The Village Voice has just released its list of the Ten Worst Landlords in New York City, and man oh man, are these guys jerks. The landlords profiled in this article evict tenants unfairly, cut off electricity without warning, and change the locks on 70 year-old diabetics while they are stuck in the hospital. One […]

Bwog reader John Shekitka reports there is an abundance of fireflies (or lightning bugs) darting around on South Lawn. Go catch some while a humid twilight descends.

Item! Somewhere in between stifling the urge to can the Supreme Court and accusing reporters of treason, President Bush has tapped the Business School’s resident inflation dove, Frederic Mishkin, to fill a spot on the Fed’s seven-member board of governors. Why does this matter, besides saving the students who made that music video commiserating with […]

Yes, Bwog is immature. But read the following and imagine for a second if your job was to be a pimp for South Asian cripples. Just for a second. Ok, done. ———- Forwarded message ———- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:23:09 -0700 (PDT) From: <—–@yahoo.com> To: ——@columbia.edu Subject: A request for help Hi [name omitted], […]

Facebook’s Prez Bo is now dead. May he rest in peace. -Thanks to Adrian Podpirka for the tip

Torrential rains in central Pennsylvania have forced nearly 200,000 people to evacuate. One intrepid Bwog correspondent reports from a river town in Bucks County, PA: A family of tourists wander down the road onto Main Street, which is almost completely empty except for a few store owners loading their merchandise into moving trucks. The family […]

What’s the point, exactly, of throwing a Coney Island-themed party on South lawn, complete with burgers, ice cream, a bounce house, a mini-lighthouse, and singing dogs? One eyewitness characterized it as a “fundraiser thingy,” but couldn’t figure out what the event this afternoon was trying to raise money for. Maybe just an acknowledgement that most […]

On June 13th, Professor of English and Comparative Literature James Shapiro won the BBC 4 Samuel Johnson Prize for his work, A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599. Shapiro’s tome, a partial biography, details the 35-year old Bard as he works on As You Like It, Julius Caesar, and Hamlet. Herewith, the Bwog […]

Columbia has just posted its alcohol policy and rules for “pre-game initiatives” at Baker. And guess what? Free beer!*     *One cup per person per concession run, up to four concession runs permitted, only if you have two valid forms of ID [updated] with birthdate. You may only drink in specified areas during the […]

Quick! You have exactly 34 minutes to claim one of CUarts’ 20 free tickets to Joe’s Pub to see “various players” that have “quite a bit of punk -and- jazz cred” among them, tonight. Good luck.

There is a pile of Columbia University Dance Marathon T-shirts at the main desk in Lerner.

Do you like socialism? How about scruffy-looking skinny boys in tight t-shirts with slogans denouncing genocide? Or women with really short haircuts? Then flock to Lerner, where the Center for Economic Research and Social Change and the International Socialist Organization are hosting the conference “Socialism 2006!” (build the left, fight the right).  

Bwog would not want to be Landon Donovan–or anyone associated with the US Soccer Team–after our boys’ 2-1 loss to Ghana yesterday. Sunil was not happy. “This is where the entire world is watching,” said the United States Soccer Federation president, with the kind of icy disapproval reserved for those who confuse Lorentz curves with […]

Barnard student Hannah Baker reports our crumbly hate crimes just keep coming: I discovered possibly another incarnation of the Nazi cracker prankster sitting on a police barrier outside of the subway [near Barnard]. It was a tupperware container containing what seemed to be melba toast and had written in sharpie on the top a swastika, […]

Barnard student Lily Perlmutter says: There’s a guy out [at the Barnard gates] from a labor union with a GIANT blow-up rat with [President of Barnard,] Judith Shapiro’s salary plastered everywhere, and signs asking for better wages. The guy is blowing a whistle and shouting, “JUDY! JUDY!” But there isn’t a crowd of strikers, just […]