In the latest installment of our In Defense Of series, workaholic whiner Anna Bahr laments the elimination of the thesis requirement of Barnard’s Political Science department and pleas for its return.  In the second grade, my group of four was certain we would win the science fair with our solar-cooked hotdogs. We folded pouches out […]

Free anything can be hard to come by, especially in New York, especially alcohol. For the 21+ set, underage investigator Roberta Barnett tastes her way through a social networking event in the name of Bwog.  Upon applying to a number of colleges like Columbia, I often heard myths of professors and students getting together over […]

Not one, not two, but THREE free food opportunities await you on this gloriously freezing Friday. Pick your poison, or go to all three. It’s totally doable. First, you can enjoy both free food and free talent at tonight’s CoffeeHouse Sessions: The Autumn Show at 7 pm in the Diana. Jubilation! and CU Red Cross […]

This week in The Atlantic, Columbia’s own football player Chad Washington, CC’15, was heavily featured in an article on the need for more safety measures in football—especially when it comes to head injuries. In the article, he describes heavy hits he’s taken, including a concussion Washington obtained during his high school career. Washington also explains why he […]

Find yourself hitting the snooze button every morning? Try to stop doing that—it’s ruining your alertness. (Pacific Standard) Here in New York City, you’d be hard-pressed to find a place more than a few minutes’ walk away from the nearest Starbucks. So how did the company grow from one store in Seattle to dominating coffee? […]

Welcome welcome welcome to V120—that’s right folks, it’s time to start anticipating this year’s Varsity Show! The creative team was just announced and this year we’ve got a lot of anticipating to do: the V120 creative team is virtually the same as V119. In fact, Rae Binstock, CC’15, is the only person on the team […]

All Bwog really ever wanted to be when it grew up was an advice columnist. And we give great relationship advice in response to our definitely not trolling cries for help. Thus, today we’re dealing with the age old question: should you break up with your high school boyfriend? If you or a “so I have this friend” […]

Do you think it’s uncomfortably warm in the serving area of John Jay, and can’t wait to escape to your (slightly) cooler table? Well, that “uncomfortably warm” is about 1,000 degrees hotter in the actual kitchens, where Dining workers make your food in Saharan conditions. SWS has been pushing for reforms in the kitchens on behalf […]

Audiences at the theatre department’s production of Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls last weekend were surprised and a little appalled to see the character of Lady Nijo, a Japanese courtesan, played by a white actress wearing a black wig and orientalist eye makeup. The decision to cast a white actress in the role of a woman […]

Yesterday, Uni Cafe was shut down for health code violations. Today, some deranged tipster who considers Uni Cafe bagels to be delicious wrote this ode: To the restaurant you creatively dubbed “UNI” We mourn the shutdown of yesterday Your doors are locked, your tables too roomy Your open-ness seems so far away. Away from 115th […]

While sitting in the bushes the past few days, Bwog has overheard students spilling some secrets, questioning life, and making some promises. Read on for some choicy bits: On college walk: Girl 1: “Have you ever…?” Girl 2: “No! I mean, I’ve been tardy before, but I’ve never…ditched.” Bro reading a text to a bunch […]

Banksy’s been in New York City recently. A tipster spotted his most recent work, filling a slaughterhouse truck with stuffed animals, near 112th Street and Broadway. If you have pictures, send them to tips@bwog.com! Image via Alexandra Preiser

It is that time of year, when a girl can wear only lingerie and animal ears and no other girls can say anything else about it time for Bwog’s annual Pumpkin Carving Contest. Plan on failing all of your midterms? Don’t say you failed because you weren’t smart enough, say you failed because you were too busy carving […]

Apparently, the people who built the healthcare.gov website weren’t expecting as much traffic as it has received since its launch.  The price for having the website shut down as a result?  They’re having a congressional hearing… (Al-Jazeera America) The New York Times Editorial Board, responding to two recent reports produced by Amnesty International and Human Rights […]

And when Moses went up the mountain Columbians became impatient, because they could have been studying instead of waiting 40 days for his return. So they created their own idol: the Reddened Bull. When we heard someone was writing an ethnography about Homecoming, we had to get our hands on it. Read on as Bwog’s anonymous […]