A few days ago, Bwog was walking near the corner of 120th St and Amsterdam when we observed a police officer—a man by the name of Ma, presumably of the 26th Precinct—writing a parking ticket for a sporty black sedan.  We didn’t think too much of it, until we got closer and noticed that the […]

Overheard in EC:  Rugby Guy #1: We should make posters to get people to come to our game. Rugby Guy #2: No, you have to get them approved. Rugby Guy #1: What?  We can’t just make some on our own? Rugby Guy #2: No. Rugby Guy #3: What if we made, like, little posters, that we […]

Left-wing Orthodoxy…at Columbia? Orthodox Jews…On the Upper West Side? GS Students…Old and Experienced? Passed-Out Student on 4 A.M. Zombie Spree Vandalizes Property on Almost Every Floor in Carman; Eighty-Five Percent of Building Residents Roll Eyes, Pop Ambien, Go Back to Sleep In Alums We Trustee

In which Bwog actually clicks on those homepage links you studiously ignore when checking your email… Sachs’ crew, rewriting the story of Katrina, confronts existential quandaries Barnard prof may have saved Sophia Coppola’s latest flick from the deep shame of tiny historical inaccuracies Über-Greek CC alum (he’s the “Archon of the Holy Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople”!) […]

Two boys in sweatshirts with Greek insignia, talking to each other in normal voices at the milk-and-sugar station in 212: “Yeah, but you didn’t hear it from me.” “Whoa, that’s a REALLY big secret.” “Dude, i know, that’s why i’m not telling you in front of the other guys. I’m telling you in private. So no […]

Matthew Harrison C’05, who loved being President of CCSC so much that he decided to stick around after graduation, has been deluging Bwog’s inbox lately (okay, he sent us two emails) hyping up Environmental Sustainability Day (which is apparently tomorrow). He geeked out a bit to let us know there is now an environmental section on the University Events Calendar, […]

 More stuff you shouldn’t have saved on a public computer.   However, only the artists know the intentions that lie behind these choices. Since they are dead, we will never know but can guess.   These artists seem almost the equivalent of psychologists in that rather than telling us what is important, they depict it […]

Ruggles, Monday evening “We’re so deep into it that it would be dick for him to pull out.” Deep into what? Outside a laundry room: Guy: “Again, I am NOT going to put on your underwear!” Girl: “I really hope someone walked by when you said that.” From your lips to Bwog’s ears. After checking […]

We rocked so hard, I thought we’d be together forever. And then you came back from Bulgaria with him. So I followed you home. And shouted expletives at your window all night long, and kept strands of your hair in a little box on my nightstand. I didn’t see the harrassment charges coming. From now […]

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 […]