It’s that time of the year again: spring everlasting winter! And that can mean only one thing—the annual installment of Bwog’s housing reviews.  And now the coveted EC high-rises. Location: 70 Morningside Dr. Nearby dorms: Wien and Plimpton. Stay home basically. Stores and restaurants: Che Bella, HamDel, Appletree Market, SubsConscious, and in some sense (a hopeful if not particularly accurate sense, Max and […]

A new fence in front of the tourist section of the White House is coming along with a new President in 2016. (NY Times) In an effort to address its low levels of tourism since 2011, Egypt has released a new visa law in which tourist visas will only be granted to groups traveling with a […]

Get your anchors ready girls, because tonight is Bwog’s Semi-Annual Big/Little Reveal! This will take place during our weekly chapter meeting tonight at 7PM in Lerner’s SGO (Room 505). Anyone is welcome to attend and light refreshments will be served! Join us tonight as we discuss housing and Bacchanal, and find out which one of these lovely members […]

Location: 508 West 114th Street Nearby dorms: John Jay, LLC, Carman, Brownstones, Broadway Stores and restaurants: Strokos, Artopolis, JJs, Hamdel, St. Luke’s (important). It’s basically on Amsterdam, but the blocks immediately around it aren’t the most happening. Cost: $9,470/year (same as Claremont, EC, Hogan, Watt, Woodbridge, SIC’s, and Brownstones. More money than last year.) Amenities: Bathrooms: Two full baths […]

March Madness is in full swing which means that it’s time for another round of Liewitness News! Which school are you rooting for: University of Phoenix or DeVry University? (Huffington Post) What scares a New Englander more than Tom Brady jumping off a cliff? Gisele Bündchen posting a Facebook video of Tom Brady jumping off a cliff. […]

Navigating the mundanities of campus life can seem like a chore, in no small part because “the mundanities of…life” is more or less the definition of chore. Walking to a class or meal, operating an elevator or staircase, doing laundry—all while preoccupied by the Big Questions we’re meant to be confronting at an institution as illustrious as […]

Clamoring for March Madness coverage? Of course not. You’re Columbia University, and also our mothers. Well, we have some for you anyway, sure to please everyone from the most diehard bracketheads to those who actually attend this school. A Bwog staffer shares her story of love, loss, and basketball brackets.  The competition is real right now – […]

Inexplicably extant smartphone manufacturer BlackBerry (formerly Research In Motion) has announced its lowest quarterly sales in eight years, though it somehow managed to sell 1.6 million handsets over the period. (Financial Times) Senator Harry Reid has announced that he won’t be seeking a sixth term in 2016, thereby ending what will have been a ten-year […]

The Bacchanal Executive Board has released the following official statement with updates to this year’s concert and ticket policy. An addition 2,000 tickets for the lawns will be released in addition an extra 400 Low Plaza tickets. Refunds will be provided for all who bought tickets earlier this month. The full text is included below: […]

This afternoon, CCSC released a press release stating the council would pay up to $11,164 for 2,000 additional students to attend Bacchanal on top of the original ticket sales earlier this month. This payment would also open the West Lawn and the Butler Lawn to allow for students to stand during the concert. The 2,000 […]

A week out from Bacchanal and the troubles continue to mount. Every day, new reports come in on our site and others, statements are issued by student government bodies you have never heard of, confusions are placed on top of confusions are placed on well-intentioned bureaucratic nightmares. And now, rain in the forecast. Surely, this […]

Professor Mercer talks about Columbia when comparing the experience teaching here and teaching in prison. (Washington Post) Former N.B.A. player Troy Murphy talks about Columbia in describing what it’s like to go back to school here. (New York Times) Forbes talks about Columbia when they evaluate the significance of the recent administrative decision to close […]

The Spectator reported on a proposal sent to the Undergraduate Student Councils this morning. ESC has just released an official response approving the proposal and funding a subsidy to help with the costs of opening the lawns and hiring safety personnel. The full text of the ESC proposal is included below. Post will be updated […]

Spring break’s over. It’s somehow still cold. You’ve just flunked three consecutive midterms. Zayn left One Direction. We get it; March sucks. Here, our resident music aficionado and features editor Tatini Mal-Sarkar brings you precisely one hour’s worth of angry, angsty music to get you through these really terrible days. 1. Suffocation — Crystal Castles […]