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 […]

The Wikipedia article for The Hold Steady says that Daniel Radcliffe has proclaimed the quintet as his “favourite band.”  He’s in good company; the formerly Twin Cities-based rockers (now the pride of Brooklyn) have reached the apotheosis of indie stardom.  Following the release of their third-life crisis album, Boys and Girls in America, they toured […]

Today we celebrate Constitution Day, a new fake holiday the venerable Senator Robert Byrd (right) created in 2004 when he slipped an extraneous rider onto an appropriations bill. Under Byrd’s guidelines, all students and government employees are legally required to set aside some time to reflect on the power of “the foundation and the guardian of our liberties.” Because, you […]

The Night Cafe, like Mona, is closing. Bwog correspondent Kate Linthicum got there before the taps shut off forever.  Last night, as the prickly first winds of autumn blew across Morningside Heights, the loveliest dive bar in the neighborhood sang its swan song. Dozens of devoted patrons pressed into the warmth of the Night Café […]

For those of you who haven’t hit your 5th fruit or vegetable today, there are dozens of bananas in the Lerner lobby just waiting to be eaten. Not creepy anthropomorphic bananas, mind you, but bananas of the healthy, mushy-brown, delicious and edible kind. So go get one.

Minutemen, minutemen. What heady times those were. Stages were rushed, lives changed,  definitions for “Kulawiking” determined. Indeed, it was only after many long and trying months of op-eds, town hall meetings and general soul-searching that we were finally able to go about the difficult business of trying to move on with our lives. Or did we? Via […]

Sophomores Mike Molina and Rob Stenson (the kids who brought you this hilarity), along with Jeff Schwartz, are launching a crusade for as-yet-largely-nonexistent independent film at Columbia. It’s called Project Bluelight, modeled off the real-life Project Greenlight, which makes movies happen from storyboard to screening. Bwog interrogated them last night via e-mail. Do you have […]