As you make your way through the snow and slush that have recently taken over our campus, consider taking shelter inside one of Columbia’s most… interesting buildings: The Seeley W. Mudd Building, home of Columbia engineering. It was built in 1966, as a celebration of Satan’s 1300th anniversary. Go ahead, make your way there—you’ll find […]

Bwog’s lifeblood is institutional memory. Britt Fossum delved into the archives of the RBML just in time for #tbt. This week’s edition just kind of happened by accident. One of the boxes of historical photographs of Columbia in the rare books and manuscript library is labelled simply Columbia: Traditions. Within this box were pictures of […]

Instead of having its normal meeting this past Monday, SGA held an open forum for students to come and speak surrounding the issues of sexual assault and gender-based misconduct on campus. Bwogger Lauren Beltrone dutifully reports. At SGA’s last meeting, CU Dems presented a petition to make changes to the current sexual assault and gender-based […]

After the flurry of responses from administration and national media alike to recent writing and activism on campus surrounding sexual assault, we present the second installment of a two-part series by Anna Bahr, BC ’14 and The Blue and White‘s recently retired Managing Editor, who spent four months reporting on and writing these pieces. The […]

Urban NY is one of the best things about being at Columbia, but it sucks to forget about it. So don’t forget this time; spring is when upperclassmen get their turn, so go register now for that baseball game/Broadway show/raw sushi dinner, unless you’ve already won (sorry). Student Engagement is pleased to offer the Urban New York […]

It’s a busy semester for all of us, and especially the SEAS students. With the launch of Engineering Week 2014, which is coinciding with SEAS 150th anniversary, it doesn’t get more programmed than this! Sun, 2/16: Opening Ceremony Dinner Roone, 7:00 – 9:00 pm Open to: entire Columbia community Sun, 2/16: Launch Week Light Display College Walk, […]

Early criticism of Obamacare’s consequences on working families might be premature; such consequences couldn’t possibly be realized until it all actually goes into effect. Would it really be a “job killer”? (The Washington Post) (NY Daily News) CVS won’t be selling cigarettes anymore as they further expand their in-store clinics. They don’t play around. (Los Angeles Times) […]

Looking for someone to woo you on the back of a motorcycle? Someone to share a Milano sandwich with you, lady-and-the-tramp-style? Someone who will warm you up after you get sprayed with icy sludge while trying to cross the street (lookin’ at you 115th street intersection)? Well look no further than Bwog to find true […]

There’s been a lot of talk lately about fostering community on campus.  Here at Bwog, we couldn’t care less have other priorities, namely, avoiding the cringe-worthy awkwardness that comes with making eye contact with people you just really don’t want to say hi to. So for everyone who just can’t bear another uncomfortable encounter on […]

Would you rather have a livefeed of people in Butler, Valentine’s Day grams, or class pajamas? We sent the Kindly Kilted Keenan Albee to listen to such important deliberations at ESC’s weekly meeting. Prep for some big upcoming events loomed over this week’s ESC meeting up in the Lerner Lair of Doom (more formally known […]

Members of the Columbia Prison Divest campaign sat down with Bwog to talk about the letter they’d sent around and had publicly submitted to PrezBo.  The campaign has only just started, but it seems the group is focused on success—they want Columbia to get rid of its investments in private prisons and, perhaps more importantly, […]

Somewhere between Homer and Thucydides, we started evaluating Lit Hum characters based not off the timeless themes of eternal glory and homecoming, but off how shitty they are as people and how good they’d be in bed. Actually, tbh that’s how we always evaluated the great works; that’s why our papers were always graded so […]

It’s the beginning of the semester so you’re still telling yourself you’ll actually “broaden your mind” and “take advantage of the city” and everything else your mom told you to do when she first saw the tuition bill. Sounds great except that it’s so damn cold and you’re so damn lazy. Solution? Arts editor Madysen […]

Everyone/many people have heard about weird porn in Butler. Our legacy, ladies and gentlemen. (NY Daily News, NY Observer, HuffPo, NY Mag) School of Public Health recently conducted a study suggesting that happier people may be likelier to have safer sex. Granted, the experiment was conducted purely on sexually active, HIV-positive men so it may […]

In which we present another preview from the upcoming edition of The Blue and White, coming to campus soon. Jen Sluka, CC ’17, brings us this report on Columbia’s investment into fossil fuels and the student groups working to divest. For other news on divestment, see here. Since Barnard Columbia Divest for Climate Justice (BCD) was […]