Bwog has received tips from multiple RAs confirming updated RA procedures for investigating incidents of the use of marijuana in dorms: If an RA smells marijuana from a dorm room, they will initially knock on the door and, if the resident answers, the RA will write up the incident as usual. If nobody answers, however, the […]

Shia LaBeouf, everybody’s favourite actor, performance artist, and cannibal, is indulging New York with his new performance art piece titled #ALLMYMOVIES. He’s currently watching all his movies in reverse chronological order at the Angelika Film Center and you can join him. For free. (Decider) The fourth Republican debate appeared last night on Fox News, with the network co-moderating […]

Barnard College’s plethora of unique traditions (who else stuffed themselves to the gills at Big Sub, be honest) are always something to look forward to. Even though the college is undergoing some huge changes right now (RIP BarnLib) and some less-huge changes (the Magnolia is only moving a 10-second walk away, you can relax), its […]

Update 11/16: Around 4:50 this afternoon, NBC News posted an article titled “An American Missing in Paris? Family Searching for Austin Taylor,” detailing all that is known about the missing GS student. Last Tuesday, the NYPD detective in charge of Taylor’s missing persons case determined that his passport had been scanned in the French capital, leading his family to call […]

We know it’s hard to imagine ever traveling outside of the loving womb that is the Morningside Heights neighborhood, but the rewards for taking a little trip to Brooklyn can be VERY worth it… you could, for instance, discover a three-eyed catfish living in the Gowanus Canal. Or, you know, you could just have some […]

As the year wears on, you are beginning to eschew your veneer of respectability—you are really letting your true colors shine, and sometimes that means revealing you are a gross, weird, clumsy, or totally unsympathetic person. We get it: we’re ready for winter hibernation too, despite the unseasonably warm weather and 1020’s unsuccessful attempt to force […]

We bring you a final piece from this month’s Blue and White featuring an interview with Thomas Roma, courtesy of Virginia Fu. Thomas Roma is a photographer and proud Brooklyn native. He has been awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships and his work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and the International Center of […]

Bwog Decrees: It shall be known as of two hours and fifty-nine minutes post meridiem, on November the ninth, of the year two thousand and fifteen, that Ruggles Hall of Residency at Columbia University In The City Of New York is to no longer be recognized as just the rodent-infested dorm.

We found a desolate, nameless Inorganic Chemistry notebook in 340 Havemeyer today, apparently abandoned by its owner in a fit of rage and/or self-disgust. We know midterms and finals are killing you, but don’t take it out on your notebook! Pick it up by emailing us at tips@bwog.com, and we will probably get back to you. As […]

The citizens of Myanmar voted yesterday in what has been called the freest election in the country in a quarter-century. Many see this as a chance for Nobel laureate Suu Kyi Aung San Suu Kyi’s party to gain seats and play a bigger role in governing. (CNN) Less sacred than democracy in action: Queens-born Donald Trump took […]

Good news, ladies and gents. The wait is finally over. Tonight is Bwog’s Semi-Annual Big/Little Reveal!! If you want to find out which Bwogger will be your big, be sure to come to tonight’s meeting! As usual, we’ll see you in Lerner 505 at 7pm. Anyone (and everyone) is welcome! And don’t be late, you […]

Despite it being only early November, and despite many of us feeling as though NSOP was just yesterday, registration for Spring semester has already begun. We hope that by now, most of you are deep into the process of perfecting your upcoming schedule. But if not, fear not. Bwog has been procrastinating just as much […]

Lately, it seems that pot is all anyone in the news can talk about. Ohio Governor and GOP presidential candidate John Kasich appeared on The Late Show on Friday, only to be grilled by Stephen Colbert about his stance on legalizing marijuana (hint: Kasich is against decriminalization). (The Huffington Post) Chuck Rosenberg, Chief of the Drug […]

If you couldn’t tell, we’re obsessed with the November issue of the Blue and White and can’t stop sharing some of the great pieces from this month’s mag. Up next, we bring you a story by Staff Writer Yasemin Akçagüner about two major divestment groups at Columbia. When the University announced in June that it […]

Yesterday, President Obama rejected the request to build the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have created a pipeline to transport oil between Canada and the Gulf of Mexico. (NY Times) The 2016 election is already proving to be one of the greatest elections of all time, and this list of crazy things candidates have said so […]