Columbia professor Carl Hart has studied the choices that crack addicts make. (NYT) Salvaging, or “parbuckling”, a huge cruise ship is not easy. (the Atlantic) Living in one of these new 100-square foot apartments in South Harlem would be tricky. “‘They are like dorm rooms but more expensive,’ said third-floor resident Kevin Mangan, 22, a […]

Due to an emergency water shut down on 114th street, some residence halls will lose water access, and JJ’s Place and Butler Cafe will close early tonight, September 17th. The shutdown is scheduled for at 10 pm and will last for 3 hours, though the email Housing sent out incorrectly says it will start at 1 am. Residence halls […]

It’s the start(-ish) of the school year and that means it’s time to wait in line at the packaging center  spend the whole weekend hungover do the only reading you’ll do all semester  meet new people! But before the introductions, it’s a good idea to have an interesting tidbit about yourself handy, just to prove to others […]

Have you ever wanted to work as a street-food vendor along the avenues and alleys of New York? Have you ever wished to be self-reliant in your salty snack cravings? Have you ever just desired…to eat a pretzel? Well, Bwog has, and tonight at 6pm in the Rennert Hall lobby, our dreams are coming true. […]

Sometimes we forget, but Columbia has some freaking awesome stuff.  In our efforts to remind ourselves of this, we bring you a new series: Bwog Goes Deep, in which we find cool shit in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library and tell you about it.  Chances are you immediately deleted it, but last week an […]

“People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it’s more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly… timey-wimey… stuff.” – Doctor Who A sign post from the 1939 World’s Fair, found in the basement of Philosophy.

From the Orientation issue of The Blue and White: Somer Omar sat down in Low Library to talk with some of the Trustees about their role at the University. The Blue and White will hold the semester’s second open meeting tonight, at 9 p.m. in the crypt of St. Paul’s Chapel. Setting: The King’s College […]

Breaking News: College students don’t always earn salaries they want; blame it on their alma mater. Columbia’s Andrew Delbanco reports. (NYT) The situation in Syria is still unclear, but it appears U.S.-funded weapons may now be reaching Syrian rebels. (NPR) An Egyptian court has frozen the assets of top Muslim Brotherhood officials, although the freeze […]

After hating some charming soccer players for crushing the housing game last semester, Bwog editor Alexandra Svokos decided to see them in action at their home opener against Iona College on Saturday. I had this grand image in my head: a group of friends at Baker in painted faces and Columbia gear, cheering wildly in […]

It was a regular party yesterday evening in the Satow room. Joseph Milholland was the guest of honor. The first CCSC meeting of the school year was full of brainstorming and plans, but at the year’s second gathering, the real business began. After a quick icebreaker where the council member stated the first word that […]

Vampire Weekend once wrote a song. It mentioned a falafel place not too far from here. Musical anthropologist Lauren Beltrone investigated. “Sing next year in Jerusalem/You know—the one at 103rd and Broadway…” Ok Ezra, if you insist. Aside from being brilliant, Vampire Weekend’s newest album “Vampires of the City” also includes a local restaurant recommendation […]

Just for you, on this depressingly overcast Monday, we’re bringing you an overseen by the McBain elevators. Spotted by a tipster, some misplaced lingerie: Perhaps just a laundry mishap?

In your quest to take your parents out on one more expensive meal before they leave, you may have noticed that good old Vareli, while keeping the exact same appearance, sneakily changed its name to Domain. Changes. What does this mean for you and future family visits? Restauranteurs Marcus Levine and Alison Herman find out. […]

Get it together, NYC cops. (Again.) In other news, one more excuse not to hit up Times Square. (New York Times). “Vertically challenged:” this is probably the best/worst reason we’ve ever seen for not riding a Citi bike. Those damn tall-biased bike planners (Gothamist). DON’T WORRY: it looks like Justin Bieber’s obnoxious Instagram was probably […]

Happy Sunday night! For the first time this semester, Bwog trooped over to Butler to ask random and personal questions to the brave/academically dedicated souls who were already spending their evenings there. (Full disclosure: Bwog hasn’t been to a library this year except to buy a Naked smoothie.) We asked the people, “What are you […]