On September 11 of this year, former Clinton administration official Nilda Mesa assumed a sizeable responsibility: the post of Environmental Stewardship Director, charged with making Columbia’s footprint a little bit smaller. Bwog caught up with Nilda in her airy fourth floor office, across a bowl of organic fruit. Bwog: You’ve been here two months. How’s […]

Eagle-eyed Bwog Editor Jessica Cohen noticed this interesting sign in Milano.  Nothing like “freshly killed turkey” to stir the appetite!  Thanks to Sumaiya Ahmed for the photo!

Recapitulation of this weekend’s football success by CML: Thousands of fans from both Columbia and Cornell converged upon Baker Field today, each to witness firsthand the contest that would determine the best Ivy League football team in New York  – and whether Columbia, after two years, would finally notch a conference win.  The sun shone […]

Welcome to the first installment of BwogSex, a weekly column to answer all the questions you’re afraid to ask in polite conversation. Got issues? Post them as a comment on this anonymous thread, and we’ll pose them to the Bwog Sex Committee. Kinkier the better! Q: “Help!  Almost every night my male neighbor insists on […]

In their last time formally together until graduation 2009, sophomores were treated yesterday to a lecture by Grandfather Havel, who has done and written many wonderful things, and composes beautiful sentences…but may not have been the best choice for a CC lecturer. “I don’t like my English. I am not sure if it is understandable. […]

And, now after endless coquetry, we give you what you’ve been so patiently waiting for: the last installment of Addison Anderson’s exploration of the Lamont-Doherty Observatory. In this final edition: expansion, Land’s End Catalog, Bollinger, Sachs, undergraduate interest, more explosions, Frontiers of Science, Tibetan villagers, a suspicious Pakistani customs official, poignancy, and no, they don’t […]

There’s nothing like a lazy weekend afternoon to get Columbia students talking about video games…     Ruggles, Friday afternoon: Girl: What are you playing? Guy: Diablo II expansion pack: Lord of Destruction. Girl: What’s that floating around you? Guy: Bone shield. [pause] There’s really no way to sound cool when you’re playing this game. […]

In which Bwog instills heart-thumping excitement in you and all of your friends; this piece will appear in the November issue of the Blue and White.  Here, Lenora Babb discusses the wacky world of “Department Administrators and the University That Needs Them.” Professors like to think they’re the stars of the university, but in every […]

Some time last evening, the statue of George Washington at the never-finished Cathedral of Saint John the Divine was beheaded in a blatant act of vandalism. A tipster reports that the head was replaced with a $1 bill–of course featuring the face our first President himself.  Alex Weinberg, who took the photo at left, was interviewed […]

While walking along 115th street this morning, Bwog noticed a heap of chicken bones sitting on a stoop, evidently already picked over by sidewalk scavengers. Who could have such slovenly habits? The top of the doorframe gave us our answer–the boys of Zeta Beta Tau. Cheers to the first one who walks outside.   

 Confirmed Reports: GOP Hires New Divorce Lawyer Don’t Hate the Playa…Hate the U.S. Central Command  Really Smart Former Soldiers Cry Foul. Don’t Believe Anything Anyone Tells You About the Army.  Aaahhhhhh! Real MonsterTrak (for Grown-ups)  It’s Tough Pissing People Off, But Someone’s Gotta Do It

Here’s the Gossip from the November issue. We know, we know, none of you will pick up the issue now that we’ve gone ahead and given you the goods. Consider this an act of love. Gossip  And now, a look at some of the more illustrious job titles of some of our more illustrious faculty.  Department […]

Up-and-coming quirky singer-songwriter Nellie McKay often writes songs with political messages, but it was brought to our attention that on her latest album, Pretty Little Head, she has some harsh words for Columbia and its students. Apparently the lyrics are about monkey-abuse, but here they are for your own dissection:  “Columbia is Bleeding” Another day […]

Ah, the penultimate installment in Addison Anderson’s Lamont-Doherty series. Savor this moment; it shall not always be with you. In this episode: urgency, wild turkeys, total chaos, nuclear testing, Greenland, and forced labor!             “One of the joys [of research at Lamont] is how cross-disciplinary it has to be,” says Dr. G. Michael Purdy, director […]

So by now you must have noticed- how could you not?- the Varsity Show’s recruiting gimmick on the steps of Low today. They say it’s to drum up interest in auditioning for cast and chorus positions in Columbia’s favorite musical tradition. (November 13th-14th, 8-11PM, kids! Prepare a song!) We’ve also spotted camp-counselor recruiters wandering around […]