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 […]

Or so claim some senior bio majors evacuated from the building a few minutes ago.  They say that their professor told them to get out as soon as they smelled smoke coming from one of the upper floors–other students stood around in puzzlement, and few of the evacuated seemed to be enjoying the all-too-brief break […]

And by The Boss we mean Bwog-fave Bruce Robbins, whose ruminations on Columbia’s dearth of academic freedom made it into this week’s edition of The Nation. Esther Kaplan’s penetrating investigation of Fair Alma revealed a brewing crisis in contemporary academia: fringe right-wing groups holding controversial events on campuses. And dear God does the future look bleak. Elsewhere, […]

Rare is the day when Bwog kicks things off by satisfying your doubtless insatiable appetite for Columbia-related experimental art news, but here goes: The recent spate of bias incidents have led John DeSerio, GS, to undertake a marathon social and artistic experiment: for the next week, his “word wall” will be on display on Low […]

Bollinger offers tearful apology for Ahmadinejad introduction; pleads for, receives forgiveness from Dabashi, Bulliet Columbia meets bias incident quota for fourth consecutive week Meaningless generalities mar potentially meaningful event. But hey, at least Ken Burns was here! Murder, temporal edition Murder, metaphorical edition Yawn

A Barnard source just confirmed the troubling lice epidemic currently plaguing the 8th floor of Sulzberger hall in the Barnard Quad. Apparently, one first-year had lice and the little bugs quickly migrated into the heads of several other first-year students. Says Steve Tollman, associate director of Res Life at BC: “Recently, there have been several […]

Intrepid research correspondent Rahul D’Sa waded through a lot of science jargon to find out what Columbia researchers have been up to in their fancy-schmancy laboratories. Did you know that? Now you know! Researchers at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health recently published a study that claims rises in the annual average temperature might cause […]