Justin Bieber can’t seem to do anything right. After the Anne Frank uproar, Twitter blows up, to which Bieber responds with a cartoon of himself and a shirtless girl. (LA Times) Susan Patton, of “find a husband” fame, gave a talk at Princeton, during which she said that “[college women] will become progressively more desperate every year they waits to […]

After the suspicious package was found today on campus and the surrounding area was shut down by NYPD, many of us were anxious to find that, while Barnard students received multiple alerts, Columbia did not send any alerts about the event.  David Fine, CC’13, former chair of the SGB and editor emeritus of The Current, […]

Police have cordoned off an area on College Walk by the Broadway gates Broadway from 115th to 117th. Police are saying a suspicious package was left on campus and needs to be investigated. More info as we get it. Update, 7:40: Both sides of Broadway are now closed, including for cars. NYPD confirms suspicious package. […]

Tickets for the 119th Varsity Show are on sale! Get thee to the Tic Center or just click our handy dandy link right here to make sure you don’t miss out! The show runs from May 3rd to 5th. Buy your tickets now. You know you want to.  

Columbia College just put out a release saying the playwright Terrence McNally, halfway to an EGOT, is this year’s CC Class Day Speaker.   McNally, CC ’60 ,was a writer on the 66th Varsity Show, “A Little Bit Different,” which was about “a film company shooting on location in Africa” filled with American public figures […]

Things Bwog loves and you should love too: The Earth Free food The Wallach Lounge (…duh) EcoReps is kicking off Earth Week tonight with free food in the Wallach Lounge from 7 to 8:30 pm. Now you can love your planet and your belly! It doesn’t get much better than that, folks.  

Holy nostalgia, Batman! Give us a minute while we try to contain our childhood nostalgia. If you ever attempted to shoot webs from your fingers, wore a cape everyday, or jumped off a jungle gym thinking you could fly, you would have found kindred spirits at Monday’s “Picture This: The Art of Comics Adaptations” Lecture. […]

It’s finally Thursday! If that’s not reason for celebration, we don’t know what is. Chase away those lingering winter blues and celebrate the sun slightly warmer weather at Columbia’s Greenmarket! As always, the greenmarket is open year-round on Sundays and Thursdays and accepts credit, debit, and EBT. There is food scrap collection for compost every […]

A massive explosion in a Texas fertilizer plant leaves an unknown number dead and many more injured. (CBS) A man found in connection with the ricin letters sent to the President was arrested yesterday. (Detroit) A look at a child who makes us never want to have children ever. Ever. (Yahoo) The world is pretty […]

Lost a black Moleskin agenda yesterday (the kind with the days of the week on one side and a notebook page on the other) probably somewhere in the Diana. If you found it e-mail eds2136@barnard.edu.

In our continuing coverage on shitty things the university does to make life much more complicated than it should be, Bwog was anonymously forwarded the following email from a member of the Student Wellness Project.  Here, we get the hilarious and devastating tale of an innocuous white board, unjustly damaged.  If you have a story […]

Musical Mentors Collaborative is hosting a fundraising concert this Saturday at 4 pm in Lerner C555 in conjunction with Columbia Classical Performers, and “yes, there will be free food.” Bwog caught up with co-presidents Nisha Hollingsworth and Julia Sayles to find out more about the club. Bwog: So what does Musical Mentors do? Nisha: We […]

…literally reaches to Butler. Go forth and feast on lobster and steak! Or make friends with someone with a meal plan really quickly. Pro tip: we hear the line is shorter at Ferris just as long at Ferris. Update (9:45): We’ve heard that someone got CAVA’d during the event. Whether it was from eating too much […]

If you thought the free food for the day was over, hold onto your socks before we knock them off. Columbia Student Global AIDS Campaign will have free Thai food from Longgrain for your taking, as well as a discussion on how tax changes for big banks could affect society. The event’s in Dodge Room […]

Travel near, travel far! Whether via the subway or shopping carts, travel to the arts! Kyra Bloom has composed this list of the most happening happenin’s in the area. Submit your own to events@bwog.com. Near: “Expedition,” an original play by Rae Binstock, opens this Thursday in the Diana Black Box.  This piece combines the concept of […]