zippy name was its only appeal to studiers in search of space. It was notorious for its smell – a dank bouquet of mouse droppings and sweat – and its furniture – one backless couch and a couple of spinecurlingly low tables. But Housing has worked its magic and […]

Spotted on the Barnard Quad. A stage? A stage with capabilities to transform into portable dressing rooms? Qu’est ce-que c’est? Let us know! Email bwgossip@columbia.edu   UPDATE 5:59 PM: A tipster explains, “The panels are not a stage. The architects (Weiss/Manfredi) brought them to the sight to select which panels would be used for The […]

Check back throughout the day for a continually updated list. Post-Modernism, Prof. Vandenberg In post-modernism yesterday, fifty or so tightly packed, Derrida-hungry kids waited for Prof. Vandenburg to arrive. When she still hadn’t shown up after 25 minutes, a few witty comments started to fly about how “post-modern” it would be for Vandenberg to let […]

“You need to attend a concert. A classical concert. No…” [strokes chin] “No Spice Girls. I know, they’re coming here next week, but it’s all sold out—but they added another show, but that’s sold out too. Anyway, you’re all too old for that stuff.” –Carl Bettendorf, Music Humanities It’s the first week of spring semester, […]

Cupcakes: The all-purpose graphic! Perfect for film reviews. And articles about cupcakes. Barnard flooded with drawings of stick figures burning bras Also: an actual flood GSSC VP resigns, explains “I have an off-campus apartment now […] I can only do so many things at once.”

Hey, remember the Oscars? They happened last year? They might get cancelled? Sometimes women win them by pretending to be ugly, even if they aren’t ugly, and sometimes if they are? Well, the nominations came out today (surprise! No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood led the tally) and Bwog awards show […]

Bwog mentioned the recent arrest of Ivalyo Ivanov, who admitted to a rash of anti-Jewish vandalism that occurred last September in Brooklyn Heights, in today’s QuickSpec.   But in case you missed it, here’s a quick recap: Ivanov approached the police claiming to have been shot in the finger, but soon admitted that he had […]

First came the lice. They invaded the heads (and sheets, and clothes, and pillows) of the girls of the Barnard Quad back in October. Next up on the nuisance continuum: “racist” graffiti.  It’s barely eight hours into the first day of the semester, and controversy has already erupted in the form of graffiti scribbled on […]

Bwog gastronomic correspondent Cyrena Lee offers Columbia vegans a healthy, environmentally-conscious dining option outside Morningside Heights.  Morningside Heights doesn’t have much of a reputation amongst epicures, but for vegans and even vegetarians, there is a disheartening lack of restaurants that abstain from using any meat in their kitchens.  Fortunately, New York City is a haven […]

The new East Campus elevator cabs have been a popular topic of discussion among the dorm’s residents (one is very shiny and very slow, and the other one still isn’t operational), but Bwog noticed another transportation snag just a few feet away. Someone has switched the “Stair Up” and “Stair Down” signs on the EC […]

Much in the news today about paying for college and college paying for you. American studies director Andrew Delbanco and former dean of students Roger Lehecka co-wrote a New York Times article about Harvard and Yale’s distribution of financial aid. Our Ivy brethren to the north, in an attempt to make attending college possible for […]

First big news of the semester: Columbia just got the ball rolling on this “Manhattanville” thing… Police find the man behind the Brooklyn Heights hate crimes, and his pipe bombs. (See also here.) Four-alarm fire destroys building on W. 113th Men’s basketball no longer undefeated in Ivy League play, but still untied!  Alumni committee spearheading […]

Earlier this evening, and sporadically throughout the day, the East Campus elevators–yes, those shiny new transport cells–stood frozen in place for hours on end, forcing residents moving in to shlep their stuff up dozens of flights of stairs. According to the security guard on duty, a big moving bin had slammed into one of the […]