What’s the only thing better than free? More free! In celebration of the last First Friday of the semester, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (APAHM), Columbia Queer, and Lambda Phi Epsilon invite you to an awesome free dance party full of other awesome free-ness in Roone tonight from 11 pm to 2 am, complete with […]

Matsuri Noun, Japanese 1.The Japanese word for festival 2. A Japanese spring festival on Low Steps from 4 to 8 p.m. Put on by the Columbia Japan Society, there will be festive dance, goldfish scooping, and activity booths! Other student organizations will be represented as well, and why wouldn’t you want to leave for home […]

Newly elected CCSC President Karishma Habbu is the newest member of PrezBo’s committee to find a new Dean of Columbia College. Following PrezBo’s announcement of the committee last week, students Kenny Durrell, Barry Weinberg, Alex Frouman, and Aki Terasaki wrote a Spec editorial urging KevSho to add an elected student representative to the team. “While we do not […]

In case you missed them during Mental Health Awareness Week, CNS will be giving out the remaining stock of awesome free t-shirts (and if the picture is any indication, some candy too!) this afternoon at the Sundial from 2-4 pm.

The upcoming Core-wide lecture, Evil to the Core, will take place next week (read: class on Friday). Unfortunately, the one poster put up in Hamilton to advertise the event was stolen. Irony? Evil incarnate? An excuse to miss the lecture? We report; you decide. Information on the sign’s whereabouts should be sent to tips@bwog.com.

Collectivism might not be quite the way to go, but using money as an incentive is making us poor problem solvers. (Nature Blogs) Remember, remember, the fifth of November: David Cameron comes under fire for attempting to make the UK a police state. (LA Times) Congenital birth defects may soon be a thing of the […]

For those poor souls awake this early on a Friday morning, the Committee on Global Thought invites you to break your fast at 9 a.m. in 918 IAB over a roundtable discussion with Misha Glenny, expert on modern crime and author of McMafia and Dark Market. A meeting will follow for those interested in the Committee […]

In a day dominated by crowds fawning over Harry Potter, our campus was simultaneously graced by Dexter himself, Michael C. Hall. Korilla Truck Killer, anyone? Photos by KK

As we mentioned earlier, Daniel Radcliffe was on campus today for Kill Your Darlings. He drew a crowd, whose general reaction was, “Wow, he sure is short.” Still can’t play Harry Potter, though. Kill Your Darlings, which is going to be about the Beats, features Radcliffe as a young Ginsberg. There’ll be murder and disillusion. There’ll be […]

Once again Bwog is here to help you begin your weekend celebrations.  We have a feeling some of you seniors might have some leftover beer from certain festivities last night, so here are some very simple options of what to do with it: Brass Monkey: 1 part orange juice 2 parts malt liquor The Monkey […]

Rustic looking octopus on similarly colored chain. Found under one of the tables outside of Hartley/Hamilton. Contact: drc2148@columbia.edu.

Tonight at 9 pm in Lerner C555 the BSO is hosting “…Cuz She Asked for It,” an exploratory art gallery as part of sexual violence awareness month.  The gallery will be exploring the ways different mediums of art including photography, videography, paintings, print media advertisements, movie clips, and theatre productions address rape culture.  There will […]

In the last 24 hours, Columbia has seen its fair share of movers and shakers—and not just the literal ones huddled around Alma’s throne last night. Sean C. Solomon was chosen to be director of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, according to an email from PrezBo and Coatsworth.  Dr. Solomon was the leader of the Carnegie […]

Once upon a time (the 1930s), the Upper West Side’s Metro Theater played movies—the real, live kind that you have to buy a ticket for. Since then, it’s provided a roof for a brief foray into the “adult film” industry, a couple of big-shot cinema chains, and a host of legal kerfuffles and vacancies. But as the old adage tagline […]

I lost a light blue Samsung cellphone in the 6th floor women’s restroom of Barnard’s Milbank Hall. REWARD if returned! Oh, and my eternal devotion and gratitude to you forever and ever. Contact: amd2229@columbia.edu