This is just a friendly/frantic reminder that the applications to be a Staff Writer for Bwog are due tomorrow night at 12:01 am.  If you enjoy writing pretty much anything—because we cover anything—or if you hate writing but are awesome at it, this is an opportunity you won’t want to miss.  Start (or finish) your application now! In […]

Even if you avoid Butler like the plague, you’ve probably spent a few hours in Columbia’s biggest library building. Do you even know the first thing about it? NO GOOGLING THE ANSWERS.

This morning, PrezBo sent out the following email, announcing the resignation of M. Dianne Murphy—who, according to PrezBo, oversaw “an unprecedented record of success”—from her position as Director of Intercollegiate Athletics and Physical Education.  She will remain in her position until the end of the academic year. This comes almost a year after the heated […]

After the major upset(s) in the men’s division at the U.S. Open this week, Marin Cilic of Croatia beat Kei Nishikori in the final last night.  We’re just happy someone with a palindromic last name FINALLY won. (Washington Post) We can’t actually quote any of Howard Stern’s eulogy for Joan Rivers, BC ’54, but we […]

U.S. News just released this year’s edition of their rankings for national universities and liberal arts colleges, and Columbia University is still ranked 4th, after jumping to the position in 2010 from 8. This year, Columbia also shares its spot with both U Chicago and Stanford. Barnard also maintained its ranking from last year, sharing #32 with Bucknell […]

The first weekend of the semester went probably as well or as terrible as you expected. Some claimed the seat in Butler they will occupy until December while others continued to slop without the ‘n.’ Either way, it was quite the weekend to not remember. Here we bring you the first field notes of the school year. Tell […]

It looks like the controversy over Columbia’s efforts to prevent sexual assault is starting to have an impact on alumni giving. Calvin D Sun, a former President of Columbia College Young alumni and prominent donor, wrote a public Facebook post last Wednesday declaring: If there are existing institutions in place that impede reporting of sexual […]

Check out our latest piece from The Blue and White, in which Senior Editor Channing Prend, CC ’17, has a chat over chicken and rice with one of the Hooda guys. Like what you read? Want to see your name in beautiful blue print someday? Come to The Blue and White‘s first meeting of the year, this Tuesday, […]

Yesterday, CCSC released the comprehensive spring semester report you never knew you needed. It includes a list of completed and in progress initiatives, events (throwback to the Major Discovery event with the rotten turkey) and the attendance sheet for the semester (#transparency). It’s a nice Issuu document, check it out. CCSC also wants you to […]

Kate has produced an heir and now she’s working on the spare! There’s going to be a royal sibling! (Yahoo News) Columbia Law Professor (and the person who basically invented net neutrality) Tim Wu is running in tomorrow’s primary election for Lieutenant Governor of New York State. (Gothamist) Reddit banned the subreddit r/thefappening, which was […]

Recently, Bwog received a tip that included the following disturbing information: “Public Safety infiltrates student groups. Seriously. If you start to organize, they send in people, or just one person, to your meeting and spy on you, and bring that intel back to the senior administration…. Some of their plain-clothes officers look (and in some […]

While pirating scanning a book, Bwog noticed that Butler 213 is getting a color printer this year! No more walking down to the 2nd floor of Mudd just to be ripped off for color printing, or waking up your floor mate at 2 am to save some money. The print station has apparently been there since […]

It’s the night you’ve all been waiting for. Bwog’s first open meeting is tonight, 7 PM in the SGO on the 5th floor of Lerner. Be there or be square. Snacks and pizza will be had, conspiracy theories will be discussed without sarcasm, and there will be dancing like you see below. New writers: we’ll be […]

Continued measures to control Ebola include imposing a restrictive quarantine in Sierra Leone. Several groups have spoken out about the dangers of such a coercive and fear-motivated approach. (NY Times). Tennis upset: Djokovic and Federer lost in the semifinals in the US open to Kei Nishikori and Marin Cilic respectively. (ABC/AP) In 10 days time, […]

This summer, floors 1, 7, and 8 of McBain—the notoriously disgusting but charming sophomore dorm—were completely renovated. A former penthouse resident, Anna Hotter, visited her old home and has a lot of feelings about it. Do you remember that 2007 rom-com with Dane Cook and Jessica Alba, where every woman who sleeps with the Dane Cook character […]