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 […]

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 […]