Dear Bwog, If I end up in the unfortunate situation that is choosing to Pass/D/Fail a course, will my professor know that I’ve done so? Love and rockets, Questionable Student Dear Questionable Student, We’ve been wondering the same thing, and thought we might go to the source on this one. We reached out, and earned […]

Ah, the first SGA meeting of the New Year. After introducing a few new faces and sharing some semester-ly goals, SGA listened to the CU Dems present a petition addressing Columbia’s handling of sexual assault. Bwogger Lauren Beltrone reports. **TRIGGER WARNING FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT & RAPE ON A COLLEGE CAMPUS** Armed with their trusty placards […]

And on this day, Bwog turns eight years old. Happy birthday to us! All we want is to see our friends, listen to some good music, and eat some cute cake. (YouTube) (Buzzfeed) Jay Z can crash our party whenever he wants. (NY Post) Would you pay $80 for some time with a professional cuddler? That seems… […]

While patrolling the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Bwog happened upon correspondence between Saint Augustine and Dante Aligheri. This is not what you learned in LitHum, ye tender first-years. Read on, but only if you dare for an adventure of love, sex…and actually yeah, mostly just sex. My Dear Lover and Savior, Dante, I have […]

If you are interested in volunteering opportunities through Columbia organizations, be sure to drop by Community Impact’s 32nd Annual Spring Open House. Community Impact is a nonprofit serving disadvantaged people in the Morningside Heights community. They are an umbrella organization for multiple community service groups at Columbia University, which collectively serve 8,000 people each year. Their […]

Class of 2014, have you finished paying off your school loans? Not yet you say? Well come to this years Spring Semester Senior Fund Kickoff anyways so that you can “give back to Columbia College.” Columbia College Senior Fund 2014 is being held tonight at 7:30pm at the Columbia Alumni Center.  At the event, Dean Valentini will be speaking about the 3-2-1 […]

Bwog sent Features Editor Alexander Pines to get the scoop on recent Dems and USenate activism on campus. Here’s his report. Following up on their October 9th petition to increase transparency in Columbia’s reporting of sexual assault and other gender-based misconduct, the Columbia Democrats, in association with several other student groups as part of the Coalition Against […]

Bwogger Keenan Albee went to ESC’s first meeting of the semester. He ate way too much greasy pizza there. But don’t worry about that, just read the summary. The tables were strewn with pizzas with care, in hopes that ESC soon would be there. And they were. And they ate them. And then everyone spoke […]

It has come to our attention that the majority of the class of 2017 is not aware that they are about to get screwed by the housing process. To a greater or lesser degree, your housing next year is going to be, shall we just say, less than excellent. While some come to love the […]

Update (1/30, 1:15 pm): Several deans, including Dean Valentini, Dean Boyce, Dean Awn, and Dean Martinez, emailed a statement to Barnard and Columbia undergraduates this afternoon. It’ll be under the jump. Update (9:50 am): Debora Spar, President of Barnard College, emailed a statement to Barnard College. Find it after the jump as well. At 9 am […]

The State of the Union happened yesterday, and it probably means a lot of things to a lot of people. (NY Times) Scientists have spent lots of money to learn that jellyfish will in fact eat peanut butter. That’s about all there is to it. (GrindTV) Pope Francis made the cover of Rolling Stone. This is […]

So we all knew that Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard revitalized Columbia’s School of Mines, but did you know that he also founded Columbia’s School of Mimes? Just kidding, not really, but he was actually deaf. According to Professor James C Egbert, who knew him when he was President of Columbia: He was very deaf, and […]

It has recently come to Bwog’s attention that the awkward little area between Hartley and Wallach has a name, and that name is the Taint Gate. WikiCU quotes the administration as saying the name comes from the fact that the area “T’aint part of Hartley and t’aint part of Wallach.” However, if they were trying to […]

Because it’s that magical time of the year when Bwog wants to make sure we know at least one kid in our massive Russian lit lecture (what? Don’t hate on Tolstoy), we sent Features Editor Alexander Pines to CourseWorks-land in order to find out why your roster page likely has nothing but grey faces. Here’s […]

Remember that time your aunt/uncle/extended-family-member-who-doesn’t-really-care-about-you asked you how you were doing at “Bernard”? Trick question. The answer is “That has literally never not happened.” Well, the College itself has been a victim of the same ignorance, on a sign on some scaffolding on Milbank: Barnard replied to the tweet: Nope, still Barnard! The scaffolding company […]