Last spring, Bwog posted about matching people’s bookshelves to their personalities/”super intensive literary questions.” Now, Shelf Lives is pulling a New Testament and is being resurrected with the help of Amazing Artist Angel Jiang, who has faithfully depicted the bookshelves of Columbia students. Submit a picture of yours or a friend’s to tips@bwog.com.

The world’s a scary place, and sometimes people steal your wallet. This happened on Sunday at the East Asian Library in Kent to a female student. Public Safety wrote in a statement that the man in this picture used her credit card at two stores in the area. The full email is below. Keep your […]

Clubhopper Zachary Hendrickson sits in on a new Columbia organization and reports back to Bwog. Men of Color alliance meets every Wednesday at 7:30—aka in an hour. Read and, if interested, head over! Full-disclosure: I self-identify as a man of color. That said, I don’t always understand what it means for me to be a […]

In the media coverage still focusing on Monday’s Froscanity, cartoonists at the New York Daily News are now depicting their version of the episode. We think cartoon Dr. Hughes looks pretty good in the nude, but he’s not wearing a g-string for us to tuck our $45,000 checks into. Cartoon from the New York Daily News

Found a Samsung Galaxy outside of IAB building around 2:40 pm. The phone is white and in a black/pink case. Contact: ngk2106@columbia.edu

The Morningside Post is SIPA’s “premier [only?] student-run news and opinion site.” Jay Pinho is TMN’s opinion editor. And two days ago, he sure had an opinion. He began: This past December, with final exams looming, many SIPA students descended into Lehman Library only to stumble upon the only thing even more frightening than the prospect […]

The evening began informally with Olivia Harris, CC ’14, jiving around the small stage, which was enough to put any audience member in a good mood.  She sassily sang along to the classic songs the band was playing, making us wish we could have heard more of her voice later on in the preview.  When the full cast […]

Bwog found out from a tipster today that football coach Pete Mangurian recently updated his Facebook page with some photos of the new Campbell Sports Center. Before we get too indignant over the opulence and extravagance, the old sports center was by all accounts a depressing shithole, and the new one can be used by […]

Whoa, guys, Columbia just now became famous! So what will this do to next year’s admissions?! (WSJ, Gothamist, DNAinfo, Huff Post, Terra, Fox, Daily Mail, ABC, TIME) In  real other news: China keeps trying to hack us. Hey, pick on someone your own size! (WSJ) The Supreme Court will hear a case on limiting campaign contributions. […]

Lost an iPhone in a pink Lifeproof case today after 12 pm, possibly in Mudd. Contact: tjo2117@columbia.edu

The summer internship application season is upon us.  This only means one thing— recommendations are needed. Worried your professors don’t like you enough, or know the real you? Bwog gives our list of the best ways to be noticed (or even liked) by your professor of choice.   Highly Effective Laugh at all of their jokes Make […]

According to DNAinfo.com, representatives of Milano Market have apologized for Forest Whitaker’s unwarranted frisking,  and fired the responsible employee. They also stated that they do not believe the employee was racially motivated in his frisking. Whitaker had refrained from reporting the incident to the police because he didn’t want to employee to lose his job. […]

Come to the weekly, open meeting of The Blue and White. As usual, it’s at 9 p.m. in the crypt of St. Paul’s Chapel. There’ll be snacks and good cheer, just like there always it. Come if you want to pitch a story for March. Come if you want to publish your art. Come if you […]

Scuttle a few blocks down Broadway tonight to get a first glimpse at the 119th Annual Varsity Show. There will be two previews at Havana Central (Broadway between 113th and 114th), at 8 and 10:30. $3 tickets will be sold at the door. Marvel at the musical ability and lung capacity of your peers, wonder […]

Yesterday, Professor Hughes began Frontiers of Science’s three-lecture physics unit by playing Lil Wayne, changing clothes on stage, and displaying 9/11 and Nazi Germany footage. Various news outlets (Slate, TIME, NY Daily News) have picked up the story, and here is some of the known coverage for today: Fox News’s The Five at 5 pm […]