Columbia Housing has just announced the winner of their residential Energy Challenge, in which the residence hall that saved the most energy over the course of 26 days. The winner was Hartley: they reduced their energy consumption by 10.3%. Hartley residents will get a celebration catered by Dining Services, date and location TBA. River came in […]

Your week just got two times better: we’re doubling up on Senior Wisdoms, since there are just too many wise graduates out there with stories to share. The first senior today: Yanyi, designer extraordinaire (including of Bwog).  Name, Hometown, School: Yanyi — Glen Carbon, IL (most recently) but Zigong, China (to be accurate) — Columbia […]

Ladies and gentlemen, your 2013-2014 Activities Board Below! According to outgoing ABC president Saketh Kalathur, this year marks a switch to a Direct Democracy mode of representation: each ABC rep was elected only by the groups in their category. Best of luck for next year, all! Executive Board: President: Tony Lee, CC ’15 Vice President: […]

Finals are just around the corner, and Butler is already crowded with people getting ready. Those poor miserable souls seemed only to have work, but we knew there was more, we wanted to know what kept them going. We asked, “What’s your finals coping mechanism?” here are some of the answers we got. Quiet librarian: […]

Now Low Library is already a bundle of mendacity since it’s not neither a library nor Low, being Prezbo’s little office and one of the tallest buildings on South campus. But now the sensationalist media is tricking our children into misbelief! We overheard a teacher telling his kids: “This is a huge deal! This is […]

  NYU opens a new campus, in a nicer location than the both the Village and Abu Dhabi. (Funny Or Die) People will buy the weirdest shit, including an EKG of when Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon. (7News) Honey Boo Boo’s parents exchanged vows. (USA Today) Scientists have found a new species of Theropodfbnakdf. […]

Tonight’s Senior Wisdom: Evan Burger, of SWS fame, who calls us out on our own darker past. Name, Hometown, School: Evan Burger; Huxley, Iowa; CC (Philosophy major) Claim to fame: Founding member/lead organizer of Student-Worker Solidarity by day, Lerner manager by night. Where are you going? Starting June 3rd, I’ll be fighting corporate power in […]

High five the baseball team next time you see them–they’re Ivy League Champs!  Sports fan Luca Marzorati tells the triumphant tale… For the first time in six years, the Columbia baseball team earned a berth in the NCAA Tournament, as the Lions won back-to-back games against Dartmouth on Saturday for an 11th Ivy League Championship. […]

Are you still searching for your lost shaker of salt? Well just forget about it and come celebrate Cinco de Mayo with Bwog instead! SGO, 5th floor of Lerner, 7 pm. Bring ideas and pitchers of margarita. Bwog “does not own any part of this song, or Jimmy Buffett” via Youtube

Fromage ’13, thanks for keeping us relevant. “Seven years they’ve been asking students at Columbia, would you rather give up cheese or oral sex…I don’t know why!!” via Youtube

This weekend KCST put on made their audience chase after Shakespeare’s Cymbeline and Madysen Luebke was there to watch run with the show.  Between Havemeyer and Hartley on three very cold spring evenings, KCST’s spring production of Cymbeline brought humor and laughter to a campus preparing for finals.  The little known Shakespearean tragedy—albeit a very humorous one—was […]

At one of the many formals last night, a mysterious whiskey drinker charged his/her beverages on someone else’s tab.  The victim spoke out this morning in an email to all of the formal’s attendees, and Bwog was more than happy to publicly shameson this Mr. or Mrs. Jameson. The email below: Dear whomever charged $60.00 worth of […]

Apparently Low steps is one of the best places to celebrate Cinco de Mayo—not like you’ll have time to celebrate though. (Gothamist) You might not remember anything from this past semester of Lit Hum, but you’ll probably remember the life lessons that Full House taught you. (Buzzfeed) We all check our Facebooks after hammering out a paper paragraph, […]

Tonight’s Senior Wisdom: Jack Dickey, the guy who broke Manti Te’o.  Name, Hometown, School: Jack Dickey, Guilford, Conn., CC Claim to fame? Deadspin writer, English major. Spent senior winter break proving that a famous football player’s famous dead girlfriend never existed (Bwog: see above link). Still managed to finish my thesis on time. Where are […]

There’s been a bit of controversy about Columbia’ recently proposed honor code resolution, with CCSC passing the resolution, and ESC passing then subsequently rescinding it. According to the Spec article on the honor code, the resolution would “require students from all four undergraduate schools to recite an honor pledge during the New Student Orientation Program […]