…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.  

GS’s new (unnamed?) owl mascot is now hanging on the Lerner ramps. If he is, in fact, unnamed, Bwog likes Gulliver. Gulliver the lifelong-learning owl.  

There is a ZipCar for rent outside the 114th st. Starbucks. How fun! Big, green ZipCar flags that are flopping about Broadway proudly bear the ZipCar name.  Bwog asked if the ZipCar was available to drive right now, but the request was denied. 

Bwog’s guide to the best dollar-store toy shopping in Harlem: a detailed narrative. By Alex Weinberg, with help from Hillary Busis.  A walk through Harlem will most likely lead you by a few dollar stores. Go into them. You can stock up on red Solo cups, sure, but moreover, you can find the most flamboyantly […]

Complimentary coffee and tea by the Broadway entrance of Lerner.

2011 Has Spirit, Yeah They Do, 2011 Has Spirit, How ‘Bout You? This Article Is Funny When You Pretend to Yourself that ‘Pinnacle’ Refers to the Deli  Brevity is the Soul of Wit  Spec Has Powerpoint, Yeah They Do, Spec Has Powerpoint, How ‘Bout You?  …No But it Is Very Much on the Tour?   

Bwog was partly saddened and partly relieved to see that the founding editors of Ivygate are handing the reins over to younger blood–nobody should really be running a college gossip rag when they’re more than a year out of the game (and now they won’t have to face defeat again). Besides, they’re off doing much […]