Guard the link to your NROTC survey with your life, as that link that was emailed to you this morning is a personalized link. What this strangely inefficient system means is that if someone clicks your link, they can change your vote. Of course, this is only coming to light after numerous students group leaders […]

Oh happy day for John Jay, Hartley and Wallach residents, who now can indulge in that most modern of luxuries: hot running water. After two days of freezing hell waters, the situation has been resolved, and students can engage in their regularly scheduled showers.  Emails of relief after the jump.

A new day, a new Fed, available on teh internetz right now! People who spend a lot of time in Butler are fun and easy to make fun of.  Aww, poor John McCain. Aww, poor Dubya. Pre-gaming: a scientific study  Some red states will always be red states.  End-of-semester-stressing? Never at the Fed!

Continuing our recent tradition of Extremely Scientific Exit Polling, we want to know: What’d you vote for on the ROTC survey?  Use the commenter name to share your school and class year, and the comment for your answer and any explanations.

You know you shouldn’t be in school right now. You should be in transit, breezing through short lines at LaGuardia or strolling through Penn Station, picking up a donut one of the city’s last remaining Krispy Kremes. Or better yet, you should be home, watching TV and making your parents do your laundry. But you […]

Some version of the ROTC survey has been emailed to you this morning by the CCSC, ESC and GSSC. The survey will be open until December 1 and the councils encourage you to “take your time” with it. A link to the ‘yes’ or ‘no’ question “do you support bringing a Naval ROTC program to […]

Meet the cast and chorus (they’re calling them the “principals” and the “ensemble,” but no matter) and design team of the 115th Annual Varsity Show! It looks like nary a cast or chorus member of the 114th Annual Varsity Show has returned. Traditionally, cast members are notified of their acceptance by being hit in the […]

Who will find Columbia librarians places to live? Why, Alan Brinkley, of course!  Why did PrezBo’s salary rise half a million dollars last year? So he can retire without stress, duh “But my roommate’s veganism got me thinking”: life’s Big Questions answered here! Should you invite all your BFFs to your private island for a few […]

Old themes came back to haunt us this week.  More of this, a little of that. About ROTC: New posters arrived. Professors supported ROTC on campus; professors explained their support; professors opposed ROTC on campus. Plus, a forum! About Flex: Bwog was pumped, we could charge our parents for Hungarian.  Oh no wait, we can […]

We were dismayed to receive the following Concerned Email from Nussbaum resident Allon Brann this afternoon. Brann, like so many unsuspecting students, attended the Nussbaum incarnation of ResLife’s Thanksgiving free-food giveaway. But “the holiday offering of cider, pie, whipped cream, and candy is merely a front for a sinister aim:  the indoctrination and eventual conversion […]

Free pumpkin pie — the most topical of treats — is being served in the Broadway Skylounge from 9 PM to 11 PM.  Tastes like a five day weekend.

RoomHop is back!  It’s one of Bwog’s favorite features, in which we showcase rooms that are awesome, unique, or just plain pretty.  If you know of anyone with a distinct abode, send us a tip at bwog@columbia.edu and we’ll send a gnome with a camera. College dorms are notorious for being drab and depressing.  Many, […]

Everyone wants to be as cool as people in EC, so those of us west of Broadway feel the urge to adopt our own moniker: we’re “West Campus.” And to celebrate Thanksgiving (yes, the event is not PC), the west campus lounges will have free apple cider, pumpkin, sweet potatoes, and apple pie.  The email […]

Hot on the heels of an NROTC professor endorsement, a number of faculty members have signed the following statement of opposition to NROTC on campus. In fact, this petition is something of a direct response to the pro-NROTC side’s statements: “In contrast to those who have expressed support for ROTC based on hypothetical conditions, we […]

The Current is back at it with their Fall issue.  We’ll save you time by getting to the good stuff. A report card for PrezBo’s report card. A giglio — or seven-story, five-ton papier-mâché statue — grows in Brooklyn. Beijing: practically Columbia-esque in its bureaucratic character! Roth, Foer and Chabon: different approaches to Jewishness and […]