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). […]

Bwog Music Critic Bryan Mochizuki catches up with former boss Will Welch, CC ’03. Settle in, it’s a long one.  Will Welch isn’t the sort of alumnus you hear about a lot—he doesn’t donate eight figures in scholarship money or own the Pats or herd sheep with Heath Ledger.  But he’s the Deputy Editor of […]

Columbia students who stayed tuned after American Idol tonight were rewarded by this Fox 5 news teaser: “The cheating scandal at Columbia – the teacher at the center of the storm, and the tough choice students are being forced to make.” The Fox News affiliate ran a brief story, with both the usual (stock footage […]

The second installment of Bwog’s ongoing documentation of Professor Richard Bulliet’s best lecture quips is here! Below, the venerable Middle East history don’s most amusing offhand remarks from the second half of this semester’s trial run of Islamo-Christian Civilization. The first part can be found here. On course requirements: “For the record, no one in this class […]

This is the tenth installment in our senior wisdom series, in which we bring you awesome ’07ers whom you should have met by now.   Claims to fame: Prior to attending Columbia, I worked as a high-fashion model here in New York and around the world.  While at Columbia, I served on my student council, […]

The New York Post, which was trolling around facebook and e-mail aliases for sources yesterday, fingered the assistant Comp Lit professor whom students accused of giving away answers, in characteristically rabid fashion.  Spectator confirmed and has an interesting story to go with it.  The Daily News gave it two inches.   Ivygate thought it was […]

Last night, tipster Ryan Withall recommended checking out 317 Hamilton, where, he wrote, students had gone a bit crazy on the blackboard during what must have been an intense study session. Curious, Bwog took a break from work and headed over, to find a creepy crop circle of chairs, arranged in the shape of a […]