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 […]

Bwog must interrupt its holiday programming for this important announcement. The New York Daily News, that staid bastion of equanimity, has declared that Columbia is out of control, and they’re not talking politics: this time, it’s all that wild crazy sex. The 1,200-word feature story (which ran online with the dubiously related picture at right) […]

By now, you’re probably on your way to Tucson or Trenton, Tuscaloosa or Taiwan. Bwog is also busy this Thanksgiving, eating turkey and kvetching. So if you don’t see so much activity on the site over the next few days, that’s why. But before we set off, we bring you a list of things we […]

There’s a lot of music out there to rip off–Bwog music critic Bryan Mochizuki gives us the run down on the downloads. “Careful” – Hot Chip  As I’m writing this, Hot Chip is the 4th most blogged act on Hype-Machine (Google-sort-of-thing for MP3 blogs) and it’s also the 4th most searched for.  They’ve been somewhere […]

DOE, d’oh Taxi! Whose house? World’s house. Barnard students: stop treating us like we go to Columbia!

Overheard in Fayerweather: Professor: “How many Americans believe in fairies, pixies, trolls…” [goes on to name several other mythical creatures] Student: “Five.” Wrong answer! At least two: Overheard on Broadway: “You do know that unicorns walk among us…” “Yes, but…”

FREE PIZZA in the GS lounge for the next half hour if you go write a letter to PrezBo supporting more financial aid for GS students. Extra points for those who can find the GS lounge! (Ok, its in 408 (bad tip!) 300/301 Lewisohn, Bwog wants you to get fed)

An anonymous College Republican passed on the club’s new logowear design below.                Bwog is quaking in its boots.  

Addison Anderson writes in…  just walked into EC, and the security guard has a piece of paper taped on the wall above him with something along the lines of: The ‘I’m Just That Bored’ Trivia Question of the Day: What is the full name of the marshmallow man who attacked New York City in the […]

Barnard professor takes complex life, adds people that don’t exist and scenes that never happened in places to which she may or may not have been to make a book that could potentially be construed as semi-autobiographical Having been gypped of one Fed job, Columbia gets a consolation prize New GS fundraising strategy: admit more […]