According to a Huffington Post article from November 6, a week after No Red Tape and several other student organizations protested in support of Emma Sulkowicz’s Carry that Weight project, No Red Tape was fined $1,500 for the cleanup of that protest. The cleanup involved Columbia Facilities or Public Safety employees disposing of the mattresses that […]

Engineering epicurean Henry Litwhiler sat down with the crew behind Columbia’s home-grown, low-cost hazmat suit to get the skinny on their plans and progress.  Since the West African Ebola outbreak began in December 2013, nearly five thousand people have died and many thousands more have taken ill. Those countries most affected—Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia—suffer […]

Overheard outside of the package center: a conversation between two girls, one carrying a pair of large Gilt boxes. Girl with boxes: So I just spent $500 on clothes again. Other girl: Do your parents not notice that? Mine would call me if I spent more than $200. Girl with boxes: Maybe if I spent $1000. Pocket change via Shutterstock

President Obama has announced plans to send 1,500 more troops to Iraq to advise the government’s campaign against the Islamic State (Washington Post). The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a new challenge to the Affordable Care Act, a mere two years after the Court upheld a key provision of the law (NPR). The successor to the popular drug/weapon/passport emporium […]

A student group called Unweaving the Core is currently preparing for a performance of The Odyssey which will take place throughout multiple floors of Hamilton in April. The group, which includes Core Scholars and other student group members, is seeking passages from other works that relate to the Odyssey and its themes—including enslavement, migration, and […]

If you’ve been reading the weekly sports updates, you know that our field hockey team is on a tear this season. They’ve won six in a row, and they own a 5-1 Ivy record, capstoned by the program’s first ever win over the powerhouse of Princeton. This Saturday, they play Harvard in Cambridge, and if […]

We all have relationship troubles. Some of us are more promiscuous than others which creates problems, and sometimes we aren’t promiscuous enough. Bwog thought these two lost souls go hand in hand and maybe could help each other out. If you work at it we know you can forge the type of relationship you want.   Dear […]

You go to the #1 most rigorous college. So feel good about yourself. You can do life. Go rock the world and pat yourself on the back. Don’t get to obnoxious about it…please (The Daily Beast). Feeling the need for some home-style pumpkin spice flavored food? Go try Umami Burger’s Pumpkin Spice Latte Burger…ew (Gothamist)? […]

Today, in a very special #tbt, we come together as a community, to remember a time long past. Some would call it a golden age; some would reject it as cultural fantasy, nostalgia for a time that never was, an escape for the harsh reality of now. We leave meaning to be assigned by our progeny, […]

Columbia, it’s time to get manic. Tonight is your annual chance to express the basketball-related excitement we know you’ve been bottling up all year. That’s right — it’s time for Basketball Mania, an event which one misguided Bwogger describes as “second only to Bacchanal.” Doors open at 8:15 in Levien Gym, but the Mania itself will run from […]

Last year, you saw Raising the Bar for the first time. For the first time at a bar, you actually learned something you can remember the next day write home about. Fifty lectures were given at fifty bars in one night. Yesterday was the second rendition. We interviewed one of the organizers, Yuli Luvish, to learn more about […]

It may be time to put away your go to excuse, the impossible distance between Columbia and anything… at all really. Two comedians are organizing the crowdfund of the Harlem Independent Theater, meaning you might soon be able to indulge in all the affectations of the village without having to endure the forty minute train […]

The time has come again for us to announce the winners of our Annual Halloween Costume & Pumpkin Carving Contests! The winners are… First Place Costume: Salmon in Columbia Boy Shorts From our winner’s email: “I’m probably not the first girl to print out Keanu Ross-Cabrera’s profile picture in Hartley Computer Lab, but at least […]

Even though the stress of midterms is mostly behind us, the stress of midterm grades isn’t. If things didn’t go as well as you hoped, Bwog is here to help with a customisable email template that you can send your professor. It might not be too late to turn things around! Dear Bwog, I just got […]

Would you like to make your drinking habits more scholarly? Tonight is Raising the Bar’s latest event “Knowledge Meets Beer”–different lectures are being held at different bars all across the city, so if you bought tickets, be sure to go check it out. Each talk starts at 7:30 pm, and the topics range from analyzing the […]