Now Bwog editor emeritus Chris Szabla reports on some of the more ridiculous elements of today’s pomp and circumstance. Things being thrown/held by various schools: CC: apple cores SEAS: paper airplanes/annoying plastic clapping devices GS: racing flags (because, I guess, they finally made it to the finish line) Barnard: flowers and confetti Nursing: pompoms (just…not […]

According to a press release by University Spokesman Robert Hornsby, carbon emitted by Commencement ceremonies starting about now (watch the live webcast here!) will be offset by the purchase of carbon credits, which pay for carbon absorption projects around the world. It’s all the rage among the guilty-conscience set–and now you can calculate just how […]

For those of you wondering how Speakergate ’07 played out, Chris Szabla took these notes under his blue gown during the speeches. First, Fox called out a Spec quotee: “Matthew Fox singled out Julia Kite for saying that she didn’t know who Fox was, and Prezbo followed with ‘Julia, I didn’t know who he was […]

Looks like the first-years aren’t the only ones taking shortcuts. A tipster forwarded us an e-mail from a nameless, irate Music Hum teacher, threatening dire consequences for the miscreant who swiped a pile of final papers. Bwog cowers on your behalf, paper-thief. Here’s the e-mail: “Dear all– “I apologize that there has been a delay […]

The 2006-07 school year has contained multitudes. In fact, it may just be the most eventful year Columbia’s had since… well, the year before. Remember Matthew Fox? The Chung-Diamond “scandal”? “Don’t Be a Pussy”? “Epilogue to Our Crime & Punishment: A Petition“? Bwog certainly does, so step into the Wayback machine – you’re about to […]

Dear Readers, Thank you for your feedback on how to change our comment system–the knowledge out there is pretty impressive. Although various digg/bury and registration systems are intriguing, we’ve decided to keep it simple for now and stick with the system we described originally. Starting with this post, if you click on one comment, the […]

If you unfortunately needed to bolt without picking up our latest issue, here are highlights from the clickable version: Religion? In education? Better believe it… Helfand’s baby, in for a checkup Facebook: So much more than a procrastination device Guide to obscure museums…like really obscure museums. Some lovely verses

A few Schapiro residents are regretting they stayed at Columbia to party last night. From Ben Isham…  A urinal on the 8th floor opened up some time close to midnight, putting about two inches of water on the eastern double tower there, and sending water cascading down the building (all the way to the second […]

As part of their frenzied effort to beautify the campus before Those Who Pay the Bills arrive, landscapers could be seen on the edge of the SIPA Plaza installing everyone’s favorite noxious weed.  

Bwog has recieved tips that a Law Library technical assistant was shot and killed Tuesday night by suspects still at-large. Malik Murray was at the Aroma Chinese Restaurant on West 125th Street, according to reports from the Spectator and the New York Daily News. Funeral services were held for Malik at Washington Memorial Park at […]

An astute correspondent who somehow remains pitifully trapped in Butler piqued Bwog’s curiosity with this observation: “Her Highness Sheikha Moza, aka the First Lady of Qatar, just took a tour through Butler. This is interesting because she is famous for spending billions to get American colleges to build satellite campuses in Qatar (check out Cornell’s campus […]

This is the last installment in our senior wisdom series. This time, meet the graduating seniors of The Blue and White: Publisher Jessica Shizu Isokawa, senior editors Marc Tracy and Brendan Pierson, Managing Editor Josie Doll Swindler, Editor-in-Chief Avi Zenilman, Copy Chief Nicholas Frisch, Graphics Editor Jerone Hsu, and editor-at-large Addison Anderson. We’ll miss you. […]

Finals are officially over.  You are done, done and done — even those of you in Intro to Accounting & Finance, Jazz Improvisation, and one section of General Physics II (the only Thursday 7-10 exams).   Congrats.  Go do something really fun. UPDATE: Some SEAS finals tomorrow? Bwog is doubly sorry.

Dear readers, We’ve been thinking a lot in the last few months about comments, which we believe are a large part of Bwog’s function as a public forum. Lately, a particularly bad spate of offensive remarks and ad hominem attacks have diminished the value of that function. At the beginning of the year, we added […]

This is the 12th and almost-final installment in our senior wisdom series…bringing you all the awesome ’07ers you should have met by now.   Claims to fame: SGA president, Turath president, Vision Program fellow (a.k.a. I doubted the value of life, hated the world, and ate lots of burek/börek for four weeks in the Balkans). […]