For the second year in a row, Katie Meili CC ’13 is heading to the NCAA Championships after a stellar performance at Ivies, which this year included three individual titles, two Ivy League records, the Swimmer of the Meet title (for the second straight year), and the Career High Point Swimmer title. Her blistering times earned […]

Happy double-holiday, Columbians! With both Spring Break and St. Patrick’s Day on the horizon, it might be time to stock up for the weekend’s festivities with some tasty treats from the Columbia Greenmarket! What better way is there to recover from a green beer hangover than with some locally made deliciousness? As always, the greenmarket […]

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who will go by the name of Francis, was elected yesterday as the 266th Pope. (NYT) Spunky teenaged detectives rejoice! A Veronica Mars movie has officially been confirmed. Dreams really DO come true! (E!) It’s been widely confirmed: it’s not possible to hate Jennifer Lawrence. As if we didn’t already know that. […]

Nick Lieberman, CC16, and Richard Whiddington, CC15, make movies together. Nick is the director and Richard is the writer. Learn more below. Bwog: How did the two of you decide to start making movies together? Nick (N): Last semester, Richard put together a script for a music video, which Paul (our cinematographer) produced along with Postcrypt. […]

Some of us may be visiting family, taking drugs and impregnating one another near the Caribbean, or just doing homework. But others are taking the break to spend a week exploring New York City, and Bwog hasn’t forgotten about them! Here’s our list of fun things to do during the free week. On Campus Tomorrow […]

After a hazing scandal that put ZBT in high risk of losing its charter and subsequent controversy and mockery, a statement by the fraternity announced that the decision to rescind the charter was officially reverted. Spec has the full story, reporting that KevSho made the decision after meeting with ZBT and Greek Judicial Board leadership. While […]

Everyone knows that one of the incentives for becoming an RA (besides those awesomely awkward times when you have to scold people your own age) is the free room. Part of an RA’s agreement is that their housing for the year is deducted from their Columbia fee, making Columbia housing truly the best deal in […]

For a take or two on what the kids are saying these days about the American career woman and Marissa Mayer, both timely subjects in the wake of the release of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s new book on female leadership, CNN came to the obvious place to talk to the world’s next generation of powerful women: […]

It’s midterm season, so here’s some textbook wisdom to help you relax. Breathe in as you follow in the trails of software engineer textbook writers, Chinese Communist Party officials, or even English post-punk bands, and a computer science  book explains to you the drawbacks of judging groups by their population. And an Astronomy textbook, which […]

Lonesome George was the world’s last Pinta Island tortoise; he died last year, and now he’s with us in New York to be embalmed. Weird, we thought 9 months was kinda too late. (France 24) After a new papal conclave began yesterday, the Vatican also finally revealed the recipes for the smoke used to announce […]

Answer us this: who really wants to pay $40 for a new Ving card? Particularly when they get lost around once a week. Bwog’s more crafty staff members, Alexandra Avvocato and Claire Friedman, have a bit of experience in counterfeiting room keys: perhaps less glamorous than making fake IDs, but also probably less illegal.  To […]

  Yes, another one. Join us in the basement of St. Paul’s Chapel at 9pm to discuss the next issue. There will be snacks. There will be opportunities. – The Editors Chapel via Wikimedia Commons

Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor at The Atlantic. The New York Observer has called him “the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States.” (Coates disagrees.) He has been asked to be a permanent columnist for the New York Times. And he hangs out in some of the same places […]

Tonight from 8-10 pm in 414 Pupin, you can snag some free pizza at CU Amnesty International’s panel: Students vs. Teachers: the Right Paradigm for Education Reform? A panel discussion featuring Professor Jeffrey Henig of Teachers’ College, Wayne Wilson of Students for Education Reform, Alexander Donovan of Teach for America, and Mike Rady of Columbia’s […]

The time has come: to commit, to declare, to promise, to pronounce, to scream from the rooftops — or to just do on your phone during lecture. Regardless of how much pomp and circumstance you attach to it, if you’re a CC sophomore, you should probably declare your major, concentration, or triple-major-double-concentration-combo at some point […]