We return to John Jay Lounge for the penultimate day of suite selection. We’re sick of the candy. You’re sick of the candy. The same songs play over and over. Sophomores don’t understand how to pick rooms. OK, let’s do this.  Building Size Config Note # Harmony 2 D 1 Schapiro 2 D WlkTh 18 […]

Inclement weather brought a day of touring fiascos to prospective Columbians and their anxious parents. First, Official Traffic Jam Correspondent James Downie found that two tours had collided in the lobby of Butler, with the poor tour guides being forced to shout over each other.  Mere moments later, a tipster sent us a picture of […]

Sunday night’s CCSC meeting got off to a discombobulating start. Where, oh where, was George Krebs? Robyn Burgess (VP for Campus Life) who sat in that spot that Krebs usually sits in and ran the meeting, announced that both Krebs and Adil Ahmed were not in town. Uh-oh.   Leader-less CCSC-ers immediately got testy when […]

See a concert, fo’ free! This afternoon the Pacifica Quartet will be performing their first of six installments of the Mendelssohn Quartets. Take in Op. 12 from 12:30-1:30 PM today in the Philosophy Graduate Student Lounge. Then brag about it; Music Hum so got you into this stuff, right? 

Wait, when did 2012 student council debates happen again? And what does the freshmen student council actually do? Spec Revelation #2320: If you don’t like parts of the Core, you can talk about what you don’t like in a public forum. Like John Jay dining hall? Political apathy runs rampant, but you’re definitely not going […]

Watch your step in front of Butler tonight – the forces of nature have opened a cavernous pit by the main entrance.  One of the grates by the wall collapsed. Public Safety assured our tipster that no one had fallen in.  Good thing, too, otherwise they might have found Columbia’s secret gold vault.     […]

At the Double Discovery center, they confirm and reconfirm that dating abuse is just not okay. Our pediatric neuroscience department was managed by a fraudster.  John Bzdil pleaded guilty on Tuesday for defrauding Columbia for $180,000 used for personal expenses. Miller Theatre has a “new” director.  Granted, she was the acting director since October. A […]

Monday CUO Concert: Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, op. 33 featuring Elizabeth Lyon, cello, winner of the CUO concerto competition, and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, op. 14.  8:00 PM @ Miller Theatre.  Also 8:00 PM Tuesday @ Roone Auditorium. Tuesday Westminster Boys’ Choir: Yes, that choir.  Sponsored by the OUC.  6:00 PM @ St. Paul’s […]

The one redeeming facet of new-new-Facebook is the highlights bar, which today painted the picture of a campus overflowing with food. For breakfast, head over to the Casa Latina for a pancake brunch.  It’s $2 for all-you-can-eat pancakes, benefiting the Lucha Community Health Fair next week.  12-2 PM @ EC TH 504. Head over to […]

  Photo via the Harvard Crimson Experienced Bwog Intercontinental Schmoozer David Berke spent some time with the visiting ACSF contingent and found that a language barrier is very effective at preventing Cultural Communication. The future leaders of the world/owners of our country were not pleased. Sitting in a cozy, wood-paneled room in Low with portraits […]

   Image via Yahoo News Canada John Solecki, the CC and SIPA graduate who was kidnapped in Pakistan two months ago, has been released, according to CBS News. Prior to his capture, Solecki worked as the head of the UN refugee office in Quetta, Pakistan; on the 2nd of February, 2009, members of the Baluchistan […]

The next Hu Jintao may be on campus right now. A delegation of China’s top university student body presidents is visiting New York this weekend to wrap up an Ivy Council-sponsored global leadership summit. Called the All-China Students’ Federation, what makes this group particularly important is its close ties to China’s leadership structure. Members of […]

   Image via CabinetMagazine.com Campus Crusade for Christ, along with its buddies the Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, the Remnant (no, not replicant) Christian Fellowship, and the oft-maligned Korea Campus Crusade for Christ, is hosting the ReCharge “Cofeehouse” tonight from 8-10.  Head over to 114th and Broadway to sip some free coffee and see Kayte Grace (of […]

  Photo via TheTallisScholars.co.uk Bwog’s resident Hildegard fanboy Peter Thompson spent his Thursday evening at the final concert of the Miller Theatre’s Early Music series and sent back this dispatch, lovingly illuminated, on vellum. The Miller Theatre concluded its Early Music series on Thursday, April 2 with “Music for Double Choir” at the Church of […]

  Anyone sauntering into Levien yesterday afternoon to shoot some hoops got a little more than they bargained for: a gym full of high-tech paper airplanes.  Red Bull’s Paper Wings Contest gathered a crowd of 20 or so engineering-types who spent an hour and a half battling it out for a free trip to Salzburg, […]