Ninjas on campus! Bwog tipster Shannon Donnelly marvels: As I was crossing College Walk at 6:30 this evening, I came across at least a hundred Martial Arts blackbelts. They were all lined up in their white uniforms and black belts, looking very fierce despite the persistant rain. Because I don’t have the Zen training necessary […]

Have Princeton and Cornell caught NYU-itis? A study published in this month’s issue of Pediatrics found that 17% of students in a random web-based survey of 2,875 students at those two schools have purposely injured themselves in one way or another. This scares Bwog shitless. What is it about Ithaca and suburban New Jersey that […]

The Met and the Frick may be stimulating, but for some real deviance, Bwog recommends the Museum of Sex, a 2002 addition to New York City’s artistic firmament. One tipster recommends that visitors not miss the Sex Across America electronic exhibition, which features listings of visitor-submitted stories of various sexual encounters, sorted geographically Mapquest-style. Columbia […]

One hundred tuba players spotted at the quay by the World Financial Center. “We all just kind of showed up here,” one member of the 100Tubatet said.

These political statements spotted on a Brooklyn bound A train. These activists should know when to cut their losses. It’s a bit too late for the Phillipines.

Striding across College Walk, Bwog correspondent Gautam Hans sighted the Blood Drive Van and made this keen observation: “Although the Red Cross and other blood donation agencies are famous for not allowing men who’ve had anal sex with other men to donate (due to FDA regulations), some staff member was either being sly or not […]

The Columbia home page reports that the mustachioed UN-bashing UN representative John Bolton spoke at SIPA today, to a packed audience of doubtlessly dubious grad students. Besides summarizing the standard Bolton bullet points, the release directs us to the official SIPA blog, which Bwog liked until it noticed the student blogroll: one that’s all in […]

Bwog, which rejects value judgments of all kinds, was nevertheless amused to catch sight of a man selling water for $1 in Union Square. Wearing a Columbia T-shirt. Don’t say Columbia Career Services never gave you anything…

Dear Readers, You may have noticed that posts have become less frequent and more remote of late. With only a few staff at and around Columbia, news and gossip is harder to come by. For the remaining months of the summer, Bwog will be in hibernation, rousing itself when it finds something too juicy to […]

Craziness. His name is Cornell Barnard. What’s next, Columbia Harvard? The moose-men cometh. Streakin’ to the summit… There’s a snake in my boot! Pot-peddling preschoolers. The apocalypse is coming. Fight Club is real!

While researching a linguistics paper on Artificial Intelligence, Bwog Correspondent Sara Maria Hasbun came across the websites for the winners of the Loebner Competition, a contest in which judges converse blindly with both humans and computer programs—the prize goes to the machine that bests simulates intelligent conversation. For her paper, Sara decided to try out […]

Many of us think of Columbia as a nurturing mother, sheltering us from the vissicitudes of adult life. One Columbia senior expected her to protect us from the rain as well…and took PrezBo to task for failing in this final act of devotion. Her e-mail follows, with the administration’s response after the jump. ——– Original […]

If they haven’t already, Generation ’10 will soon recieve a slick new copy of the Iliad, courtesy of some alumni class from the last fifty years. Unless they decide to buck tradition, its cover will feature a lovely classical painting now hanging in L’Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Slate, however, has proposed the alternative […]

An anonymous Bwog tipster reports on a phone conversation between staffers in the Longworth and Rayburn House office buildings during the “shots fired” scare at the Capitol today. Longworth Staffer: So they’re not letting you out? You got enough food? Rayburn Staffer: Yeah, I brown-bagged it today. LS: Hey, you guys could be there for […]

For some time now, Bwog has been wondering where Bored at Butler went. Almost a week ago, the site’s normal interface disappeared, replaced by a message that reads “r.i.p. b@b…46,848 posts…down for reconstruction, come back soon…” Bwog knows via comments that some of its readers share its curiosity about the site’s fate. Well, wonder no […]