In hopes of catching you before you make that final trip to Bed, Bath and Beyond (or before you trash the packaging and receipts), Bwog asks upperclassmen which items were the most useless? The most underused? That Dust-Buster you’re going to use during downtime? The ironing board that totally fits between your bed and your […]

It seems that the Department of Student Affairs in conjunction with NSOP is holding UNDER1Roof sessions throughout the week. The purpose of these sessions is to: “[Start] the important process of translating [The Community Principles Initiative] into action.” Oh? “This session will provide the framework on how intergroup understanding and community building are achieved through […]

After the umpteenth hour of lawn manicuring and tent set-up, 2:30 today saw the culmination of parent-related move-in events, Convocation. There were flags, smiles, “Pomp and Circumstance”-lite music piped-in over the loudspeaker, and quasi-poignant speeches from admins all around. Flubs: Colombo called assembled matriculants “students and daughters,” Quigley was interrupted by a crash from the […]

Bwog just got wind of a terrible bit of news: Our local Labyrinth branch will soon be called Book Culture due to a business dispute with its other incarnation in New Haven. A call to the store revealed that they plan to make the switch at the end of the week. Far be it from us […]

Bwog’s resident concert expert Justin Goncalves answers all your questions about the best venues, where to go when you’ve had it up to here with indie rock, and that elusive Brooklynite Todd P. Do you like music? I like music. Do you know what the best thing about living in New York while someone else […]

Because Bwog knows you’re not really going to Tom’s with your OL group. (You know you don’t have to, right?) Here, several upperclassmen recall what they did on their first night of college. My best friend from high school arrived at NYU the day before and he had already made friends with Haley Joel Osment. […]

They’ve done it all before, so first-years listen up: Bwog brings you the testimony of seniors you may annoy soon. First up is Chas Carey, Editor in Chief of the Fed, College Rock co-director at WBAR, and Banqueteer in Honor of the King of Spain. What is the best way these freshman can annoy you […]

For all your hipster-spray-on-pants-events needs  It’s like an NSOP schedule book! But in Spec! And without the ClipArt! It’s like an NSOP schedule book! But not mandatory! And even less fun! Staff pretends to be sheepish about giving advice, then gives advice, natch Actually, Bwog’s kind of curious about “Tread Softly for You Tread on […]

Better pack it in, kids. The fun ends next Tuesday. Monday, August 27th * On the Waterfront – Free Marlon Brando, free popcorn, free water. The Elevated Acre, 8pm (This was supposed to be last week, but they’ve moved it to this day. Get there early.) * The Rise and Flowering of Coney Island – […]

The songs that play on a loop during move-in always seem to set the tone for the rest of the semester. So far, we’ve heard this sequence: “Caught Up” – Usher, which transitioned to “Rehab”- Amy Winehouse, which was abruptly and awkwardly stopped during the “class…shot glass” line and changed to something by Frank Sinatra. […]

Free Culture at Columbia–the group that showed you how to hide from CUIT–is now handing out another 250 of its high-price-defying flash drives loaded with public domain versions of all the Lit Hum and CC texts.  You’re not going to miss this this one, 2011–thousands of dollars saved and a movement joined (although it’s up […]

We know this is a cry for attention, so we’re just going to get it over with.    Other hip banner slogans include: “It’s bigger than a bread box” “Of all the college papers in America, we’re one of them.” “Not part of the journalism school since 1877” “Independent since 1962. Cynical since way before […]

Bwog was a little disturbed, upon walking up the 5th floor ramp to the Student Government Office (only to discover that NSOP has been granted the exclusive use of the space, forcing The Blue and White‘s layout operation to move downramp) to be confronted with several blown up portraits of student leaders from the class […]

The grounds will be looking a little spiffier upon your return, as an anonymous photobwogger documents below.  College Walk, swathed in black plastic for most of the summer, updates its look with new asphalt paving, new granite curbs, a storm drainage system and new lighting.   More photos after the jump!

Ready or not, 2011 arrives on campus THIS MONDAY. An anonymous photobwogger chronicles the fits and starts of Columbia before the Deluge.  COOP and CUE take off Thursday morning, and were recently spotted doing COOP and CUE things on the lawns, which involve shouting “ROAR!” in an ephemeral expression of spirit.