You have a lot of reading? What a coincidence – me too! We could complain, complain some more, realize its worth, and then sit down and do it. But if we use up our print quota, we can always drop out and explore these alternative careers: Become an organic farmer (your education is useful, we […]

 – Image via The Associated Press A commenter alerted Bwog earlier tonight to the plight of UN official and CC and SIPA graduate John Solecki, who is being held hostage in Pakistan. Solecki, the head of U.N.’s refugee office in Quetta, Pakistan, was captured on February 2nd. On Monday, his captors said Solecki would be […]

It seems like just last week Vine: Sushi & Sake was a mere creeper in our consciousness, but today it arrives in full verdant bloom. Go ahead and get excited-it’s doing fine business during tonight’s dinner hours, and it’s already garnered one positive review. Plus, its location is perfectly accessible even when there are eight inches of freak March […]

   Photo courtesy of Teachers College Although the list-topper for Vh1’s 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons needs no further accolades, your university casually handed over a Klingenstein Leadership Award to Oprah Winfrey last week in Chicago. The Klingenstein Center for Independent School Leadership, a Teachers College entity, recognized Oprah for her work towards improving education. The award […]

The administration has given the OK to a 40s on 40 replacement: as reported last Monday, its replacement will be “The Senior BBQ,” held on April 7th from 12-2. How much this will differ from last year’s incarnation remains to be seen, but no doubt last year’s rural-farm-esque fence will be a key part of […]

 – Photo by JCD No, the crime franchise isn’t adding a musical (although it now has a UK spinoff). Rather, trailers for Law & Order SVU are outside Milano Market right now! Although neither Milano nor any of the other establishments along the block are closed for filming, fear not: parking notices indicate that the […]

The February/March issue of the Blue and White will be hitting newsstands, benches, and tables near you later this week, but until then, here’s the issue’s Conversation, in which Hannah Goldfield sits down with Minimalist/all-around chef Mark Bittman.  Though best known for his column “The Minimalist” in the New York Times weekly Dining & Wine […]

 – Photo by AB If you’ve ever wanted to assemble your own taco in a big glass student center for no money at all, run to the Lerner ramps right now before it’s too late!

When we last checked in with Columbia’s favorite hose, point, ’n’ laugh competition, the kill reports sounded like the best creative writing assignment you never turned in. This week, the killers lay on the literary as we hit notes of tragedy, romance, and Tupac. The following noir nugget wins Most Evocative for bringing together Tracer […]

   Photo via The New York Times Your light blue pride might still be smarting, but rise above it this morning to congratulate Dartmouth on its new president. Dr. Jim Yong Kim, chairman of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, will take over the job in July. Kim is […]

The Columbia creative writing community is alive, well, and living in Wien. Pedestrians fight for and are granted the worst intersection on the island. The Core and the Financial Aid Office continue to be gigantic obstacles during the summer, too. You may hold us down if it’s part of some saucy choreography. Not even an inconveniently […]

  Public Safety Officer Joseph Feyjoo confronts ski team captain Raphael Graybill Campus Public Safety put an end to the Columbia ski team’s effort to build a ski jump on the Low Library steps tonight. Citing the jump’s potential danger to “small children,” two officers dispatched from Public Safety’s main office ordered the team to “cease […]

After the sunsets on your snow-blanketed campus tonight, you can partake in a few winter wonderland-esque activities to celebrate the blizzard. Rachael McMillan cordially invites you to a “snow extravaganza” outside Butler tonight from 9-10, and we’ve been informed that the ski team is attempting to build a jump off of Low Steps at 10. […]

                 Photo via nytimes.com At the beginning of the semester, we posted a link about a missing schoolteacher from Hamilton Heights. The teacher, Hannah Emily Upp, was rescued in New York Harbor a few weeks later, but was profiled in the Times’ City Section yesterday due to the unusual circumstances of her disappearance. Upp has […]

The Columbia Palestine Forum, a group of Columbians supporting “the rights of Palestinians to education and self-determination,” launched today. The Forum is joining the ranks of similar organizations at University of Rochester, NYU (we know all about that one), Hampshire and various universities across the United Kingdom in demanding, among other things, that Columbia release […]