Bwog’s musical maven Roberta Barnett roomhops a very musical (and sturdy) John Jay abode. It’s hard to resist investigating the sound of the light piano melody that often floats out into the hall of John Jay 9.  Upon further exploration, the music isn’t simply a tasteful mix of WKCR and a personal collection of contemporary […]

The September issue of The Blue & White is on-campus now, and Bwog will keep on posting the highlights for your reading pleasure. Below, Culture Editor Conor Skelding explains how Bwog accidentally gained a global presence in the Twittersphere. On August 14th, Bwog published an ostensibly unprovocative post divulging that Jaeseop “AJ” Kim, 21, member of the […]

CCSC met last night, just as it does every Sunday. Pinch-hitter Conor Skelding sat in front. Yesterday night’s was a pleasantly and surprisingly short CCSC meeting (only about 45 minutes!). First off, class councils and senators gave their updates. Ryan Mandelbaum of 2013 boasted that Lerner Pub had went really well, and that they had […]

Today is the first day of voting for the freshmen class elections! If you’re a first year who wants the dining hall to be open forever, or for fruit punch drinking fountains to be installed, or for your advisors to be puppies, click here (for CC) or here (for SEAS). Hurry! Voting ends at 5pm on […]

  Columbia Global Centers (CGC) have been busy establishing themselves.  With eight centers across the world in Chile, Brazil, France, Jordan, Kenya, Turkey, India, and China, the directors are finding exactly how they can best fit in to the Columbia sphere.  To that end, a week-long Directors’ Summit was held last week, closing with a […]

Zeev Mendelsberg, a student in GSAS, passed away last night. He was pursuing his Master’s Degree in the Mathematics of Finance program. We extend our sympathies to Zeev’s family and friends, and ask that readers please use the comment space respectfully. Within in the letters from Dean Martinez, Ioannis Karatzaz (chair of math dept), and […]

After seventy-two years, the Bleecker Street subway connection will finally be completed tomorrow. Way to finish what you started, New York! (NY Daily News) The phenomenon of dance-fighting has spread out of the fictional world of “Zoolander” and “West Side Story” as Thai gangs take to the streets…Gangnam Style. (The Guardian) Dethroning “Mad Men” for the […]

As everyone reading this already knows, Bwog adopted some major design changes yesterday, and we’re interested to hear your thoughts. We do genuinely want this website to best serve the Columbia community in our traditional fashion, and a part of that is constructing a website that people want to look at and use. So, please, […]

In light of the upcoming elections, Bwog is bucking CCSC procedure and endorsing one party and one party only for CCSC 2016…our own! Meet Morningside Madness: Gangnam Style. Hey class of 2016! From our first Lit Hum class to deciding to skip out on an EC party to play Monopoly, freshman year has already been […]

It was a tough weekend for Cornell’s women’s teams as they rode the long bus back to Ithaca having lost all three of the weekend’s contests to the Lions. First, on Friday, senior Isabel King’s lone goal in the eighth minute of play was good enough for a 1-0 victory in Women’s Soccer. Then, sophomore […]

Bwog politicos Maren Killackey, Kyra Bloom, and Zach Collazzo are live at the the contentious CCSC 2016 debate. Update: The debate has ended. Here’s a transcript of the coverage: 5:31 pm Hey guys, this is Zac and Kyra coming to you live from the Satow Room 5:34 The room is full of nervous, excited freshmen […]

Bucket List represents the unbelievable intellectual privilege we enjoy as Columbia students. We do our very best to bring to your attention important guest lecturers and special events on campus. As always, feel free to mention any events we may have missed in the comments section (and/or mock our typos) and we’ll add them. Our recommendations […]

Come one, come all! Bwog will have a meeting in the SGO on the fifth floor of Lerner at 7 pm tonight where there will be free food and moderately awesome people. Bring ideas, friends, or absolutely nothing at all and just freeload! Good thing all foods are naturally in the shape of sectors via […]

The foundations of our democracy have been shaken. We have learned through an exhaustive investigation (a.k.a. accidentally being cc’d on an internal email) that the CCSC elections board is currently investigating one of the parties running for freshman student council for election law violations. What are the specific violations? Well, that’s tough for the Elections […]

Adding to the recent medical breakthrough brought about by arguably the greatest mind of our generation that “your love” is a drug, research finds that certain foods mimic drugs in their effect on the pleasure centers in the human brain. (Wikimedia, New York Times) Even when you’re full, there’s always room for some cake. (Buzzfeed, […]