Most Columbia students remember gym class as a pre-pubescent nightmare characterized by itchy uniforms, bloody noses, changing in public, and balls flying into their groins. Steve Silverman says it doesn’t have to be that way. Silverman runs the physical education program at Teacher’s College (making him a gym teacher who teaches gym teachers how to […]

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: Mark Modesitt, Alma Matters Hometown: Evansville, Indiana Home Dorm: John Jay The man: I am from Indiana where corn and cows are more abundant than people. My floormates often kid me […]

Let your nutrition take a hit so AIDS victims can eat better. Trust us, it’s worth it–these ladies can bake!  College Walk, now.  

What are you in for? Oh, I got attacked in a subway by a chainsaw-wielding nutcase. ESC 2010 candidates promise mixers, e-mails, facebook invites Oriana eulogises Oriana, the pope scandalises Muslims while speaking at a German university, and in other news, students have faith.

Whew–Bwog is taking a breather from an eventful week, full of diplo-gaffes and celeb sightings. Meanwhile, the leaves are turning quickly. Take the last week of September to hit the books in Central Park!  – In important news: Princeton pretends it was going to do it anyway, Columbia pretends Princeton didn’t do it eight years […]

Photos and commentary by Bwog Photographer Sumaiya Ahmed.   I have been to the Borough Hall section of Brooklyn a few times. The Arabic quarters there are facinating. I never tire of Sahadi – it is sort of a legendary grocery – or the baklava from Damascus bakery. Is it the oldest Arabic bakery in […]

MALLOMARS ARE IN SEASON! They’re $3 a box at Fairway. And Wikipedia knows what’s up: Dangerous Environments Warm environments are not the only dangerous ones for Mallomars and their cousins. Because of the numerous air pockets within the marshmallow, changes in air pressure can cause drastic changes in the size of the biscuit, thus destroying […]

Good gracious! Passersby South Lawn a few hours ago were treated to the sight of Columbia’s fine wrestling team thundering down the turf in a series of grueling sprints. One tipster was particularly piqued by the presence of sophomore Sal Tirico–sorry honey, he’s taken. All the same, Bwog fully endorses the practice of half-clothed athletic […]

In which anonymous Tipster reports mysterious Figure. Last night, around midnight, I saw a mysterious figure putting up these posters around campus. When I asked her what they were all about, she said that she likes to “jump around the roofs of Hartley” and is looking for a sidekick to accompany her. When I asked […]

For those of you who missed the dance at the Intrepid Museum because you weren’t OLs or freshman during last year’s NSOP event, and for those of you who need to walk down the memory lane of that night one last time, you should hurry up and go, because the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space […]

In which Bwog football correspondent Christopher “CML” Morris-Lent returns to document the unlikely triumphs of Columbia’s pigskin throwers.  This afternoon featured yet another Columbia home football game at Baker Field, this time against Georgetown.  The Lions sought to improve their record to 2-0 and thus keep their win/loss ratio at the exorbitant figure of infinity.  […]

The awkwardly named 20th Annual Anti-Gentrification Community Awareness Festival, a protest-cum-block party organized by the anti-expansion Coalition to Preserve Community (check out their impressive new site), went down this afternoon down the hill at Tiemann Place. Articles and pictures from the CPC’s past exploits festooned a central table, staffed by its ever-present leader Tom DeMott […]

In which film savant Iggy Cortez recommends we find our inner music-lover. Micheal Haneke’s Caché was probably last year’s best film, an engaging anti-thriller about repressed personal and national guilt. However, it was not the first time Haneke had confronted his audience with universal ethical dilemmas. In movies such as Funny Games and Code Inconnu, […]

Welcome once again to Cooking With Bwog, dedicated to providing quality, cheap, healthy, and easy recipes to make your meal-plan-free life as tasty as possible. If you have any amazing cooking secrets you’d like to share or questions for the Bwog Culinary Team, please email bwgossip@columbia.edu. This week’s feature is the tasty banana: bread, fried, […]