An eagle-eyed B&W’er reports that she saw Viggo Mortensen, best known for his role as Master Chief John James ‘Jack’ Urgayle in the smash hit G.I. Jane, talking with his son outside of Hamilton and then heading towards Low. Could Mini-Mortensen be thinking about attending our fair alma?

Columbia administration confirms it likes student athletes better than you. In attempt to call more attention to underwhelming election season, GSSC candidates stir up drama over nothing. I mean, really important stuff. Mr. Coffin’s joke writes itself. Because reading about other people making out kind of makes up for the fact that you haven’t made […]

The publishing world has been all abuzz the past few weeks over Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan’s new book How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life. Even the Blue and White fell under the spell of a peer with a $500,000 book deal and reviewed the book in this month’s print edition. […]

The war’s been waging for a while, but now it’s serious. Are you for direct elections on the Engineering Student Council? Or against? WHERE DO YOU STAND? Tom Fazzio apparently plays both both sides. “Personally, outside of my role as president, I am an advocate for public elections,” said the Engineers Against Direct Elections member […]

He is on one of those matchmaking websites, looking at naughty pictures of “women seeking men in New Hampshire.” Unfortunately, Bwog does not know any students currently visiting from Dartmouth.

Put a befuddled look on your face to pass as a prospective student, and grab some free food right outside Roone Arledge auditorium! Free cookies and apples! Update: And coffee and tea!

Walking through Times Square the other day, Bwog happened upon a rather bizarre storefront: the Nicorette Stop Shop, a corporate-smelling endeavor to get 1,000,000 people to stop smoking. With gum. They’ll even pay you to do it. Stop smoking! All the stuffed bananas and pineapples are doing it!

Homeland Security, where are you when we need you? Bwog isn’t sure that this poster, sighted in Village Copier, will be enough to deter the enemies of America from taking advantage of our vulnerable paper reproduction apparatus.

A Sunday NYT article on Ivy League continuing education puts Columbia’s School of General Studies in perspective. Some schools have highly selective programs– Brown lets in 10% of applicants– while some have much looser requirements– say, Harvard’s “Write an essay, you’re in.” The big difference in admit rates seems to be whether adult students are […]

Anna Corke reports on today’s Low Steps face sucking. Despite rainy weather, about 30-40 people showed up for The Big Kiss. The event was well-documented: two participants brought personal cameras, 3 campus news groups showed up (CTV, Bwog, Spec). One boy told me that he was planning to “make out with his camera.” First the […]

The 83 member Facebook group Who Wants To Re-enact a Hoplite Battle On the South Lawn? finally got around to re-enacting their hoplite battle.. though with a few less than 83 people and not on South Lawn. More pictures after the jump.

Poor Ghostface. And Hoplites. And maker-outers. And naked blood wrestlers. Weather.com says rain through tomorrow night, but we Columbia-types are of a hardy sort. The Bwog is sure a little precipitation won’t dampen weekend plans.

These kids are getting ready for an event that will take place at noon tomorrow on one of the South Fields. Facebookers, you know what we’re talking about– fill in the rest.

Who says that college students have to act like adults? Big bouncy things on Low Plaza all day! Go now!

It’s been two weeks, and Wein-bound general selectioneers fight over the dregs of Columbia housing. Observed in Lerner Piano Lounge: One guy: I want 840! Other guy: No, I’m taking it. I’m sorry, I’m not letting that happen. Other guy, to friendly Bwog correspondent: And the funny thing is, we’re on the phone with our […]