The Kingsmen, one of Columbia’s all male a capella groups, have been known to serenade unsuspecting ladies with their sweet, sweet music. On Monday, they continued their legacy when they helped a high-school student ask his girlfriend to prom. The result is a combination of cringe-worthy awkwardness and extreme cuteness. For all the singing and […]

Mother’s Day emergency! Last night a tipster stumbled across a note outside Lerner that looked like it had fallen out of a package. The note, celebrating a student’s mother’s “29th birthday,” was apparently “the cutest birthday card ever. It is seriously heartbreaking.” Bwog agrees. If you recently wrote an adorable card to your mom or […]

At long last! May has arrived and, with it, hordes of pasty-white legs that haven’t seen the sun since September (or your spring break trip to Cancun but whatever we’re definitely not bitter). As you sit outside and skip class enjoy the beautiful weather, you have the perfect opportunity to explore Columbia’s Greenmarket! Nothing goes […]

The B-School announced today that they’d received a $100 million donation from businessman and philanthropist Ron Perelman. Perelman is part of the Board of Overseers for the B-School and serves as CEO and chairman of MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc., which that owns a ton of corporations—including the Revlon make-up company and Scantron, the company […]

Think those bright colors are funny, do ya? Think that music is somethin’ to smile about? Well wipe that smirk off your face goddammit because driving an ice-cream truck is no joke. Those guys will mess you up. (Yahoo) A couple of days ago, rapper Danny Brown got a little… erm… closer to his fans […]

Tonight’s Senior Wisdom: Diana Clarke, apple aficionado and personal Yelp-er, who wants you to remember the name of the school you go to. Name, Hometown, School: Diana Clarke, Worcester MA (home of the diner and birth control pill, mascot: Turtle Boy), CC; Creative Writing and Yiddish Studies Claim to fame? Pathological punner and Yiddishist; down […]

All the cool kids have been talking about the mandatory freshman P/D/F policy that’s circling the administration rounds, waiting to become official mandate. The Spec editorial board has officially endorsed the policy, and Bwog’s official classroom/dorm room census has heard opinions ranging from ecstatic to furious. To throw in our two cents to the conversation, […]

Quite possibly, a virgin sacrifice to the great god Cthulhu is occurring at 8 p.m. tonight in the Hamilton lobby. We can only hope the building infrastructure won’t be too badly harmed when he rises up from his slumber of millennia to wreak destruction upon the earth. All hail From Wikipedia: “In The Call of […]

BuzzFeed confirmed every Columbian’s pre-existing opinion: we’re hot, and brains we’ve got. We’re the 5th sexiest, smartest college in the nation, actually, right behind Brown, Dartmouth, Princeton, and UPenn, weighting equally the laboratory-confirmed DateMySchool hotness index and Forbes’ college rankings that place us at #8, behind Williams and the U.S. Military Academy. What could be off about […]

It’s been almost a week since our beloved purveyor of malt beverages closed, and so far it has yet to reopen.* Crack Del dutifully served as a precious resource for all freshmen and we not only mourn the loss of a neighborhood staple, but the experience the Class of 2017 will miss, the joy of […]

“I’m glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song; seems like we just got started and then before you know it, the times we had together were gone.”–Dr. Seuss or Carol Burnett or whoever. Someone definitely had the right idea, so go to one of these arts events—compiled by the […]

It’s that time of year, when bitches will go crazy, you will end up bringing your therapeutic Christmas Tree to Butler, and you might say something like: “I cried yesterday because I got the wrong cream cheese in Ferris.” Paula Deen has never led Bwog astray, so we recommend butter. And tips. Your new Advising […]

Want to go to a “place of summery goodness” without leaving campus? That place is Live at Lerner’s final event of the year, where you can munch on a free lunch (summer garden salad, vegetable pasta, lemonade, and cookies), get a back rub from Stressbusters, watch a video of a beach, and plant and take home […]

Hey seniors: don’t graduate without crossing this off your bucket lists–one of Spec’s favorite hobbies! (Spectator, The Blue and White) If you see this frankenfish in Central Park, you should kill it before it eats your babies homework. (DEC, NY Mag) Obama’s to-do list: close Guantánamo Bay. “Why are we doing this?” (NY Times) Spectator’s advice […]

Our senior wisdoms will be running every night — and maybe even more often than that — for the next few weeks, so keep coming back to get your knowledge fix. Tonight: Evan Welber, mustached master. Name, Hometown, School: Evan Welber, Coral Springs, FL, CC Claim to fame? I still haven’t managed to raze memories […]