Bwog’s resident carbon confidant, Zach Kagan, brings us sordid tales of sustainability, statistics, and snacks. This midterm season, an incalculable number of sodas and assorted caffeinated beverages will be drunk. Scores of candy bar pick-me-ups will be scoffed. Bag after bag of vending machine purchased chips will be opened and consumed. Exams and snacking go hand and hand this time […]

Put away your binders, kids—tonight is the final presidential debate between Obama and Romney. (The Washington Post) Although we love our city, the bright lights sometimes make us forget about those things called “stars.” Remember those? For those of you who love looking up, last night the universe had something even better in store. (Wall […]

“If you’re going to keep staring at me, I might as well introduce myself.” — Hillary Rodham to Bill Clinton in Yale Law library sometime during the early 70’s.  People are knowingly on display in the library, but not everyone is as accommodatingly forward as the former First Lady. If you’re like Bwog, attempting any form […]

It was a heartbreaking Homecoming weekend for the Lions as team after team fell to Dartmouth by the slimmest of margins, often watching leads disappear. For those 11,127  fans that survived their pre-games and made it into Wein Stadium (not just to the tailgate), probably covered in beer and runny face paint, it was a […]

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 […]