Sorry to disappoint. That vision in pink you may have seen preening on Low Steps is actually Laura Belle Bundy, playing Elle Woods in the upcoming Broadway musical Legally Blonde, which debuts at the Palace Theater in April. She and her coterie of publicists, camera people, and small dog held their publicity shoot on Low […]

More stuff you shouldn’t have saved on public computers. If we live to die, why not flirt with death?   Is it more important to live in or for the moment? Is there a difference?   What would X say to Blacks today addicted to the cigarette?    

10:12 AM yesterday, walking outside of Labyrinth. GUY 1: I had the worst experience of my life last night. Don’t EVER use expired lube, man. GUY 2: YOOOOO! I KNOW. Expired lube BURNS. That shit is like… acid. Somewhere in Carman, after a Butler all-nighter: GUY 1: I’ve running on caffeine right now. I just took a piss […]

The University of Virginia has just dropped early decision. The pressure is on! Who will be next?

So ROLM phones are a relic of early nineties communication technology. But Bwog may have found an incentive to quell that blinking light. At 1:10 this morning, the Center for Jazz Studies spammed your ROLM phone-mail system with some psychedelic jazz and a smooth-talking announcer who posited some hypotheticals for us all to consider in […]

If you happened to be watching Fox News this morning at 8:15 AM–because that’s how Bwog likes to wake up–you might have seen a group of students with big signs behind the cameras. And if you looked closely enough, you would have seen a couple of  Columbia faces: Dems member Nathan Morgante, CC ’09, and […]

CC Alum Elected to Largely Ceremonial Position in Tiny Eastern European Nation Old People Living at Barnard Striving towards pareto efficiency, one club sandwich at a time Can I be a Cool and Awesome college student and not get sexually assaulted — at the same time? Jake Olson to CU: Stop being a pussy!

Overheard! in Café 212: Girl 1: It really sucks that Anna Nicole Smith’s kid died. Girl 2: How’d he die? Girl 1: He overdosed on drugs. Passing Boy: If Anna Nicole Smith was my mom, I’d probably do drugs too. [Girls 1, 2 stare as passing boy passes by.] Overheard! outside of Carman: [Mobile phone.] […]

Well, friends, it seems that John Jay is infested with much larger, much blacker, much furrier pests than those of yesteryear—those being the famed bedbugs. Bwog recently received several pictures of pestilence countermeasures deployed throughout John Jay and the cafeteria’s back room. Bwog also speaks to its janitors on occasion. Last time, Bwog asked what […]

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 […]