When you’re sufficiently cold after tomorrow’s Tree Lighting, the Block RAs will warm you with free food and cheer at their Open Mic Night from 9:30 pm to midnight in the Broadway 1st Floor Lounge. Seasonal goodies will include pumpkin pie, cider, and cookies, but don’t fret if you don’t/can’t eat gluten, meat, or dairy—they’ll […]

So maybe finals start in just a few weeks, and maybe you’re regretting those nights you spent going wild at frat parties eating Ben & Jerry’s and watching a movie in your room. Still, there’s no need to become a Butler zombie to make up for lost time yet, as Bwog’s Arts Editor Kyra Bloom has […]

The smells of free chili, rice, and cake will rise into the air and the Brooklyn electronic group “Blank Paper” might rise to sheer stardom. Since Flannery O’Connor wrote that “everything that rises must converge,” we should’ve seen Live at Lerner’s final Sounds event of the semester coming! What’s not to love about free food […]

The scientists at the Large Hadron Collider are at it again. This time, they’ve discovered a “liquidlike wave of gluons.” Next up: a giddy gaggle of geeks will gulp gin in Geneva. (NBC) Angus T. Jones, Jake from “Two and a Half Men,” apologized for his harsh criticism of the show on Monday. Next up: […]

specsucks is a blog that thinks that the Spec sucks that began last academic year. Bwog and Spec have officially ignored specsucks’s monomaniacal posts and tweets. But today specsucks posted photos “from a secret specsucks ritual,” in which they made a pentagram out of copies of The Eye, burned it, and put a dagger through it. You […]

SGA met in the dark of the night yesterday in the glowing, open space that is the Diana Center Café. Waiting there with bated breath was Barnard Bureau Chief Renée Kraiem and below, as usual, is her report. Last night’s SGA meeting featured its first administrative guest in quite some time, VP of Campus Services […]

If you’ve always wanted to live the The Devil Wears Prada dream and work for a magazine, fret no more. Tonight is the Blue & White’s meeting, your opportunity to make all your dreams come true. We’ll be pitching content for next semester and start assigning writers and researchers. As always, it’ll take place at […]

Tonight at 7 pm in the Carman Lounge Dean Shollenberger and Dean Martinez are cozying up with a second Community Conversation about the new 113th street brownstone. This former convent is being converted into a Special Interest Community resident hall (comparable to Wallach). The deans are contemplating some concepts about what interest it will concern and […]

Stephan Vincenzo—oops, it’s Perez–is back on TV to discuss the “prescription epidemic” sweeping the country. Again! Dressed to the nines (again), Perez also talks about returning to New York for trial and his forthcoming graduation from Emory University. The video won’t embed for us, but you can watch him tell his “story about redemption” here. […]

Shops all over our wonderful neighborhood are already preparing for the spirit of the holidays. We went around and took some pics!

This week we couldn’t send a Bwogger to the ESC meeting, but an inside source has sent us the minutes. Here are the highlights: The ESC’s new website’s domain, www.columbiaesc.com, has been purchased. ESC hopes to have a temporary test website up by the end of the week. Student government is still fighting for CUArts […]

A tipster has sent us the following gem uttered by an economics professor explaining off-equilibrium threat: “I don’t want you to get up in the middle of class, and you don’t want to see me naked!” …we’d appreciate some context.

Following accusations that Yasser Arafat was killed by poisoning, the PLO leader’s body has been exhumed. Swiss, French, and Russian experts will perform tests on the body to determine if murder is a plausible cause of his death. (BBC News) The American Association of Pediatrics now recommends prescribing teens with Plan B before they start having […]

The dining routine at John Jay can get a little monotonous as the days go by, particularly when it comes to the desserts. On the best of nights you have a choice between gelatin, sad chunks of fruit, and the occasional dry cake, with fro-yo as the only saving grace. A few daring students (read: […]

A deep blue Moleskine containing ArtHum notes was lost on campus on Monday, Nov 19 (11/19). Please E-mail dam2178@columbia.edu. A hefty reward will be offered.