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. This week is full of sold-out World Leaders Forum events, […]

Update: Tipsters tell Bwog that there was a Federation of Black Cowboys parade in Harlem today. While Bwog can’t independently confirm that claim, it sure makes for a great story. Update 2: The Federation of Black Cowboys accidentally loosed one of their horses around 110th and Broadway. No one was hurt. All the pretty horses […]

And stop on by the Bwog meeting tonight if you’re interested in contributing (writing, photographing, doodling, idea pitching, free food eating). Festivities begin at 7pm in the SGO on Lerner 5. There will be food. O from Wikimedia Commons

Apparently we’re not the only Columbians who are really into puns. Literally—the AEPi(e!) brothers pictured at right are nose-deep in one.

After you’ve bounced around College Walk amiably signing up for several dozen club listservs, there comes a point when you regret reckless innocence. Now you have 40 extra emails a day that you might have read during NSOP, but now you just don’t have time to care about capoeira or Parliamentary Debate. Department listservs can be […]

Newest generation iPod shuffle. Contact nnn2108@columbia.edu.

Two keys on a yellow keychain. One key is black and has Chinese characters written on it. Contact: jpk2130@columbia.edu

The Brooklyn Book Festival is today from 10am ’til 6pm. Many famous literary types will be participating in free events and certainly in attendance, including Columbia prof and poet Tim Donnelly, and Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan. If you are interested in this blast from the soon to be past, hit up the link above […]

Woah… How did it become Sunday?? Whatever. Let’s putz around the internet for a while. Ron Paul outright won the CA GOP straw poll. Do we congratulate him or resent a political system where 833 random opinions matter? (CNN) Don’t really know if Fashion Week just ended or is still going on, but here is a […]

During the tumultuous 1968 riots, a few dedicated Columbians organized a ragtag crew of untrained medical volunteers. When an angry suspended student shot the dean of Columbia College four years later, the small team mobilized and rushed him to St. Luke’s Hospital. The dean recovered, and the students became campus legends. CAVA was born. To […]

The weather got you down? Holed off in your room with a few friends watching old re-runs because nothing new has come out on Hulu yet this season? Tricked yourself into caring about work enough to goto Butler, but now you’re just watching Youtube anyway? Sweet; same here. Below are a few tidbits to help […]

Forget career fairs—TMNT is recruiting on campus. Everybody’s going green nowadays, so why not join in the fun? This sign spotted near the flagpole at the top of the steps tells you to “inquire within,” but provide a ColumbiaTMNT@gmail.com email address for the less reptilian folk out there. Their disclaimer reads: If you lack the […]

In this week’s Cooking with Bwog, our fearless chef Matt Powell has an existential crisis and begins a series on the basics of cooking for the epicurious collegiate. It’s a lengthy one, but packed with useful information. This week, I started working on “Cooking with Bwog” when suddenly, I came to the realization that the […]

In Hidden Talents, Bwog gushes over your classmates’ dexterity like a proud mom. In this installment, we join Freshman Fish Correspondant Sam Schipani as she learns about her floormate’s eccentric extracurriculars, and makes a handful of aquatic puns along the way. Know someone who has 900 toes and can use each one to perform a different task […]

On Saturday mornings, you probably have no inclination to change out of your cuddly PJs let alone read actual words on a computer screen. And you shouldn’t have to. Enter, Saturday Morning Cartoons, Bwog’s weekly doodling feature. We’re looking for new cartoonists to keep the tradition alive. Interested artists, email us at editors@bwog.com. Watching people […]