The results are in, and CCSC has five new members! The Alma Matters ticket triumphed, with a whopping 27.2% of the vote–25 votes ahead of their nearest rival, Party of Five (even with an extended voting period, CC freshmen fell short of the national turnout average by about 10 points). President-elect Mark Modesitt picked up […]

After the reform Kol Nidre service at Hillel, everyone wishing each other a good year:   (Jewish) Law Student 1: Rosenblum?  Yale ’02?  Seligman?  We graduated in the same class!   (Jewish) Law Student 2: Yeah, yeah, you’re in my litigation class now right?   (Jewish) Bystander (muttering): Bunch of Jews. Happy atoning! Heard outside […]

While campus liberals gear up for an appearance by the founder of the anti-immigrant Minutemen, they might want to know what else College Republicans President Chris Kulawik has up his sleeve: family values Senator Rick Santorum, scheduled to visit at the end of October. Sources inside the Student Governing Board say that the Republicans blew […]

More stuff you shouldn’t have saved on public computers.   But if God is omnipotent, why does he care? As we see in Exodus 20:5, God declares that he is a “jealous God”. Could this be true? Is this why the Jews received a grand total of 613 commandments—to keep them in check?   Also, […]

In which freshman Bwog contributor extraordinaire Dan D’Addario gives you a guide to being, at least superficially, a cool kid. Columbia is full of those of us (myself included) who listened to Sufjan Stevens in high school and thus considered ourselves far too cool for those who listened to Dave Matthews Band. Well, karma has […]

PrezBo and company can’t seem to stay out of trouble these days! A disgruntled former employee has filed a $60 million lawsuit in US District Court against President Bollinger and other administrators, charging obstruction of justice and a “conspiracy to interfere with the civil rights of Blacks & other racial minorities.” Raghavendra was fired last […]

We told you not to quit your day job The Sophomore Slump–malnutrition-induced?  Man, why doesn’t anyone want to get lung cancer anymore? Dude, that’s whack.  Columnist seeks cred, ends up with sore foot  Editorial board has an epiphany: raising money is hard! 

Bwog has never done this before—Bwog has never heard anything quite so appalling, ever. Some gossip is sweet and innocent. Some gossip is so awful you wish you had never heard it (and we will give you that option). And some gossip redeems. We only wish that the three items following formed a real progression […]

Dear readers, Time for round two! In response to feedback, we’ve melded the new site and the old, bringing back the three-column format as well as the classic Blue and White color scheme (speaking of which, the magazine’s site has been spiffed up too). New features like your best comments and the “about us” blurb […]

Public Safety is now on the Facebook in the person of John Murolo, the Morningside Campus Director. Let’s all welcome him into our trusting community with open arms and many Facebook friendship invitations. It must be tough to come back as The Man only two years after graduating at the fresh young age of fifty […]

Today is the first workday of Queer Awareness Month, and the works are certainly in progress. Alma is bracketed by a floating balloon-rainbow and several students are seated at a table in front of her, handing out treats. Skip along to Low Plaza to get free Skittles (Taste the Rainbow) and condoms from our campus […]

‘Primordial Ooze’ Blessed by Church, and Reindeer; Bwog, However, Wants to Know Where Bwog Can Buy Its Very Own Screeching Piglet University Administrators, Luminaries, Quip, Joke, Tease Their Way into Trustee Pocketbooks “It’s Easy to Blame That Man-Slut For Fucking You Over” Columbia Lends Hand to Estonia, Spec Opinion Hopes Estonia Will Lend Hand Back. […]

Bwog thrives on conflict, and this week didn’t disappoint.  – Hockeygate unfolds, while the world watches, rolls eyes – Tigers > Lions. But sports can still be fun! – The Dems don’t like FOX, Middle Easterners don’t like each other, and Vermont doesn’t like America – College freshmen duke it out, while SEAS freshmen…oh wait, […]

Bwog almost didn’t notice that Teacher’s College Director of Admissions Tom Rock was practically nixed off of CBS’s The Amazing Race 10 tonight. According to tipster Stephen Wang, “There was sweat, there were tears, and all in the middle of a rice paddy.” Tom Rock is on the show with his partner Terry. Good luck, […]

Bwog contributor Ashley Nin took some time to compile the favorite jokes of a few professors. Hey, they’re not paid for their senses of humor… James Crapotta, Department of Spanish and Latin American Cultures, Barnard A Mexican crosses the border to Texas, hoping to purchase a pair of socks.  He goes into the first store […]