Bwog wishes everyone a very merry fall break!

Bwog editor Lydia DePillis hitched a ride with the College Democrats on their annual campaign trip. Her dispatches follow, wireless permitting. LEXINGTON, Ky.–We’ve touched down in the South, and my minivan might as well have been a spaceship for the distance I feel like we’ve traveled in the last 18 hours. The sun rose and […]

Bwog editor Lydia DePillis hitched a ride with the Columbia Democrats this weekend on their annual fall campaign trip. Over the next few days, she’ll be filing dispatches from the trail, wireless permitting. LEXINGTON, Ky.–I’m not sure why I woke up at 5:40 AM this morning, evidently without my alarm. I catapulted out of bed, […]

Sticking around campus for the long weekend? Here are a few ways to amuse yourself after you’ve finally caught up on sleep, courtesy of Bwog daily editor Hillary Busis: Friday, November 2 Hip Hop Karaoke What’s that you say? You love karaoke, but you’re bored with wailing sing-along standards like “I Will Survive” and “Don’t […]

A group of first-years (who have collectively named themselves Floor 7 Productions) recently submitted their short film Waking Up and Other Hardships to Apple’s ’07 Insomnia Festival, in which high school and college student groups create their own three minutes of brilliance in under 24 hours based on a set of pre-listed elements. See if […]

“Good news” from the Anthropology departments, to some folks’ dismay Something tells us a three-year boycott on these proportions this might be a little difficult Rest In Peace TV-Links, Glorious Ruiner of GPAs and Paper Deadlines If you want to know what makes Butler residents angry, here’s how to do it Racism: It’s overstated!   […]

Freshie Bwogger Justin Vlasits arrived in New York City from his automobile-friendly DC suburb only to find that he is sorely lacking in the city’s fastest and cheapest mode of transportation.  So, with helmet and vehicle provided by editors Armin Rosen and Lydia DePillis, respectively, Justin is set loose in the Wien courtyard in a […]

On Tuesday night, the newly-formed “anti-racist coalition” on campus met in Hamilton to host a teach-in and make public a list of demands on salient issues. The coalition, largely a conglomeration of old SHOCC hands, SCEJ members, and Ethnic Studies majors, is a self-declared response to the bias incidents that have occurred this semester and a self-conscious revival […]

We’ve picked our favorites from the excellent crop of costume submissions. Make your choice below, and check out the runners-up.

How many drag queens did you see last night? If the answer wasn’t well over 3,000, then you weren’t at the Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village. The Avenue of the Americas was packed from Spring to 21st, not only with your traditional devils, witches and Teletubbies, but also Popes with blinking LED crosses, Transformers and […]

Bwog freelancer Kate Linthicum followed the Potluck House kids north last night.  What do you get when 40 rambunctious college students descend on a notorious Bronx park for a moonlit drum circle? The NYPD, apparently. The costumed revelers at last night’s “Hotluck” Halloween party learned that the hard way when police swooped down on their […]

Do you ever get nostalgia for your boarding/private school days? Cardigans? The old boys’ club? The Varsity Show has set up a country club on Low plaza, complete with cucumber sandwiches, Arnold Palmer’s, bubble gum cigars, and neon golf balls. Delicious!

The future of your alarm clock, moving beyond the arm-swinging-snooze-slap–and a way to spice up your everyday “I’ve had sooo little sleep” small talk standby, from Bwogger Kurt Kanazawa. JUMP! I’ll just let the inventor explain this one: “Sfera is a radio alarm clock which hangs above your bed and wakes you in the morning […]

Well Teacher’s College, maybe November will see better days. CU wants u 2 b safe.  What does “wadding up” mean? Columbia Spectator is one-sided, ignores “kill whitey.”  The core is useful beyond just cocktail parties.

Armin Rosen spent the past couple nights seeing what The Tribe is up to. Jewish philosophical smack dooooooown! It’s about time the philosophical salon made a comeback: on Tuesday night, a couple dozen List College students gathered in the Mathilde Shechter music room for some laid back Judaically-focused philosophical disputation. The night’s topic was the […]