In an official announcement on Columbia alums nominated for Oscars: Brokeback Mountain has been the film to beat this awards season. Aside from its Oscar nominations for best director, best actor, best supporting actor (Jake Gyllenhaal, CC ’02) … He was supposed to graduate in 2004. He didn’t–he dropped out to play a gay cowboy. […]

From “Revealed Preference Determinants of Mate Selection: Evidence from an Experimental Dating Market“: “We find that male behavior is very well explained by a simple model date-quality maximization. By contrast, we find a number of patterns in female choices that are inconsistent with this model.” No wonder they call it the dismal science. Funky abstract […]

Gothamist discovers the Splogs And, yes, we’ve decided to re-christen the Spec Blogs the Splogs. Any objections?

Not an insignificant number of Columbia security guards are hovering around the front door of Butler, claiming on that there has been an “incident.” For the Bwog’s readership’s sake, let’s hope it’s a good one. Update: Interest seems to be swirling around one middle-aged woman… witness? culprit? Please not another public diddler.

Last week, city health inspections revealed that Barnard and the Law School have no hygiene, fulfilling the dreams of cheap shot artists everywhere. But they weren’t the worst the neighborhood has seen; that honor went to campusfood.com staple Giovanni’s last November, which was awarded a whopping 58 points for mice, roaches, mold and insects. Closed […]

Meet the new kid on the block.

So far, only a few advertisers have realized the power of Facebook to reach extremely specific demographics: today Maharishi University of Management joins their ranks. Organizers of their David Lynch Weekend seem to be banking on the hope that Columbia is the place to reach kids who are both indie film fans and potential cult […]

Posters for the Taiwanese Student Association’s spring general meeting (with seductively posed Asian women): Haiku – ‘The Freaky feeling’ She gives me a look Sweating, I walk towards her Damn yellow fever. The haiku is a traditional Japanese form of poetry, making the TSA’s statement either a capitulation to the imperialist force of Japanese culture, […]

Normally the Bwog isn’t one for TV watching, much preferring online trash talking, but we might make an exception tonight. At 8 and 11 the Discovery Channel (channel 28 on campus) is screening Werner Herzog’s 2005 documentary Grizzly Man with repeats at the same times tomorrow. An impressive number of critics agree this is one […]

From Bored at Butler: So looking at a hot celebrity is emotional cheating? My gf and I love eachother, and the only emotions I feel when I look at an attractive girl are physical ones. The reason it’s not a problem is because we know that our relationship is so strong in every aspect, there […]

In the information age, Rome can be built in a day. Here are some highlights from our first week of existence: – Bored at Butler: enemy, or groupie? – The Definitive Guide to Butler Sex. Seriously. – Middle School Girls Experimenting. But not with each other. – Rent Fellini! For free! Or, get almost-free almost-porn! […]

In which we give you your morning news round-up, saving you time for Sudoku-solving. •Glass House rocked, food tables ravaged, lights eeried out, Student Council congratulates self. •$15 million to hire diverse professors but ‘not every diverse candidate to come through the Diversity office.’ Diverse! •Hey, Pa! Take the kids ’cause I’m movin’ to NEW […]

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