Thursday afternoon saw NYU professor Edward Wolff (the happy guy at right) visit IAB 801 to lecture on “Long-Term Trends in The Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being, 1959-2004.” Sounds complicated? That didn’t stop Bwog’s Wealth and Mad Men correspondent Emily Ahn from filing a report. Like a book, you can’t judge a lecture by its title. […]

And here we were, hoping for apple cider and hayrides.   Bwog’s fine-cuisine expert Eliza Schapiro Shapiro reports that the first fried Oreo opportunity is around 112th street. Additionally, there’s an American Apparel “rummage sale” going on in front of Campo. There would be.

Supplies of the regular flu vaccine are running low in some parts of the country. Good thing the patient patients among us were vaccinated on Tuesday. (NYT) Unlike these two Rutgers grads, we don’t have to deal with the perils of the real world, yet. (NYT)  A cartwheeling subway rider gets a good old-fashioned beating […]

Though still devoid of frankfurters chilled, grilled, or otherwise, the Empti Lounge’s hot dog machine appears to be the newest member of Columbia’s illustrious Flex network. A technician installed a Flex reader on the front panel of the machine today, enabling you to pass off your sizeable weiner bills to your parents as soon as […]

Tired of constantly having to choose between Le Monde and Mill Korean for a viewbook-worthy ethnic meal? Columbia’s French Cultural Society and Korean Students Association have teamed up to solve all your problems with Parisian Seoul, a sit-down and/or take-away dinner with both French and Korean specialties. For drinkers of the world, the event will […]

As noted in the Bwoglines, Barack Obama, CC ’83, was this morning awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Now, while even the president admitted that he does “not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments,” and even though Wikipedia’s article on the “2009 Nobel Peace Prize” is mostly about the controversy, Columbia can still increase its […]

Ah, fall. The falling leaves, the earlier sunsets, and the inevitable campus controversies. And just when it looked like Columbia might escape a fall controversy, the Columbia Republicans have stepped up to the challenge, bringing strident anti-Islam Dutch MP Geert Wilders to campus on October 21st, at 8 p.m. The event is being cosponsored by […]

Football: A week before Homecoming against Penn, the football team has a valuable non-league test against Lafayette. The Leopards are 3-1, and won convincingly at Yale last weekend, 31-14. Kickoff is at 6 p.m., with audio on gocolumbialions.com and WKCR. Fencing: Seniors Kurt Getz and Daria Schneider competed this past week at the World Fencing […]

President Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize, basically for existing. (Times) Harvard students lose the “right” to a hot breakfast. (Times) Harlem braces for trouble with getting an accurate census. (Spec) NASA “slams” two probes into the moon to look for hidden ice. No launch date yet for the follow-up mission, which will look for “hidden cheese.” […]

There’s no better way to experience that wonderful feeling known as school spirit than by laying a nice smackdown on a fellow Ivy league school. Unfortunately, not everyone can play football. Still, starting tomorrow, you can defend Columbia’s honor on the game board, in GoCrossCampus’s third annual All-Ivy War. The strange concoction of Risk, internet, […]

The weather’s getting a little colder, but music and knits will keep you warm. Perhaps some hot apple cider from the Union Square Green Market (Friday and Saturday 8 – 6) would also do nicely. Friday Celebrate Thelonius Monk’s 92nd birthday featuring star pianists Randy Weston, Armen Donelian, Geri Allen, and many others. 5 – […]

Perhaps you’ll one day watch every movie ever made, not just read every book ever written. Not all librarians hate comic books; some are even archiving them. We’re stuck in a bubble with our ideas but at least we’re right. Your favorite bouncer has a stack of fake ID’s. It’s the exact opposite of asking […]

Last night’s Columbia Political Union Healthcare debate boasted no special format: the soothing power of the free market versus humanity and logical responsibility. Their respective groupies cheered, scoffed and even engaged in some raucous Joe Wilson-ery.  More valuable than watching the news, less valuable than personally investigating the issues, but more time-effective than either – […]

Welcome back to Ask Bwog, a feature in which we answer the many burning questions of this campus. If you have ever had the pleasure of taking the Official Columbia Campus Tour, you probably heard this story from your tour guide: when Ghostbusters was filmed at Columbia in 1984, the university set up a fund […]

It was a dark and stormy night.  High winds on a warm autumn evening felled trees all over the city, but luckily not hers. Inspector Hawkma smelled a setup at first when the clues led her to her own tree house, one of the oldest in the city. Local gun shows had been flying under […]