Welcome back to our semi-weekly feature, in which Bwog contributor Mark Krotov takes you to the lesser known gems on our fair campus, forever ruining them for those who didn’t need the hint.  In last year’s debate over Flash access to Columbia dorms for Barnard students, opponents somewhat arrogantly hypothesized that a free-flowing student body […]

“Suck” count: 5x, “Sex” count: 4x, “Rut” count: 28x A rip-off of UPenn’s 34th Street magazine’s “Shout-outs” feature For the record: Yes, I was in Magnolia. Let me move on! If an administrator came to sit with Bwog at brunch, we’d scoff, and carry our tray elsewhere Giving Zoolander more credit than he deserves

Fully nine parties–count ’em, nine–have entered the cosmically inconsequential but strangely fascinating race for Columbia College’s 2010 class council. That’s down from ten last year, but certainly more competition than the class will see in its next three elections. They are: Party of Five, TOGA, Blue Barracudas, Nonstop, The, Stella, Columbia Undergraduates, Supporting Progress, Alma […]

In IAB, after Foner’s Civil War Class “You’re taking badmitton as a gym class?  That is SO the best way to wake up in the morning.  Are you like a champion yet?” “Well…I’m the best white person in the class” [Insert witty pun about the Civil War and badminton here].  ——————————— Overheard on 116th near […]

Columbia named after Colon, Barnard named after Man, Spec Runs Article About Facebook, Article Not About Facebook, Bwog Muses: Is there a chance that women are actually smarter? And  Environmentalist Faces Challenges

Really. Last time Bwog posted gossip, a tipster’s professor singled him out in class; he was very flustered.  A stressed-out student declared, “This year I will either die or become a Campus Character.” Professor Eric Foner, commenting on how the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s U.S. citizenship test accepts two answers to the question of what […]

By now you’ve been to all of your classes, but your classmates and your TAs just don’t do it for you. Internet dating will solve your woes! If our man Ethan or our woman Hannah is your type, (s)he can be yours too: email us at bwgossip@columbia.edu and introduce yourself. If (s)he’s up for a […]

In other news from Cambridge, Bwog recently became aware of a most excellent method of commemorating the heroes of September 11th. How are MIT geeks so wonderful? Why is the Low Dome never graced by random objects? And how, how did they do it?  

They Still Won’t Go Below 96th St. To, Yes, Below, No. Plus, Russianoff Propagandizes “Toast Is the Toast of the Town,” Sez Spec. “To Adding Our Ten Cents to the Pun!” Toasts Bwog  Spec-Reading Parents No Longer Oblivious to Drug Use  GS Reads SuccessLit, Coaches CC 

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 […]