If you somehow missed the spectacle of giant inflatables and mobs of people waiting for free food on Low Plaza this afternoon, CCSC Columbia student councils and organizations (edited) celebrated the day prior to homecoming with a carnival that made one a little nostalgic with memories of elementary school PTA festivities — minus, perhaps, children […]

If you were caught up in the spectacle of the Homecoming Carnival, you might have missed Jack Nicholson and his sunglasses outside of Low giving autographs and scaring children.    

Coverage on yesterday’s madness, if you need anymore of it Given the last few weeks, the call for safe space is probably in order PrezBo’s been doing quite a bit of talking lately On slanderous graffiti: “…we could have noted that the person who wrote it has a small penis.”  Ah, lovely and nifty multimedia: […]

Columbia has seen better days. The ceiling of the psychology library in Schermerhorn just collapsed. The disaster came close to injuring a few people. Facilities and public safety have already arrived. Hopefully not much damage was done.  

A smattering of students and a sea of empty chairs confronted Deans Quigley, Colombo, and Friedman (SEAS) about the noose incident at an event this afternoon sponsored by the Columbia Queer Alliance. The small showing was probably due to the time – noon on a Thursday – and also because the admins agreed to show […]

UPDATE: Letter from VP Dirks, Dean Quigley and Navratil included after jump. Bwog just got a copy of this blast email that went out to GS students. From: Mary McGee Date: Oct 11, 2007 4:29 PM Subject: **Vandalism in Lewisohn Hall To all GS students:  It is very distressing to report that anti-semitic graffiti was […]

From The Guardian, Columbia University will not turn over surveillance video that could potentially aid the police with the case. Currently, the police have no suspects, though they are looking into a Teacher’s College professor who holds “ill will” against Madonna Constantine. Yet, with only one possible lead, the police is also investigating any students […]

Barnard Fire Safety bribes students to sit through a fire safety video with an iPod nano drawing. If Barnard girls can’t put scarves on lamps for mood lighting or light candles, how will they ever find boyfriends? More importantly, what genius heats up a pizza in the oven while it’s still in the cardboard box?

Thanks to SAME (Students Allied for Marriage Equality), there are free cupcakes at the sundial from 12-3! Faux weddings too! UPDATE 2:30 — Flash flood! The cupcakes have been relocated to Lerner.

From 1 to 3 pm today, there will be free food and drinks for the freshmen class in front of Hartley-Wallach (or John Jay lounge in case of rain). Wings, chips, soda, candy, and maybe even hot chocolate! Bwog doesn’t see why stealthy upperclassmen won’t be able to crash. Good eating! In other, competely unrelated […]

Bollinger… you got some ‘splaining to do.  Does this mean students will be able to put beer on flex? Confessions of a teenage beefcake. “Hey hey, ho ho, racism has gotta go.” Radiohead- DMB for the thinking intellectual. 

Most likely to DJ Bacchanal, Winter Wonderland, NSOP concert, and etc. Most likely to namedrop a completely unrelated art film.  Most likely to wish they had included the Teacher’s College incident. Most likely to sleep with the nanny.  Most likely to make you cringe, then chuckle, then cringe, so on and so forth. 

Alexander Cockburn is an irascible old codger, true, but (or maybe therefore) he’s also damned hilarious. At his Tuesday night Heyman Center-sponsored talk on the death of the American left, attendees (who included Bilgrami, Khalidi, Foner, Mamdani, Ed Said’s widow, a bunch of student activists and a handful of old NYC lefties and journos) were treated […]

It’s been awhile since the last installment of the cart tour, partly because of rumors that any chicken and rice in our immediate locality would be rendered irrelevant by the arrival of Sammy’s Halal, the 2006 Vendy award winner that was reported to be moving in to 111th? street, and then mysteriously disappeared. Now, the […]

Overheard in Latin American Civilization 1: Professor Caterina Pizzigoni, who is adorable and Italian and sometimes has trouble with English words and concepts, shows a slide of a man holding a rooster. Caterina: “What do you think the man is doing with the cock?” [Scattered laughter] Smartass in the front: “He appears to be stroking […]