Sometimes, when one wanders long enough in the inscrutable labyrinth of the bureaucracy, one confronts not the Minotaur of crude administrative obfuscation but a true gem. Here are selections from one such gem, the new “Leadership Life Newsletter” coughed up by SDA to “guide you [student leaders] through the challenging and important task of leading […]

Carly Hoogendyk sends in these photos of the recent West End (er…whoops, “Havana Central at the West End”) facade unveiling with extreme consternation. “It was just too visceral an experience seeing it for the first time that…oh god,” she writes. “Just bring back the scaffolding.” Bwog is all for the colorful vibrancy of Cuba and […]

Peter Mende-Siedlecki CC’07, Tom Keenan CC’07, and Rob Trump CC’09 are this year’s Varsity Show writers. Bwog dispatched Brendan Ballou to find out what they think of campus humor, what the writing process is like, why the Minutemen probably won’t play so great a role in this year’s show- and why Christian Bale may: Brendan: […]

In which first-year Dan D’Addario explains the art of the apologia for one’s indulgence in the decadent humanities: For those of us who grew up with a relatively strict upbringing, as I did, freshman year is a time of discovery. Students who, in high school, went to bed nightly at 11 to be well-rested for […]

The cold, barren stairwells of EC aren’t usually the most exciting venue for New York’s artistic avant-garde. Bwog was surprised, then, to find stenciled notes hanging on dueling walls, one between the 6th and 7th and 13th floors of the building and one on the 11th, sporting ironic questionnaires. “Do You Like Me?” one inquires, giving the reader […]

Columbia alums congegate from Switzerland to Suffolk County… …to relive their youthful protests against Alma Mater’s expansion Meanwhile, the administration creates an office to actually help students, then hides it away deep in the bowels of Dr. No’s waterborne fortress and swears its employees to a code of Masonic-like secrecy Andrew Martin boasts indie credentials, “bathe[s] in […]

In which we give closure to the last seven days of your life.  October 4th chickens come home to roost: Minutemen blow hot air from California, protesters counter with petitions  College Walk plays host to pan-Asian extravaganza, pan-American militarism, and pan-digestive experiences.  Winners: Econ department, alternative URLs. Losers: “Discounted” metrocards, raunchy sex on Columbia’s dime […]

Students living in Cathedral Gardens and 601 West 110th street received an e-mail this morning from Barnard Dean Dorothy Denburg regarding last night’s stabbing and robbery of the Assistant Superintendent of Cathedral Gardens.  The victim, Oscar Sevilla, is currently being treated at St. Luke’s hospital. The incident occurred between Broadway and Amsterdam on 110th St. […]

Bwog football correspondent CML recounts the Lions’ loss to Dartmouth. The defining question for this Saturday’s contest between Columbia and Dartmouth wasn’t who was in the gutter — both teams were tied for last place in the Ivy League at 0-2 — but who was looking at the stars.  When the pigskin first left the […]

Adam Katz brings us a discussion of the October 17th talk sponsored by the Poetry Society of America on the life and poetry of Pablo Neruda. The Tribeca Performing Arts Center of the Borough of Manhattan Community College was set off by the blue and green lights to lend it the “wine-dark” appearance of a […]

In which the most recent issue of The Blue and White gets bwogged like everything else: Columbia profs to Columbia profs: all y’all students are morons, and gossip Research monkeys pee in public, go to therapy, and refuse to take notes Coach Norries Wilson, hinged The cleansing power of the Slavic Oak See copies of […]

With great power comes…great attention.  Even from the most unlikely of sources:  Bob Avakian, chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, has written of his support for the Minuteman protesters on his website.  The organization’s inspiring press release can be read here.  More interesting, however, is an article submitted by a reader of RCP’s site, entitled […]

An article in today’s New York Times takes a step back to look at President Bollinger’s track record on dealing with free speech issues in the last few years, given a run of pesky controversies. Why doesn’t Yale ever have to deal with this kind of thing?  …maybe because they’re having too much fun following […]

“Bwog.NET?” readers ask themselves. “Isn’t that domain suffix for second-rate websites? All my favorite websites are .com!” While .net is stereotypically associated with lower-quality websites than .com, .org, .edu, and .cx, Bwog analyst David Iscoe set out, in the pursuit of truth and self-preservation, to prove that many .net websites were indeed worthy of your […]

The  textbook bartering-cum-selling website, DogEars, seems to have disappeared at some point within the past week.  Although there are probably few/no students trying to get rid of books at this point, Bwog is nervous.  Meanwhile, check out the other DogEars for all of your Canadian topography needs.