Pizza and fruit in 1512 IAB, from the friendly folks at SIPA, who have this edifying public service announcement. Hurry, there might be some left!

Down with self-denial! In what might be a logical conclusion for a study coming out of the business school, an associate professor and a grad student have found that giving in to temptation makes people happier in the long run after all. Money quote: “We really do believe that in day-to-day self-control dilemmas, people are […]

Part of an ongoing series in which Bwog takes you to the less traveled corners of our metropolis. Park Slope: where baby strollers outnumber cars, Starbucks and Ozzie’s Coffee shop co-exist in peaceful latte-chugging harmony, and human-scale Victorian row houses frame Brooklyn’s man-made forest, Prospect Park. In this neighborhood off the B, Q, 2/3, R, […]

Bwog staffer Brendan Ballou’s musings from his great state… If you live in Minnesota, you waited for Robert Altman’s new film A Prairie Home Companion with mixed emotions—specifically, fear and dread. After all, The Land of 10,000 Lakes came off very poorly in the Fargo (explaining that Fargo is actually in North Dakota has become […]

Subscribers to the listserv of the Columbia Student Solidarity Network (a liberal umbrella group rejuvenated in the wake of this February’s Ashcroft visit) were treated yesterday to two oddly contrasting invitations. One, forwarded by College Dems president Mike Nadler, exhorts readers to sign a pro-Israel petition that Hillel will send to Kofi Annan. Another promotes […]

Martha Peterson, the 7th president of Barnard, died at her home in Wisconsin on Friday. She was 90 years old. Back in the 60’s, she worked to compromise with students who were protesting the war in Vietnam. From the New York Times: “In Miss Peterson’s estimation, she once told a reporter, her most significant achievement […]

In a school that boasts the country’s most prolific overachievers and urges cutthroat competition, it is easy to become jaded. Thank goodness small town papers exist to pat us on the back for a job well done. The Putnam County News and Recorder has recognized one of its proud residents, Terence Zaleski CC’07 for making […]

Hunter S. Thompson decided the Ivy League was not for him 50 years ago after trying a few short-story classes at Columbia on the GI Bill, becoming perhaps the greatest of our illustrious dropouts. Today, AMNY reports that his longtime assistant and second wife, Anita Thompson, will finish up the BA in English that he […]

Fun for the new year at Spectator! Replacing the Weekend section, this fall Spec will launch a full-color, Village Voice-style weekly magazine tentatively titled The Eye. In a canny move, they recruited a features editor who’s already been dishing for the Daily Telegraph and other publications for years–Bee Shaffer, daughter of Vogue empress Anna “Miranda” […]

If you go to the athletics website and click on Sports Marketing ->Official Sponsors, you get, appropriately enough, a blank page.

With the World Cup over, Berliners had to find some other way to get their kicks–and what better than a massive parade celebrating techno music and the fall of Communism? Bwog correspondent Joyce Hau reports that over 120,000 scantily clad people (some estimates ranged much higher) throbbed to the beats of DJs Paul van Dyk […]

Hey you, with the pallid skin! You could wait for Columbia to bring the sunshine to you with a cheesy Coney Island-themed event. Or you could go hang out at the real thing, as Bwog did one lovely Friday afternoon. Brighton Beach welcomes thousands of urban refugees every summer with miles of umbrella-freckled sand and […]

Just in case you haven’t been around to ogle at the cocoon that currently cradles our Beloved Butler library, here are a few snapshots. According to the library’s, always helpful website the building should emerge from its tough outer casing by Fall 2007.

Bwog’s recent weekend jaunt to Little Rock, Arkansas was filled with good culture and good times at some of the city’s premier attractions. The Clinton Presidential Center, for instance, was fascinating. The city’s Central High School, pioneer of desegregation, was inspiring. The waterfront was pleasantly thriving. Bwog’s favorite attraction, however? Four words: Drive-Through Liquor Store. […]

First five Bwog readers to email cuarts[at]columbia.edu by 4pm Tuesday win a FREE PAIR of tickets to Greta Gertler @ Joe’s Pub tomorrow. Check out a free track here.