Good morning, Columbia! Looks like a lovely day to have your hopes and dreams crushed, doesn’t it? Welcome to the first day of Housing 2014! Because today is the very first day of Housing, these lucky few will probably be skipping the dream-crushing and moving straight onto the best Housing has to offer. We’re going […]

CCSC has recently granted the the Lion Credit Union Initiative (LCUI), a group working to build a credit union for the Columbia community, placement of an initiative on the next ballot. The group hopes to work with individual student councils, graduate schools, faculty and staff, and students to demonstrate support for the creation of a not-for-profit, […]

Remember when Kev$ho went to Johns Hopkins? Interim Dean of Student Affairs Terry Martinez is too, according to an email just sent out by Deantini and Dean Boyce. Martinez is to become the Associate Vice Provost and Dean of Student Life. Just last November, Martinez noted how she didn’t want the permanent position, but wanted […]

Bwog recently received a nice nugget of gossip about Dean Linda P. Fried, dean of the Mailman School of Public Health.  Rumor has it that she will be resigning sometime in the near future.  Read the tip, from a “student and administrative assistant affiliated with the institution,” and see for yourself. I have recently been […]

Be sure to check out our new website redesign. We hope u like it!! Bacchanal will be canceled this year because Columbia forgot to reserve the Low steps.  A town hall meeting will be held to discuss the matter on May 16 at 11:59 pm. (Bwog) PrezBo’s notoriously absent wife has officially been revealed to […]

After weeks of speculation and some recent drama, Lupe Fiasco will be performing at Bacchanal, as Spectrum released before the 12 am embargo on the information and as the Bacchanal statement reads below. Get ready to pregame early (but not as early as last year), as Bacchanal is slated to start at 1 pm. Expect Flaxo and […]

Confused about the immense number of people running for the upcoming elections for CCSC, ESC, and University Senate? So were we. So we decided to e-mail all of them. All candidates were asked to respond to the three following questions: What do you/your party bring to the table? What issues are most important to you? […]

And thus we continue with our pre-frosh profiles. Just think—they’ll even be making a special appearance on campus soon! Try to hide your Bacchanal hangover. Hometown: Austin, Texas School: CC Prospective Major: Environmental Science, but open to change Prospective Dorm: Carman Why Columbia? I chose Columbia because I felt that compared to other Ivy Leagues […]

Besides the debates and elections surrounding USenate and the Student Councils, we are still having normal procedure of the current councils.  This week we pushed our dutiful Council Correspondent Joe Milholland to tell us everythang about new UEM policies, leave of absences, internships, and more.  At this Sunday night’s CCSC meeting, class of 2016 President […]

Chicago and LA-based EDM DJs The White Panda will the headlining this year’s Columbia Music Festival, the awkward Wednesday concert in Roone Arledge Auditorium at 8 pm (doors at 7:30, so plan to get in line earlier than that) on April 9th. Students don’t need to pick anything up from TIC but should bring CUID and have it […]

Have you been feeling reflective about the Core? Feel like some work of humanities has inspired you so deeply that you’re willing to submit a piece of work for the chance at $200? Were you really busy recently but aren’t anymore? Then you should be partying like it’s 1999 because the deadline for Core Reflections […]

According to the New York Post, an unnamed Columbia runner apprehended his own aggressor when a secondhand ticket deal went awry. The student purchased two tickets to a Sweet Sixteen NCAA tournament game for $210 off a Craiglist advertisement, but when he met the salesman outside Madison Square Garden the scam artist took his cash […]

The filming on College Walk and Broadway between 116th and 117th today is for Still Alice. According to IMDB, it’s based on a novel by the same name about a (Columbia?) professor who discovers she’s suffering from Alzheimer’s, and co-stars Kristen Stewart and Alec Baldwin. Please send your stealth pics of the celebs to tips@bwog.com […]

It’s that time of year again and the USenate election looks pretty interesting and competitive this year.  Sophomores Ramis Wadood, Daniel Liss, and Daniel Stone are running alongside junior Michael MacKay and freshdude Jacob Johnson.  The debate ranged the topics of Quality of Life surveys, Title IX, course evals, accountability and more.  It was definitely […]

Careful and delicate is the name of the game for the team opening up the 9/11 Memorial Museum soon. Many questions have arisen about how to best serve the community with the opening events surrounding the museum’s opening. (NYT) An international climate change panel warned the world yesterday that we need to be super duper careful […]