On Thursday, Savvy Shakespearean Alex Taylor braved the elements to see KCST’s annual outdoor spring show. This year, the production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream made the evening enjoyable despite the chill.  KCST’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, while not without its faults, was definitely worth braving the drizzle and the cold. The classic […]

A University of Pennsylvania Dean has resigned after a local newspaper pointed out that his Columbia degrees were actually just a little résumé padding . (ABC News) Obama’s new ad implies that, if Romney had the top job, he wouldn’t have been decisive enough to take out Bin Laden. (Slate) Wikipedia is redefining our notion […]

Name, Hometown, School: HCRW, Dirty Jerz, College ‘12 Claim to Fame: Dungeon Master of all knowledge related to Housing Services. Where are you going? New York for a while, New Orleans eventually. Three things you learned at Columbia: Avoid dogma in most things: in politics, in love, in choice of careers, in any major life decision. […]

Though not quite as impressive as having a spaceship in your backyard, the Columbia Starcraft club will go head-to-head with rival Harvard in the playoffs of the year-long Collegiate StarLeague tournament; our team and Harvard are both contenders to win the division. If you’re interested in seeing the stellar combat go down in a competitive atmosphere, […]

Design for America is holding an End of Semester Conversation/Celebration from 7:30 to 8:30 in 504 Diana. Design teams will be presenting their work from the semester with administrators and professional designers in attendance. Bwog was promised catering, but the particular cuisine was not mentioned; if you attend, let us know the goods at tips@bwog.com! […]

Name, Hometown, School, Major: Sara Lederman, Minneapolis, MN (home of the most genuine hipsters…we wear flannel because it’s cold/we are real-life lumberjacks). Barnard, Anthropology with a minor in Religion Claim to Fame? Purpled-nosed Reindeer with serious sinus infections in XMAS! 5; went to India twice this year (hanging out with Indian Muppets and then rural […]

This just in from Sarah Ngu, who followed the exhaustive debate at the Senate’s plenary session this afternoon. However, the decision to recommend that the university’s schools implement public course evaluations does not mean they are mandated to release the evaluations. For the majority of the debate, which lasted an hour and a half, the […]

While it’s not quite the Housing lottery, some diligent engineers have come up with this handy utility, allowing families attending the rescheduled GS Class Day who might not otherwise have a place to stay to find an available couch/floor/closet in the neighborhood. The administration’s posturings thus far have been remarkably unhelpful and opaque, but Bwog […]

Name, Hometown, School, Major: Rohan Jotwani. Queens, New York aka ‘The Dirty 718’ aka ‘Nobody really calls it that…yet.’ Columbia College, Biology. Claim to Fame: Evidently, I remind people of this “Kevin G, Badass MC” character. DJ Brohan has no comment. Where are you going? Right now, floor hockey. Turns out I could literally not graduate […]

A spaceship has been spotted flying over campus. Relevant.

Mark Hay relates the story of the controversy surrounding the formation of new A Cappella group Sharp this past fall. Read this and more in the upcoming April issue of The Blue & White. When Columbia got a new a cappella group this past fall, most people didn’t think twice. A cappella groups, though perhaps […]

Bloomberg Businessweek profiles PrezBo in a new light. (Bloomberg) A blind Chinese blind rights activist escapes “extralegal” house arrest in his rural village; American embassy may or may not be harboring him. (NYT) Ronald Breslow, author of space dinosaurs, is  being accused of self-plagiarism; he denies everything. (Nature) Some rich alumnus who credits Columbia with […]

So you don’t go to a school where keggers at the local frat house are a weekend staple. In fact, you go to a school where kegs aren’t allowed at all. But for those of you who like to live life on the wild side or just, you know, live off-campus, there are a number […]

Last night, Spec published an official statement sent to them by the University to address “misinformation which we want to dispel” about the GS Class Day controversy. The statement is more notable for what it doesn’t say than what it says—neither the fund set up to compensate GS seniors for changed travel plans nor the […]

Here’s Will Brown, a Bwog veteran.  To make your nominations, just click here. Name, Hometown, School: Will Haldean Brown. Antwerp, Belgium. Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Computer Science Claim to Fame: I’ve done props, lights, set, sound or makeup for around 50 shows at Columbia. I’ve TAed about half the rising sophomores and juniors […]