WBAR will cap off its 20th year of broadcasting this year with a spectacular WBAR-B-Q on Saturday, April 27th, from noon to 8pm on Barnard College’s Lehman Lawn. The all-day, outdoor festival is FREE, ALL AGES, and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC and will feature free food from a local establishment TBA. The lineup is looks […]

Before you head to any of the 20 busiest airports in America, make sure you’ve scoped out your best dining options. (CNN) Google’s current Privacy Director is stepping down. Her successor has a tough job ahead of him. (Forbes) You thought some of the pranks your friends pulled were good? The NYPD suspect that the […]

Our post before may have been an April Fool’s joke, but this is real — maybe? According to a tipped email supposedly forwarded from Housing, a few unlucky students actually were given the wrong lottery numbers. The unluckiest of all would seem to be the rising sophomore Christian and his group, who were given the lottery […]

Last night at 9 pm there was a defining moment in American history: the premiere of Game of Thrones, Season 3. Watch Bwog exercise its pop-culture muscles as we analyze the Ivy League, GoT style. Because life would be so much better with family crests and rivalries that were real, and because you’ve already taken […]

Update, 8:44: Back! Rejoice and uncurl from the fetal position, EC’ers. Update: And the EC Wifi is out too. So much for Netflix in bed. We swear this post isn’t an April Fool’s prank. Unless Facilities really really hates us. EC residents, trot your way over to Butler while you still can.  

A nasty life-changing rumor has been circulating campus from a Bwogger who spoke with some of the construction workers near Uris today. Apparently, Butler is due for some long-delayed construction in its lower levels that have been lingering fire hazards since last semester. Take a breather: our tipster reports that the work on the library won’t […]

Columbia Housing has announced today that last week’s housing lottery came reversed due to a technical mistake. The cause of the mishap was a miscommunication between the StarRez system algorithm to assign lottery numbers and Columbia’s housing selection system; in the former, higher lottery numbers take priority, in the latter, it is the opposite. The […]

The Core Scholars program invites students to submit a reflection on the Core in virtually any art medium, and submissions are due for this year’s program on April 15. To aid in your inspiration, Bwog caught up with Gabriela Pelsinger, CC ’15 and self-proclaimed Vagina Warrior, who was one of last year’s Core Scholars for this amazing […]

A crafty Bwogger working late into the night at the Diana picked up a copy of what appears to be the Creative Team’s latest “Creative Rundown” of this year’s Veesh. Bwog is withholding judgement for the time being, but there’s no reason you should do the same in the comments. What you find in the […]

In the February issue of The Blue and White, Grace Rosen profiles Karishma Habbu, CC ’13 and CCSC president. You can read the rest of February, as well as several back-issues, at theblueandwhite.org. The March issue is coming real soon. A red knee-length peacoat, white fluffy earmuffs, and matching white gloves: that was Columbia College […]

This morning the Committee on the Core Curriculum released a statement announcing that Frontiers of Science has been removed from the Core Curriculum. The statement claimed that the main cause for the cancellation was the class’s overall lack of useful education. It cited interviews and conversations with students that stated “literally nobody” enjoyed the class or […]

Google has announced multiple new features from its many services today. Gmail announced Gmail blue, a revolutionary new interface for Google’s e-mail service. YouTube has decided that they have had enough submissions to their long submission contest, and will shut down for 10 years to select a winner. Google Maps has added a treasure map to […]

Update, 10:45am, 4/1: Student Affairs has not yet released the name as they are trying to reach her family, but the woman has been confirmed by Spectator as Jessica Fingers. According to Gothamist and CBS, a 21-year old woman was found dead in East Campus this morning. The article reports that police responded at around 11:48 AM and […]

Starting this Monday, April 1st, the Diana Center 2nd Floor Lunchroom will simulcast WBAR (Barnard College Radio) programming over its loudspeaker during weekday lunch hours. From Monday to Friday from 11 am to 3 pm, members of the Barnard/Columbia community who have chosen to be well-nourished by the Diana Center Cafe will receive additional nourishment from […]

Location: 70 Morningside Dr. Nearby dorms: The rest of EC, Wien. Nothing else. Not that it matters, because people come to you! Stores and restaurants: HamDel, Appletree Market, SubsConscious, Kitchenette(!), a handy Citibank ATM on the 4th floor of SIPA. Cost: $9,096, higher cost range, same as Claremont, 548 W. 113th, Brownstones,  Hogan, Ruggles, Watt […]