If you’ve been on campus today, you may have seen groups of parents wandering around. Then you’ve realized that these groups of parents are particularly large, and that not all of them have kids with them. Plus, it’s a chilly weekend to be taking college tours, so what gives? Yes, it’s that long-forgotten first-year ritual […]

Bwog’s Film Rental Guide returns! Film correspondent Mark Hay rolls with the new mood. At first it seemed just a series of fleeting, disparaging, sensationalized headlines. Wall Street crash. $700 billion bailout. Bailout failure. Soon enough the crisis broke upon us and here we are, bemoaning our current financial affairs and preaching gloom and doom. […]

Bwog presents a special Homecoming edition of its Friday sports roundup. Football: The football team will play its Homecoming game, and Ivy League opener, against Princeton tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. Free shuttle buses to the game will be provided to fans starting at 11 a.m at the 116th and Broadway gates. For those of you […]

Students feel the economic crisis.  Columbia’s Manhattanville PR continues to struggle, and accidents won’t help. Local Dems can’t avoid shouting at the TV. One student tries to deal with Ramadan’s slow slide into summer. If a struggle is successful, why not continue it?

Hello! And welcome to Bwog’s exciting liveblog of the Vice Presidential Debate, brought to you by White House Bureau Chief James Downie and Bwog Editor Juli Weiner. Okay, let’s go. 9:05 PM: They’re both excited to be here. Palin wants us to ask ourselves if it’s a “good time or bad time” for the economy. […]

The cotton candy line is long out here on South Lawn, but CUMB is here with their inflatable penis, there’s a bigger inflatable thing that you can actually bounce around in–and the music’s just getting rolling (now featuring Bwog’s own Tony Gong!). Swing by CCSC’s Homecoming Carnival on your way to whatever.

Low Plaza has played host to some divergent causes in the past, but today might just take the cake: the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints is singing and handing out Books of Mormon in the shadow of Queer Awareness Month’s helium-filled rainbow arch (with a small bake sale against the bailout off […]

SEAS girls, this is your life Gardening: not just for housewives! So this one time, at Space Camp… “Through uncertainty and turmoil, we can at least dress confidently and demonstrate our power through a self-assured silhouette.” Good women drink bad coffee 

There’s a vintage clothing and jewelry fair happening right now on Barnard’s Lehman Lawn. There are baubles, trinkets, and pleasantries in which to take delight! Oh, and coats, bags, and posters. It’s happening until 5 PM, but all the good stuff usually sells out around 3 PM. 

If this Craigslisting is to be believed, it appears as though Cafe Fresh on 121st and Amsterdam — the School of Social Work hangout known for its beautiful location and slow-as-molasses service — could be up for sale. UPDATE, 12:26pm: A call to Cafe Fresh reveals that it is not, in fact, selling itself. So […]

“If all of us were to suddenly vanish, most of the country probably wouldn’t even notice” Paying the rent: still a bitch  College students: still poor and hungry!  Columbia football has only won games in the future. An 18-fold increase in enforcement for alcohol offenses?  Tom DeMott is Spec opinion’s go-to person on rent regulation  […]

The cover story in this week’s Village Voice is an interview with Columbia’s Klaus Jacob, geophysicist and adjunct professor of international and public affairs.  Jacob is a big time disaster expert: in the 90s, his research on earthquakes convinced the city to change its building codes. And when he worked for President Clinton, he was […]

Remember that subprime mortgage-induced liquidity crisis and the subsequent slight dip in the markets as a result of the bailout plan being rejected? Us too.  Prior to Monday’s rejection of the $700 billion plan, a letter was sent by economists around the country urging Congress not to adopt the plan set forth by Treasury Secretary […]

Bwog’s Teachers College tipster has forwarded us an email saying that on October 21st Obama and McCain’s education advisors will debate over “Education and the Next President” at Teachers College and will be moderated by TC President Susan Fuhrman.  Don’t expect any heartbreaking lotteries this time: only TC faculty, students and staff are allowed. But […]

In this whole hubbub about NROTC forums and referenda,  the Wall Street Journal has raised its voice once again. Yesterday, in an article centered around future Marine and Junior Austin Byrd, columnist William McGurn said that PrezBo better straighten out his act and grant the ROTC access to Columbia’s campus.  After all, McGurn wrote, even […]