Scandinavian and Latin American Bureau Chief, David Berke continues his tour of The World Leaders Forum with the PM of Hamlet’s Homeland.  Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark (and someone who is probably sick of all the Hamlet jokes), did his part for the World Leader’s Forum, addressing a full house in Low library.  […]

Yesterday, the Columbia Community received an email from James McShane announcing the release of Public Safety’s Annual Report. Bwog’s Crime Bureau Chief Jon Hill crunched some numbers and compared Columbia with Duke and U. Chicago (our peers in U.S. News rankings) on their levels of per-student (full-time enrollee) crime. Says Hill: “The University of Chicago […]

Welcome back to the Best of series in which Bwog analyzes the best in a category of chosen food product! This week, we take a critical eye toward perhaps the only apolitical Middle East controversy on campus.  Join us as we debate the virtues and vices of three of Morningside’s falafel-purveyors: Amir’s, the Cart on […]

Tonight’s NROTC Forum Planning meeting revolved around the logistics of the two community forums concerning NROTC on campus, to be held — according to CCSC VP of Policy Adil Ahmed and SGA President Sarah Besnoff — hopefully the last week of October. (Though Besnoff said again and again, with growing frustration, that the Councils were […]

Bwog’s White House Bureau Chief James Downie live-blogs the presidential debate. For those of you who want to watch the debate with your fellow Columbia students, the Dems, Repubs, and CPU are hosting a watch party in Tasti Lounge at 9 p.m. 10:37: The debate comes to an end. Overall, it’s probably a missed opportunity […]

Even if Rosh Hashanah isn’t on your radar, any weekend can make a good holiday!  Here are our picks to help you make your own high-times for this weekend:  Friday, Saturday, Sunday:  Free Bike Weekend Friday 10am-5pm, Saturday and Sunday 10am-7pm. Governor’s Island (ferries leave from the Battery Maritime Building, 10 South St., at Whitehall […]

Internet Television Critic Rob Trump returns after a brief sojourn from Bwog’s series on web series. Well, I’m back, after a few weeks hiatus of just basically forgetting to write this and nobody noticing. I promised several weeks ago that I would review the other major CollegeHumor webseries, The Michael Showalter Showalter, so that is […]

Bwog presents its wrap-up of the week, and preview of the weekend in Columbia sports. Football: After a tough loss to Fordham last weekend, the football team travels to Towson University in Maryland. The Tigers (1-3) lost 31-3 to Coastal Carolina last weekend, and have had trouble defending the run this year, giving up over […]

Bwog’s Latin American Bureau Chief David Berke continued his tour of the World Leaders Forum, now not starring Shakira! In World Leaders Forum event number two, Leonel Fernández, president of the Dominican Republic, and his first lady participated in a town hall-style colloquium this evening in Low. Fernández is currently serving his third term as […]

PrezBo hates on ROTC; student council people hate on each other. We all hate lawsuits, right? Well, this one’s gone! Does CCSC hate the internet? This man hates organized food in supermarkets. The hatred of eminent domain continues, but now it has dates.

Bwog’s Poland Bureau Chief Sara Jane Panfil caught Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski’s Harriman Institute talk. This morning, the Foreign Minister of Poland, Radoslaw Sikorski, drew a packed crowd in room 1501 of the International Affairs Building as he discussed the changing political climate in Eastern Europe and reflected upon Poland’s place in world history […]

It’s been a busy day for NROTC survey planners, as usual. This afternoon, President Bollinger sent an email to the Columbia community, stating his thoughts on ROTC: First, PrezBo declared that “Columbia University has a long and continuing tradition of making special efforts to open its doors to men and women with military service.” He […]

A sharp-eyed tipster has alerted us to a rather curious job posting on Columbia’s openings database. It seems that the University’s General Counsel has stepped down — right now we’ve only got an interim — and they’ve retained a headhunter to land us someone truly exceptional. Consider some of the sought-after traits, translated into plain […]

Finally, finally, Columbia has gotten some recognition for its dogged drive towards greenishness: a good-enough-everywhere-but-Columbia grade of A- on the third annual Sustainability Report Card for American colleges. The decision ties us with 14 other schools (including four Ivies, none of which were in New Haven, not that we care about that or anything). And […]

Haven’t seen this one before: Chabad is luring passersby with challah dough, which you can mix with raisins, cinnamon, and chocolate chips to bring home and bake for midafternoon deliciousness. The challah-pushers seemed a little crestfallen to hear that Bwog wasn’t actually Jewish, but we feel sure that Gentiles wouldn’t be turned away. Meanwhile, the […]