Brief headlines from last nights council meetings. Sean Zimmermann reports from the first Engineering Student Council session: During the summer, recently elected Academic Affairs Representative Huili Zhu notified President Nate Levick that she would not be able to carry out her duties as the Academic Affairs representative in the coming year. The President invited runner […]

This year, Bwog’s keepin’ the administration and student leaders on their toes. CCSC gets a boatload of your money, and we think it’s important to keep tabs on their progress. But before we get into the nitty gritty, magical muckraker and philosopher queen, Sarah Ngu, introduces the exec board. What is it? Columbia College Student […]

Healthy Leads (formerly Project Health) will be giving away free food during an info session at 6:30 in Lerner 569. Check out the group’s website for more information. The SGA is scooping free ice cream for Barnard Freshmen (women?) from 6:30 – 7:30 in the Diana Center.

“This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as […]

Tayshana Murphy, a high school senior who happened to be one of the nation’s top-ranked basketball players, was shot and killed in the early hours of Sunday morning in Grant Houses on 123rd Street. DNA Info reports that police have identified two suspects in the murder, and that Murphy seems to have been the victim […]

Keep your eyes open for the September issue of The Blue & White, coming soon to campus. Until then, Bwog will honor our heritage/amorous affair with our mother magazine by posting highlights of the upcoming issue online. Among the treats to look forward to: a litany of bizarre and outdated freshman hazing rituals, a conversation with a luminary […]

Sorry, guys. Update, 2:15pm: They’re open again!

Welcome to … Bwog Events! Please direct your attention to our super spiffy events sidebar. Click on the Events on Campus link and, by the magic of the Internet, you’ll be taken to a snazzy Google Calendar of events run by students groups. Upcoming happenings are listed directly above for reference. Submit to the calendar with the online events form, […]

According to several tipsters, Sarah Jessica Parker was seen outside Milbank this morning among a flock of parents and toddlers. This isn’t the first time she’s been spotted strolling about campus with her little ones. Rumor has it that her children are enrolled in Barnard Toddler Center. Photo via wikimedia.

Yesterday, in the land of swanky catering that is the Columbia Faculty House, PrezBo announced Columbia’s latest move toward international expansion—a Global Center in Santiago, Chile. Joining Columbia’s four other centers in Beijing, Paris, Amman, and Mumbai, the Santiago global center will be Columbia’s first in Latin America. This initiative, co-established by President Bollinger and […]

Registration for Columbia’s annual World Leaders Forum opened this morning at 9. Attending this year are Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, and President of the Islamic Development Bank Group, Doctor Ahmed Mohamed Ali. Spots are limited, register here.

Definitely Not A couple with poor timing reportedly attempted to enter the mile high club on 9/11. The couple’s prolonged absence from their seats prompted an emergency landing and arrest by a team of SWAT officers. (Gothamist) According to a riveting profile on a turnstyle-jumping youth, shirking your subway fee is the first step towards […]

We’re ashamed that we logged on at midnight to check this, but we did. USNews & World Report still ranks Columbia at #4 for the second year in a row behind HYP. PS It’s real this time.

The Bucket List represents the unbelievable intellectual privilege and luxury we enjoy as Columbia students. We do our very best to bring to your attention important guest lecturers and special events on campus that will hopefully make you realize how lucky we are to be here. We’ll even lecturehop a few. Our recommendations are below and the full list […]

Dearest Friends, Here we find ourselves—back in school. Reading Bwog in our lecture classes (possibly in your seminar if you are a particularly naughty minx). For students both new and old, we’re beat. Already, we are defeated. We need to step back, be amongst friends, and take a moment or two to get some perspective […]