Bwog was curious about what chefs-d’œuvre the dignified-sounding Core Scholars program would inspire, so we jumped at Lit Hum Chair/philosopher queen Christia Mercer‘s offer for us to display a few submissions. Behold, an Ovidian triptych by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, CC ’12. As an innocent, rosy-cheeked freshman, I fell for Ovid. I fell hard. I was still reading […]

Hello Friends, The staff of The Blue & White, Bwog’s inkier stepbrother, extends the warmest of invitations to join us at our weekly meeting this chilly Valentine’s Day Eve. Take shelter with us in the cozy crypt of St. Paul’s Chapel, where we’ll discuss campus happenings, content for upcoming issues, and the impending official launch of […]

Columbia Dining has opened their Customer Satisfaction Survey for the year – now’s your chance to say everything you’ve been holding back (bad and good!) about the dining locations across campus.  The survey is running from now until this Friday and can be found here for students, faculty, and staff.  For each completed survey, Dining […]

Earlier this month, aspiring Columbia app-makers competed in DevFest. One of the featured teams was Mason Silber, Sidharth Shanker, and Zach Reitano, who created ParkAlly. ParkAlly is now entered in NYC’s BigApps competition, which relies on public voting. They are currently less than 10 votes away from first place, so let’s throw them a little […]

CCSC guru Sara Ngu delivers the State of the CCSC in bullet point form for your easy consumption. Barack, take note.  DONE Class council drama ends: CC 2014 put up a “roaring” fight, contacted Columbia’s General Counsel, and got Athletics to grant them an exception to use their logo on class t-shirts. CCSC gives you cash: Kevin Zhai strips […]

Butler has study chairs, and Hamilton has desk chairs, but only Lerner possesses the hybrid study/social/dining/package opening crossover combo chair. Ponder the possibilities of this perch as Lerner’s pleathery peculiarities get polemicized. What does an Air Purifier from Sharper Image, 1980s David Bowie, and the pleathery chairs in Lerner have in common? They all look […]

Now, we know this is something we don’t normally do, but this situation is too dangerous to ignore.  Theft continues to abound on campus as a slice of pizza was stolen from the garbage outside Low.  Public safety has sent us a picture of the burglar and warns students to stay on the lookout.

Namely, that it has flooded the machine room. So that’s the bad news: due to a flood in the basement machine room, all the building’s bathrooms are closed until further notice. In an email to a whole bunch of humanities departments, Lisa Seales, Columbia College’s Director of HR, also mentioned that the flood has also […]

The Grammys were last night!  Adele learned you can take an awful break-up and parlay it into 6 awards, viewers learned who Bonny Bear Bon Iver is, and Nicki Minaj pissed off Italian grandmothers everywhere. (Reuters, Fox News) Though our Occupy class never came to fruition, students at other universities are getting schooled in the […]

Hop on the love train with Bwog Personals. You may notice we haven’t included last names in this installment. Well, you don’t have to be googlable to find love! Any of these ladies strike your fancy? Tell us at personals@bwog.com, and we’ll provide $10 for your date. And FYI for those who aren’t so hip […]

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 “The Idea of Political Reform in Today’s China” Monday, February […]

‘Tis the season for broken hearts, and the Columbia Lions were no exception this weekend. The Lions lost several painfully close matchups in the weekend leading up to Valentine’s Day, highlighted by a heartbreaking loss in the final minutes of the Men’s Basketball game on Saturday in front of a sell-out crowd in Levien Gymnasium. […]

A Bwog tipster spotted this funny-because-it’s-true sign in a subway car. Quoth said tipster: Imagine the NYU kids’ reaction. True that! High fives all around!  

CCSC is one busy bee today, and will be hosting a town hall-style meeting with one of Columbia’s powerbrokers, Vice-president of Campus Affairs Scott Wright in Lerner’s Satow Room, 8 pm ’til 9 pm. According to the event’s Facebook page, Wright’s purview includes departments as diverse as dining, housing, mail, and transportation. You probably have […]

Update: One of Spec’s reporters caught up with Anna and learned she was first put on notice two weeks ago, after she returned a confiscated fake ID to a student for $40, but the final straw came last Monday, when she took a shot from the bar after a long shift, which The Heights strictly […]