As Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago teachers union continue their negotiations over pizza the public school system, one complaint that hasn’t been addressed is the lack of air conditioning in many classrooms. Wait, we’re allowed to protest about that? (HuffPost) Meanwhile, New York reasserts its dominance as the world’s best (and most confused) city, as […]

Bwog reported about a policy change for alcohol in freshman residence halls: there are no (officially) dry dorms on campus anymore, as far as we can surmise, although you must be 21 to drink. “But who could this apply to?” we hear a skeptic enquire. (“Did you mean ‘To whom could this apply?’?”) Most obviously this […]

The 2012-2013 season at Miller Theatre opened last night with Venezia. It will be playing again tomorrow and is sold out, but a stand-by line will be open at 6 pm. Wannabe Venetian Alexandra Svokos checked it out. Miller Theatre opened their season with the words “I do not know if I am awake, or […]

Sasha DiGiulian, CC ’16, hails from Washington, DC, but she’s scaled the globe as the reigning US National Female Champion in outdoor climbing. Join us as we make more bad puns and attempt a double entendre or two about the sport of mounting large rocks…  Bwog: How did you start rock climbing? Sasha: I first started […]

There is filming going on today in the famed Havemeyer 309 and the building’s lobby for an upcoming TV series called Zero Hour.  A tipster sent in this picture:

A tipster overheard this not-sure-if-endearingly-cute-or-just-outright-creepy exchange outside the Mathematics building. Boy: I am going to drop Chinese. Girl: Why? Boy: Because I spend the whole class staring at you and can’t focus. Girl: That’s not my fault! Chinese via Wikimedia Commons

Get yer locally grown organics on at the Columbia Greenmarket.  On Broadway between 114th and 116th every Thursday and Sunday.  As always, here are ze highlights: On Sundays the market collects food scraps for compost from 8 am to 1 pm and textiles for recycling frim 8 am to 3 pm Thursdays, ongoing: volunteers needed!  […]

Apple revealed the new iPhone 5 yesterday and it looks a lot like the iPhone 4. (Reuters) It took Apple three years to figure out a new way to rip off consumers with “EarPods;” in that time, scientists have discovered a new species of monkeys in the DRC in an “exhaustive study.” (Washington Post, CNN) […]

It’s the second week of school and while you’ve changed your major for the fifth time or taken up printmaking, your highly accomplished peers of the CSA Peer Advising Program have decided to help freshmen avoid the same mistakes you’ve made. Bwog sat down with Phillip Fletcher (CC ‘13) and Amanda Suarez (CC ‘14) to […]

Join Art Editor (Extraordinaire) Alex Katz in bringing back Where Art Thou from its summer hiatus. We’ll be divulging the details about the must-sees of Columbia’s arts scene. If you’d like your event to appear on Where Art Thou, send an e-mail to events@bwog.com. Ongoing Tomás Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City on the roof the […]

If you’re craving not one, but three free pizza dinners, tonight is your lucky night. Here’s how to triple score: Mosey on down to Earl Hall anytime from 6 to 9 pm, where you can hear the Community Impact Open House offer information about their 28 groups, discover community service opportunities, and obviously eat pizza while learning. […]

A tipster overheard the start to what will be a very, very long year for a new Columbia student: “Wait… The Odyssey is a whole separate book?” Another bout of sudden clarity was overheard later that day: Girl on phone: Wait… I heard that Ferris Booth is the same as Ferris.  You finding the syllabus […]

Stop by Lerner today between 12 and 1 pm if you’re in the mood for something a little salty (Mexican food) and also pretty sweet (a performance by Miracles of Modern Science). Live at Lerner is hosting its weekly free lunch, and the menu is this: Quesadillas Chips Churros To pique your appetite, check out […]

Fox News paints a questionable picture of Obama’s influence on unemployment rates. (NYMag) These berries are literally shinier than any other living thing. And since we can’t eat them, we’ll have to settle for a photo. (NPR) Picture yourself smiling. Now picture yourself frowning. According to the creator of emoticons (yeah, that’s a thing), modern […]

But this time, we’re tied with UChicago, that other college with a core curriculum. Harvard and Princeton are tied for 1st, Yale takes 3rd, and 6th is split between MIT and Stanford. Penn has dropped to 8th; remember when we languished there while they took 4th? Barnard, meanwhile, is back to 28th in the Liberal […]