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 […]

One would think that oscar-winning documentarian Ric Burns, C 78, had satisfied his propagandistic and masturbatory urges with his documentary for CU 250 festivities, Columbia: A Celebration. Not so! He’s back for more, producing what’s being pitched as a “reality-like” film, about his Alma Mater. And it’s going to be narrated by Brian Dennehy! Yay! […]

Oh, how the Bwog loves drama. And trivia. Even better: trivial drama. So in the name of saving you from having to read this is the morning, the Bwog is happy to present interesting facts gleamed from Washington Post’s and the New York Times’ coverage: You know Larry Summers is out, but did you know […]

These excerpts were culled from documents left on Columbia and Barnard lab computers. We encourage our readers to submit their own digitalia finds to us, via e-mail, at bwgossip@columbia.edu. I’ve never had the urge to punch a seventy year old man, and I didn’t then, but I couldn’t believe what I was listening too.   […]

From Astrology.com: Horoscopes for February 21, 2006. Larry Summers (Born: November 30, 1954, Saggitarius) Daily Extended: If any sign is famous for always being game to try something new, it’s you. But right about now, the universe is just about insisting that you try something, believe it or not, when it comes to finances. If […]

After years of tumult, Larry Summers, president of Harvard will step down at the end of the semester. Remember, Bollinger was #2 for the Harvard job a few years ago. Certainly more on this story soon.

A Barnard tour guide reassuring a parent: “Well, actually, many students get accepted by Columbia and rejected from Barnard.”

Will Snider reports: Part of an email (“South Field Soundbites”) from Amanda Atkinson, Assistant Director for First Year Housing: In this issue you will find information about: First Year Series Events Discussion: Abortion in the Caribbean

Word has it that it costs the university 15 cents in used energy every time you press the handicapped button to open the doors into John Jay or Butler. Tuition for a full year is about $40,000, which equals 266,666 door openings. If you figure that it takes the door 5 seconds to open and […]

Jessica Cohen reports: Wondering what time Tom’s Restaurant closes on Thursday evenings, I searched for the famed diner on Wikipedia, and I found these interesting few sentences: “Tom’s Restaurant…would later become a site for pop-culture pilgrimage due to the use of its exterior for the diner in the popular television sitcom Seinfeld where Jerry and […]

First, it was New York and Vanity Fair. Now, the very eminent and very British Financial Times analyzes the blogging zeitgeist. The FT dares ask of bloggers the ultimate question of any Englishman: WWOD–What Would Orwell Do? For our own part, we’ve always insisted that all blogs are equal, but Bwog is more equal than […]