Dean Martinez has just forwarded an e-mail by Business School Dean R. Glenn Hubbard announcing the death of student William “Billy” McGuire. An accomplished athlete and promising businessman, the loss of Billy is a loss to the university’s community. Bwog would like to extend our most sincere condolences to all those who were close to […]

While Bwog was imbibing in the Caribbean on the couch with our dog watching the Girls finale, Barnard bears were actually doing something in the form of a delegation sent to São Paulo, Brazil for its fifth annual Global Symposium, “Women Changing Brazil.” According to the full press release the Symposium, held last year in […]

Columbia Music Festival keeps getting more exciting! After their announcement two weeks ago that Hoodie Allen would be the festival’s first headliner, more acts have been announced today by WBAR, Live at Lerner, and WKCR. WBAR announced that their headliner will be New York rapper Le1f. The concert will also include Queens rap trio Children of […]

Update, 1:06 PM: numbers for those entering the Barnard lottery are now up as well. No, you didn’t get an email about it. …supposedly, since it is currently impossible to log in to the housing portal due to increased traffic. However, housing had announced that the numbers would go up before 5pm today, and tipsters […]

At Columbia, we read books in class and play games in our dorms. In Armenian public schools, they play games in class. (Al Jazeera) Here, events against gay marriage prompt protests supporting it. In France, a bill legalizing gay marriage has caused opposing rallies against it. (NYTimes) Now that My Chemical Romance (and Bwog’s years of teen […]

Come to the Bwog meating tonight to witness puns even worse than that last one! SGO, 5th floor of Lerner, 7 pm, free food. Bring your ideas, pitches and useful supernatural abilities, such as meat vision.   Timmy is an average kid, that no one understands via Tumblr

If you’re hiding out in your room / still getting last licks on spring break, you haven’t yet seen that there is a large motorcade on College Walk right now.  Rumors are abounding that it is for Vice President Joe Biden, although we have not had this confirmed yet. Columbia confirms that the motorcade is […]

Whether you spent the last week inebriated or sitting in your own filth, watching entire seasons of TV shows, you probably missed some newsworthy happenings. Luckily, Bwog is back with a roundup to distract you from the work you were supposed to do over break keep you informed. J. school professor and author of “A […]

Steve Coll, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former Managing Editor of the Washington Post, has been named the new dean of Columbia’s J-school. Like outgoing J-school dean Nick Lemann, Coll is a staff writer at the New Yorker, which is apparently a farm team for Columbia J-school deans. Before being named as dean, Coll served […]

Unless you’re one of the unlucky ones who has a lit hum essay due at midnight tomorrow (Mark Lilla, we’re looking at you) or a rescheduled midterm sometime this weekend, Bwog would like to wish you a drunken and unproductive relaxing spring break. To paraphrase the words of KSho, we “hope this break affords you […]

In the last few hours before it’s finally all over–at least for a week–Bwog defends drunkenly doing nothing in a place without Antarctic temperatures but with real bars. I’m going to Cancun for spring break. It’s a simple enough sentence, but every time I share with friends or with a class what my plans are […]

Any freshman frantically looking for a cheatsheet for the FroSci midterm should look no further. Let the rush to the Hartley computer lounge commence.

Professors Nicholas Dames, chair of the English and Comparative Lit Department, and Boris Gasparov, a professor of Slavic Languages, will both receive awards from the Columbia College Academic Awards Committee this spring. Bwog wishes them both congratulations. The Columbia College Academic Awards Committee is pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 Mark Van Doren […]

Google announced Wednesday that it will be retiring Google Reader, sending the Internet into an immediate frenzy. Time to choose a new favorite RSS Reader. (New York Times) A West Harlem baby who survived his mother’s eight-story jump Wednesday afternoon is now in stable condition. The baby’s mother, 45, was a Columbia Law School grad. […]

Whether you’ve been done with midterms for weeks, or still have to take a Frontiers exam tomorrow (sucka), you need a drink that will fulfill the dual requirements of allowing you to a) stay awake in the shwastiest of ways and b) to do it without the fatal flaw of being as clichéd as a vodka […]