Some very sad news: JaHyun Kim Haboush, Professor of Korean Studies in EALAC, died yesterday after a long struggle with breast cancer. Our thoughts are with Professor Haboush’s family, friends and students. We welcome you to share memories of Professor Haboush in the comments.

CCSC holds weekly meetings. Brian Wagner attended one of them last night. This is what he saw. The meeting opened with a discussion of a new committee. Bureaucracy!  The special committee would tackle co-sponsorship requests. At present, groups requesting co-sponsorships from the different student councils schlep to four different meetings to present their case. If a new committee […]

One of the greatest perks of an Ivy League education is having all sorts of guest lecturers and talks hosted right on campus. Yet many of these great talks are not publicized enough. Enter Bucket List, a weekly feature that aggregates these events in a single location that will hopefully make you realize, like Bwog has, […]

One Oxford academic plans to live the rest of his life like a grad student. And he thinks you can, too. (Slate) New York City is looking for the “Taxi of Tomorrow.” The New Yorker has a few suggestions. We are constantly thinking about the future–planning for it, making guesses about it, trying to make […]

Lost Friday at 1020. Peruvian llama wool, tan with white/red/brown pattern and ear flaps. No label inside the hat. If found, contact wbp2107@columbia.edu.

8:41 PM, January 30th 2006, five years ago today: Someone at NASA collected the first comet dust. Nelly bragged about his dental swag on someone’s stereo. Someone celebrated Mozart’s 250th birthday three days late, while someone else bought a plane ticket to Italy for the upcoming Olympics. The stage was set for the Bwog’s inception, […]

Internship, schminternship! In Hidden Talents, Bwog exposes your classmates as the weird and glorious wunderkinder they truly are. Bwog’s Jack-of-All-Trades Matthew Schantz brings you a profile of the high-flying Logan Donovan. Would you like to share your talent? Is your talent exposing other people’s talents? If you satisfy one or more of these conditions please let […]

I saw the best minds of my generation at the Bwog meeting, starving, eating free birthday cake, dragging themselves out of the butler stacks around 6 looking for the Bwog meeting, at 7 PM in the SGO on the 5th floor of Lerner Bwog may not be able to promise an ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo […]

Update (Feb 3): Chris Beam, CC ’06, just published this piece in Slate, explaining some of the history of the Rockefeller Laws and the significance of the “prestige factor” in deciding the fate of the arrested Columbia students. The lawyers of Michael Wymbs and Chris Coles are seeking a “diversion to treatment” on behalf of […]

Had a scarf on the right pocket. If found, please email ter2108@columbia.edu Reward offered.

Blue with a hood and red lining. It had black gloves in one pocket and a scarf in the other. I had it at Mel’s, and it was gone when I went to pick it up. Reward offered. Email ajg2156@columbia.edu if found.

“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.” -Albert Camus

There’s more to Columbia faculty than cute nicknames and good music taste. They also invent, prod, design and destroy all kinds of nifty things. In our newest feature, Bwog takes a moment to look back at this week’s science news, from the ultra-specific to the just-plain wacky. The headlines were compiled by our Northern Side […]

In the latest issue of The Blue & White, Graphics Editor Stephen Davan brings us an illustrated guide to living every Columbian’s dream – The Core, food, puns, and the city somehow combined.

Breaking: SNL sheds light on our very own Operation Ivy League. It had everything you look for in an SNL skit: actors breaking character to laugh, a topical reference to something you know, and Andy Samberg. Enjoy!