Dear Sir or Madam: Your presence is requested at this evening’s Bwog staff meeting. All are welcome, and whether a newcomer or an old-timer, you ought to make it your business to attend. We will convene in the SGO on the fifth floor of Lerner Hall at 7 PM. Refreshments will be served, free of […]

Undercover police have made an arrest on Broadway outside Lerner. More details to come! Update: Bwog asked a police officer on the scene for information about the incident, but was told that no details of the arrest could be released. Public Safety also tells us that it has not received any news on the situation. […]

A tipster informs us that this burnt cup of noodles was the cause of the early morning fire alarm in John Jay. The moral of the story? Be careful, kids. Bwog loves you and just doesn’t want anything bad to happen to you. Photo by Mahima Chablani

You may have noticed those snazzy new lava-lamp-shaped bottles in Butler or 212 and wondered to yourself, “WTF?!” David Hu has your answer, and in a selfless quest to keep you informed he drank one of those miracles of chemical engineering. Undoubtedly, the first thing that strikes you about Neurogasm is the bottle. Its long, […]

Dane Cook was on hand to hear Abdullah Gül, the President of the Republic of Turkey, address the World Leaders Forum as the last speaker in the week-long series. Though Gül expressed sentiments of optimism and cooperation for the future, students pressed him on steps Turkey has recently made in the international scene. While introducing […]

Lots of adults wearing Columbia blue, a few Public Safety officers, a bouncy castle and dead grass are all assembled on South Lawn, ostensibly to welcome kids to the Kiddie Carnival advertised outside Lerner. But there are no kids. Stay tuned! Update, 2:20: The carnival has begun! Peter Sterne reports that Elmo and Blue, of […]

Hillel’s Israeli Cultural Society and your senior class councils (GSSC, CCSC, ESC, and LCSC, respectively) invite you to a seniors only Israeli wine tasting today from 3-5 PM on the 3rd floor terrace of the Kraft Center. There will be cheese, crackers, and chips and dips along with water and soft drinks for anyone who wants […]

White MacBook charger in Ferris Booth, on the tables outside facing the quad. It’s kind of dirty but works.

As Bwog’s Econ TA recently said in an email, “Good morning/hangover.”

The owner of Tom’s is being sued by a former employee. (NY Post) Big Business wants to know if we should all be eating like cavemen. (Gawker) Google wants the whole country to look like Epcot. (Wired) Columbia researchers have come out with the first independent estimate of the volume of the Gulf oil spill […]

Tipster Helena Wu informed Bwog that a bat invaded Hartley suites 5A and 5B just minutes ago. All flying mammals have been removed, but Hartley residents remain spooked.

Thursday, at the Rotunda in the Low Memorial Library, Prime Minister of Portugal José Sócrates spoke on “Energy Policy and the Portuguese New Growth Agenda.” Born in 1957,  Sócrates joined the Portuguese Socialist Party in 1981. He worked his way up governmental posts, and has been a civil engineer, a member of parliament, and a […]

Photo by ECS

The University Senate has unanimously recommended that PrezBo and The Trustees (playing at Music Hall of Williamsburg next week) consider creating an interim Graduate Student Center. And that incredibly sillily-named committee has ideas! They argued that Columbia’s peer institutions have space dedicated to its graduate students and that such a space would increase a sense […]

Free books outside Book Culture! A woman who recently got laid off by Columbia is giving ’em away and advocating for used book storage at Columbia.