Researchers combine their love of Harry Potter with a possible revolution in the fishing industry: invisibility fishnets. (The Register) Those equal signs on your Facebook are only going to keep popping up, because the Supreme Court is discussing DOMA today. (Chicago Tribune) Obama appoints Julia Pierson as the first female head of the Secret Service. […]

In honor of the upcoming launch of a new movement, Nonviolence: No Higher Calling, sponsored by Columbia’s Art of Living Club, Bwog has come up with a few extra ways that you can tear down violence with your teeth and nails.The movement’s goal is to commit 100 acts of non-violence for each act of violence. They […]

  You’ve had a whole week to mull over all the questions and concerns you have about your life at Columbia. Why not come to the Blue and White meeting tonight at 9 pm in St. Paul’s Chapel to discuss them with us? There will also be refreshments. You know you can’t turn down an […]

As Facebook won’t stop telling us, everyone and their mother apparently went on a rollicking trip to a beach–everyone, that is, except for those good souls who traveled for some purpose other than Ultra or visiting the fam.  If you took some sort of alternate spring break trip, tell us about it at tips@bwog.com.  Here […]

Sennheisser Head Phones lost in Schermerhorn 501 on the 26th of March. Email me if you picked them up.  eum2101@columbia.edu

The deadline for applying to the Core Scholars Program is April 15th, only a few weeks away. The Core Scholars Program invites any student who has taken a Core class to channel their fiery passion for the Core into an artistic Core Reflection. Core Reflections “analyze, question, dramatize, interpret, and (of course) reflect on the materials […]

Location: 47 Claremont Nearby dorms: Relatively far from other Columbia dorms. Elliot and 600s are close though. Stores and restaurants: Morton Williams is the closest option. Westside’s a considerable schlep. But Fairway is only a short walk away. Starbucks, M2M, and the Halal carts are all frequented, but kiss Chipotle goodbye. You can order in, […]

PrezBo just announced that Mary Cunningham Boyce will take over from Interim Dean Donald Goldfarb as the Dean of Columbia’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, effective July 1 2013. From PrezBo’s press release: Columbia is fortunate to welcome such an impressive dean at a time of both signal accomplishment and new opportunity […]

Being back at school is so dreary, right? Well, not today from 12 -1 in the Lerner Piano Lounge it isn’t! Come to Live at Lerner’s latest Sounds event for: The band: Bowmont, a Brooklyn band which is “like a punchier Coldplay, but more fun.” The food: Pita, baba ghanoush, hummus, falafel and more noms.

If you dial a toll-free number from any payphone in Manhattan, you can hear a history of the neighborhood in 1993, courtesy of The New Museum. (CBS) Supreme Court Justices will hear arguments on the meaning of marriage today, as they come to their decision about whether California’s Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage is […]

Bwog was as excited as you were to get back to school after Spring Break; we wouldn’t have been able to cope with another day of not going to class. Nevertheless, spring break is a time we need to reflect on. So we went on our weekly Butler escapade to find out what the Butlerites’ […]

Once again, you can count on Bwog to deliver your annual housing reviews. Here’s the beginning of our series, so you aren’t such a lost puppy when choosing where you’re going to live.  Location: 2900 Broadway (actual entrance on 114th, shared with Hogan) Nearby dorms: Hogan, Ruggles, Carman, not far from McBain and Watt. Broadway […]

Dean Martinez has just forwarded an e-mail by Business School Dean R. Glenn Hubbard announcing the death of student William “Billy” McGuire. An accomplished athlete and promising businessman, the loss of Billy is a loss to the university’s community. Bwog would like to extend our most sincere condolences to all those who were close to […]

While Bwog was imbibing in the Caribbean on the couch with our dog watching the Girls finale, Barnard bears were actually doing something in the form of a delegation sent to São Paulo, Brazil for its fifth annual Global Symposium, “Women Changing Brazil.” According to the full press release the Symposium, held last year in […]

Columbia Music Festival keeps getting more exciting! After their announcement two weeks ago that Hoodie Allen would be the festival’s first headliner, more acts have been announced today by WBAR, Live at Lerner, and WKCR. WBAR announced that their headliner will be New York rapper Le1f. The concert will also include Queens rap trio Children of […]