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 […]

Victoria Wills and Mark Hay engage in a battle of local subway stops. Read this and more in the upcoming April issue of The Blue & White. AFFIRMATIVE—116th or Bust by Victoria Wills Mark asked me to commit. He wanted me to pick a side, buy a ticket, and follow him all the way. What […]

Bwog has been fascinated by the mysterious projections on Lerner and decided to do some real investigative journalism.  We sat down–virtually, to retain anonymity–with the elusive Projector People for a glimpse into the minds behind the madness. Bwog: How did you discover you could project onto the wall? PP: With all due respect Bwog, have you […]

Lost a Black High Sierra backpack containing a white binder and a red pencil bag in Ferris Booth Dining Hall on Wednesday, April 25th, around 7:30 to 8pm. It was left on a chair in the second floor in a table around the middle of the room close to the staircase. If spotted someone taking it or […]

A fearful tipster spotted this truck outside of John Jay with the words “From Food to Fuel” stamped on its side. Intrigued, we couldn’t help but wonder: is this what happens to dining hall leftovers once they’re beyond being recycled as pizza toppings? We thought that was just a Simpsons plotline… We did some heavy Googling […]