As the semester draws its last rattling breaths, your professors offer their wit and wisdom to sustain you through finals. Bruce Cronin, American Foreign Policy, on cheating: “If you’re Jewish or you’re Catholic, this will eat away at your soul for the rest of your life. So don’t do it!” Sunil Gulati, Principles of Economics, […]

Bored @ Butler is on indefinite hiatus, FML is fast becoming a distant memory, and the short-lived MLIA is only funny for about two minutes.  With such scant options,  Columbia students have decided to take the new frontier of internet procrastination for their own:  Jin Ha, CC ’12, started a Facebook group entitled Texts from […]

One student decided to spruce up the Schapiro sky lounge: The floor lamp might’ve been a little much to get past the Butler guard.

Subway riders have tea parties and pretend its the Great Depression, sans breadlines (HuffPo). Al Gore is to would-be Bloomberg assassin as Holden Caulfield is to Mark David Chapman (Gothamist). Cue the orchestral backdrop — Phil Spector has made it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, among greats like Abba, Jimmy Cliff, the […]

A Columbia student got in touch with Bwog with a request for help: the student was attacked by a group of young men Sunday afternoon, around 4:15 p.m., at the corner of 114th and Broadway. The student spoke to a fellow student who witnessed the attack afterwards, but, in the post-attack shock, did not get […]

After scouring a corrections email Housing sent out tonight, Bwog has discovered that additional information about Flex service was added from the previous email. The new version states that “the Blackboard system, which manages the Flex Account, will be offline from Sunday, December 27 through Tuesday, January 5 for an upgrade.” The upgrade is related […]

Celebrating the publication of Issue III, Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development is hosting a release event from 6pm to 8pm in Lerner’s Satow Room. There will be free food from Campo, free food from not-Campo, and probably a discussion on how to best dispose of anything from the event as to make a minimal […]

The Fall 2009 issue of The Gadfly is out in print, and Bwog hits the highlights: Why skeptical science is better than paradigmatic science. (p. 6) God and poetry: twins? (p. 10) Stop, collaborate, and think beautifully. (p. 14) Emotions affect attitudes affect feelings affect actions… (p. 16) Religion through philosophy (p. 24) Neuroenhancers: Why? […]

Taking a break from finals studying, Bwog’s North Pole Bureau Chief Sean Zimmermann reports from the production of “XMAS! 4: Shalom Alone” last night about the story of one little Jewish Santa: As the audience walked in to Roone, the first thing to notice was the loud dance music filling the auditorium. Lady Gaga, who […]

“Egg white special!” The voice rings through your head. But who is behind it all? In this latest edition of Bwog’s profiles of Columbia’s unsung friendly faces around campus, Bwog Events Editor and Chief Omelet Customizer Peter Krawczyk got to know Wilma, of Wilma’s Grill. John Jay Dining Hall is not big on signage. Freshmen […]

Today marks the moment people have been waiting for since the semester started: the official last day of classes. There will shouts of joy for classes ending, tears of sadness for leaving your fondest professors, and groans of misery when people realize exams start in just two days. And amidst all this hullabaloo will, of […]

Cow manure won’t play a role in contaminating the city’s water, but it’ll actually help it be cleaner. (Gothamist) In an effort to save New York State from bankruptcy, Gov. Paterson is withholding $750 million from schools and local governments. (NYT) Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s female escort has now been given her own sex advice […]

It’s always nice to open Facebook and find a friend request waiting for you, and better still if you’re a yet-to-matriculate freshman eager to meet your peers.  But what happens when that friend isn’t, well, real? Bwog Editor James Downie goes gumshoe on the Case of Aaron Phillips in this winter’s issue of The Blue […]

Listen, new owners of 999 (at least, that’s what we think it’s called), formerly La Negrita: when New York Magazine names you “The Happening Bar” in the neighborhood, you give thanks and go about doing the things that, you know, won you the distinction in the first place. Or you could go ahead and change […]

Lerner is turning 10 this year, but why throw a birthday party when you can throw a birthday party-themed STUDY BREAK?!  The Lerner Piano Lounge, for 10 years full of people trying to act like they don’t hear that bad pianist practicing while they’re trying to read, will have 500 cupcakes and what’s being called […]