This is a big weekend for students selling food. The day before “Feel Good” debuts their grilled charity cheese, three freshmen are going public with their own culinary venture, in an event they call “C is for Crunk, B is for Breakfast.” (Unfortunately for observant Jews, “YK is for Yom Kippur, F is for Fasting,” […]

As the Spec reported earlier , Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, controversial for his views on the United States, Israel, the holocaust, and nuclear weapons, among other things, will be speaking at Columbia on Monday, September 24th, as part of the World Leaders Forum. Apparently, half his time will be spent answering audience questions. UPDATE: Register […]

The New York Times ran a glowing article about Barnard’s long and distinguished list of literary alumnae.  And now it’s free for all to read, since Times Select is no longer any more of a reality than the campus presence of the Barnard Bulletin. …zing. – JNW

At 4 pm Sunday, JJ’s place is the launch spot for a student group with a name that cuts to the heart of student charity – the “Feel Good” project, through which grilled cheese sandwiches are sold in order to raise money for world hunger. It is a known fact that eating grilled cheese sandwiches, […]

Free the Lerner 6! I know, right? Is this hate or confusion? Renegade rose-pruners are great, but what is a gladfly? “Very creative, Norries!”   The choices on Spec’s poll are pretty absolute.  

Located on the eighth floor of Schermerhorn, the Wallach Art Gallery is currently running Revolutions: A Century of Makonde Masquerade in Mozambique through December 8, 2007.  With over 60 pieces of Madonke art, ranging from masks to tapestries to puppets, this extensive collection features an often-ignored African culture. Photos on the wall display the dancers […]

In which Bwog correspondent Josh Mathew reports on last night’s lecture about a book and all the hubbub it’s caused. The Underground Lecture Series: What Archaeology Tells Us About Ancient Israel Alan Segal, PhD, Professor of Religion and Ingeborg Rennert Professor of Jewish Studies, Barnard College What does Biblical archaeology tell us about the First […]

It’s that time of the year again when New Jersey transit tickets are free with your school ID (and this coupon)! Now you really have no excuse not to go home for Yom Kippur. Train conductor hat tip to Tao Tan for pointing this out.

Poorly-edited magazine Seventeen is coming to a MySpace near you! In the form of “15 freshman girls” (omg, misnomer!- Ed) who will be blogging all the “juicy details” from their first year at school! The girls will be writing about everything from like, classes or whatever, to like, how to break up with your high […]

Bwog has just bought tickets for the New Yorker festival.  Some highlights: Zadie Smith! BC alum Jhumpa Lahiri! Parent of Justin Theroux Paul Theroux! Spring Awakening-hater Jonathan Franzen! Padma Lakshmi-ex Salman Rushdie! Miranda July )) <> (( Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Martin Amis on the topic of monsters (Bonus: almost guaranteed appearance of Christopher Hitchens […]

It’s their first major activist event of the year and Columbia Dems, in an effort to increase funding for children’s healthcare, are taking advantage of the famous Price is Right gag now that Bob Barker has retired. Bwog had newbie reporter Justin Vlasits see the spectacle. This afternoon at the Sundial, the Dems brought out […]

The National Review, which in Spec-speak is like the “Chris Shrugged” of right-wing rags, (“William F. Buckley Shrugged”?), has anointed Chris Kulawik as the paradigm of all that’s right with the current state of discourse about the Middle East. The problem, natch, is Fulbright-winning, Ph.D. holding professor Juan Cole, who is just ruining everything with […]

Collegeboxes goes the way of USN&WR rankings at BC The first article about McSweeney’s ever published without using words “Eggers” or “twee” But what if Gilchrist were to come to CU in a Collegebox? Excuse me, waiter? My soup has a run-on sentence in it GSCS is “not about free pizza and water bottles.” Oh […]

And raising the drawbridge. …which obviates this post, in which College Republicans Director of Operations Lauren Steinberg admits: “Personally, I really hope he’s not coming. I mean, it was a fun time last year, but I don’t need it to happen again.” Agreed! 

If you’re just hearing about this now, it’s too late to join. But all should be advised that this is sorority rush week, when the girlish greek quartet cheers their new class through a gauntlet of meet and greets (colorfully described by DG’s website). So if, come Friday, you run into a throng of terrifyingly […]