What if the Peanuts gang had their stories documented into high school? Would we finally be able to understand the adults’ speech? Would it be as disappointing as The Rugrats’ All Growed Up? This weekend, Mariana Benjamin went to CUP’s performance to find out. In the basement of the Diana center, seated in a house packed […]

Happy Monday folks!  An early morning press release from CCSC gives us our first official announcement about the Columbia Music Festival (swanky website here), a week(ish) long collaboration between CCSC, Live at Lerner, WBAR, WKCR, Bacchanal, and Postcrypt. The first event of the week is CCSC’s Synaesthesia Kickoff Concert on Tuesday, April 9, where Hoodie Allen will […]

Tiger Woods won his first World Golf Championship since 2009. (ESPN) Harvard searched the administrative email accounts of its resident deans. (Boston) Karzai doesn’t want to be BFFs with us. (LA Times) Ancient humans should have asked their doctors if Lipitor was right for them. (Washington Post) In the latest dip on Bieber’s roller-coaster week, […]

Group registration for the 2013 Housing cycle has begun: you have until Thursday to make friends. And with a new year of Columbia housing comes a new list of questions, concerns, and general perplexities. We’re here to help — send in all your housing related inquiries to housing@bwog.com for the best answer we can come […]

Well, just to the NCAA’s for now. A number of Lions will represent Columbia in upcoming NCAA Championship competition after stellar performances over the last few weeks. Wrestling made program history at the 2013 EIWA Championships this weekend with five placewinners and four automatic bids to the NCAA Championships. Senior Steve Santos claimed the EIWA […]

For the past several weeks, students protests over the poor treatment and poor compensation of Faculty House workers have been ongoing. The administration hasn’t acted yet, but more and more members of faculty have spoken out in support of the protesters. On Friday, Student Worker Solidarity held a rally on college walk and famous American […]

The Miller Theatre Fund allows student performing arts groups to use the professional stage for an evening.  Columbia Chamber Players is using it to debut the student music-writing group LyricLion.  Need a break from Butler?  Head on over to Miller Theatre to see the new campus group, LyricLion’s first (FREE) concert on Monday, March 11th at […]

Spring is here! Kind of! Come celebrate the recent weather with Bwog at 7 pm tonight in the SGO on the 5th floor of Lerner. All are welcome! There will be grapes/string cheese/mild salsa/chips. Life has had no meaning since 30 Rock ended via Youtube

This weekend, the Barnard Theatre Department presented an original piece by Pulitzer Prize nominee Rinde Eckert. An anonymous arts aficionado was there and he’s got some things to say.   Until you have seen a bald, middle-aged blind man frolicking among gyrating youths, playing an accordion and moaning wordlessly in falsetto, you have seen nothing worthwhile. Eye Piece—an […]

Bucket List represents the unbelievable intellectual privilege we enjoy as Columbia students. We do our very best to bring to your attention important guest lecturers and special events on campus. As always, feel free to mention any events we may have missed in the comments section (and/or mock our typos) and we’ll add them. Our recommendations […]

Less stuff means more living. (Nytimes) Less time means more car accidents. (Gothamist) Less clothing means recovery?? (Buzzfeed) Less TV means more adept reproductive systems. (CNN) Anthropomorphic bears via Flickr  

After cutting off all of his shoulder-length hair his sophomore year to give to Pantene’s Beautiful Lengths, which makes wigs for people with medically-related hair loss, Julian Bongiorno SEAS ‘13 started growing his hair out again, but he wanted to up the ante for his next go around. The mechanical engineering major from Scottsdale, Arizona […]

CCSC unveiled WTFColumbia, an excellent idea for innovative solutions to campus problems. But as commenters know, the best way to publicize an issue is to complain anonymously on the Internet. So we’re starting a series of students’ experiences with the worst of Columbia, from financial aid to Event Management to advising. If you have any […]

Tonight at 9pm, Greenborough is partnering with Barnard Columbia Divest for their biannual open mic night! BCD leaders will be giving a brief overview of what they’re working on before the performances start. It’s sure to be an interesting and fun way to spend the evening! If you are interested in environmental action, good music, […]

In an email sent to students yesterday, it was announced that Barnard would be raising the GPA cutoff for the Dean’s List from a 3.4 to a 3.6. The change will take place Fall of 2013. This will align standards at Barnard with the 3.6 GPA cutoff for Columbia College, which has been in place since […]