Our second weekly photo contest, on the theme of consumption, also attracted manifold worthy entrants, forcing some difficult choices. However, by the highly objective standards of the Bwog editorial staff, Janna Herman, B’10, came out on top again! Her winning photo, below, is entitled “Couples Dine Out.” See the rest of our picks after the […]

You think you’re suffering? Well quit your emo whining, already Triple threat: borough, borough, borough! Why being an Iranian in America can give you a political headache  Promised Land unpromised to Ethiopian Jews?  Book review: the journey from the far left to the Religious Right  

Bwog just got shut out of the Journalism School auditorium where they’re formally handing out the medals, but the Pulitzer Prize committee has just announced its winners, each recieving a cool $10 grand.

General Selection times have been posted!  

Early this morning, a gunman at Virginia Tech went on the deadliest gun rampage in U.S. history. The Washington Post is reporting 33 killings and more than 30 additional injuries as of 6pm. The Post‘s extensive coverage can be read here. Jamal Albarghouti, a student, caught the gunman on his cell phone’s videocamera and the recording is […]

49.6% = Record numbers Frontiers’ New Frontier  We’re fans of Garamond ourselves   Ivies decide that they should…hire coaches who win…? Barnard Matriarch loved by all “My reason for wanting to take some courses solely with women isn’t that I think men have cooties or should be castrated.”

Check newsstands tomorrow, and you’ll see something familiar: a shiny New York Magazine cover story digesting the last 40 years of crazy activism at Columbia, featuring glamour shots of David Judd, Chris Kulawik, Karina Garcia and a smattering of other rabblerousers. Take a seat, because it’s a doozy, reaching back to the SDS protests of […]

This morning Bwog groggily pulled open the shades, groaned, and fell back into bed, just like you. Now which one of you incurred God’s wrath? Well whatever sin you committed to bring on the storm, we forgive you, and here are eight things you can do to pass this Sunday so you don’t go nuts. 8. Take […]

You may be holed up in your rooms, cozily finishing up homework and recovering from the weekend, but hundreds of high school seniors have work to do: deciding whether they want to join us. Bwog stopped by the activities fair in Roone Arledge, filled with terrified-looking prefrosh and bright-eyed, bushytailed club leaders noshing on brownies […]

Neologisms-R-Us In addition to all the other crazy stuff going on this week, it looks like you can add another controversial event to the list, because Thursday is going to be Islamo Fascism Awareness Day. Great. Bwog recalls the good ol’ days when we were called “islamofascist” by a pundit or two, and we wonder […]

In the spirit of educating us all into better human beings, American Studies Department Head Andrew Delbanco–who’s been writing up a storm recently– convened a conference yesterday entitled “The future of Undergraduate Education: A conference on college: who goes? Who pays? And what should students learn?” Bwog correpondent Armin Rosen reports. Columbia College dean Austin […]

Well, Barnard and GS students voted yesterday for their new student councils, both comfortably missing the Spec news cycle, although they’ve now got the SGA results online (all hail President Stoffel!). We’re all going to have to wait till Monday to learn who emerged victorious from the Niko vs. Gabby dogfight–which had some fun shenanigans–while […]

We know, we usually leave events for the events bar, but we just wanted to point out the shit ton of things going on this week. This weekend is CCO, Days on Campus (welcome prefrosh!), the Broadway street fair (right now–get enough grease and cheap underwear for the next year), and the Dems convention. This […]

Bwog editor emerita Sara Vogel bumped into Jon Scieszka, one of her childhood heroes, on 112th street and Broadway a few weeks ago. When she found out that the author of The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales, Math Curse, and the Time Warp Trio series got his Master’s at Columbia in the […]