This week, Georgia Tech’s Phi Delta Theta chapter has been accused of using racial slurs against a fellow female student. While the fraternity insists the allegation is false, the fraternity has received disciplinary action. Luckily, Columbia’s greek life would never be that problematic, right? (Huffington Post) Ashes, ashes, we all fall down! After months of […]

If you were anywhere in the vicinity of Low Steps yesterday around 5pm, you probably could probably hear Columbia Divest for Climate Justice’s (CDCJ’s) protest. The protesters spent almost a full hour continuously shouting songs and chants, describing why it is Columbia’s social responsibility to divest from the fossil fuel industry. Nearby, CDCJ representatives handed […]

Starting today, all new Tesla Model S cars will be receiving a new software update that includes – get ready for this – autopilot. The upgrade could cost up to $3,000 for older vehicles, but many drivers who bought their cars in the last year have already purchased a package including the exciting new feature. […]

There’s a lot of free food being handed out tonight, and Bwog is here to make sure you know about it. For dinner, join Barnard’s McIntosh Activities Council in their annual Big Sub tradition. That’s right, you can claim a piece (or many pieces) of the 715 foot long sub at Lehman Lawn tonight at […]

Take some time out of this hump day to enjoy some cool tunes at Live at Lerner. Come to the Lerner Hall Piano Lounge between 1 and 2 PM to see Side Saddle live. Who are Side Saddle? They’re a cool indie folk/pop band, according to their Facebook page, from Astoria. Lunch will be served when […]

You definitely watched first Democratic debate last night, right? Well, we did. If you didn’t you should definitely see it here. Our Benghazi count: three. (CNN) SABMiller brewer accepted a bid from the largest brewer AB Inbev, meaning every one in three pints downed world wide will be from AB Inbev. Damn. (WSJ) President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, quoted […]

It’s here. Your academic advisor’s least favorite day of the year: the Drop Deadline. Today’s the hard deadline to drop a class, so start composing those frantic emails to your dean that will inevitably be met with a kind but firm reply of “No, sorry, you can’t drop all your classes except Strength Training and […]

Apparently no one in New York knows who Chris Pratt is, and if New York doesn’t know you exist, do you really exist at all? Poor guy. (CBS) Bwog favorite Paul Ryan may or may not run for Speaker of the House of Representatives. If he doesn’t, anarchy may ensue, with a dozen or so […]

Remember our College Walk archetypes? This time, Bwog tackles East Campus—a dream within a nightmare within a dream, the buildings that dominate your daytime musings and inform your party-seeking behavior/senior entitlement complex. In this edition, an unrepentant Sarah Dahl delves into the mind of the imminently mockable EC smoker.  There’s no better place to light up a […]

From a week of incessant testing (“midterms”), indecisive weather, and widespread incredulity over the first Columbia football victory in three years (!!!), emerge love, sex, disappointment, and Butler (always in the backdrop)—just don’t go as far as the dead bird we found, gone too soon from the NYC skyline. Congrats to all first-years for surviving their […]

The University has approved major revisions to the Rules of University Conduct for the first time since 1989. The changes are meant to focus on student journalism in Columbia, as well as freedom of expression for every member of the community (the rights to demonstrate, rally, and petition are protected).  The biggest revisions make the court process […]

Columbia University’s Native American Council will be celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day today, in lieu of Columbus Day, and with good reason—so take this opportunity to cast off second-grade history (replete with offensive pageants and revisionist history) and stop moaning about having class today. They will be on College Walk all day to promote several activities: there […]

Staten Island is known for its infamously large landfill (a fitting symbol for the distinctively #trash borough), the unbelievably cramped Staten Island Ferry (creeps galore!), and the Jersey Shore cast members who hail from this distant island—but other stuff happens here, like half-marathons! Congrats to the winners. (SI Live) You know you’re actually dying to figure […]

We received a tip that an RA in John Jay was CAVA’d by their students this past week. They have since been fired. Another source tells us that the RA was found lying unconscious in a bathroom stall. The source had to crawl under the door to help said person out of the stall because the stall […]

A Bwog staff writer and committed concertgoer delivers a slice of the sounds of the other John Adams of modern composition. John Luther Adams, a standout in the world of American composition and the recipient of Columbia’s William Schuman Award for 2015, closed out a three-concert series of performances this past Saturday at the Miller Theatre. “Extraordinary Listening: […]