Feel like celebrating something this weekend? Is that thing women? And also leadership? Conveniently for you, then, Barnard is hosting its inaugural “Athena Film Festival:  A Celebration of Women and Leadership” today through Sunday. Although the film screenings aren’t free, they’re cheap (most tickets are $5).  Plus, after it’s over, you’ll get to tell people […]

Bwog likes to hop from room to room, and sometimes, when we find something good enough, we post about it. Other times, we just harass the residents for free snacks and then quietly leave. If you would like your room to be hopped, email us at tips@bwog.com. “The trouble with always trying to preserve the […]

We’d like to extend some big fat congratulations to Erin Kara, BC ’11, who has just won the Gates scholarship. The Gates Cambridge Scholarship, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, offers full rides to non-UK students for graduate work at the University of Cambridge. The scholarship is awarded based on “intellectual ability, leadership capacity […]

Our friends at the Greenmarket inform us that despite the chilly forecast, they will be open today. Most of the regular farmers will be in, except for Stannards farm. Greenmarket-ers can expect to see a new face, Dan Madura, this Thursday. He usually sells exotic mushrooms (no, not that kind!) on Sundays, but will be […]

Imposters are taking over! It seems that we’re not the only ones with fake—or real—teacher twitters. See, @LEE_BOLLINGER? You’re not #AllAlone. (NYT) The rats are taking over! The TV screen, that is. Animal Planet is planning a reality show about New York City’s rats. We recommend that they start their search for tiny, whiskered stars on […]

There’s less than a week ‘til Valentine’s Day, but fear not loveless singletons! Bwog will be your matchmaker. Just fill out our short questionnaire and submit a photo to tips@bwog.com. Or nominate your love-starved pals and we’ll convince ‘em to participate. Then, we’ll showoff the eligible bachelors and bachelorettes to Columbia. If anyone strikes your […]

Dr. Elizabeth S. Boylan, Provost and Dean of the Faculty at Barnard, will step down from her administrative role at the end of the year, DSpar announced today. She will be joining the Alfred P. Sloane Foundation, a philanthropic grantmaking  organization based in NYC, as Program Director. According to the press release, she will stay […]

Tonight at 7:30pm in Lerner 569, GendeRevolution is hosting their “Pee in Peace” Potluck.  Bwog approves of all that alliteration! The event is celebrating the near-completion of new gender neutral bathrooms on Columbia and Barnard’s campuses. All attendees and co-sponsoring groups are invited to bring food beginning with the letter ‘P.’  Other exciting things: GendeRevolution will […]

True love may be foreign to The Blue and White, but the quest for it isn’t. Here we confess our hearts’ desires for the benefits of Columbia’s love-starved fops, aging professors, and resident perverts for whom the night has not yet been taken. Get inspired to submit your own personal! Seeking Men Anthro major seeks […]

Another alternate Wednesday, another QuickTix! This week: Etiquette, Vaginas, and Athena. Tickets sold for on campus events this week: 1381 On campus events on sale now: The Vagina Monologues: February 11th, 9-11pm, 12th, 1-3pm, and 13th, 2-4pm, Roone, $5 w/CUID, Tickets. Athena Film Festival: February 11th-13th, Barnard Campus, $5 Students, Tickets. Chowdah Sketch Comedy Presents: Miss […]

We’ve spotted booze in the stacks before, but never on the other side of the desk. Maybe our beloved bibliophiles are preparing for another one of their infamous wine and cheese parties… Can we come? Thinking and drinking, Symposium style.

Hot on the heels of Housing entering rooms in EC, Harmony, Shapiro and 47 Claremont, Carman residents just received an email on “the intermittent heating concerns.”  According to Carman dwellers, heating noises and inconsistent temperature have been problems for weeks now.  The long and short of the email is that Facilities will “conduct an inspection […]

Everybody’s vomming!!! They are just fine one second and gone the next. The stomach flu going round has been described as “completely unexpected,” “devastating,” and “vengeful.” “It’s reached outbreak status,” one anonymous tipster proclaims. If you have not been incapacitated by this mysterious (but apparently short-term) bug, you are probably suffering in other ways. “I’m […]

Our very own NoCo may have “the most elegant aluminum siding in America.” But seriously, people like it. (NYT) It really is hard out there for a pimp.  The internet is changing the face of the NYC sex trade, argues sociology prof Sudhir Venkatesh. According to one ex-pimp: “You learn one thing,” he said. “For […]

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