We protest, tenaciously. (NYT) We plan for the future, bureaucratically. (Scribd) We lose connections, digitially. (Atlantic) We see ourselves in animals, irrationally. (NY Mag) We ink ourselves, unwisely. (Slate)   Sick Tat, Bro via Flickr

An email today from Dean Peter Awn (DeAwn?) announced that the 2012 GS Class Day speaker will be Thomas Reardon, GS ’08. Reardon was the architect behind Internet Explorer, a founding board member of the World Wide Web Consortium (which we at Bwog vaguely know about from a brief stint in 1004), and did lots […]

 Last night, in the Lerner Black Box, Columbia Musical Theatre Society put on its rendition of Bright Lights, Big City, the musical based on Jay McInerney’s haunting novel of the same name. Conor Skelding took it as an excuse to spend extra time in Lerner. I went into CMTS’s Bright Lights, Big City, having read […]

Bwog has never been a great public speaker, but you might be! You’ll never know until you try, and in a new bit of progressive idealism, TEDxColumbiaCollege invites you to do just that. TEDxCC is recruiting students from all levels and schools of Columbia University to speak at their event this coming October, themed “Beyond […]

Interested in free food, a new t-shirt, and watching a pad-less contact sport you’ve probably only seen in Invictus? Well, you’re in luck. Tonight, the Columbia Rugby Team, aka CURFC, takes on Yale in their biggest home game of the season. The two teams kick off at 7 pm at Baker Athletic Complex, but don’t […]

Though it’s embarrassing to admit it any time after NSOP, we all miss Sex and the City from time to time. A lucky tipster got to relive a little bit of it in Ferris yesterday when he unwittingly sat next to two Samanthas: Girl 1: Ew, he’s like 28! Girl 2: No, he’s 26. Girl […]

The results from the General Studies Student Council elections have just come in; unlike your breakfast this morning, some balance has been achieved between indulgence and foresight: Student Body President: Jennifer Wisdom 51% Scott Bacon 35% Eugene Dinescu 9% Vice President of Policy: Nikki Morgan 50% Alexandra Leighton 26% Chief Policy Representative Alexandra Leighton, per […]

Citing “financial constraints,” AHinks just notified the Barnard community via email that their physical education requirement has been reduced from two semesters to one. Students can still take two semesters for credit, but why would anybody do something they didn’t have to? From: ahinkson@barnard.edu Date: April 13, 2012 12:10:01 PM EDT Subject: Change in PE […]

Well, this is embarassing. A North Korean long-range rocket launched this morning broke up after launch, raising many eyebrows and more than a few guffaws. (CNN) Core references in real life! Well, in a movie at least. (New Yorker) Not so fast, international censorship laws. (AKAScope) NASA might have found life on Mars! In 1976… […]

If there’s one thing we’ve learned at Columbia, it’s how to make the most out of the least—as PrezBo himself once never said, “When life gives you lemons, make a weird gin cocktail in an empty lemonade bottle and bring it to South Lawn.” So in the spirit of efficiency and maximizing resources and cutting off […]

Last week, Bwog sat down with Dan Mullins, Florida native and member of Columbia’s Uptown Local, in the Butler lounge for some unconventional learning. Frisbee clutched faithfully in hand, he shared words of wisdom on one of the most parodied and misunderstood sports in modern culture. Endless mysteries surround Ultimate Frisbee: Is it great enough […]

Students for Substance Free Space (SFSFS), a special interest housing group, is giving out free ice cream in the McBain lobby right now.  Get there while supplies lasts!  Vanilla or chocolate with chocolate sauce and rainbow sprinkles.  They are also handing out info sheets from Ask Alice about alcohol and substance abuse.

Yesterday, the USenate held a two-hour townhall on “Open Course Evaluations” in the Law School. Around 40 people attended, including a fair number of students.  The details of the proposal can be found here: the basic gist is that the primarily quantitative data will be released online, with at least one qualitative question, “Would you recommend […]

Free Westside cookies are to be had tonight, in Hamilton 602, courtesy of Columbia Right to Life. They’re holding a talk entitled, “Pro-Life, Pro-Woman: A Feminist Perspective.” According to Tess Murray, Treasurer, “Anyone who disagrees will have an opportunity to challenge [our guest speaker] at the end! We’re looking forward to a healthy dialogue and want […]

Thanks to the good people in the IPA (InterPublications Alliance, not that), you can now subscribe to have your selection of Columbia’s wonderful undergraduate publications delivered right to your Lerner mailbox. Cool, huh? So if you want to make sure you receive every issue of, oh we don’t know, The Blue & White, just fill out this […]