Not everyone had as wholesome Thanksgiving experience as our freshman columnist. Bwog nightlife correspondent Will Snider narrates the amalgamated stories of his visits home. Picture it.  You’re back home on break and enjoying some leftover turkey when the telephone on the kitchen counter rings.  Your mother picks it up and hands it to you, a forgotten […]

It seems as if Columbia has been having a bit of trouble with Fire Safety lately.  Yesterday, two unrelated occurrences confirm that maybe we should be worried about the all-consuming wrath-fire after all. From Bwog Tipster Addison Anderson, on yesterday’s EC fire alarm: After the alarm from the smoke scare on the 14th floor stopped […]

20 Clubs Denied ABC Recognition; Ann Coulter Responds by Having Celebratory Sex Barbecue Battle! Fire Truck!  Fire Truck! Maybe They Should Try Bingo…

Just when you thought the dialogue around Columbia’s sexual atmosphere couldn’t get any worse…Ann Coulter got involved. Today on FOX News, Bwog’s favorite channel, she opined (click for video!) on the Daily News “report” “exposing” our “creepy” carnal persuits. Money quotes:  “I really think you should get a picture of some of these [S&M] clubs and a […]

Tomorrow night, Enya, X-tina, and a small army of tourists will converge on Rockefeller Plaza to watch Al Roker waste a lot of electricity and, as usual, freeze his ass off. Though we mildly recommend that everyone to go watch in person, NBC has been gracious enough to shift their blockbuster Wednesday line-up to make […]

Item! Last night, the Dems and CPU hosted a dinner with leaders of campus political groups in the James Room of Barnard Hall to “foster intergroup cooperation.” Bwog’s request to attend was politely denied, but organizers graciously provided the list of those in attendance: besides the Dems and CPU, representatives from the College Libertarians, LionPAC, […]

A new student organization, the Organization of Latin American Students, held their first panel discussion last Monday in Hamilton on the topic of “Social Conditions in Latin America: The Indigenous Element from Colonization to the Present.” Bwog staffer Alex de Leon has this report. There’s a lot to cover in the five hundred year history […]

In which Grace Akinrinade exchanges tea bags with the area’s French elite. Amongst a crowd of mostly fluent French speaking people, it’s easy to feel out of place–but this group makes putting people at ease a high priority.  “Voulez-vous une tasse du thé?” Madeline Compagnon, C ’10, asked, holding a tea bag in her hand […]

Cell Phones: Part of the Not-Being-a-Hermit Experience Don’t Worry – Osama Bin Laden will not be able to take Lit Hum We have lots of money! Public schools have no money! (They should take a hint and start inventing useful stuff) We are mean to public schools! (Come on! They can’t invent anything worth a […]

While you’re in Butler cramming — or simply shitfaced at 1020 — your university is actively engaging with that frightening specter beyond the 116th Street Gates: the wide, weird world. Below, Bwog presents some of the most recent (yet unheralded!) findings and goings on from the realm of science and technology to have occurred at Columbia over the last few […]

The College Republicans are up to provocative hijinks, and the media is in an uproar. Another controversy for Alma Mater to be swept under the proverbial rug of genial administrative smiles and cautiously-worded PrezBo emails? Alas, the honor of this scandal belongs to no sons of Knickerbocker, but has been conferred upon intrepid students at none other […]

In which Bwog’s first-year correspondent, Dan D’Addario, sounds a somber tone as he reflects upon his first Thanksgiving homecoming. Unlike most of my friends in the freshman class, I actually looked forward last week to returning home for Thanksgiving break. I had missed the John Jay turkey dinner for a vegan friend’s birthday dinner at […]

Women must overcome shortness, queen bees, and Barbie in their epic quest for tenure Freshman fornication facilitated? Lactation station rouses male curiosity, Carman pride Sex columnist informs us being frightened of subway rats not necessarily gay, quotes…other sex columnist, who discusses (why not?) class implications of kinkiness GS student: I’m not part of a Star Trek villain-race! I’m just “the scruffy […]

OK, you didn’t miss much. But life does go on at Columbia over holiday weekends–sort of. – On Saturday night, Roone Arledge rocked out to the sound of truly horrible Japanese karaoke…for two hours. Students marooned in Lerner after Butler had closed found one more reason to contemplate killing themselves. – Roti Roll raised their […]