After 20 years of safe subterranean spelunking, admin. to shut off access to fun…oops, dangerous chemicals… …and will make damn sure you stay in your boring science and math classes… …but the utter thrill of manipulating financial aid loopholes remains. Go agency!  Er…go agency? Meanwhile, GS students, as always, find a “nontraditional” way to cheat the system […]

It’s starting to get a little too serious around here for Bwog—luckily, enough ridiculous things happened this week to keep us from wilting of stress. – Y’all came back from Thanksgiving, bearing tales of debauchery and disillusionment – We entertained ourselves with star-studded tree lightings and invigorating staircase sprints, and got some culture after indulging […]

It’s official, at least according to Professor Eric Foner: George Bush has already earned the honor of becoming the Worst President Ever. Foner’s in-class remarks hit the printed page and the web today with an editorial in the Washington Post’s Sunday Outlook section and a post on DailyKos, where it’s up to 473 comments as […]

Congratulations to the just-announced 2007 Spectator Managing Board! Bwog estimates it’s number 131 or so. Now, go produce some articles so we can QuickSpec you. The lineup: Editor in Chief: John Davisson Publisher: John Mascari Managing Editor: Amanda Erickson News Editor: Erin Durkin News Editor: Josh Hirschland Opinion Editor: Oriana Magnera Sports Editor: Jon Tayler […]

The November issue of the Fed is now online. Save the print copy for appropriate bathroom reading. Hey kids! Let’s make fun of English majors, decades later, in the vain hopes of avoiding their fate!   But SEAS kids, not to worry! Steve Wozniak, co-founder of the Apple Computer, speaks out on segway polo, his genius, […]

Photos and commentary by Bwog Photographer Sumaiya Ahmed. This Autumn sort of passes at times without my notice. But one day, my CC class decides to savor global warming outside and I remember my camera. On my way to Arabic class in Kent, I want to take pictures, but I wonder maybe my camera shouldn’t […]

After a brief hiatus during which Bwog’s cooking expert performed brilliantly on her chemistry exams (extracting DNA is a lot like making mayo, yo), Cooking with Bwog is back, bringing you recipes and wisdom for the dorm kitchen. As always, if you have questions for the culinary team or have recipes you’d like to share, […]

Bwog knows every time you lose a notebook, a little piece of you dies. On the desk in the Lerner Lobby, someone nice has collected all of the notebooks and academic-looking papers unwittingly abandoned by absentminded students. Here’s is a list of the things on the desk as of 2:30 am Saturday: Daniel Lomm’s midterm […]

This just in from Bwog correspondent Addison Anderson: “There are two male high school kids standing on College Walk, one of whom wants a Columbia student to take the SAT II for him.  He asked me if I was a Columbia undergraduate, and when I said yes, he said “Okay…so the SAT II is tomorrow…and […]

A few notable links that have come in over the past couple of days: 1) Andrew Delbanco’s essay in The New Republic, War College.  The chair of American Studies department, Delbanco reflects on his teaching of LitHum and the difficulties of understanding war within the university. 2)  An update on the final exam incident at […]

Say goodbye to the days of Columbia as a jumbled, impossible-to-navigate bureaucracy.  We love you, librarians of Columbia.  Thank you for being our friends.  Their “Ask Us Now” feature may be down as of this writing, but check it out: our librarians can be contacted during office hours through AIM, G-chat, Windows Live and the […]

On Barnard students as little lost sheep On bureaucratic gridlock On our sad existences as Rhodes-losers On more of this rivalry talk, rejecting Bwog’s idea to choose Penn On making the Nexus Center a “selling point” instead of an “eyesore”

Bwog doesn’t have the cash to “pimp your room,” and we certainly don’t want to raid it and then date you. So we bring you our semi-weekly feature, the “Cribs-esque” Room Hopping, continuing with… For Priya (left) and Maddie (right) both C’09, walking past the trash bags collected from many meals at Hewitt, on the […]

Apart from right now, when is the last time you remember seeing a red carpet rolled out down Low steps? Bwog tried to determine what was going on- the rotunda is filled with red decorations, balloons, etc.- but the information office didn’t seem to know. (We did spot Nicholas Dirks lurking around the rotunda, however.)

We witnessed the following exchange in Blue Java about a week ago: Frantic guy at counter: What tea has caffeine in it? I just need something with caffeine. Blue Java employee: Yes, these teas…? (Motions to selection) Guy: Yes, that tea, I’ll have that one. Girl in line: They should really just set up a caffeine […]