Procrastinating instead of reading Politics, Bwog was scrolling aimlessly through the sidebar of its iTunes library when “FREE WEEZY” caught its eye. Thus a quest began, and Bwog has spent the last weeks feverishly scrolling through iTunes and checking available Wi-Fi networks for the cleverest and most outlandish. If you think we missed a good […]

Head over to the Harmony mezzanine lounge right now for free bagels, cream cheese, and orange juice. Hurry before it runs out!

A bicycle collided with this dude, and now he’s speaking out. (City Room) Steve Jobs clashed with a Long Island University student. A snarky email exchange ensued. (NY Mag) Man vs. Cannoli at the Feast of San Gennaro (WSJ) Brooklyn residents are battling opossums. Brooklyn opossums are battling rats. (NY Post) Image via Wikimedia Commons

The new issue of The Blue and White appears on campus this weekend.  Today, Hannah Lepow reviews the latest book by History Professor Eric Foner. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. October 4, 2010 / $29.95 Eric Foner, distinguished Civil War and Reconstruction historian, Dewitt […]

Today (well, technically yesterday at sundown) is the holiest day of the Jewish year, Yom Kippur. On this Day of Atonement, Jews fast and pray solemnly for forgiveness of the past year’s sins. Completing the Ten Days of Awe that started with Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur is reserved for Jews to prove their devotion to […]

As seen on McBain 3: Photo by Grant D’Avino

Overheard at Saint A’s: “What’s Barnard?” Photo from Wikimedia Commons

On this chilly Saturday morning, Bwog’s Saturday Morning Cartoons offers you insight into love at Columbia. Cartoons by Abigail Santner

Baker Blast is upon us–the first football game of the season begins today at 12:30 p.m.!  The Lions take on the Fordham Rams at the Baker Athletics Complex. Mel’s Burger Bar is sponsoring the tailgate area. The first 500 students to attend get a free tee-shirt and Student Rewards Program credit.  Go Lions! Photo via […]

Bagels, pastries, and muffins from Nussbaum & Wu are at the Sundial right now! Update, 3:00 p.m.: More free food in Broadway Lounge–tacos with rice, meat, and beans!

Columbia ranked as the 19th most dangerous college in the country. (DNAinfo) Friday’s Tornados murder New York’s trees. (Times) More money, more problems. (ai5000) Waitlist woes. (Spec) Photo from Wikimedia Commons

We stopped making out and she pulled the Chewbacca action figure out of my pants, putting it closer to her good eye.

This summer, Columbia introduced the Financial Econ major, allowing undergrads to enroll in B-School classes (and perhaps partake in B-School bacchanalia) and inching Columbia a little closer to pre-professionalism. Today, that inch becomes a mile: the Center for Student Advising has just announced a Special Concentration in Business Management. You can apply here. The Concentration […]

Columbia students will be shooting a short video on the Millennium Development Goals at 6 PM at the Sundial, and they need lots of extras. Free pizza (this time hopefully warm) will be provided. Bwog guesses that this video is being created in anticipation of this weekend’s Millennium Campus Conference, a meeting of student leaders to discuss international […]

On Wednesday night, Columbia’s Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture hosted Dr. Genshitsu Sen, the former Grand Master of the Urasenke school of the Japanese tea ceremony. Bwog, recognizing that there is such a thing as too much coffee, spent the evening in the audience at Casa Italiana, to learn about the Japanese tea ceremony, […]