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 […]

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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 […]

As the clock passes midnight on Halloween, a new holiday comes about. Eccentric longtime Bwog commenter and mystery man Manley Cottingshire submits the following message regarding the eighty-fourth septennial of the ascension of his ancestor.  UPDATE, Thursday 3:37 PM: It seems that this post has generated some confusion. Please know that it’s not a trick, […]

Bwog lecture hopper Pierce Stanley reports back on the Heyman Center’s discussion on the limits and applications of academic freedom. So it appears that with the exception of Methods and Problems of Philosophical Thought, Akeel Bilgrami, the suave and erudite former Rhodes scholar is bringing his A game to Columbia these days. The Johnsonian Professor […]

The New York Sun is reporting that a swastika was found painted on the door of Elizabeth Midlarsky, a Jewish Teachers College professor who studies the Holocaust. TC President Susan Fuhrman responded to the incident in an email send out to the TC community this morning: “We feel we’ve been targeted precisely because Teachers College […]

The ghosts and ghouls come out on All Hallow’s Eve, but All Hallow’s day is ruled by campus groups. The Statement of Principles, in development since the Minutemen aftermath, (and reproduced here after the jump) was unveiled and has been covered in signatures, while the deans have set up a trick or treat stand and […]

Sachs talks to some farmer who “set the world on fire.” Columbia beats down the merchants who “slaughtered Hofstra.” Freshman fears being “Attack[ed]. Devour[ed].” What does $20,000 for Community Impact mean? “student life…will…end.”  Fittingly, a review discussing the Saw series ends with “There will be more blood.”

In which Bwog freelancer Kate Linthicum discovers soul food that’s actually good for your soul. I’ve been a vegetarian since I was four, when my family’s mischievous Labrador puppy attacked my pet hen. Her name was Pearl, and she was the softest, sweetest chicken in the whole world. I stopped eating meat the day I […]