Is The Fed calling me fat? If only all men were so considerate and erudite. But who will 2011 make fun of next year?  “Jordan’s finger accidentally slips into Ariel.” Recycling jokes. 

Finally! Joseph Ratzinger, better known as Pope Benedict XVI, made the announcement today: Archbishop John P. Foley, Journalism ’66, will be one of 23 new cardinals in November. According to the International Herald Tribune, Foley had “long been considered a candidate” for the job. At the fresh young age of 72, he’s eligible to vote […]

Though most of us are bogged down with midterms and papers, Bwog writer Hannah Goldfield provides some alternative reading. Ducking your head and barreling through the cloud of cigarette smoke outside Butler might be worth it tonight. Act fast and you can snag a copy of poli-lit-culture journal n+1’s latest pamphlet, distributed, guerrilla-style, throughout the […]

Topic: A Discussion on Academic Freedom Speakers: Professors Eric Foner (History), Todd Gitlin (Journalism), and David Eisenbach (History), Ph.D Student Alex Gourevitch (Political Science), moderated by Ph.D Student Ian Zuckerman (Political Theory)  Drinks of Choice: Poland Spring Water (Foner, Gitlin, Eisenbach), Canada Dry Club Soda (Eisenbach), Jana Artesian Water (Gourevitch) Vitamin Shoppe Iceland Spring Water […]

Robert Kraft’s recent donation to Columbia got the Lions some sort-of-big-time sports coverage. Gregg Easterbrook, who writes the 6,000- word Tuesday Morning Quarterback column for ESPN’s Page 2, wrote a paragraph on Columbia’s fundraising  program.  Easterbrook writes that Columbia may be trying to move into the upper tiers of Ivy athletics by, like Harvard, Yale, […]

They’re pretty darling from the back, at least.

Congratulations to history professor Kenneth Jackson, who added a new grandson to the family. Jackson, respected within the Columbia family as the Jacques Barzun professor of history and social sciences, is also respected in his own family: one (the first one!) of the baby’s two middle names is “Kenneth.” One of Jackson’s classes received the […]

Sometimes, even the most godless among us need to get a little religion. In our first Church Hop, we took you north–this time, Bwog freelancer Alexandra Muhler takes you the other way down Amsterdam. If Sunday mornings came directly after Tuesday afternoons, I’d probably be a faithful churchgoer.  But alas, they follow Saturday nights, so […]

AXO Theta, the Dems, CMTS, and SEEJ all want to feed you! Actually not SEEJ, they just want to sell you T-shirts, and get you to sign their petition asking Columbia to buy wind power (they’ll be there ’til next Wednesday).               

Touro College Expands Into Harlem Columbia Expands… into SPACE! Frontiers of Science expands minds…into SPACE! An invitation to a “Verses for the Masses”…scheduled with a Lerner event SPACE request Finally, Columbia students discover “unless you hate freedom,” the Holy Grail of rhetoric.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, the print issue will be here. Meanwhile, you can read the whole thing, in all its drugged-out glory, online!  Welcome to the Dollhouse…with crack  Bet you didn’t know that college students abuse substances Well they do You just wish your freshman floor was this interesting  Bowie-tacular  Robert Thurman gets whitey 

Bwog ventured into photo contests last year, held a Lolcompetition last month, and has since learned that some of you have quite a remarkable facility with Photoshop. Now, time to show off your skills: our first Photoshop competition. This time, pick your favorite professor (or your least favorite) and give him or her a makeover, […]

Columbia continues its recent trend of improving old things by re-doing them in Century Gothic with the launch of the new Lerner website. Even though the new site is the color of a failing kidney, information is streamlined and aesthetically pleasing—like this handy map of Lerner’s innards. And this insultingly oversimplified guide to booking space. […]

The arrival of Pinkberry is imminent, so Bwog took to the fourth floor of Lerner to find out how Columbia’s most convenient froyo chain is handling the news. Bwog: Hey, can I ask you a question. Elizabeth, Tasti employee: Sure. Bwog: What do you think about the fact that Pinkberry is opening down the street? […]

A friend of Bwog passes along a tip that Kim’s is having a massive sale. 25% off CDs, 10% of DVDs and 15% off books! That Criterion Collection version of Brazil you want to buy so that you might prominently display it? Yours! For only, like, $45. Meanwhile, rumors of closure are surrounding the indie […]