Vote or die, according to the Columbia Elections Board. They are hosting a candidate mixer with free pizza this Thursday for students interested in running for CCSC and ESC in the spring. Maybe this year won’t be quite as uncontested as the last, though we’re not especially hopeful. According to their Facebook event: Spring elections aren’t until late March, but we encourage […]

Just yesterday, Obama spoke out about the college sexual assault epidemic and presented a White House report detailing how “1 in 5 female students assaulted while only 1 in 8 student victims report it,” now initiating a “task force” to work on this issue. (The Washington Post) Speaking of shattering: one of the glass panes in […]

Classes begin once again, and the first class is always the time that professors try to woo you with humor and niceness before they push you into Butler for many a busy night. But hey, that doesn’t need to spoil the humor. We think some of these professors could just as well be on Comedy […]

Just a reminder that the deadline to apply for work exemption is February 4th, which is a scant two weeks away. What is work exemption, you ask? Well, Bwog is here with a brief Q&A to make the process totally simple. It’s so easy, a cat could understand it. Q: Meow. A: No, sorry, I […]

Update, 12:05 pm: CCSC President Daphne Chen has reached out to us to note that CCSC member Kareem Carryl is responsible for getting the changes made, in order to “help students feel like administrators do care at least a little about students’ lives and achievements.” Thanks, Kareem! It has come to Bwog’s intensely wanted attention that Dean’s […]

January 22nd, 2014. Columbia University. I continue my observation of the students at Columbia University. The weather is unusually cold today and snow covers the extensive walkways except where some sort of magical melting powder has been spread; this causes the students to rush from class to class with twice the speed they usually do. […]

We overheard two gentlemen at the Columbia bookstore buying their books for CC, and it doesn’t seem like they know what they’ve signed up for. Guy: I’ve got to buy two more books for CC, one’s called Three… Jinnies… and the other is by… Frehd, Frawd… Frohd?  Guy’s friend: How do you spell that?  It’s […]

Do you have a special interest? Do you eat, breathe, and sleep in your special interest? Would you like to share a living space with people who also share that special interest? Or maybe you just want to figure out your housing stuff really early? Well, here’s your chance! Special Interest Community applications are up, […]

As we start the new year, it’s nice to notice some of the new things coming. Norway’s curling team managed to one-up their 2010 Olympic uniforms when they came out with their new suits for the Sochi Olympics yesterday; Putin isn’t stopping anyone from being fabulous this year. (The New York Times) Some Vegas casinos […]

Seems like it’s a snow slow news day at CNN, because they sent a reporter to Low Steps to interview students at the snowball fight encore. They didn’t realize that, in a snowball fight, there’s no such thing as a neutral bystander.

New signs! Citi was on fire (you probably noticed that one)! The Heights is out of action for a “couple of weeks at least, maybe a couple of months” according to Spec! 

Come to the first meeting of the spring semester tonight at 9 in St. Paul’s Chapel to learn how to get involved and discuss your budding pitches for the upcoming March issue. There will be food and much merriment to be had. Writers, illustrators and copy editors are welcome! Expect a preview from the upcoming […]

Because Bwog cares, we asked resident Michigander and Features Editor Alexander Pines to spread some winter knowledge about the upcoming cold weather (in addition to the snow we’ve already gotten). In case you still don’t know how to stay warm, read this first. Update, 4:05 pm: According to an email from the Emergency Management Operations […]

Barnard’s COO (Chief Operating Officer), Greg Brown, is heading down to Swarthmore after eight years serving on the west side of Broadway. As the COO and formerly as the VP for Finance and Planning, he sponsored “Taking Care of Barnard” and in 2012 was named Administrator of the Year by SGA. The times, they are […]

Last night, as Bwog was wandering around and enjoying our last few hours of freedom before the start of classes, we stumbled upon some winter-wear adorned statues around campus. The culprits were members of Gosh Yarn It/the “IlluminKniti,” a club that, surprise, knits things. The hats and scarves carefully draped around Alexander Hamilton, Alma, the […]