Eight years after Katie Holmes decides to permanently defer enrollment at Columbia, Daddy Holmes decides he wants his $500 deposit back. Is the Scientology wedding really turning out to be that expensive?

Rabbi Yonah Blum has invited you to a dinner party hosted by Chabad @ Columbia. Who: Chabad @ Columbia What: Going Mental on Shabbos When: Friday, February 24 Where: Chabad at Columbia University

In which film savant Iggy Cortez tells you how to spend your weekend. Find previous installments here and here. Columbia students may have forgotten the glory of Fridays with their Thursday night weekends, but universally Friday night is the space for unwinding, allowing a certain exuberance away from weekly monotony. Claire Denis runs away with […]

They’re handing out free hoola-hoops at John Jay Dining Hall. Now!

Bwog is proud to bring the second installment of “Lecture Hopping,” in which correspondents go to speeches, lectures, and public displays of erudition so you don’t have to. Find the first installment here. Tuesday February 21 New Yorker Nights Series: Malcolm Gladwell Miller Theatre This lecture has been left untitled on purpose, says Malcolm Gladwell; […]

Heard outside Math, a young woman explaining to a friend how a professor just didn’t get it: “No, I was like, ‘you don’t understand the difference between a B- and a C+. If you give me a B-, my life is NOT over.”

Overheard in the Carman computer lab: “No, I mean, there’s more pollution and sometimes it smells like maple syrup, but it’s pretty much the same.” –Ashley Nin

It apears that Larry Summers may still have a fruitful career ahead of him, not in economic modeling, but in rap. At least, that’s what this video would suggest. Picture at right: LL Cool J gives a shout out to Larry.

The following picture and caption ran on the front page of today’s Spec next to the article “Professors Scoff at CULPA”: Well, we know Prof. Moyn. Prof. Moyn is a friend of ours. And that, sir, is no Prof. Moyn. This is Prof. Moyn’s picture on the History Department website: So who is the man […]

Recent CU appearances on Overheard in New York: More Like a Hater Girl: So was he, like, a player? Guy: Who, Charlie? Girl: No, that Genghis Khan guy. –114th and Amsterdam The Philosophy of Being…Ignorant Guy: Do you know what the word “ontological” means? Chick: Yeah…I have seen it before… Guy: Yeah. Me too. Chick: […]

A prank caller has been terrorizing first-years as of late. When the gullible first-year answers the phone, he is asked what his favorite fraternity is. Then the caller claims to be a Pledgemaster from that fraternity. As we all know, pledgemasters can often be rather demanding. Even if they are fake. Requirements for initiation are […]

Our sincere apologies for Bwog’s absence yesterday…but our server went apeshit. Now we’re back and ready to satisfy your needs for snarky, yet thoughtful commentary on Columbia happenings. Thanks for sticking with us.

It’s academia’s equivalent to The 50 Most Beautiful People. And it’s put out by that most discerning of polemicists, David Horowitz. With all the appropriate pageantry, he presents us withThe 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America. Danger is sexy! And guess what? Columbia is the sexiest! Nine of the Dr. Dangers teach at Columbia. Eric […]

Kwame Spearman on—yes, you guessed it—Kwame Spearman. And figure skating! Illegal immigrants have more rights than grad students. Lee C. does a song and dance all the way to Harlem. Then trips. While evaluations force professors and various other advisers to curb rudeness and inefficiency, [financial aid] advisers can get away with behavior that would […]

The Bwog’s personal ads have been up just three weeks and already dates are underway. Full reports to come soon but so far we can promise you sweaty hands, broken hearts, caffeine jitters, and tons of gore. It’s not too late it’s never too late to play along so check out today’s ads. If Jean […]