Our, um, highest congratulations to the art history department, who have installed a coffee machine in a lounge in Schermerhorn. They’ve circulated the news like it’s the birth of the Messiah. Or something. And they’re going to charge!? Read the gospel email after the jump.

This being the sixth anniversary of the Al-Aqsa intifada, a bunch of Palestinian sympathizers have gathered on the sundial, wearing kaffiyehs and angrily puffing on cigarettes. Socialists, Palestinian nationals, and Mealac majors/TA’s are all in full force. Also, overhead, the sweet sounds of political/cultural hatred: “Your prime minister is a war criminal!” “You’re a fucking racist!” After […]

So, the folks at Gothamist have brought this picture (via flickr) to our attention. According to the information on flickr, this dude is a professor, and he’s standing in the tunnels, our tunnels. Does anyone know his name? Maybe we could send him in as a post-deadline entry to the IvyGate hot prof contest.  

SEEJ has been papering the campus with their cheeky fliers advertising a graffiti/stenciling/street art event they’re throwing in Lerner tonight, and with Shepard Fairey’s Obey showing up on John Jay trays and artists like Banksy getting gala gallery events, this is Columbia’s version of getting hip to the times. Overheard: Regarding the fliers, one of which states […]

The Paper Club Hockey: the new oppressed minority? Bureacracy to first-year: you don’t need to talk to your dad! “Israel and Iraq are two completely different issues”…tell that to bin Laden, Dems Better food that no one can eat The Insert Editor weathers existential crisis, emerges unscathed  Have you met my therapist? Oh, now we […]

In the best attempt yet to make this election about issues, the seven parties running for CC 2010 class council participated in a debate last night moderated by the ever-stylish Subash Iyer. Vertical transportation featured prominently. Highlights follow. Starting out, each party got the chance to introduce itself. – The Columbia Undergraduates Supporting Progress party […]

This week, Bwog will be featuring candidates for leadership of the Columbia College class of 2010. Tools? Visionaries? You decide–vote next Tuesday!  Name, party: Sue Yang, Nonstop  Hometown:  Rochester Hills, Michigan Home dorm:  John Jay The woman: I would describe myself as an independent, decorating obsessed, font addicted (I have 2,789 fonts!), optimistic, sleep deprived […]

Well, this Friday is Michaelmas, and you still haven’t got anybody to share it with.  Don’t worry—Bwog has you covered.  If you yearn for the dashing Ben or the lovely Kate, simply drop us an email at bwgossip@columbia.edu.  If you’re chosen, we’ll set you up and give you $5—that’s five dollars!—for a coffee date.  It’ll […]

Woah. Hold on a second. Did anyone else know that Vermont had plans to secede from the Union? Bwog certainly didn’t—although, in all probability, neither did the vast majority of the residents of Vermont. The plan is being discussed in the forthcoming First North American Secessionist Convention, organized by The Middlebury Institute, which is expected […]

And now, for another installment of our regular feature, Campus Corners, in which Bwog contributor Mark Krotov illuminates the lesser-known gems of our fair campus, and inspires you to hang out somewhere other than your Wien single. A few steps from the quaintness of Buell Hall and bold perch of Rodin’s The Thinker lies Revson […]

Voting for the SEAS 2010 class council started today! All you fresh engineers have until 6:00 PM on Friday to cast your ballots online (yes, the ESC has its shit together that much). Barring a hacker in the system, one of the three candidates profiled after the jump will lead your class for the next […]

Bwog doubts that the vaguely carnivorous lamp outside Butler actually crashed onto an unsuspecting sitter yesterday. But it does make you worry just a little. 

Labyrinth of Books = Labyrinth of Despair Female World Leaders Visit Columbia; Confused World Husbands Still Waiting For Dinner GS Students Petition For Bigger Allowance, Later Curfew, Use of Car Dianne Murphy: Stop Being A P#%$y

Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute there, Dianne. Did you seriously just cancel the ice hockey team‘s fall season, and yank half their funding, and put them on probation for two years, over an insensitive poster? Oh yes she did. The Club Sports governing board, a group of students and administrators that apparently decides these […]

This week, Bwog will be featuring candidates for leadership of the Columbia College class of 2010. Tools? Visionaries? You decide–vote next Tuesday! President, Party: AJ Pascua, Party of Five  Hometown: Union City, California Home dorm: John Jay The man: I’d normally refer you to my publicist, Mark Zuckerberg. But I’ll make an exception. My name […]