Bwog reader Chelsea Carrick submitted the following essay to us in what we find to be an incredibly timely response to recent events.  New York, NY—Administrators responded to students’ requests for increased transparency and improved policies surrounding sexual violence at Columbia University by baking a cake. The cake, red velvet, was tastefully decorated with fondant […]

It’s been a busy few months for the topic of sexual assault at Columbia. There have been protests and controversial responses, New York Post articles and Blue and White articles, one town hall and another town hall, and the significant use of our tag “sexual assault.” The latest development: a group of 23 students under the name […]

Fleet Foxes is still on hiatus, guys. Just give the kids some time to tend to their Columbia education. (Pitchfork) We don’t know about you, but we’re Ready for (Grandma) Hillary. (The Washington Post) The Folk Art Museum’s destruction is the MoMA’s pet preservation project. (The New York Times) The Supreme Court recently upheld Michigan’s […]

fbv807: “Abby, Michael, and Steven announcing the exciting next phase of @columbiaspec at an all-staff meeting: it will be the first Ivy paper to drop its print edition in favor of a web-first journalism reality. Paper will print weekly starting fall 2014.” Spec is currently holding a huge meeting in its office. According to a […]

If the Core has taught us anything, it’s the universal applicability of the texts we so dedicatedly devote our lives to. Every fleeting, ephemeral moment of everyday life is in fact a manifestation of the ideas, ideals, and ideologies the Core inspires us to study. Accordingly, what better reflection of these minuscule microcosms of Beauty […]

In a press release this afternoon, PrezBo announced the next dean of the Law School, Gillian Lester. Lester presently serves as the acting dean of Berkeley Law and will “bring accomplished scholarship, admired teaching and first-hand academic leadership experience at a great peer institution to her new role at Columbia.” Lester’s work has dealt primarily with employment […]

God only knows Ferris can grow stale in its weekly cycle of a menu. We know. We have the dining app and tear up a little every time we refresh the menu. But today, in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, they’ve decided to live it up while they can and have given us this […]

You’re in the home stretch. Stick it out; you’re almost there! Motivate yourself to actually write that paper due last week with this week’s cultural campus offerings, courtesy of achingly artsy Arts Editor Madysen Luebke. All Weekend: Black Theater Ensemble and CMTS have teamed up to bring Passing Strange to Columbia!  You can see this rock […]

Maybe you’ve seen the enigmatic flyers around campus urging you to text some number to “find out what Columbia is really talking about.”  Bwog did and was intrigued by the app behind the posters, Matter, which offers its users an anonymous environment to share their thoughts and to read the thoughts of others.  We set […]

You thought the only controversial ramps around here were in Lerner? Silly you. Apparently they’re also a type of onion, and people have weird amounts of feelings about them. Here are some dishes around town that feature the feisty little buggers. (Grubstreet) Peeps: you eat them once a year and promptly forget everything about their […]

Whether you celebrated 420 or Easter, you probably spent Sunday pondering the significance of your existence in one form or another. Inspired by the glorious weather, Bwog Video ventured out onto our sunny campus and asked some very happy Columbians the question of questions: What is the meaning of life?

This week’s ESC meeting was especially eventful with a surprise Varsity Show ambush. The ever ebullient engineer Aparajita Maitra gives you the lowdown. Yesterday’s ESC meeting had some exciting hidden surprises, starting with an appearance by the Varsity Show. No wonder ESC looked unusually enthusiastic in their SEAS gear. ESC was told to stand in one […]

Yesterday afternoon, Columbia College announced its 2014 valedictorian and salutatorian. Bwog interviewed this year’s CC valedictorian, Margarete Diaz Cuadros, and salutatorian, Samuel Walker, soon after. Bwog: How did you find out you were valedictorian, and how did you celebrate? Margarete: I got an email from Deantini but initially ignored it because I did not realize it was meant for […]

This bold and beautiful Earth Day got Bwog wondering: how does PrezBo measure up to the judging green eye of environmentalists?  We decided to dust off the old math textbook and do some calculations of our own.  Just how much CO2 does PrezBo emit as he drives along the Columbia campus? Assumptions: PrezBo travels back and forth […]

This teen survived a five hour flight stowed away in an airplane’s wheel well.  We were impressed, although we admit we had to look up wheel well first.  (ABC News) Trigger warning for GoT spoilers: George R.R. Martin distances himself from the events of Sunday’s episode.  We can’t believe they actually worked to make GoT […]