If you’ve read selections from David Denby’s journey back to his college days in Lit Hum or U Writing, you’d have some idea of what he was going to talk about at his keynote address this evening in the faculty room of Low, speaking underneath the peaceful gaze of a Buddha head mounted on a […]

  Bwog presents the first in a three-part series of interviews with CCSC Presidential candidates, Rebel CC’s Tracy Chung ’08. How have you been doing? I’m tired but good – I’ve been up late revamping our website, www.voterebel.com. How has campaigning been going? It’s going well. We dorm-stormed John Jay and Carman; freshmen are so open […]

While we’re still anticipating who will be speaking at Columbia’s commencement this year, Bwog tipster Julia Kite notifies us that the crimsonites in Cambridge have invited none other than Harvard drop-out/Microsoft mogul Bill Gates to speak on June 7th. On top of that, Billy’s finally getting his diploma too — Harvard is presenting Gates with […]

Students download music, get passively nasty letters (we would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for that meddling RIAA!) Young SEAS professors get money to change the world, could give MIT “a run for its money!” Spec explores its inner snob, writes a wine review Also, Op-Ed goes all out on the core, […]

We like to keep track of the buzz on our bwogroll, and Six Silberman over at fiveplusone just gave us some good morning brain fodder: a Theory of the Bollinger in Manhattanville, attempting to explain the singularity of purpose with which he’s pursued building up north. In a nutshell, Six says that the plan for […]

66 degrees. Yeah, baby.

Three years ago, Marty and Jake said they didn’t plan on making juggling a career (then doing film and pre-med respectively, they’re now listed as majoring in economics and anthropology). From their website, it appears that the twins have gone professional already. Be warned: you may not want to open this site in front of […]

Not everyone spent Spring Break in Jamaica. Below, Bwog editor Chris Szabla reports on his visit to cold – and contradictory – Istanbul. The train from the airport emerges into open air, weaves through tired concrete apartment blocks painted in worn pastels, occasionally grants glimpses between them of an endless, rolling cityscape of similarly dilapidated structures, all […]

“Hoyt believes that he got into Columbia because of baseball and he’s probably right.” A student on Spiegelman’s Comics Marching into the Canon seminar, and this web-only interview Café East, it’s “East” of…the Hudson River  (Locke + Hume + Rousseau + Burke) x Matthew Fox) = we’ve been waiting

Spec’s Housing Guide, replete with secrets: Gay couples live together without breaking any rules; Freshmen make friends with other freshmen on their floors and relative bombshells:  McBain receiving a second elevator, Wien’s bathrooms to be single-sex. Plus: A lesson in the art of being cliquey and A nod to Barnard  PS: Looks like someone got […]

While Columbia didn’t even earn the chance to lose to a group of highly skilled farmers in March Madness, students at John Jay Dining Hall did have exclusive rights to vote in Starch Madness.  The terribly corny pun did not contain any corn (nor did that one), as the Final Four on the bracket seen […]

Gems from “Columbia’s only humor magazine.” (page numbers in Jester’s numeration, add two for the pdf page number)  “CUM THAT IS MORE THAN AN HOUR OLD” (Page 4) “If you won a Dodge Viper, then fuck this science shit.” (Page 6) “Employee Ben Morton passed away from cardiac arrest due to stress-related complications…defeating a JP […]

Timbaland drops a new album on April 3rd but it’s already everywhere on the interwebs.  Bwog music critic Bryan Mochizuki takes a look at the producer’s approach and offers up an early pick for single of the year.  Last November, Timbaland told an interviewer, “I changed the sound of radio at least four times.”  This […]

Army Urged Out of Iraq, Moves Into Harlem  Spectator Misses Great Chance For Meta-Joke, Publishes This Article But how can you be sure with their sunglasses?  “Shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits.” Bwog notes that it had this story first, a few times over, references its own note, references that, references that…

Last night, a sizable and enthusiastic crowd gathered in JJ’s Place to see the three parties running for 2010 Class Council debate (and eat free chicken fingers). While Mark Modesitt’s reconstituted Alma Matters [Remix] Party has the advantage of incumbency, the other two parties, AJ Pascua’s Go Party and Maximo Cubilette’s TOGA Party, seemed to […]