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 […]

Overheard in JJ’s, 2 AM Friday morning, as two students were leaving: Girl:  So are we going back to yours tonight? Guy:  Well my parents are coming in on Saturday Girl:  But tomorrow is Friday Guy:  Yeah…yeah it is Bon Weekend!

Homesick? Not homesick, but have lots of dirty laundry? From NJ? NJ Transit will be offering free train, bus, and light-rail fare for the week from Sept 18 to Sept 24. All you need is your ID and a printable coupon. Check it out here. The way to go, indeed.

John Heffernan (see comment #12), G’76 checks in from the real world with a question for Bwog and the Columbia masses: Has anyone missed the pretty blue flag on top of Barnard? Where could she have gone? It so nice to have her around. Anyone care to speculate?

Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides, Herodotus, Thucydides, and Vaclav Havel: Which one of these things is not like the other? New football coach offers idealistic promises that won’t pan out; will be followed by a return to normalcy Professors must find a new forum for controversial, condescendingly-expressed opinions For those of you who aren’t fine with a […]

Bwog tipster Christopher Morris-Lent sent in the first–but certainly not the last–gem of the year from Sunil Gulati’s Principles class: Gulati, speaking about inferior goods to a [presumably female] student:  But would it hurt you to have a hot dog?  If I gave you a hot dog right now, wouldn’t it bring you some pleasure? […]

Bwog doesn’t have the cash to “pimp your room,” and we certainly don’t want to raid it and then date you. So we bring you the semi-weekly Thursday feature, the “Cribs-esque” Room Hopping… continuing with Bwog’s new afroed acquaintance… Ed Trefts, C’08, has few items in his tight Shapiro single. The room is an excercise […]