Bwog resident nerd Zach van Schouwen fakes his way through the game theory of Google Chat. When GChat rolled out its “Go Invisible” feature last week (which has been in other instant messenger clients for awhile), the whole landscape of online chat shifted a little. While invisibility on AIM is one thing, most GMail users […]

Bwog editor Pierce Stanley weighs in from the Egyptian Ambassador’s visit to the Law School. While the Egyptian nation-state has been a sleeping giant in the game of international relations as of late, choosing to remain remarkably low-key in a region known for its instability, the Egyptian ambassador to the United Nations, Maged Abdelfattah Abdelaziz, […]

It’s that rarest of holidays,  Leap Day! Your over-talkative friend’s grandfather turns 20 today. If it’s your birthday, you get free Papa John’s. If not, rumor has it you can get a free McSkillet Burrito. Bwog doesn’t know what’s in it, but just try to convince yourself that picture isn’t… appetizing? Update: Tipster Shane Ferro […]

This headline: “Go Ape For The New Version of the Old Mighty Beast” ESC’s claim that since America elected George Bush, democracy is bad. A good urban exploration column ruined by the claim that there are “tar pits” in Queens. And by its eighth paragraph. Oprah branching out into reality TV. A first-year’s need to […]

With an extra day in the year’s calendar and hopefully some free time to spare, Bwog recommends the following for your Leap Day weekend satisfaction. (* indicates free, « indicates on-campus) Thursday Oscar-Nominated Short Films at IFC Center. Whether you prefer animated (at 7:10) or live-action (5:20 and 10:05) what better time to check them […]

Bwog’s resident ornithologist, Courtney Douds, spends inordinate amounts of her free time watching our unofficial campus mascot. Here’s what he’s been up to since he tore a pigeon to shreds during the greatest reading week entertainment since you got so sleepy you started seeing double. You may have seen the large bird of prey around […]

The Dems are on the ramps of Lerner, distributing cupcakes to anyone who will sign a petition to lower the price of birth control on campus. Due to the oversight of some legislative intern (probably a college student him- or herself), college students have lost the price reduction on birth control that kept us hiploose […]

Registration for the Columbia housing lottery doesn’t begin until March 11 (or March 3, if you’re an LLC weirdo), but to warm up for the event Housing Services will be giving room information sessions and building tours today and tomorrow that will start in the John Jay Lounge. They will be leaving on the half […]

Manatees as the key to ethical (and adorable) expansion? Brilliant! Silver Sushi? Awesome! Roscoe Jenkins and Britney’s vagina are easily confused I thought I was in a cellar in Paris, but really it was just a basement room in a church. Hey, look, it’s an article! No, wait—it’s just a list of New Jersey stereotypes. […]

Columbia dorm phone numbers all start in 853, and Columbia building numbers all start in 854. Until yesterday, when a new Journalism School administrator entered the strange world of 851! From an e-mail sent to J-School students: “___ comes to the J-school after spending the last seven years… Her phone: 212-851—– (they’ve run out of […]

Here we are, in the birthplace of homophilia… Or perhaps we’re in the cradle of oppressive tradition… At Columbia, we throw eggs and call people motherfucker for social justice… Because maybe we’re just another underfunded school for children with special needs… Please, please look both ways.

Bwog editor Pierce Stanley hops a lecture on the national stage, and wonders why more Columbians aren’t doing the same. Come Presidential election time, Lerner Piano Lounge transforms into a hotbed of political activity, with Columbia’s political organizations frequently hosting watch parties for important debates, election returns, and speeches made by the candidates. This celebration […]

The Three Trillion Dollor War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict is Nobel Prize-winning, globally-thinking Columbia prof Joseph Stiglitz’s new book. The book posits that Bush’s cost estimates for the war in Iraq were incorrect—the administration cited a $200 billion figure—and that the Iraq conflict will cost almost double that of WWI, putting the […]

Happening right now, in Uris. Free Business School t-shirts that read: “Disruption is inevitable. Who gets to be the disrupter is up for grabs.” Ooh. Cryptic. Also: bagels.  

Through the grapevine, Bwog has been hearing rumors that in attempts to safeguard against theft, Public Safety has plans to begin taking unattended laptops in Butler. Oddly enough, this is one rumor that turned out to be kind of true, in a vague, quasi-benevolent way. Ricky Morales, Crimes Prevention Manager at Public Safety clarified: “It’s […]