To celebrate of today’s student strike in support of Occupy Wall Street and the two month anniversary of the movement, students will be gathering on college walk at 11:30 am to rally and merry-make before the 2 pm march to Union Square for the city-wide student rally. The Facebook event page promises food, music, radical literature, thought […]

Seniors, if you plan on graduating in May you need to apply for the degree now. The Division of Student Affairs is currently facilitating and celebrating this bureaucratic rite of passage with free food in Roon Arledge Auditorium from 10 am to 2 pm. Drop by, put your uni on some dotted lines, and eat a […]

To celebrate the two month anniversary of OWS, protestors pledged to shut down the NYSE. While so far unsuccessful, police and protestors are already clashing outside the Exchange doors. (Gothamist, NYTimes) Protest is sure to be especially charged today, after a New York State Supreme Court justice ruled that those from OWS do not “have a First […]

The reaction to this most recent Powersuite feature has prompted an unprecedented intervention from the editorial staff of Bwog. We’d like to start with an apology. We did not intend to portray members of our community in a way that would encourage the kind of discussion that took place on that post. In providing a […]

Taken mistakenly from Butler Library 303 on Tues 11/15 from someone at the table.  It’s packed with notes from an International Intervention class and may have my name on it.  Please email Denisha Bacchus ASAP at dsb2137@columbia.edu; I really need those notes for my paper.

I lost the ring on Wednesday evening either on Amsterdam, IAB, Butler second floor, or College Walk.  The ring is very small, fits my pinky and is a thick silver band with a Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority crest.  It was my mother’s and means a lot to me. Please contactv:mrc2157@columbia.edu if you find it.  Drinks will […]

This week’s edition of student council coverage brings important information about switching your advisor, possibility of creating a student hang-out space, a controversial proposal to shorten Lerner Mail lines, swipe access for GS/JTS students, and (hip hip..) how Council should delegate and micro-manage less (hooray!). Satow Bureau Chiefs Sarah Ngu and Maren Killackey report! First […]

Where Art Thou?, Bwog’s Wednesday feature, encourages you, as usual, to stay on campus and have some free/kind of free fun this weekend. If you’re a dance aficionado, this is the weekend to stay on campus and watch your peers roll around on stage and stuff. If you’d like your loosely dance-related event featured here, email events@bwog.com. Thursday […]

The New York Times reports that (Really Big Deal Public Intellectual) Cornel West will join the Union Theological Seminary in 2012, and step down from his post at Princeton, which he revealed today while speaking at Occupy Seattle. Unlike his highly publicized split from Harvard in 2002, Dr. West will remain an emeritus professor at Princeton. […]

If you’ve always felt Maroon 5 could use a little less Adam Levine and a little more cello, check out this video of Nathan Chan, Steven Bennett, Maddie Tucker, and Justin Zhao, all CC ’15, performing their take on the pop group’s “Moves Like Jagger.”  As if that wasn’t impressive enough, the group arranged the […]

If you’re one of the many who has to hit up Butler instead of Senior Night, you should know that you’re not alone. In fact, you never are; wandering the halls of floor 6, chilling in The Stacks, standing in front of you in line for coffee—the many Butler Archetypes we’ve come to know and […]

In Hidden Talents, Bwog seeks out the most fabulously gifted of your peers and exposes their skills to inspire your general awe and, of course, requisite jealousy. In this edition, Bwog’s resident modeling maven Liz Jacob introduces you to Lisa Cant, GS ’12, Columbia’s very own supermodel. Know any other Columbians worthy of a profile? […]

This week is OccupyCU’s Student Week of Action. Read on for Bwog resident #Occupier Jed Bush’s report on Day Two’s Open Student/Professor Dialogue on Low Steps, the latest in our ongoing coverage of this week’s events. Today’s discussion featured a star-studded lineup of professors that included, among others, Todd Gitlin, Christia Mercer, Paige West, and Rebecca Jordan Young, and […]

After #OWS’ recent eviction from Zuccotti Park, many questions remain: Is this legal? What happens next? Is there “life after #Occupy?” Most importantly, why was Hipster Cop not in on the raid? (WSJ, NYT, Slate, Gothamist) As owners and players refuse to budge, and both sides prepare to take the issue to court, will the NBA […]

If you’ve been having trouble loading a page or three, you’re not alone as it seems that Columbia’s internet is down just about everywhere.  Which, of course, makes us wonder how you’re reading this in the first place… (Yeah, yeah, smart phones—we know.) No updates yet on the situation, but you can check for the latest […]