So the College Dems elections are on Wednesday, and by decree of a constitutional amendment, everyone who wants to vote must be registered by TODAY at 5PM (that’s a change from last year, when large numbers of people left Satow after their friends were elected). But only if you think you’ve been “involved.” Here’s a […]

In retrospect, how did no one figure out this was going on? EC “excluded” from many seniors’ plans. Repeating a meaningless phrase fourteen times in one article doesn’t make it funny.* From Rajasthan with love.  *Unless that phrase is “purple monkey dishwasher.”  

To send in your photo contest entries to bwog@columbia.edu. Just letting you know.  

A friend of a Bwog staffer recently attempted to check out a professor on www.culpa.org.  The professor–Robert Thurman–was not on the site.  

Creativity abounds at the Tablet Arts Fair, taking place at Low Plaza until 4:00 PM! At the “Live Art” table, members of Tablet, Columbia’s multicultural literary and art magazine, are producing their works on the spot for an auction that will be held towards the end of the event. If your suite is lonely, you […]

A couple of tipsters write in: “A set of fireworks went off between John Jay and Butler at around 2:30-3:00 [a.m.], with loud popping noises and red lights. Prepare for the requisite columbo/h&d e-mail asking for any information, blah, blah…” And… “FIREWORKS JUST EXPLODED OUTSIDE MY WINDOW – 114TH Street bw. JJ and Butler, I’m freaking […]

It’s always good to be an expert on something, even if that something is, well, nothing. Back in the day, during the Chad Crisis of the 2000 elections, Philosophy Professor Achille Varzi was apparently the go-to guy for insight into holes and what they’re all about. Brendan Ballou found a CNN transcript in which he gives his […]

Downing Bray suggests another venue for wanton caffeine consumption. Get it before it’s too late! ALT Coffee Ave. A and 9th St. A Lower East Side coffee shop legend is dead . . . almost. After a decade of service, ALT Coffee, boasting “consistently good coffee, occasionally cranky computers, and possibly the scariest bathroom currently […]

Jester is not happy. All of Jester‘s remaining new issues–at least 700 of them–have disappeared from the Student Government Office, where they were waiting patiently for distribution on Monday. If anyone has seen Jester‘s issues, please let them know, and if you yourself are the culprit, well then shame on you.  What are you going […]

When Bwog noticed that there was a “Found Explosive” on the Gothamist newsmap for 2950 Broadway–the address of the Journalism School–we were confused. Our confusion deepened after a call to the NYPD, who said that it was an “inert device.” Another call to Columbia Public Safety yielded another dimension to the puzzle: the bomb was […]

Course registration starts next week! Watch out, kids–catchy class title can be deceptive…but they do make planning your schedule a lot more entertaining. Bwog staffer Alec Turnbull combed through the Bulletin for the best of Fall 2007. Back to the Future HISTORY/THEORY OF AVANT-GARDE – Art History BC3658 HISTORY OF THE FUTURE- History W4914 MULTIPLE […]

Julia Kite emails us with the following tip: “The Journalism School’s graduation speaker will be Ben Bradlee…yes, THE Ben Bradlee who was editor of the Washington Post during the Watergate Scandal and one of three people who knew the identity of Deep Throat, à la All the President’s Men.” According to a recent Gawker post, […]

Bwogger Kate Redburn brings us good tidings of the latest goodie to add to your iTunes.   I have a date with destiny, and it’s May 30, 2007. That’s when one of my all-time favorite musicians, Manu Chao, is playing my hometown. I’ve never been more excited about a concert, but only partially because of […]

Student Loan Xpress gets knocked out of the Circle of Trust, not allowed at our parties anymore Now we’ve got insurance coverage overseas, for anything from “personal catastrophe” to “political unrest.”  Perfect. …And speaking of overseas, you’d better leave those hedonistic texts at home before going to Egypt. Down with the Senate! Reform! REVOLUCIÒN Heaven […]

Professor Thomas Bernstein (Life Cycles of Communist Regimes) is wise in his old years.  Earlier today, he explained a fashion phenomenon with a silver tongue: “I don’t understand why it is that people wear baggy pants. Soviet leaders used to wear them in the 1950s, but then they wised up, got Italian suits and looked […]