An anonymous tipster reports everyone’s favorite FYSAAC adviser Jay Orenduff is giving out Christmas lottery tickets to students who come by to see him. Maybe you’ll strike it big — the odds are you’ll win the jackpot before you get into that senior seminar.

You’ve probably had your library odysseys. Some last longer than others. In this first installment of a nine-night marathon, Butler Correspondent Maryam Parhizkar narrates what it’s like to have stayed longer than almost anyone. I remember trying to spend as little time in the library as possible freshman year (finals season excluded). This year, given […]

And now for another self-indulgent preview of B&W’s fine print issue this month, on stands now! The [Guy with the Same Name as the] Decimal System Guy Himself A Conversation Only CC Students Can Understand  They’re Walking Paradoxes Verily Comes Clean 

While most of us are still trapped in the vortex of thrice-extended overdue papers, Butler pathogen infestations, and chronic Red Bull overconsumption, many eager SEAS engineerlings have written to remind the Columbia community that it’s not too early to plan our post-exam exodi to the airport, train station, or, for those who made a truly daring college […]

This message found taped to an EC vending machine. Not that angry statements against laundry aggressors aren’t that novel, but this one’s pretty harsh… ATTENTION:  To whoever stole my year-supply of TIDE detergent (w/Febreze): I would like to tell you personally, that you are a douchebag. You couldn’t grab like a load’s-worth of detergent, you […]

Columbia’s only multicultural literary and art magazine hits random dorms near you. Bwog offers some highlights from the online pdf (all links go to the same page). Enjoy this Tablet with a spoonful of diversity… In an immigrant tongue (page 6) Duende (page 9) Love, and name dropping (page 14) Westernization (page 18) Brokeback Mountain and the […]

Ashley Nin brings us this dispatch of a santa sighting like never before: 3:15pm – Waiting for the 1 train at Columbus Circle. 3:17pm – About a dozen policemen walk up whispering fervently into their walkie-talkies. 3:20pm – 1 train finally arrives. Each car is packed with people donning Santa Claus costumes. Train is too […]

Lieutenant Colonel Isaiah “Ike” Wilson, a visiting professor at SIPA on loan from West Point, has a more than academic understanding of the Iraq War, having studied it from both an historian’s and a commissioned officer’s perspective. Bwog editor Sara Vogel caught up with Wilson before class to talk about bad planning, doing better, and–of […]

Ah, Orgo Night, that which pisses off many a disgruntled grad student and brings a little cheer to many a CC or LitHum studier. This year, an avidly procrastinating Bwog strives to chronicle the fun as it happens. Bear with us as we try to get (most-likely superfluous) pictures and funny overheards up as soon […]

As promised, we’ve reviewed those silly holiday sandwiches for the benefit of the consumer- you! Correspondent Dena Yago offers the following appraisal. Religious culinary politics, a pre-eminent topic this time of year, has revealed itself not so subtly on behalf of the $5.50 Holiday Sandwiches sold around campus. My experience with these creations left me […]

Professor Karl Kroeber is restless of mind, the sort of academic who likes pioneering new fields and then abandoning them. The loquacious and sagacious fellow, brother to Ursula Kroeber Le Guin [see right], currently teaches the ever-popular children’s lit course. He talked to us about growing up, “the business of imagining,” why he hates Disney, coming to terms with cancer, the Navy, and just about […]

So instead of adding punchlines to punchlines, we’re going to give you the funniest lines from the Fed articles we like. Peruse at your own risk/leisure. ABC is a cabal of Scientologists—wait, no, I’m confusing them with The Eye again. Impress them further by showing up at their parties with the most beautiful goat in […]

There is way too much going on in Butler these days to be remotely bored. A sampling of the cracked out goings on: Elevator Dance Party! At around 8:30 PM, four kids rocked out with their iPod speakers to standard indy and classic rock favorites, riding the rightmost elevator next to the computer lab to […]

If you are a typical broke college student – you know, the one who has reached the point of sneaking Tupperware into campus study breaks and gotten into the habit of scrounging for paid psychology experiments – chances are you’re having trouble fulfilling the financial obligations of the holiday season. Luckily, our very own Columbia […]

Oh those chemists! Oh those grad students who aspire to be chemists! Stephanie Quan writes in with an account of the chem department’s winter show, a Varsity Show-type extravaganza featuring off-key musical tributes to favorite professors sung by second-year grad students with department secretaries on keyboard. But in the esteemed words of R. Kelly, “after […]