Publicity-whoring Bwog tipster Justin Grace writes: Just so you happening kids know, Chowdah is going to be doing a reading of children’s classic Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret on the sundial starting at 8:30 AM and ending at 6 PM. It’s in celebration of our first night of auditions, which start at 7 […]

Harvard was the first to make early action non-binding, and it’s now become the first to ditch the whole policy, which has been widely derided for favoring children of the rich and deadline-savvy. But the Iviest of the Ivy League says it might not stick with the gutsy decision if other schools don’t follow suit, […]

Bwog is grateful for Columbia’s sizeable flock of vending machines, with their promise of large amounts of readily available, prepackaged foods, junk and otherwise. Certain oddities within the vending machine empire, however, cannot be ignored.  •     The green leaf symbol, supposedly found next to so-called “healthy snack choices” in campus vending machines, suffers from highly inconsistent […]

Today begins a weekly feature in which Bwog brings you more of a popular component of the print magazine: selections from Word documents left on public Columbia computers. We’re constantly amazed at what you guys produce. If the pirates set up a system where there needs to be no more than one dissenting vote, the […]

CU Security Attains Goal to be Creepier than theFacebook.com Old People Still Do Things the Old Way. It’s News! I’m Sorry…You Spent My 40 Grand on What? Apparently, Spiderman Doesn’t Actually Go Here—Though If It’s Any Consolation, Neither Do The Olsen Twins If You Keep Acting Like That, You Little Tramp, People Are Going to […]

Last week Bwog staffer Brendan Ballou interviewed Tamar Dougherty, rare books archivist at Columbia and his former boss. Dougherty is curator of the Herbert Lehman Papers (next to the Lehman library). She talked about her rare book collection, the stigma of being a librarian, and the East Coast – West Coast divide. How’s work at […]

Gossip from the Morton Williams frontier! Iggy Cortez overheard this tidbit in the meat section of our favorite gouging grocers: “It was the two managers… the guy manager said they were down six thousand dollars this week. The woman was shocked and, if I heard correctly, said, ‘Well, what about X?’ and the male manager […]

    Jamal Joseph, the new chair of the School of the Arts film department, apart from being a former Black Panther, Harlem theater stalwart, and all-around artist/activist, also has the unique distinction of having authored a recent biography of slain rapper Tupac Shakur. Joseph gave Shakur, who made a posthumous $5 million last year, […]

Bwog found an article on a college Democrats blog written by Seth Flaxman. Big deal, you say? Well, we’re not talking about that Seth Flaxman. CC’s perky president has a doppelgänger, Seth Flaxman, Harvard ’08, involved in Harvard’s college Dems. We made an inquiry into the matter. Seth’s reply: Yeah, we’ve known about each other […]

Beginning at 8:30 today, Students United for America, “a nonpartisan organization promoting community service and global debate” have been holding their annual sundial reading of the names of 9/11 victims.    A reading of the number of people who have died in their names since then, anyone? 

  A look back at five years of non-progress at Ground Zero, and recollections from a bunch of people who were in the city that day Of course, Facebook news is almost as important as the 9/11 anniversary Columbia students know the best things in life are free, but you can give them to the […]

Today, Bwog returns to its habit of reprising the week’s best content, in case you missed it, or just needed to be reminded. Settling in: dorm personas, the room you wish you had Ch-ch-ch-changes: welcoming the (temporarily blinded) Eye, giving the B-School the business (but not our business), fighting the good fight (and winning!) Culled […]

Bwog was utterly charmed this afternoon by the sight of a little girl taking on the best of Broadway on the chess board. What a worldbeater.   

Good news for those who get queasy at the sight of chicken strips: the organic food coop is opening again tonight in JJ’s! Last year, Local Organic Agriculture and Friends (LOAF), re-christened Core Foods, brought you fresh veggies, soy products, and other sundry vegan treats, and this year is planning even bigger and better things. […]

Some of the delightful things Bwog has seen around the neighborhood on this pleasant, balmy Saturday: People on 110th street were loading these marked boxes into a big truck.On closer inspection, the boxes turned out to be penny harvest kits. Sixth grade fundraiser anyone? And some kids were playing leap frog outside John Jay dining […]