Art aficionado Maren Killackey looks at CU Arts’ inefficiencies, its history and its future. At the risk of further belaboring an already belabored point, the decline of the Columbia University Arts Initiative is an unfortunate tale and has had unfortunate effects on all. From the Frick and Guggenheim dropping out of Passport to Columbia, to […]

A recent study found that attending Bwog meetings is actually beneficial to your health. Going to the SGO on the 5th floor of Lerner at 7pm every Sunday is said to decrease your risk of contracting the Bubonic Plague by 100%. Bring ideas, pitches and your fear of the Black Death. Real doctor and not […]

Recommended “World Leaders Forum: The Current and Future State of Euro-American Relations in Times of Crisis” Monday, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm, 1501 IAB, Francoise Delattre, Scott Barrett “The Year of Dreaming Dangerously Panel Discussion with Slavoj Zizek” Tuesday, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, 417 IAB, Slavoj Zizek, Stathis Gourgouris, Lydia Liu, Bruce Robbins “50 […]

Natural gas has recently boomed as an energy source, but the discrepancy between the American consumer’s environmental and cost benefit and the natural gas companies’ massive losses has caused the fuel’s profitability to be questioned. [Insert 12-year-old boy inspired flatulation joke here] (NYT) Ellen Degeneres is to receive the Mark Twain Award for American Humor and […]

Don’t shed those tears after our 21-16 loss to Dartmouth, Bwog is here to cheer you up with a double dose of Overheards and Overseens. Thanks to our army of minions tipsters, we’ve gathered some snippets through the grapevine. Freshman athletes on Lit Hum: “I didn’t know, when I committed, about the whole liberal arts thing […]

Unless you have been living under a rock or trapped in the bathroom, you should know today is Homecoming! Columbia Lions are taking on the Big Green  today, 10/20, on Baker Field at 1:30 PM. Shuttle buses will depart from 116th and Broadway starting at 11:00 AM and returning immediately after the game. For guidance on how […]

In celebration of Homecoming, Bwog is hosting a contest for the best overseen photo of Prezbo. The contest will start today (10/20) and end next Saturday (10/27). The prize is none other than your very own bottle of Bollinger champagne. So fire up Instagram and send those photos to tips@bwog.com!   All about angles via […]

For the few, the proud Android lovers, it turns out the upcoming Sony Nexus X was in fact, a hoax. Ti Kawamoto, a graphic artist from Vermont, decided to post the pictures as a product of a 3D modeling exercise. Tech sites soon picked up the story and published it without some fact checking. Oops. (Tech […]

Ah, it’s once again that marvelous time of year when  you have two midterms next week, Saturday will be wasted in drunken revelry, and…oh yeah, your parents are in town. If, like us, you’ve spent the past week panicking and trying to hide half the stuff in your room, these tips should give you a […]

For the past few weeks, we’ve been giving you tips on how to stick it to the man student life fees by exploiting Columbia giveaways. In this installment, we calculate how much money you can “read back” in free New York Times (and by “read,” we obviously mean “do the crossword/KenKen and then blithely flip […]

In an email sent out to the Barnard student body this morning, DSpar announced that the members of UAW Local 2110 have ratified the tentative agreement announced yesterday. The new contract, which contains no wage freeze or cuts to benefits or maternity leave, “will be finalized upon approval of Barnard’s Board of Trustees.” DSpar calls […]

Still need more ways to procrastinate for your midterms? Bwog has you covered! When you’re spending all that time on Twitter to avoid your calculus textbook, your tweets can start to feel a little dry. But not anymore, with our new favorite website that proclaims “Yes, that CAN be my next tweet!” This text generator […]

You’ve probably been spending a lot more time with your textbook lately, and in some pretty late-night settings. Bwog has, too—and we’ve noticed a few little gems hidden within. Small moments like these below; subtle signals from the authors sensing our distress and saying, “You are not alone.” Or just a lame scientist trying to […]

Residents of Brooklyn are protesting the possible addition of a new homeless shelter in their neighborhood, because they “already have people in our community who are borderline homeless.” (Gawker) Joe Walsh continued Todd Akin’s unscientific rants yesterday, when he told reporters there is no need for an abortion exception for the life or health of […]

It’s that time of the year again. For a brief 48 hours, you go to a fantasy college where Butler is a football rival and not a cavernous den of midterm doom and “tailgating” is a thing. That’s right, it’s Homecoming weekend! And what better way to celebrate than with a special edition of DWB […]