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 […]

Make sure to send Bwog pictures of yourself in all your costumed glory before you go out trick-or-treating tomorrow night. The winner will receive an outgoing voicemail message recorded on their phone by Andrew Flynn! And eternal fame and accolades!    

The Barnard College Activities Office has sent out an email advertising cheap tickets to Broadway shows. Which, in theory, is great. But the list of available shows is less than thrilling:             Though Bwog hears David Hyde Pierce was great in Name of Show, the dates just don’t really work […]

Bwog called some of Columbia’s biggest names in the middle of the night to hear their outgoing voicemail messages. Here’s what they–or rather their TAs–recorded.  “This is Shane, we’ll take messages for Bruce Robbins. You can record after the beep.” “You’ve reached the office of Ann Douglas at Columbia. Professor Douglas doesn’t take messages um, […]

Josh Marshall may be a liberal flack, but his video of Islamofascism week–featuring a flustered university spokesman, a random documentary filmmaker, and a fidgety David Judd–is worth a gander.   

This week’s question for Bwog comes from Daily Editor David Iscoe who wants to know if hitting an electronic device such as a computer is a good way to get it to work? David requests an engineer’s advice. Lucikly, webmaster Zach van Schouwen was on hand to answer David’s question. “The master walks in to […]

This editorial is tagged as “hope” and “Star Wars” The fictional kids that the fictional Albus Dumbledore taught at their completely made up school don’t have to worry that their fictional teacher is going to fake sexually harass them.   “Violence is like selling motherfucking hot flowers.” For a lot of us, this title is an […]

Barack Obama’s Columbia years are again the subject of a lengthy profile in today’s New York Times. Bwog correspondent CML had a revelation about a particular paragraph. “Mr. Obama arrived in New York in August 1981, at age 20, from Occidental College in Los Angeles. According to his memoir, he passed his first night in […]

But that’s being a bit cynical, now isn’t it? Besides, New York Magazine says that Community Food and Juice, which replaced the vacated Nacho’s Kitchen (sorry, freshies), has delicious seven-grain waffles with “locally sourced seasonal ingredients.” Healthy, seasonal, local–just like a waffle should be. (As an aside: We’d love to trust this description–really we would–but […]

President Bollinger, evidently aware of recent ferment among the masses, decided to turn his Freedom of Speech class today into an open airing of grievances. An anonymous Bwog correspondent was taking notes. The whole conversation was not overly serious. No students were really accusatory, and none of the answers were really defensive. He actually didn’t […]