Drinking with Bwog is brought to you by the Columbia Bartending Agency. This week we attempt to pull you out of your midterm graves with a little bit of undead magic. Tonight’s drink was concocted by Elliot Grieco. Ready your shovels. In the spirit of a spooky season, we wanted to share with you a thematic […]

Bloomberg’s recent proposal that aims to lure top engineering universities around the world to New York with a pledge of $100 million to be put towards a new campus (either on Governor’s Island, Roosevelt Island, or the Brooklyn Navy Yard) has universities across the country scrambling to send in their applications.  Big names that have […]

We’ve received the first crop of entries for our first ever Pumpkin Carving Contest! Emily Kwong admirably met the challenge of the PrezPumkin, and the men’s lightweight crew emblazoned some team spirit. The rules are pretty simple: you need to take a pumpkin, carve it, and then combust something inside of it such that it […]

Aasif Mandvi dives into the dark world of scientific research to expose corruption and profiteering that runs all the way from high school classrooms to the Ivy League, Nobel Prize-winning elite. Watch the shocking video, in which Columbia professor, and Biology Department chair, Martin Chalfie bumbles a weak defense of his misleading and deviant ways. […]

The academic calendar gods may not have blessed us with a Halloweekend this year, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it up style. That’s right, tonight marks the start of Bwog’s fifth annual costume contest, and we want to see your best. Whether you’re doing something Core-inspired, politically-motivated, or just deliciously clever, we want to see […]

Are we in the midst of a world historic event or some such Hegelian nonsense? A crop of Columbia professors certainly seemed to think so at last night’s “Understanding #OCCUPYWALLSTREET” lecture. Catch up on one of the first attempts to academicize the young movement as brought to you by Bwog’s social/economic revolutions specialist, Sam Schipani. “I’ve […]

If you don’t get the reference, then you probably had good parents who kept you away from the TV. Anyways, Coolhaus NY and Korilla BBQ are joining forces to give you free food. But, the charity started at Noon and the whole free part is only true for the first 500 people. Oh, and you […]

The Greenmarket assembles on Broadway every Wednesday and Sunday. Bwog brings you the highlights for this week’s market.  This is the last day for Wagner’s grapes and grape juice, so get your fix before you have to go back to Welch’s. Cut through the gloomy weather with a cup of hot cider, available at both […]

Students on campus have shared their positive reactions to President Obama’s proposed changes to student loan debt forgiveness. Others aren’t so happy. (NY1, The Atlantic) Protesters in Zuccotti Park have to adapt to deal with the dropping thermostat. But that doesn’t worry the organizers, who think that the cold, “will clean out the square’s riffraff and those […]

At long last, Bwog brings you the feature you’ve all been waiting for (but like, really—we’ve kept you waiting since 2009): a close look at Columbia’s best and brightest PowerSuites. In its inaugural installment, PowerSuites visits the den of four very influential juniors, through the lens of Examiner Extraordinare Alex Eynon. Join Alex as she […]

Around 5:30, students received a Security Alert e-mail from Dean Terry Martinez about about a robbery on 114th. While this was supposed to be a reaction to an event that occured last night, the attached flyer reported an incident that occurred last year. Public Safety confirmed that the crime that actually occurred last night (and […]

If you would like your arts event to be listed in our lineup, email events@bwog.com. Thursday KCST’s Hamlet, 7:30pm in Lerner Black Box. Additional showings Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 7:30pm and Saturday at 1:30pm  The King’s Crown Shakespeare Troupe (KCST) presents William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. It’s free and there will be a wait list at the door! Barnard […]

Do the Diana Center floor plans have you feeling like you just stepped into a Target? Come and join the Barnard SGA for a town hall meeting at 6 p.m. in the James Room of the Diana Center to discuss new floor plan ideas over some free dinner. Stop by for just a quick word […]

A new breed of vending machine has been spotted in Uris and the Law Library. Marvel with us at the crowning achievement of beverage dispensing technology—the intuitive interface, the high-definition lowercase fonts, the ability to awkwardly sort of spin images on the screen with your finger and maybe select an item after pressing a button […]

Yesterday evening President of Republika Srspska Milorad Dodik gave a lecture titled “An American Foreign Policy Success Story:  The Dayton Accords, Republika Srpska and Bosnia’s European Integration.” Dodik has attracted controversy over statements about the Yugoslav wars. Specifically, Dodik holds that the Tulza Massacre was staged, questions the reports of the Markale massacres, and, though he […]