Columbia’s ivory tower does not exist in a vacuum after all! A hard freeze in Mexico, which forced Wendy’s to offer tomatoes by request only, has struck our very own Ferris Booth. Ferris will not serve tomatoes “until further notice.” However, it’s not all bad—the tomato shortage is probably good for tomato farmers demanding one more […]

Lost either in Milbank or the Diana around 1 pm 15 inch Aluminum Macbook in black padded zip-up case. Please return if found—all my files are on it! Monetary reward will absolutely be given! Email: ljw2133@barnard.edu

Columbia’s Center for Environmental Research and Conservation hosted an eight-hour symposium yesterday on biodiversity. Planet Earth enthusiast Mahima Chablani stopped by one of the afternoon lectures, named “Conserving the World’s Biodiversity: Global and Local Perspectives.” You can read about the full program here. Five working in the environmental sciences spoke in turn on their professional […]

Housing got you down? Kick worries to the curb by sending Bwog your raunchy, goofy, or just plain zany housing group names! Puggles in Ruggles dreams of tiny mixed breeds. Pussy Pounders Anonymous… that’s kind of self-explanatory. Leave them in the comments, or email them to tips@bwog.com. What we wanted, from Wikimedia.

At this very moment, Fox News is chillin’ outside the 116th and Broadway gates, reportedly asking questions about ROTC. According to a Bwogger on the scene, a student shaking hands with the reporter said something to the effect of “I’m a conservative,” to which the reporter replied, “That’s great, I didn’t expect to find any […]

Housing: the dark god who cannot be appeased. You’re probably in the throes of registration and have statistically calculated which friends to keep and to lose. But worry not! Bwog has been there and will be there for you. We’ve explored the mysterious underworld that is Columbia Housing for years now, and we’d like to […]

President Obama announced the 2010 National Humanities Medals yesterday. One was awarded to our very own Jacques Barzun. (Chronicle of Higher Education) NYC is planning a bike-share program of 10,000 bikes at 600 stations by 2012. And supposedly they’ll turn a profit!  (Your Olive Branch) Qaddafi gave a speech denouncing rebels as terrorists and repeating, […]

Lost just after 2 pm on March 1st between the fitness center and EC. Band is metal (small—a bunch of the original links were taken out). Face is dark blue and looks classy until you press the dial on the side, which makes it glow in the dark. I like it a lot and would […]

The Day of Judgment has come. Weep ye College undergrads for major declaration. For those deciding now how to spend a good chunk of their remaining years at Columbia, or for those reminiscing on that major they declared long ago and now regret (or have not really even nearly kind of sort of completed and […]

It’s time for midterms, Columbia, and if you haven’t already, pretty soon you will need to study. And if you will need to study, obviously, you will need to procrastinate. And if you need to procrastinate, who better to ask than a bro? This is Bwog’s official guide to online brocrastination: BroBible: Every bro has […]

Women’s History Month begins today, and you can kick it off with a free meal from an off-campus caterer, courtesy of the Women’s History Month Committee! Head over to Roone Auditorium for the Opening Ceremony event, including speakers and a performance, from 6 – 8 pm. Update, 8:09 pm: At this very moment, the Current […]

In an email sent to students this afternoon, Chief Operating Officer Greg Brown announced that “Barnard College will be a smoke-free campus effective March 21, 2011, after we return from spring break.” The change, he writes, “is the result of regular requests from various members of the College community to complete a process we started […]

Found in the Pupin bathroom on the 5th floor. Please email lep2128@columbia.edu with a description to claim.

We warned you, and now it’s here. Room Selection Registration begins today! You have a little more than a week to get together with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or none of you closest friends and submit to the vagaries of the housing lottery. The verdict on your gambit comes down from the […]

Hey there, CC 2013, how’s it going? That’s good, glad to hear it. Do you know what your major is? Because major declaration is today, that’s why. Really, major declaration is today. Deep breaths, all you have to do is pick a major. Just open up the course bulletin to a random page and see […]