ESC had twice the press releases for twice the fun amid regular goings-on at their latest Monday meeting. Keenan Albee, that SEAS kid who actually leaves the library, reports. Access was the name of the game as ESC earned two hard-fought successes Monday morning, negotiating a partial restoration of Watson library use and a quickfix for […]

According to tipsters, there was some sort of fire on 110th Street. Public Safety told us that a sergeant went down and found everything A-OK. If you have any information, please send it to tips@bwog.com or use our anonymous tip form.

Basketball Mania is today, from 9:00pm to 10:00pm in Levien Gymnasium. For those of you who don’t do sports, Levien Gymnasium is the wood-paneled basketball gym in the Dodge Fitness Center. Don’t worry about trying to find it. Everyone else will be just as lost. Still, try to get there on time, because the first […]

Since it is almost Fall Break, and by Fall Break we mean a weekend with two non-class days that we should be getting off as holidays anyways, you should go see some shows. Madysen Luebke, the curator of concerts, the owner of operas, the fairy of films has gathered this splendid lists of events that […]

America goes American by creating its own Olympic Team uniforms for the 2014 Winter Olympics. Cool. (Forbes) City complains that a nearby factory smells bad. No big deal? Well, it kinda is, when the factory makes Sriracha. (LA Times) Kittens were ferried around NYC so that people could pet them (for a modest fee). KITTENS WE […]

This past weekend, the Columbia football team lost 56-0 to Dartmouth. Per the real sports reporters at Spec, this is “the third time this season the Lions have surrendered 50-plus points.” To be fair, it’s not as bad as last year’s 69-0 loss to Hahvahd. Actually that doesn’t make us feel much better. We’ve heard that at […]

Everyone talks about that Juilliard-Columbia Exchange student who died in his 13th hour of practicing on Halloween night many moons ago. But no one had seen his ghost before Sarah Faith Thompson ventured down to the Schapiro basement a few nights ago. I wander through Schapiro’s recently-renovated lobby, headphones on, and head down the stairs […]

Your favorite undergraduate literary magazine The Blue and White will be having our weekly meeting tonight at 9pm in the crypt of St. Paul’s Chapel. We’ll be finalizing content for the December issue, so come to pitch or pick up a piece. To get you excited about the new issue, on campus this week, here’s a […]

Bwog gives you not one, but TWO lovely press releases detailing some exciting victories for the student councils this Monday. Watson Library For starters, the multi-council Watson Library resolution passed about two weeks ago has proven effective—making rounds in national media couldn’t have hurt either. The resolution, a joint collaboration between GSSC, CCSC, and ESC, […]

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the cult classic mandatory for any successful Halloweekend.  Whether it’s your guilty pleasure movie after a night spent drinking pumpkin beer or you force all of your friends to dress up to see a screening downtown, your Halloween just won’t be complete without a little Rocky.  You’re in luck, because […]

Bwog Barnard Baccalaureate Lauren Beltrone keeps you up to date on the ever-fascinating, ever-relevant content of Monday’s SGA meetings. She also apologizes for the misleading title and admits that this article contains little to no uplifting inspiration in the form of “real stories.” No one could really focus at Monday’s meeting, maybe because Halloweek had […]

  It’s all right, Banksy’s New York “residency” is doing good for our neighborhoods. (NY Times) Some guy just really wants to win the New Yorker cartoon caption contest. (Shitty New Yorker Cartoon Captions) Did you know that most unpaid internships are technically illegal? Did you know that the government (pre-, during and post-shutdown) totally […]

According to breaking911.com, there’s just been a home invasion at a Columbia apartment at 535 West 111th street (most likely University Apartment Housing). Police are looking for three males with masks and armed with guns, and NYPD Mobilization 1 was requested; according to Spec, there’s no information aside that from the police press line. Stay […]

In order to get you through the last few days before Fall Break, here’s our latest round of notes from the field; or, what you all were getting up to/complaining about/getting in trouble for this weekend. Read some quality drunk inspired tips and stories below, and be sure to tip your own Halloweekend happenings.  Student […]

Maybe you already celebrated Halloween this past weekend and are loath to pull out your worse-for-the-wear costume for another round. Maybe you had counted on waiting in line at Ricky’s for several hours at the last minute for something you could wear once and then deny any photographic evidence that you ever wore it. Maybe […]