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 […]

Craving sugar and don’t feel like going downtown (and dropping serious cash)? Soon enough you will be able to buy knock-off cronuts at Dunkin’ Donuts. (Gothamist) Twitter is building a sky bridge between its two office buildings in San Francisco so its employees don’t have to walk outside. (Valleywag) How many pumpkin-flavored products did you consume this weekend? […]

The new issue of our dearest Mother Magazine, The Blue and White, is out on campus now! Find it in the Lerner racks, Butler, Hamilton, or in your dorm’s lounge! To celebrate, we’re posting this month’s ATSL from staff writer Virginia Fu, CC ’17, and senior editor Naomi Sharp, CC ’15, searching for the answer to […]

Before we all board our trains back to Westchester for Fall Break, Bwog Video brings you its spooky Halloween Special. And what could be scarier than a Tinder date? Join Bwog Video! Shoot us an email at video@bwog.com to get in on the action.

Happy fall break, friends! Your essays and problem sets, your aches and pains, the taste of the dining hall in your mouth and sweet drone of your professors in your ears…let these stay behind and out of your thoughts. Not that we don’t love you, but Bwog needs a little me-time. Unless it’s something important […]

Perhaps you’ve already made your plans for tomorrow night; perhaps you’re scrambling to find some. Rest assured, no matter where you’re at now, the perfect party is waiting for you… if you can get in. Bwog can’t come down to let you in — we would but it’s so crazy up here and we forgot to […]

Gather round Columbians! Huddle, together with us, around the crackling blue light of your laptop screen (you might want to get that checked).  Warm your hands on the keyboard, take in that crisp fall air, that slightly dank post-midterm despair, and celebrate terror as we only can when the world gets cold and the darkness grows. […]

You’ve probably noticed the small colony of food trucks that appears every day at lunch time between 116th and 117th on the Columbia side of Broadway. Bwog sent regular Jacques Food-Cartier Maud Rozee to explore its deliciousness, and tell you what it was like. Yesterday, there were no less than five carts competing to sell me Chinese […]

To start us off: the Columbia University Medical Center, apparently among the ten worst hospitals in the state when judged on wait time, will be taking significant steps to facilitate the flow of patients through its emergency room. (New York Daily News) Moving on to the story of the moment, our ‘Carry That Weight’ protest […]

Earlier today, hundreds of people took to Low Steps with mattresses and banners in support of survivors of sexual assault and in protest of the Columbia administration’s mishandling of the issue. The Day of Action and rally were part of the Carry That Weight campaign, a national movement started by activists at Columbia to support survivors […]

This month, students from the Coalition Against Gentrification published a document entitled “Understanding Columbia University’s Expansion into West Harlem: An Activist’s Guide.” The guide aims to bring together all of the disparate information on Columbia’s expansion into one easily accessible resource. The document includes census data and statistics on the neighborhoods surrounding Columbia, as well as information […]