It’s official! SEAS Dean Galil brings good tidings of the engineering school’s class day speaker in the latest Zvi-mail, as follows: Hi All, It is with great enthusiasm that I share with you the following news. This year’s Class Day speaker will be the world famous architect/civil-engineer/artist  Santiago Calatrava. He has designed the Transportation Hub […]

You may notice, in the next few days, a few more buttondowned, blue-tied future politicos than usual hanging around campus–it’s the College Democrats of New York‘s annual conference, which this guy made a point of bringing to Columbia. They’ll be schmoozing, attending strategy sessions with titles like “Framing the Issues on Your Campus and Beating […]

Free Dinosaur BBQ right now on Low Plaza! Go go go!  Update: It is all gone.  Justice Update: There is no justice.  

Just a quick announcement: registration times for Fall 2007 are now online. If you choose your classes based on name (hey, that’s how some people choose their colleges), here again is our review of the most interesting course titles from the Fall 2007 bulletin. Also, until we get an official evaluation system, there’s still some […]

Observations from an Ethnic Studies teach in Wednesday evening, courtesy of Bwog correspondent Karen Leung. No introductory lectures, no Asian American studies classes, and only four courses in total to support Comparative Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies, and Latino Studies: These were this term’s course offerings from the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and […]

‘Round the fire with PrezBo (again) In Slavic Department, Russian does not own you…(I mean, at least now you have more of a choice) Something about this just seems out of place under “News”… All aboard, get on the Art Train Aw, a pre-frosh op-ed! Office hours for athletic trainers — apparently they once existed

Bwog likes reprinting emails from admin. Especially wholly noxious ones.  We are watching you. Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:03:53 -0500    From: Michael Mallick <mgm3@columbia.edu>  Subject: failures to deliver senior essays to sponsors      To: seniorenglishessaywriters@columbia.edu It seem quite a number of you — this year’s senior essayists — did not follow the […]

Belle Jar has been busy for the last, oh, two months. But she’s back, this time tackling that most challenging of the bedroom arts: cunnilingus. As always, send comments, questions, and propositions to bwogsex@gmail.com. To any straight man reading this: count yourself lucky, because it won’t happen again.  It’s no small thing for a lesbian […]

Figure out who’s posting the jaws around campus? This pair was spotted above the scaffolding from EC to Revson Plaza, and it’s starting to get unnerving. Friday afternoon edit: We noticed a plastic container in Lerner lobby bearing a poster covered in similarly orthodontic motifs. It also has a sign that asks passersby to donate “literature for prisoners.” […]

Sometimes, when you feel like everything in life is passing its judgment on you, it helps to do a little judging yourself. The following is Bwog correspondent CML’s pilgrimage to the Bookstore in search of superficial literary gratification. Putting an iPod through the wash and receiving one of those “What are you doing with your […]

The Bacchanal Concert on the Steps is coming up next Saturday, April 21st…which means it’s time for someone to spoil the surprise so everyone can get down to bitching.  Following the likes of Kanye, De La Soul, and Common: this year’s performers are Blackalicious and Del Tha Funkee Homosapien.    Who? OK, both are established, […]

First, find a partner and align the soles of your feet together in Bokononist ritual: Kurt Vonnegut dies at age 84. “Blessed are the merciful” in a courtroom? “Blessed are the peacemakers” in the Pentagon? Give me a break!”- Cold Turkey “Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn’t well connected.” – Slaughterhouse V […]

The College Dems had their elections tonight. Given that the top two spots were uncontested, Bwog didn’t feel like sitting through them, but here are the winners: President: Josh Lipsky Vice President: Chris Daniels Treasurer: Stephen Cox Secretary: Isabel Broer Members-at-Large: Jon Backer, Anna Brower, Kevin Mckenna, Nate Morgante, and Kate Redburn

Someone who must truly adore the sculpture Tight Rope Walker (on the bridge over Amsterdam) has placed a mattress spraypainted with the words “Just in Case” beneath (thanks to Noam Harary for the photo). Bwog guesses that, after thirty years without a spotter, the spindly statuettes can finally relax. Unless they fall in, um, any other direction…  

We LiveBwogging this shit*  6:00 PM – it has not yet started. 6:07 PM – this is still the case. I will say when it is not. 6:10 PM – First words: “is this working? yeah.”  One history professor is taking over for another in introducing the event.  He says it was an easy decision. […]