The Miller Theatre Fund allows student performing arts groups to use the professional stage for an evening.  Columbia Chamber Players is using it to debut the student music-writing group LyricLion.  Need a break from Butler?  Head on over to Miller Theatre to see the new campus group, LyricLion’s first (FREE) concert on Monday, March 11th at […]

Spring is here! Kind of! Come celebrate the recent weather with Bwog at 7 pm tonight in the SGO on the 5th floor of Lerner. All are welcome! There will be grapes/string cheese/mild salsa/chips. Life has had no meaning since 30 Rock ended via Youtube

This weekend, the Barnard Theatre Department presented an original piece by Pulitzer Prize nominee Rinde Eckert. An anonymous arts aficionado was there and he’s got some things to say.   Until you have seen a bald, middle-aged blind man frolicking among gyrating youths, playing an accordion and moaning wordlessly in falsetto, you have seen nothing worthwhile. Eye Piece—an […]

Bucket List represents the unbelievable intellectual privilege we enjoy as Columbia students. We do our very best to bring to your attention important guest lecturers and special events on campus. As always, feel free to mention any events we may have missed in the comments section (and/or mock our typos) and we’ll add them. Our recommendations […]

Less stuff means more living. (Nytimes) Less time means more car accidents. (Gothamist) Less clothing means recovery?? (Buzzfeed) Less TV means more adept reproductive systems. (CNN) Anthropomorphic bears via Flickr  

After cutting off all of his shoulder-length hair his sophomore year to give to Pantene’s Beautiful Lengths, which makes wigs for people with medically-related hair loss, Julian Bongiorno SEAS ‘13 started growing his hair out again, but he wanted to up the ante for his next go around. The mechanical engineering major from Scottsdale, Arizona […]

CCSC unveiled WTFColumbia, an excellent idea for innovative solutions to campus problems. But as commenters know, the best way to publicize an issue is to complain anonymously on the Internet. So we’re starting a series of students’ experiences with the worst of Columbia, from financial aid to Event Management to advising. If you have any […]

Tonight at 9pm, Greenborough is partnering with Barnard Columbia Divest for their biannual open mic night! BCD leaders will be giving a brief overview of what they’re working on before the performances start. It’s sure to be an interesting and fun way to spend the evening! If you are interested in environmental action, good music, […]

In an email sent to students yesterday, it was announced that Barnard would be raising the GPA cutoff for the Dean’s List from a 3.4 to a 3.6. The change will take place Fall of 2013. This will align standards at Barnard with the 3.6 GPA cutoff for Columbia College, which has been in place since […]

For another installment of Bwog’s on-again, off-again feature “College Talks,” we chat with students about who they’d want, and more importantly, who they don’t want to play at Bacchanal: Music: “Lihi Moi” by Poiboy

Early yesterday afternoon, DeShaun Maria Harris, passed away in the care of close family members. Dean Hubbard sent out an email to students (pasted below), which was then forwarded by Dean Terry Martinez. Bwog would like to extend our deepest condolences to the friends and family of DeShaun, and we ask that our readers use […]

This Thursday, we sent Bwog’s most enthusiastic young feminist, Alexander Pines, to listen to keynote address being given by the legend that is Judith Butler. What he found waiting for him was, well, not Judith Butler. Around 6:00 Thursday evening, I strolled confidently into Jerome Greene Hall with the expectation of settling into a comfy […]

You may have seen the dashing members of Columbia’s Rugby Football Club walking around campus and wondered: Who are these men? Can I play? Can I watch? What’s a scrum? Why do they always pass the ball backwards? Is it just football without pads? Rugby fan Tamsin Pargiter sat down with president Daniel Martinez, SEAS […]

Bwog has a strange feeling that we’ve been here before, as if we’ve done this all before… A break through in the fight against HIV/AIDS! (US News and World Report) We’ve caught bin Laden(‘s son-in-law)! (New York Times) North Korea is actually completely insane! (NBC)       A time warp via Shutterstock

On Wednesday night as part of the Writing Lives Series, Nick Hornby, author of About A Boy and High Fidelity had a conversation with Saskia Hamilton.  Voracious reader Julia Goodman fangirled. I had been looking forward to seeing Nick Hornby since the Heyman Center sent out their calendar of events in January. Being a chronically late […]