Photo by Michael Radtke Radtke makes a keen observation: “Nowhere else in my life have I seen people take the newspaper and leave the sports section. Only at Columbia.”

Photo by CS

in: Butler, 5th Floor bathroom at: 6pm on Friday, December 10 Silver ring with swirl design, about 0.8 cm wide. I love it; if you found it, email awc2129@columbia.edu

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… (Gothamist) NPR suggests you listen to annoying Christmas music. Richard Nixon wasn’t racist or anti-Semitic…. oh, wait. (NYT) A man got trapped between a train and the platform at Union Square. Scary! (New York Post) Update, 2:04 PM: Mark Madoff, son of Bernie Madoff, committed suicide this morning. […]

Last night, NOMADS held their customary first-show gala for their newest student piece: Portrait and a Dream. Bwog’s Katheryn Thayer now reports. We know finals are coming up, but what better way to de-stress than to watch someone else worry about the end of the world, death, and losing everything important? Student writer Jacob Rice, […]

This just in from an anonymous tipster: hey bwog, just wanted to let you know that at 4:20 pm, I bought the last case of four loko from Crack Del. I checked with the cashier and he confirmed that I got the last ones. it’s the end of an era. Good night, and good luck. […]

Bwog’s Megan McGregor shuffled down Broadway through the cold yesterday to see the first performance of the Barnard Theatre Department’s Silence. Last night, the audience walked into the Diana Black Box to be shocked and awed by an elaborate and well-crafted set the likes of which the theatre has never seen before. A low wooden […]

If finals have got you down, Bwog knows just the thing to cheer you up—seasonal cookies! Read on to find out how Cooking with Bwog’s culinary master Matt Powell likes to get into the holiday spirit. Peppermint Chocolate Cookies (Makes 50 2-inch-round cookies) My friend found this cookie recipe a few years ago and came […]

There’s a new Operation Ivy League in town, and this time it’s selling T-shirts. Four students, Slav Sobkov (SEAS ’12), Wilmer Cerda (SEAS ’11), Carmen Marin (SEAS ’11), and Elizabeth Pino (CC ’11), have decided to combat negative media portrayal of Columbia this week by raising $11,000 (hey, that number sounds familiar!) and doing good […]

Something isn’t adding up about the case between the two Mr. Davids. As we reported last night, Harrison David’s father, Dr. Dave David, gave an interview to the Boston Herald claiming that he was planning on coming to New York from Boston today to “take care of everything and be with my son.” Harrison David gave […]

Friends, today is a sad day. From this day onward, beer distributors will no longer deliver our beloved Four Loko into New York. Though retailers (read: CrackDel) will still be able to sell Four Loko (provided they can prove that it was ordered before the 10th), there shall soon be a day when nights of […]

After years of just one Manhattan branch in Harlem, IHOP is finally coming to Times Square. Tourists rejoice! (Gothamist) Two men are accused of attacking a Queens imam in a subway and shouting racist and anti-Muslim epithets. (NY Daily News) Sarah Palin plans to visit Haiti—probably because she can’t see it from her house. (HuffPo) […]

More breaking news tonight: according to the statuses listed on their NYPD inmate records, Chris Coles and Jose Perez (Stephan Vincenzo) have been “released.” More to come soon. We’ve heard rumors that Adam Klein was back on campus today, attending class, but we can’t confirm that yet. Spec reports that Coles is back on campus […]

Just when you thought the scandal had died down, NY Daily News is reporting that David Epstein, a professor in the Political Science Department has been charged of a ‘sexual relationship with a female relative.’ Epstein has a silver nugget on CULPA, and has received glowing reviews from past students, although these are all over […]

In case you missed today’s other complementary comestibles, from 9pm to 10pm there will be free hot chocolate and homemade pumpkin cupcakes in Lerner West Ramp Lounge, brought to you by Relay For Life. They will be writing holiday cards to cancer patients at the American Cancer Society’s Hope Lodge. Image via Wikimedia Commons