Several student leaders, all student government representatives, have put together a petition for administrative leaders to take action on last Sunday’s hate crime and its fallout, including the controversy over certain CU football players’ Twitter accounts. You can access the petition here. Its creators are encouraging everyone to share their vote and possible solutions. The […]

Are you a freshman in CC, a sophomore in SEAS, or some weirdo who just takes Lit Hum for fun? You must be shitting some archetypical bricks for your final tomorrow, so Bwog decided to help you. We’ve succinctly and helpfully summarized all the books in the second semester Lit Hum syllabus! These will guarantee […]

In a continuing stream of released statements today, we get one from student group AAA (Asian American Alliance, not the place you call when your car breaks down), with support from a huge number of student groups. Below is their statement: According to several news sources, an alleged hate crime occurred on Columbia University’s campus […]

In her final Art Hum class of the year, silver nugget prof Dr. Christina Ferando presented a PowerPoint on “The Take-Away Lessons of Art Humanities.”  It was a stirring culminating lecture that truly summarized the course.  Now we present to you some parts of her final lecture, as a study guide of sorts.

Today’s First Senior Wisdom: Tyler Benedict, from CUMB and other annoying things. Want to get more annoyed? Go watch him read at Orgo Night tonight. Name, Hometown, School: Tyler Benedict; Dayton, OH; CC. Claim to fame? I’m the annoying guy from Orgo Night and all those CUMB videos. For a brief moment I was also annoying on TV. Where are you […]

Two days ago, NBC reported that Chad Washington, CC ’15, was charged aggravated harassment as a hate crime against an Asian student, and that he was other football players who have yet to be charged. Yesterday, WKCR Sports compiled an album of racist, homophobic, and sexist tweets by various football players. Yesterday night was WKCR […]

Update: Athletic Director M. Dianne Murphy and Coach Pete Mangurian have released their own statement; their letter is after the jump. Update #2: Aaaand another one, from OMA. Also after the jump. Deans Valentini, Goldfarb, Awn, and Director of Athletics M. Dianne Murphy have just released a statement to the Columbia community on the recent hate […]

This semester, both Student Wellness Project and University Senate worked on some impressive studies of general student life across Columbia University.  Some of the results came out at the end of the semester and makes for good reading material for a “productive” study break. SWP looked at a variety of ways the community is hurting […]

It’s 11:30 a.m., you say? But we could have sworn it was only 8:15 when we pressed the snooze button… Bwogline: New York may allow non-citizens to vote in certain local elections; it would make New York the first major city in the country to do so. Finals tip: Carrying around your books for weeks in your […]

A source close to Professor Ellsberg has informed us that the majority of students suspected of cheating in the so-called “Barnard Cheating Scandal” are actually men and women from Columbia College.  Of the 123 students, only around a fifth of the students have been specifically marked out as having cheated–and Ellsberg has a list of […]

Tonight’s Senior Wisdom: Rega Jha, writer, editor, and all-around enthusiast of being well-adjusted. Name, Hometown, School: Rega Jha. Chennai (India) and Muscat (Oman). Columbia College (and BC wannabe). Claim to fame? Writer, editor, all-round cheerleader of Columbia’s undergraduate writing/publishing community. Notorious for shamelessly over-sharing feelings on the Internet. The R.A. who gave you the benefit […]

Looking for a two-minute study break WHILE nursing your inner Game of Thrones nerd? Check out this frankly excellent cover by Columbia’s cello quintet String Theory, which is almost as great as Game of Thrones, cat version. You can play this theme to keep you going when your HBOGo stops to buffer as you stream […]

In light of yesterday’s news that sophomore Chad Washington was charged with a hate crime and the allegations that more people were involved in the incident, many were intrigued by the CU Football team’s impressively unprotected Twitter accounts. An hour ago, WKCR Sports tweeted a link to an Imgur album with a good number of […]

Our second library room review concerns itself with not so much a room as an institution, a concept, a structure: those blocks under some Butler desks; or, a godsend to the vertically challenged population.  As a person significantly beneath the national height average, finding a space to study during finals is both easier and more […]

We all have that one friend, that girl who keeps texting her boyfriend, tweeting her boyfriend, screen shotting posts by her boyfriend, and generally just scaring the crap out of her boyfriend. Now, there’s Overly Attached Computer. Remember that time you needed to bring a resume to that interview for that internship with that company […]