Oh, snap! Gothamist hates on Barnard’s new student center. We don’t think it’s that ugly– do you?

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. This reading was a little daunting. My familiarity with mathematics separated me quite completely from the subject matter, due in part to my own repulsion to […]

•All you have to know about Nexus, the new Barnard student center, is that it is the anti-McIntosh. •Columbia might nab now-defunct Metro Theater at 99th and Broadway. •New wave of undergraduate magazines appearing (and B&W giggles over name appearing in print). •Eric Foner greatest thing since sliced bread and penicillin.

The February issue of the Blue & White is out and about and in a dorm near you. In a special section on “Race at Columbia”, Josie Swindler discusses the lack of minority staffers on campus publications, David Plotz tries to get some answers about affirmative action, and Hector Chavez reassures you that you’re not […]

A man in the field reports that while he was making a mess of trying to put together a John Jay ‘fajita’ with Dining Services’ rather weak tortillas, a fellow behind him remarked to a friend, “You know, more people really ought to smoke weed. Then they’d know how to wrap these things properly.”

A girl spent the majority of today’s Introduction To Photography class ignoring the lecture, choosing instead to peruse Facebook photo albums on her laptop. Next period: Introduction to Irony.

Bwog has just received a tip from a reader that all prospective salad-eaters at Uris Dining Hall now must fill out a form to complete their order. Help us figure out what’s going on before it’s too late by sending your tips — pictures are appreciated! — to bwgossip@columbia.edu.

An empty puff piece on South Asian studies at Columbia (“Of Columbia’s many ties with South Asia, India is probably the strongest”) ends with a dazzling flourish of geopolitical hubris: “the buzz about Columbia’s newly revitalized South Asia program will soon be spreading all over the Subcontinent.” Just like militant Islam! Um, the world is […]

Everyone knows the Superbowl is about the commercials so let’s all thank Google Video for aiding the marketing cause and putting them online so quickly. Recommended viewing after the jump.

• The verdict on Columbia recycling is that some of us try, some of us don’t. •Columbia basketball loses to Harvard and Darmouth… but not by so much. •In related news, CU’s basketball promotions impersonal, impossible, cheap. •Miriam Datskovsky presents: An entire column on the benefits and acceptability of anal sex, which, as she admits […]

A Craigslist posting under Women Looking for Men: Beware: Academics are Players Date: 2006-02-05, 1:07PM EST Watch out for these self described nerd types. It is a front. They are unusually cunning individuals due to their intellect and can use incisive language at the wrong time (like in the middle of sex). They look to […]

Last night Lerner’s Black Box theater, Egg and Peacock offered the amusement of 10 plays which hadn’t existed 24 hours prior. Led by Abigail Broberg and Rosalind Grush, playwrights converged at 8pm Friday, burned the midnight oil, and left their directors at 6am Saturday with a play to read, cast, rehearse, and present by 8pm. […]

Marvel Comics and the Travel Channel have put out together a Superhero’s Guide to New York City which includes our fair Columbia. Doesn’t answer the question whether Daredevil and Spiderman ever bumped into each other, though. (Hat tip: Gothamist)

Henry Coleman, former Columbia Dean, passed away last week at age 79. Coleman was at the center of two of Columbia’s most troubling events: in ’68 he was taken hostage by students upset over planned expansion and in ’72 he was shot five times by undergrad suspended for poor academic performance. While Coleman officially left […]

West Campus is the place for Superbowl mooching. Kick-off is at 6:30 pm with the free food starting in River’s basement at 5:00 pm and then switching over to Hillel at 6:00 pm. While the West End and Nacho’s seem to have the alcohol advantage, we can’t imagine it’s too hard to sneak a little […]