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 […]

Bwog was in attendance last night at the premiere of the 119th Varsity Show, “The Great Netscape.” We laughed, we cried. Then we retreated to the secret Bwog lair, discussed, and then laughed and cried some more. Alex Jones writes, with contributions from the whole staff.  If taken on its own terms, V119 was an […]

The final issue of The Blue and White will be on campus next week! While anxiously awaiting it’s arrival, we humbly offer you this excerpt to tide you over.  In her Senior Wisdom, Greta Gerwig, BC ’06, offered this piece of hard-learned advice: “I’m a douchebag if I say I go to Columbia.” Since graduating, the 2004 […]

When Bwog first heard the rumors, we didn’t believe they were true. How could they be!? We didn’t want to report something and end up being wrong. That would just be foolish. So we decided to be, like, real journalists and investigate the loud music and sounds of laughter pouring across Amsterdam. This is what […]

This Saturday, Columbia’s Youth for Debate club is holding a tournament for the students they’ve been working with throughout the school year.  Bwog caught up with YFD’s new president, Misha Solomon, to learn more. Bwog: What is Youth for Debate? Misha: Youth for Debate teaches public speaking and debate in underserved and underfunded New York […]

NYU Abu Dhabi students complain about their beach resort campus. Ahhh, what might have been! (New York Mag) New York families do crazy things for their kids’ education. (New York Times) The plight of the middle class put to music. (Buzzfeed) Seriously though, admission at the 9/11 Memorial. (Gothamist) Bwog’s first world problem… Getting white […]

Now that the sun’s out and summer’s right around the corner, we took to the streets area between Butler and John Jay to ask people how they’re feeling. We observed the following general sentiment:   Watch the video for greater insight on this bittersweet phenomenon. CollegeTalk – Spring Has Sprung from Bwog on Vimeo.