Professors understand your need to express yourself creatively. Even computer science professors.  Students taking Prof. John Kender’s Honors Intro to Computer Science course found an odd question when they opened their evals: Discuss: David Sanborn and Kenny G have degraded the art of saxophone playing by selling out to the mass market. After the survey […]

The last of the proposals of how to spend the $32,000 endowment are in. Remember: you can’t vote on them, but your trusty SGA representatives can. Go cajole them. Bwog Barnard Babe Lauren Beltrone reports. Before we go into the new proposals, it’s worth mentioning that SGA has a new VP of Communications! Emily Klein […]

Heyyyyyy, so this is kind of a big deal:  Noam Chomsky, MIT professor and long time genius badass radical, is having his second of three speeches for Columbia Philosophy’s prestigious Dewey Lectures tonight.  The title of the speech is “What Can We Understand?”  It will be at 6:15 in Davis Auditorium on the fourth floor […]

Well, it’s that time of year again folks.  That time that makes us feel warm, fuzzy, and excited about the possibility of gifts: finals time!  the holiday season!  And naturally that means the very exciting annual Tree Lighting and Yule Log Ceremony! The lighting of the trees ceremony will begin at 6pm tonight at College Walk […]

Recently, an intrepid tipster sent us this link from the ancient burial grounds of the Columbia network. It’s older than Old Courseworks, which is older than New Courseworks (or just Courseworks now?), which we suppose makes it Old Old Courseworks. Some gems from the site include: An old Frontiers of Science slideshow that assures us […]

MoHo has been experiencing some serious fog this morning. Bwog has capitalized on getting perfect Instagram pictures taking a few shots of the gloomy weather. Stay safe out there, kiddos.

Under a new government-funded program, the city of Amsterdam is giving street cleaning jobs to alcoholics that will be partially paid in beer. Beer is pretty much rebellion, right? (NYT) Microsoft is following in the footsteps of other major companies like Mozilla, Google, Facebook and Twitter in upping its encryption and security to protect users from […]

Thursday, Dec. 12th, 11:59pm, Butler 209. Be there. The Columbia University Marching Band’s Orgo Night will be sure to make you scream. with laughter.

Winter is coming. The star of Disney’s new movie Frozen, Maud Rozee brings you the story of your walk to school today/next week since it wasn’t actually that cold today. You wake up in your overheated dorm. Ahhh, you left your shoes too close to the heater and now the whole room has that weirdly […]

*Ring Ring* “Yello?” “Hi this is Bwog. We just wanted to ask you if” *Click* “Gah, what a dick.” It is looking to be about that time of year again. Classes are ending, review sessions are happening, and teachers are saying some weird shit. Bwog, of course, wants to hear about it! Be sure to […]

This week’s exciting turn of events at ESC is brought to you by finals—making your life miserable since now. This explanation of the last ESC (for this semester) is brought to you by Keenan Albee, headmaster of all that is engineering. Though it may have been ESC’s last meeting of the semester, the council certainly […]

Today is the 2nd annual Hillel Night at the Lions, that magical event where Columbia/Barnard Hillel join up with the Columbia University Men’s Basketball team to do things. Go to the Kraft Center for food and fun before Columbia’s big game against the US Army. If you have an event that you would like covered, please feel free […]

Aquanaut Arts Editor Madysen Luebke brings you the best of Columbia’s music, art and dance scene. Now it’s up to you to attend, and show support for our numerous Columbia groups. If we are missing some events, be sure to email them to us at  events@bwog.com.  All Weekend: New Opera Workshop presents Opera Untapped, a show filled with […]

For their last event of the semester Live at Lerner presents Sounds #6, yet another fun-filled lunch with live music. Did we mention that it is FREE? If you are interested in stuff that you don’t have to pay for, head over to the Piano Lounge from 12pm- 1pm.  The band ECHOREV: Self-described as a “new breed of indie rock: electrified […]

Researchers at the Columbia University Medical Center have been able to turn human stem cells into working lung and airway cells. This is the first time that this has ever been done. Some Pre Med kid must be crying with joy. (CUMC Newsroom) Here are some cool letters to the editor. What are they about? […]