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 […]

Tipsters report that CLIO has been down for at least two hours, with the curiously exclamatory message that “your search failed!” Why CLIO itself is failing, on the other hand, is yet unknown (probably because the failure occurred after normal business hours) but we’ll pass along when service has resumed. UPDATE: Search ability has returned.

CC 2011’s class council is hosting a study break right now, “with hot wings and raffle prizes.” Livening the festivities will be the 1993 comedy classic Cool Runnings, with famous SCTV actor/“mog” John Candy. So run to the Lerner Party Space and try to avoid high speed crashes along the way. If pseudo-Italian cuisine is […]

Community has peeled back the mysterious brown paper, revealing its progress towards a long awaited recovery. Management’s own estimate is about two weeks ’til opening. Close ups below. But what sort of Community will emerge from the remaining ruins? Perhaps, as one passing first-year hypothesized to another, “It will be, like, a really cool juice […]

Columbia Medical Center has been firmly scolded, says the Huffington Post, for unethical and unsafe practices employed by a study the Medical Center has been running for over a decade. After three internal reviews, a lawsuit or two, and an extensive federal review of the study, federal overseers “have taken the rare action of demanding […]

   Named this day, the leaders of the 116th Annual Varsity Show! Plus some biography, For Your Info, courtesy of the outgoing producers. Congratulations all! Director: Ameneh Bordi – past president of CU Players, currently directing XMAS and co-directing/creating reImagined. Producer: Cody Haefner – asst. producer of V114 V115, currently co-producing XMAS and The Secret […]

It’s been in the top stories box for weeks now, but the score is 45% to 55%, and the golden hour is now upon us. It’s true; Our Big Purple Neighbor is currently winning NBC’s Best University in NYC poll, and if we don’t fight back now NYU will take both the bragging rights and […]