Perhaps inspired by SWP’s Random Acts of Kindness week, Ben & Jerry’s wants to make your day happier as well. Brave the bend in Broadway to hit the 104th street ice cream location for Free Cone Day! It’s a great and almost guilt-free way to sweeten a particularly sour housing appointment time. If you’re still […]

Moving forward in their Random Acts of Kindness Week, Student Wellness Project is making your daily sojourn into Butler a little brighter and fuller of joy with the most charming combination of snacks around. From 11 am to 3 pm, free cookies, apples, and lemonade will be outside the library offering sustenance and love. Relive […]

Welcome back! Suite selection is in full swing, and the pressure is beginning to build for the senior groups waiting to pick. Many of the high-demand suites have vanished, and don’t expect the rest to stick around for much longer. There is hope, however, as senior regroup will take place today and attempt to provide […]

Just in time for Autism Awareness Month, Columbia researchers discover that as many as 10% of autistic children can “grow out” of the disorder. (CBS News) Say goodbye to your old, familiar, smells-slightly-like-death cab for the taxi of tomorrow (apparently, Nissan is the symbol of progress). (New York Times) If you think you’re the first […]

Savvy sports sources tell Bwog that this March Madness thing is still going on, despite the fact that it’s April. If you’ve spent the last month stressing as much about your bracket as your CC midterm, you probably already know that tonight is the NCAA Division I National Championship Game. If you have no idea […]

I lost a purple spiral notebook with biology notes. Please contact jl3824@columbia.edu if found. Reward will be provided!

The Globals Scholars Program is hosting an info session tonight at 6 pm in Kent Hall. Most importantly, the group will be serving roti rolls and lassi, while also discussing the summer research workshop the program offers. Pondering over travel to Mumbai, Beijing, and Shanghai is the perfect cure to your housing woes. Be sure to […]

A couple of minutes ago, Columbians opened their inboxes to the announcement by our dear PrezBo that the University will be spending $30 million to recruit women and underrepresented minorities to the faculty. His e-mail, in full: Dear Fellow Members of the Columbia Community: The experience of being on the Columbia campus makes clear that […]

Christia Mercer is awesome—and the Academic Awards Committee thinks so too. Minutes ago, they announced that she is the 2012 recipient of the Mark van Doren Award, the highest student-awarded honor a professor can receive. The Lionel Trilling Award, given to the professor who “best exhibits the standards of intellect and scholarship” in a recent […]

Sarah Ngu, Bwog’s CCSC correspondent, partnered with Tyler Benedict, Poet Laureate of the Marching Band, to interview Karishma Habbu, President of 212, and Alex Jasiulek, President of the Block Party. Make sure to cast your vote before elections end, this Thursday. The Parties: 212: Three Council members: Karishma Habbu – former VP of Communications and […]

Maybe just like Justin Beiber, we too have reached our peak young. But are we really getting dumber? (Daily Beast) For those of us who have better things to do than pay attention to mainstream American politics, the New York Times has kindly created a quantum theory model of Mitt Romney’s personality. (NYT) Facebook’s issues aren’t its […]

It all comes down to this. Here we are at the Housing 2012 liveblog, where Bwog will once again blog about housing in real time. We’ll be camped out in the John Jay Lounge all day, every day during suite selection, and you’ll have our full journalistic power at your disposal. Below you can find […]

We’ve had our laughs at those overeager types who bothered turning in their applications way back in November, but now the Admission’s Department has tapped a whole new deluge of high school seniors to join the class of 2016. This is the point that marks the transcendence of current freshman from the set of innocent […]

Bucket List represents the unbelievable intellectual privilege we enjoy as Columbia students. We do our very best to bring to your attention important guest lecturers and special events on campus. Our recommendations for this week are below and the full list is after the jump. Recommended “Address by Ban Ki-Moon” Monday, April 2, 5:00 pm, Low […]

The Athletic Department announced today that the Football team and band are expected to switch places next season as a last resort. The announcement came after…Okay, we’re allowed one April Fools joke about the CU Football team, but let’s get on to the real sports action this week. Men’s Tennis, Women’s Tennis, Softball, and Baseball […]