Free samples of Boar’s Head meats and cheeses, and Izze juices, in the Uris cafeteria right about now. You can also nab a nifty Boar’s Head insulated sandwich bag that you can cool in your freezer. And also, Columbia Catering, the exclusive catering service of Lerner Hall, has free bag lunches in the Piano Lounge. […]

Bwog played around with Google at work yesterday. Here’s what Google suggests we’re trying to find when the bolded word is typed into the search bar: Butler Library Butler Library columbia Butler Library hours Butler Library columbia university Tao Tan Tao tanning lotion Tao tantra Tao tang Tao Tan lehman Columbia Spectator Columbia Spectator online […]

Looks like Manhattanville has bigger problems than our expansion… “‘I left you a piece of my ass,’ he might say. Or I might take a bite regardless, spread with a liberal schmear of chipotle aioli” Appointing a Pigeon Czar might not stop the pigeons from acting like pigeons. Enter: Kulawik Football team’s courageous Ivy League […]

Bwog’s inbox is abuzz with declarations, communiques, and plans regarding the encampment on Striker Lawn (although the strikers themselves are now tucked away in Malcolm X lounge, safe from the damp).  You should have all received the first tidbit, from Deans Quigley and Dirks: an enumeration of what they’re already doing to address the general […]

Of 70 Columbia professors, expressed to the New York Sun! Some of them rather prominent! A faculty action committee statement of concern  accuses PrezBo of failing “to make a vigorous defense of the core principles on which the university is founded, especially academic freedom.” Particularly rankling to signatories–which include such luminaries as Akeel Bilgrami, Bruce […]

Way back when, Ashraya Gupta, Bwog’s Blue Notebooks correspondent, attended a BN-sponsored conversation with music critic Alex Ross. Even a series of technical (and editorial) snafus couldn’t keep her report from reaching the masses. At the most recent Blue Notebooks event, The New Yorker critic and recent author of The Rest Is Noise, expounded on […]

Midterms month is rough, what with the long hours spent staring up at the ceiling of the Butler reading rooms (are those deer antlers? I think so!) and praying for it all to end. Might we suggest some (potentially) intimate human contact to help you recover your undoubtedly fleeting social acumen? All interested parties should contact […]

So what’s it like to go six days without food? When Bwog tried asking a hunger striker earlier this afternoon, we were politely redirected to a member of the strikers’ “support team:” according to Jamie Chen, C ’09, the strikers want to “bring attention off of the hunger striking and on to the demands,” which […]

And if you’re a foreign affairs newshound or doing work-study at the Harriman Institute, you’d immediately know that that person is Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, Law ’94 and member of an alleged “‘Columbia Club of Post-Soviet leaders.” While the real Columbia club is still a tenant of our much hated and intellectually sub-standard rivals at Princeton, the […]

You all are gonna looooooove this…. The Fed now stumping for enlightened discourse; Philosophy department to publish bi-monthly humor mag Misfired sexual pun in lede an unintentionally perfect metaphor for misfired MTV awards show Surprise!: Sarcastic Edition Surprise!: Not Sarcastic Edition More mindblowing Columbia history and lore from Bob Ast.

We know you’re tired of it. Bwog’s been a bit busy laying out the November issue, but we promise we’ll get more non-striker coverage up soon. Meanwhile, some noteworthy news bites, next to the Octopus that Ate Affordable Housing: 1. Take Back the Night has issued a statement in support of the strike. Interesting, considering […]

Bwog met NYU student W.M. Akers at a bar one night, and found that his fair institution could use some explaining. They don’t have a Core, a campus, or 250 years of academic elitism–but there are some (dubiously) redeeming qualities. Territory Columbia‘s Claremont dorm, two blocks from the 116th stop, is classified as “Extreme West […]

Closet filling up with dead appliances? There’s a big crate outside on 115th and Broadway that will take them off your hands, today until 4:00 PM, and tomorrow between 4:00 and 7:00 PM. Say hi to the robot for us.

Butler denizens are reporting that hunger striker Aretha Choi, who appeared to be passed out on a couch in 209, has been carried out on a stretcher by about 10 CAVA staffers. A statement from the support team is posted after the jump. UPDATE, 2:05 AM: Meanwhile, a Bwog tipster reports that about a half […]

Responding to an uncertain statement in this hunger striker post, Bwog e-mailed political science professor Dennis Dalton–who teaches classes on nonviolence and has written a book about Gandhi–to ask whether he was really striking too. He responded thusly: “Thanks for your message. Yes, as I announced in my class last Thurs., I am in support […]