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 […]

We like to think Columbia can scoff at such things as superfluous interinstitutional rivalries. Not only are there enough warring factions between 120th and 114th to feed our hunger for conflict for ages, but in truth, we’re too sophisticated and busy for that. But we may be at a crucial junction in Columbia history. The […]

This evening, twelve lucky EC residents— and some prisoners of Wien —were invited to supper with the chipper, quick-witted dean of Columbia College himself, the venerable Austin E. Quigley. Bwog editor Chris Szabla was there and recounts what he learned about the origins of the major system, the progression of globalization, and British playwright Harold […]

Did you hear about that Minutemen thing? College TV – it’s boring! College Radio – it’s unheard of! Hidden Restaurants – they’re hidden! Daniel Okrent – he’s wacky! Video Games – wait what?

‘Tis the season for the arrival of the new issue of The Current, Columbia’s “Journal of Contemporary Politics, Culture, and Jewish Affairs”. The latest edition’s cover is graced with a reminder of the brutal fisticuffs to which our fair university descended in the Spring of 1968, not to mention the horrible handlebar mustaches our predecessors donned […]

Continuing Bwog’s rare tradition of saluting the sons and daughters of Alma Mater, we would like to take the time to recognize the achievements (and stupefying failures) of some of Columbia’s most recent headline-making alumni. We begin with Lee Phil-sang, a Korean journalist who earned his M.A. and Ph.D. here. Lee was just selected to become […]

Item! Karl Rove is a fan of Bwog’s favorite history professor, Eric Foner. According to a 2003 New Yorker profile by Journalism School dean Nick Lemann: “Rove’s favorite book at the time [1984] was Eric Foner’s Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men, a history of the early days of the Republican Party, which he read less […]