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 […]

Thank you, Anthony Pucillo, for exposing the sheer ridiculousness of self-promoting student authors! Unless, of course, you were serious. When Bwog first saw this poster, it rejoiced: the librarians actually care about us! They want us to sleep and sit in the sun and live healthy lives! Actually, they just want us to get our […]

Yelena Shuster has a few notes from author Megan McCafferty’s Wednesday night bookstore visit. The svelte author, clad in a red sundress, began by asking the 99% female audience “You know I don’t have food for you right?” and established her alumna status right off. “Because I know the only way to get people to […]

Overheard in the Carman elevator, a first-year host talking to a prospective student: “We don’t really go into the city that much, but there’s a great bar scene on campus right across the street. And if that’s not for you, there’s great campus life too–in Mudd, there are Halo parties and everyone gets on the […]

Anna Corke reports: There is a gas leak on the 9th floor of Schermerhorn. Art History Department Manager on the phone with Maintenance: Has anyone done anything about the gas leak on the 9th floor? There’s a class happening up there and no one has told them to leave. Some of the students are getting […]

Somebody got to the wet cement.