Here’s an addition to the list of fun prophylactics that currently includes bar scanners, NSOP party shut-downs, stricter RA rules, and chastising frats (more on that later)– Bwog hears the Lion’s Head pub underwent a police raid and fake ID roundup late last night. Will it never end?    

To the left, to the left, The Blue and White September issue in the box to the left (and on newsstands tomorrow!). They blinded us with science Tutors are the new nannies So people actually use Lion Laundry? D.C. Interns have come a long way since Monica Lewinsky 1020 — a family joint  

It’s time to vote for the best Lolcolumbia entry.  Choose carefully, for the winner will live on in meowchat history (and win $20). Lol-erskates!

While most Columbians know the Heyman Center as the ugly concrete slab abutting East Campus, it may soon be known for something else: really sexy speaking engagements. The Heyman schedule includes controversial Holocaust historian Peter Novick, “Israel Lobby” author John Mearshimer (both on 10/30), Counterpunch editor Alexander Cockburn (10/9 and 10/10), and Freakonomist Sudhir Vankatesh […]

Or so we can assume from this ominous and somewhat vague  sign. More mysterious than which plague-carriers the “other vermin” part of this sign could refer to is who the hell (other than Bwog) still uses the word “vermin.” “Varmints” is the preferred nomenclature these days.    

The print magazine is rushing here from New Jersey–until it arrives, here’s another teaser from B&W Culture Editor Paul Barndt. Art by Shaina Rubin. The French Evolution: Race, Politics, and the 2005 Riots, works by Alexis Peskine Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Arts 80 Hanson Place, Brooklyn Directions: Take the downtown 2/3 to Atlantic Avenue […]

…kind of. In what could be a cynically necessary (or unprecedentedly desperate) attempt to motivate Columbia’s legions of indifferent secular Jews, Aish is offering to shell out $250 to anyone willing to take their online course in general Judaism. While Bwog can’t help but question Aish’s methodology (even more in-your-face than a year and a half ago) its […]

Columbia’s paranoiacs probably got chills when they received a flyer asking them if they live within 300 miles of campus and were willing to accommodate students in “the event of an emergency.” And if you’re not a paranoiac and are honestly  curious as to what kind of emergency could be catastrophic enough to both shut […]

But have those Columbia officials ever actually been to Cleveland? Barnard doesn’t need rankings, needs rankings Lit Hum leaker takes responsibility for incident, doesn’t take responsibility for incident Loosely related concepts and ideas considered, discussed at length A call for accountability We still miss Blue Angel

Transformation to what, exactly? Only time will tell. But it’s most assuredly something brown, something square, and something inexplicably partial to Century Gothic.

Vice magazine? Please. Radar re-re-re-launched, remember? Bwog applauds the subtle Photoshopping I spy with my little eye… original observations! Can you find them? Can you?  Even though this sounds like it was written by someone who has never even been to Columbia, Bwog likes the phrase “a pair of Betas” The library looks an awful […]

Though today free food seems to be ubiquitous, such is not always the case. When this situation inevitably arises, one might want to resort to Christopher Morris-Lent’s final three commandments for finding and obtaining free food. 8. THOU SHALT STEAL SILVERWARE FROM JOHN JAY  Free food usually comes with the utensils required to eat it, […]

Located outside the piano lounge in Lerner, there are two delicious fruit plates and what appears to be a Caesar salad. People are tending to cautiously pick at the fruit, because it almost looks like it might be for something. But pick away, hungry masses, it’s free, free, free. 

Stop it.  Just. Stop it.  

From earlier this afternoon: Julia Hirschberg: “Linguistics example sentences are invariably about murder or sex.” It’s the first day of classes, and Bwog wants to know some of the ridiculous things professors have said to commence the school year. Email bwgossip@columbia.edu if you hear anything good.