Doodles found in a notebook in the Hartley computer lab: [context: drawing of a pirate holding bottle of ‘grog’ in its hook. Two colors of pen that I believe represent two authors. Distinction in italics] DONATE!!! What if the same guy buys you at auction again?! Noooooo So far we only have $11 of steph. […]

In which film savant Iggy Cortez gives you something to watch this weekend when you ask the cute girl from CC to your room to “watch a movie.” What Time is it There? is Tsai-Ming Liang’s powerful exploration of loneliness and loss, themes he has explored previously in such modern classics as the bleak The […]

Res Life has declared today RA Appreciation Day! Remember that time your RA stopped your roommate from urinating all over your chest while you were passed out in the hallway? Well, you might not remember, but it happened. So, you better give your RA a hug! …or a Complete New Yorker book and DVD set!

In which staffer Mark Krotov gives movie suggestions for those who fear to venture off the 1, 2, and 3 lines. AMC Loews 84th Street 6 84th and Broadway ATL A movie about my hometown featuring Big Boi and T.I. Being from Atlanta just got a little cooler, although, unfortunately, I can’t relate to the […]

The Housing Lottery already has a mystical quality to it. But when you’re number comes up as 666 or 1984, you really start wondering. In our ongoing series about crazy ass lottery numbers, the Bwog’s Julia Butareva interviews Samit Sarkar, C SEAS ’08, who got lucky lottery number 1984. Bwog: Do you think you’re being […]

Gentrify this! Okay. And they’re off! Much awaits: Mudslinging! Pettiness! Wedgies! Show me the money! Or not. Even things that aren’t that sexy are still important.

Heard, shrieked, in the SGO: “You’re not a Republican! You don’t know the secret handshake!”

We swear we found this digitalia in Hartley, not Uris. I love money. I love spreading it all over my hardwood floors and walking barefoot on them, the dollar bills sticking to my feet. It makes me feel like a woman. No. Like a goddess.

The Bwog has been receiving word all day that kids on the College Confidential discussion board have been finding yesterday’s post on admissions letters very tasty. Do they like the photos? Are they even more excited now to hear the news? No. They are using the photographic proof that FedEx picked up the packages to […]

Bwog just saw big name Anthro Comp Lit Prof Spivak slumped against the window next to the bookstore turnstile entrance to Lerner, talking on the payphone (that we didn’t even know existed). Can the world’s foremost translator of Jacques Derrida not afford Verizon? She looked dazed and confused.

Professor Wm. Theodore de Bary, C ’41, beloved octogenarian professor, in Nobility & Civility class: “My ancestors fought in the Crusades, along with Richard the Lionhearted. *pause* As you can see, some of them survived.” His grandfather.

Tao Tan reports: The Alexander Hamilton Medal, an award presented annually to accomplished CC alums at a $600-a-plate dinner, is now available on eBay. As a paperweight.

We wouldn’t have gotten in this year. Why that makes me hungrier than a box full o’ bobcats! Burn shit down! Throw student leaders into the blaze! Ringing in the Spring! Bollinger…hater?

What with the cockroaches, and mice, and bedbugs, Columbia seems to have a real pest control problem. Luckily, Housing is taking care of those sea critters in Hartley the best way they know how. Oil spill! Picture and tip courtesy Mark Holden

Today, the admissions office sent off admissions letters to all those eager Columbia wannabees. Bwog asks the important question: Admission Letter, Where are You?