Keep your eyes open for the September issue of The Blue & White, coming soon to campus. Until then, Bwog will honor our heritage/amorous affair with our mother magazine by posting highlights of the upcoming issue online. Among the treats to look forward to: a litany of bizarre and outdated freshman hazing rituals, a conversation with a luminary on DIY […]

Reflect on the lessons you learned in your Art Hum, Lit Hum, CC and Frontiers classes today. Everything is relevant! The logic in these Filipino women’s attempts to bring peace sounds all too familiar. (Gawker) Perhaps you might suggest a tour through Riverside Park’s underground Freight Train tunnel as a potential Art Hum field trip. […]

Bill O’Reilly can have his war on Christmas, but here at Columbia a long-smoldering war has been newly stoked—the war on smoking. For millennia, men, and then most recently women, had lounged inside the confines of Butler Library relaxedly puffing away towards a state of greater tasty tobacco-scented peacefulness and pseudo-philosophical coolness. First they kicked […]

Admit it. You’re a little jealous of those elusive few with summer transfer housing who now get to shack up in one of the frat-houses-cum-dormitories on 114th. Check out their new digs, sans sticky floors (we hope)—the former Psi U house, pictured below. Update: The building formerly known as Pike is available for your visual […]

With 600 votes and over 50% of the vote, Deantini is the winning nickname for Columbia College Dean Valentini! So that Deantini can uphold his end of the bargain, we request that winning commenter (this comment!!) contact us at editors@bwog.com. Will the real nicknamer please stand up?   Relief via Examiner

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. Our recommendations for this week are below and the full list is after the jump. This week is full of sold-out World Leaders Forum events, […]

Update: Tipsters tell Bwog that there was a Federation of Black Cowboys parade in Harlem today. While Bwog can’t independently confirm that claim, it sure makes for a great story. Update 2: The Federation of Black Cowboys accidentally loosed one of their horses around 110th and Broadway. No one was hurt. All the pretty horses […]

And stop on by the Bwog meeting tonight if you’re interested in contributing (writing, photographing, doodling, idea pitching, free food eating). Festivities begin at 7pm in the SGO on Lerner 5. There will be food. O from Wikimedia Commons

Apparently we’re not the only Columbians who are really into puns. Literally—the AEPi(e!) brothers pictured at right are nose-deep in one.

After you’ve bounced around College Walk amiably signing up for several dozen club listservs, there comes a point when you regret reckless innocence. Now you have 40 extra emails a day that you might have read during NSOP, but now you just don’t have time to care about capoeira or Parliamentary Debate. Department listservs can be […]

Newest generation iPod shuffle. Contact nnn2108@columbia.edu.

Two keys on a yellow keychain. One key is black and has Chinese characters written on it. Contact: jpk2130@columbia.edu

The Brooklyn Book Festival is today from 10am ’til 6pm. Many famous literary types will be participating in free events and certainly in attendance, including Columbia prof and poet Tim Donnelly, and Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan. If you are interested in this blast from the soon to be past, hit up the link above […]

Woah… How did it become Sunday?? Whatever. Let’s putz around the internet for a while. Ron Paul outright won the CA GOP straw poll. Do we congratulate him or resent a political system where 833 random opinions matter? (CNN) Don’t really know if Fashion Week just ended or is still going on, but here is a […]

During the tumultuous 1968 riots, a few dedicated Columbians organized a ragtag crew of untrained medical volunteers. When an angry suspended student shot the dean of Columbia College four years later, the small team mobilized and rushed him to St. Luke’s Hospital. The dean recovered, and the students became campus legends. CAVA was born. To […]