In our continuing coverage of the rooms you’re reading this in, we bring you that room up on the fourth floor of Butler, the George and Jesse Siegel Reading Room. Ah, the fourth floor of Butler: just high enough that you’ll sweat if you take the stairs and you’ll feel slightly guilty if you take […]

Ivan Lupic, who will be receiving his Ph.D. from Columbia this semester before blasting off to be a real professor at Stanford, has largely been identified as the Lit Hum instructor who passed out the pages for the ID passages.  Yesterday, he wrote to Bwog and Spec to defend himself, essentially writing this whole thing […]

Today’s first Senior Wisdom: Louise McCune, the fine lady behind some of our Butler archetypes, and the fine lady who is probably sitting behind you as you read this, considering your eligibility for portraiture.  Name, Hometown, School: Louise McCune, San Francisco, Columbia College, American Studies Claim to fame? In these circles I am probably best […]

Everything is awful except for the Slow Loris. Holy fucking shit the Slow Loris.  Bwoglines: Randy Jackson leaves American idol. (E!) Carbon dioxide has not been this high in at least three million years. (NYT) You decide which is the greater tragedy. Finals Tip: Don’t be a shitty person. Instead, drop out and become a cheese wit. (NYT) […]

Tonight’s Senior Wisdom: Matt Martinez, who makes some excellent cheese-related puns (after Bwog’s own heart), and quotes some Winnie the Pooh. Name, Hometown, School: Matthew Patrick Martinez; Sayville, NY; Columbia College Claim to fame? Actor in KCST and Latenite Theatre; wrote my thesis on larping; read The Night Before Christmas at the Yule Log Ceremony […]

…And now for something sports-related at Columbia that’s just straight-up awesome: Josh Martin, who was signed by the Kansas City Chiefs, sits down with Kansas rep Zachary Hendrickson to talk about being a free agent, a band nerd, and successful in general. Bwog: First of all, congratulations! What did it feel like, being signed by […]

We figured y’all might need a few light-hearted things to round out this week. So did SWP the Puppy Coalition. To that end, your favorite stress-relievers — THE PUPPIES — are coming back to John Jay to banish your woes. Tomorrow from 2:00 to 3:30 in the John Jay and Furnald lounges, countless (okay, around […]

I lost a pair of black skull candy earbuds. They are completely black and have a microphone on the right side. I also lost a big black plastic (1.5 liter) waterbottle the same day. The water bottle has a big ”a” on it in white, says columbia health services on it, and has a piece […]

Dear readers, we wish we were lying. We were intending to take today lightly, give everyone some space to breathe, give you fun things to watch and read, maybe talk about puppies coming to campus (more on that in a later post). Instead, however, we’ve been informed that this fine university possibly has another widespread cheating […]

And now for something actually light: Fruit Paunch, Columbia’s improv comedy group, is having their annual 24-hour show from 5 p.m. tonight (a.k.a. right now) until 5 p.m. tomorrow. As you may have guessed, they’ll be doing improv for those 24 hours straight — no pause, no breaks for air. If you need a 24-hour […]

Next in our series of reviews of the library rooms we hate to love: the reading room on the third floor of the Diana center. So yeah, the Diana reading room is not technically a “library room”. Fine, you win, revoke my blogging license. However, not being in a library is what makes the Diana […]

In the first Senior Wisdom of the day, we bring you a reveal: Rachel Nash Bronstein has been running the anonymous and popular My Life Is Barnard twitter account.  Upon her departure, she wants to come clean… Name, Hometown, School: Rachel Nash Bronstein, Newton MA, Barnard College Claim to fame? I’m the third of MyLifeisBarnard […]

Bwogline: The spire of One World Trade Center was bolted in this morning, officially bringing the building to stand at 1,776 feet tall. (CNN) Finals Tip: Caffeine keeps you up, sugar makes you crash. So only drink RedBull or other sugary energy drinks if you plan on sleeping later. Otherwise, use coffee or tea. Procrastinate: […]

A group of seniors, including at least two football players, were overheard around 4 pm today in the line for commencement tickets in Lerner making light of the situation involving the football team, according to an anonymous tipster. She was listening to the group standing next to her in line, and after about 20 minutes […]

In case all the recent breaking news has distracted you from finals week, some things never change: Orgo Night will take place tonight at 11:59 pm in Butler 209. And you can bet there will have been some last-minute additions to the script. Also tonight: Midnight Breakfast at, naturally, midnight in LeFrak Gymnasium. Whether you […]