Every once in a while, we feel the need to draw your attention to a piece that carries eternal resonance. You may have read Blue and White alum Chris Beam’s piece before, it may be new, but it’s getting around to Butler season, and we can always use a little reminder that the library can […]

Victory! (Football) Victory! (Futbol) Victory! (Field Hockey) Genocide is bad and hopefully preventable Suicide is bad and maybe preventable Rich Jews to talk about international banking “Learning to discern between healthy and exploitative porn is much the same as learning to discern between good and bad sexual relationships.”

The sun is still shining, clubs are still planning, and professors can’t tell yet if you’re not doing the reading. Store up these days, my children, and revel in the trivial. – Students march for brassieres, scientific denial, and randomness – Librarians are amazing! Especially if you meet in a cozy spot outside Butler, with […]

The Columbia College Student Council came together as a big family this evening, doing their big happy student council thing. This week, they were joined by the 40-odd freshmen running for 2010 class council, one of whom asked the e-board to enumerate student government’s accomplishments last year. That took some thought, but veteran council members […]

The Rock Climbing Club sent out an email this afternoon tipping its members off to a really sweet deal on Clif Bars. Amazon.com is offering bulk packages for $21.49, which is about half-off the in-store price. Better yet, if you enter the coupon code CLIFLUNA and buy two boxes, you’ll get $10 off and free […]

If only they had a Slip n’ Slide… The College Republicans held a global warming beach party on the lawn to the east of the steps today to protest the recent screenings on campus of the Al Gore film “An Inconvenient Truth”. In an email, Chris Kulawik described the mission of the party: While global […]

Yesterday, the Lions played a football game. Freshman CUMB member Christopher Morris-Lent weighs in. The hiring of head football coach Norries Wilson was accompanied by much fanfare and high hopes for the future of the historically futile Columbia football team, which had won its first two games in 2005 and proceeded to lose a nice […]

Those getting busted at the b-ball frat bash probably missed Saturday night’s alternative midnight mischief —  Symposium (aka Potluck) House and friends on their frenetic parade around campus. The trill of kazoos (playing the Star Wars theme), accordions, oboes, and the clamor of tambourines, pots and pans, accompanied the shouts of a motley crew of […]

Sorry Carman kids! The biggest party you didn’t need an invite for was shut down just as it got rolling, at about 12:30 AM. According to witnesses at the scene, KDR (a.k.a. the basketball frat) had packed its house and sent revelers spilling onto 114th st., prompting campus security to call the NYPD. In addition, […]

In which film savant Iggy Cortez recommends a película and gives justification for enjoying Almodóvar. It’s always good to start the year with a film both iconic and obvious, and Almodovar’s 1998 All About My Mother is both a classic of the college-dorm-poster variety and obligatory watching for anyone remotely interested in European cinema of […]

This weekend, one court-yard in the center of Central Park has been converted into a refugee camp. The exhibition, presented by the French foreign aid organization Doctors Without Borders, is an effort to show Americans what living in a refugee camp is really like. I took the subway down to 72nd and walked east into […]

Several times a year, Broadway turns into an Upper West Side-style bazaar, hawking everthing from fur coats to cheap socks. Today, Bwog bypassed the material goods, turning instead to late summer nirvana: the food.  Street fair culinary options tend to tread the extremes of nutrition: smoothies and falafel nestle in between cholesterol dispensaries, exemplified by […]

Today begins the first installment of 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  corn tortillas. Cooking […]

Today, 12:30 is “Baker Blast” and opening day for Columbia’s football team. Community building, right? Oops. Thanks to a joint effort by the Student Development and Activities (SDA), the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA), and Activities Board at Columbia (ABC), all student leaders — under threat of freezing their clubs’ accounts– will be busy  undergoing […]