Bwog correspondent and masthead editor Justin Vlasits spoke to Robert Maschio, CC ’88 and The Todd on Scrubs, about “The Todd Song”, the Writers’ Guild strike, his days at Columbia and In Rainbows. Let’s start with the big news of the day.  You’re debuting “The Todd Song” on your website and it seems to be […]

College Walk is crammed with merrymakers for the annual tree-lighting ceremony.  All in all, it is a very Columbia Christmas: the Kingsmen modified “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” with a verse on lovebirds PrezBo and Ahmadinejad and Eric Foner gave a Bush-bashing speech about critical thinking in the new year.  An unfortunate elderly gentlemen […]

Hey all you former Deaniacs–Howard‘s coming to campus! The College Dems have landed a speaking engagement with the presidential-candidate-turned- party boss for “January or February.” Speakers coordinator Nate Morgante, CC ’09, wasn’t sure exactly when Dean would be rolling in, but a go-ahead from the DNC made him confident enough to spill the beans anyway.  […]

OK, not forever, but for the semester at least, and Professor Jackson’s concluding session contained a bonanza of “editorials” for the gathered masses in 417 IAB. On why people aren’t moving to the suburbs to get away from Jews, Italians, and black people any more because of 9/11: “I think Americans are simpleminded. We can […]

Tipster Alex Port says… “Walked into uris to find two tables lined with hundreds of free jelly donuts in honor of the festival of lights. As revenge for not being able to swipe DD$ at uris, we should eat all their donuts, get the word out.” Word has it that CCSC reps are also outside […]

Coming soon to Fox News- True Life: I was a male escort. Creepy crawlers. Another attempt to ameliorate Manhattanville-guilt. It’s not that I’m not smart, it’s that I go to Columbia. Another day, another diatribe on racism.   

Barnard–always two steps ahead of the curve. A choir of ten girls would pique most man’s interest. This week in absurdity, The Eye recommends you drop $259 on a humidifier.  When so-called (recent) indie films range from Napoleon Dynamite to Brick, the term “indie-itis” is devoid of any meaning. The new New Museum.

A band of revelers led by a wildly gesticulating Santa Claus made waves across Columbia this afternoon, prompting several tipsters to ask “wtf?”. The possibly drunk, underweight Saint Nicholas and his six disciples marched across campus twice today, interrupting classes, being mistaken for CUMB, and playing, among other things, a rousing rendition of It Don’t […]

‘Tis the season to be jolly, and what makes people jollier than politics? The Democrats and Republicans are getting their fix these next few days before finals set in. Tonight, the Democrats are running a Maucus, a mock version of the Iowa caucus. Centuries ago, Roman emperor and CC author Maucus Aurelius was named one […]

Beautiful beaded earrings for sale in the 6th floor SIPA lobby, complete with a man in a sombrero!  

SURPRISE! Engineer a way for SEAS students to get time off The wintertime is coming, the windows are filled with frost  Late night snack joint might be open on weekends To me?  Plus: The Voice sensationalizes, calls Manhattanville a “sweaty scrum” while AMNew York calls Columbia the Big Bad Wolf (not really, but you get […]

Dear techie Columbians,  Bwog, since its birth, has been managed by one web master–and now he’s moving on to bigger and more monetarily rewarding things. Meanwhile, we’re planning a rather large and exciting expansion, and are looking to hire a good web designer and computer programmer in his place! Besides a love for Bwog and […]

Bwogger Armin Rosen admits that this brief survey of people with the same name as other people who happen to be Columbia professors is random as hell, but bear with him. I’ve never read Dostoevsky’s The Double, but I assume the story goes a little something like this: a successful English professor is wrongfully accused […]

Tonight marks the first night of Chanukah. We have the Maccabees and their defeat of Seleucid Empire to thank for 8 nights of presents, gelt and latkes beginning in 25 minutes. (And our friends in states with agriculture-based economies to thank for sunset at 4:28pm tonight.) Chabad house is celebrating by lighting an outlandishly-sized menorah […]

Is Barnard sophomore secretly a Baby Boomer sent into the future from 1968 to guilt us for our self-awareness? Is keeping Lehman Library open 24/7 a wonderful idea that’s simply a fiscal impossibility unable to be rectified by an op-ed?  Is a barbaric Thanksgiving in which diners hunt their own food and fend for themselves […]